INTERNET OF THINGS

Chapter 2
INTERNET OF THINGS A HANDS ON APPROACH
Domain Specific IoTs
Objectives

▪ Introduction to domain-specific applications of IoT

▪ Analyze the value chain created by IoT solutions
Topics
▪ Introduction ▪ Retail
▪ Home Automation ▪ Logistics
▪ Cities ▪ Agriculture
▪ Environment ▪ Industry
▪ Energy ▪ Health & Lifestyle
Introduction – Applications of IoT
Home Automation (1/3)
Home Automation (2/3)
▪ Smart Lighting
• Control lighting by remotely (mobile or web applications)
▪ Smart Appliances
• Provide status information to the users remotely
▪ Intrusion Detection
• Use security cameras and sensors (PIR sensors and door sensors)
• Detect intrusions and raise alerts
▪ The alerts form: an SMS or an email sent to the user
Home Automation (3/3)
▪ Smoke/Gas Detectors
• Use optical detection, ionization, or air sampling techniques to detect the smoke
• Gas detectors can detect harmful gases
✓ Carbon monoxide (CO)
✓ Liquid petroleum gas (LPG)
• Raise alerts to the user or local fire safety department
Cities (1/3)
Cities (2/3)
▪ Smart Parking
• Detect the number of empty parking slots
• Send the information over the internet and accessed by smartphones
▪ Smart Roads
• Provide information on driving conditions, traffic congestions, accidents
• Alert for poor driving conditions
▪ Structural Health Monitoring
• Monitor the vibration levels in the structures (bridges and buildings)
• Advance warning for imminent failure of the structure
Cities (3/3)
▪ Surveillance
• Use the large number of distributed and internet connected video surveillance cameras
• Aggregate the video in cloud-based scalable storage solutions
▪ Emergency Response
• Used for critical infrastructure monitoring
• Detect adverse events
Environment (1/3)
Environment (2/3)
▪ Weather Monitoring
• Collect data from several sensors (temperature, humidity, pressure, etc.)
• Send the data to cloud-based applications and storage back-ends
▪ Air Pollution Monitoring
• Monitor emission of harmful gases (CO2, CO, NO, NO2 , etc.)
• Factories and automobiles use gaseous and meteorological sensors
• Integration with a single-chip microcontroller, several air pollution sensors,
GPRS-modem, and a GPS module
Environment (3/3)
▪ Noise Pollution Monitoring
• Use a number of noise monitoring stations
• Generate noise maps from data collected
▪ Forest Fire Detection
• Use a number of monitoring nodes deployed at different locations in a forests
✓ Use temperature, humidity, light levels, etc.
• Provide early warning of potential forest fire
• Estimates the scale and intensity
▪ River Floods Detection
▪ Monitoring the water level (using ultrasonic sensors) and flow rate (using the flow velocity sensors)
▪ Raise alerts when rapid increase in water level and flow rate is detected
Energy (1/3)
Energy (2/3)
▪ Smart Grids
• Collect data regarding electricity generation, consumption, storage (conversion of
energy into other forms), distribution, equipment health data
• Control the consumption of electricity
• Remotely switch off supply
▪ Renewable Energy Systems
• Measure the electrical variables
• Measure how much the power is fed into the grid
Energy (3/3)
▪ Prognostics
• Predict performance of machines or energy systems
• By collect and analyze the data from sensors
Retail (1/2)
▪ Noise Pollution Monitoring
• Use a number of noise monitoring stations
• Generate noise maps from data collected
Retail (1/3)
Retail (2/3)
▪ Inventory Management
• Monitoring the inventory by the RFID readers
• Tracking the products
▪ Smart Payments
• Use the NFC
✓ Customers store the credit card information in their NFC-enabled
Retail (3/3)
▪ Smart Vending Machines
• Allow remote monitoring of inventory levels
• Elastic pricing of products
• Contact-less payment using NFC
• Send the data to the cloud for predictive maintenance
✓ The information of inventory levels
✓ The information of the nearest machine in case a product goes out of stock in a
machine
Logistics (1/3)
Logistics (2/3)
▪ Route Generation & Scheduling
• Generate end-to-end routes using combination of route patterns
• Provide route generation queries
• Can be scale up to serve a large transportation network
▪ Fleet Tracking
• Track the locations of the vehicles in real-time
• Generate alerts for deviations in planned routes
Logistics (3/3)
▪ Shipment monitoring
• Monitoring the conditions inside containers
• Using sensors (temperature, pressure, humidity)
• Detecting food spoilage
▪ Remote Vehicle Diagnostics
• Detect faults in the vehicle
• Warn of impending faults
• IoT collects the data on vehicle (speed, engine RPM, coolant temperature)
• Generate alerts and suggest remedial actions
Agriculture (1/2)
Agriculture (2/2)
▪ Smart Irrigation
• Use sensors to determine the amount of moisture in the soil
• Release the flow of water
✓ Using predefined moisture levels
• Water Scheduling
▪ Green House Control
• Automatically control the climatological conditions inside a green house
✓ Using several sensors to monitor
✓ Using actuation devices to control
+ Valves for releasing water and switches for controlling fans
• Maintenance of agricultural production
Industry (1/2)
Health & Lifesty (1/2)
Health & Lifesty (2/2)
▪ Health & Fitness Monitoring
• Collect the health-care data
✓ Using some sensors: body temperature, heart rate, movement, etc.
• Various forms : belts and wrist-bands
▪ Wearable electronic
• Assists the daily activities
✓ Smart watch
✓ Smart shoes
✓ Smart wristbands
Summary
▪ Diverse Applications Across Domains of IoT
▪ Value Creation and New Opportunities