Domain Specific IoT - 1 SG- 3CSA • IoT applications promise to bring immense value into our lives. With newer wireless networks, superior sensors and revolutionary computing capabilities, the Internet of Things could be the next frontier in the race for its share of the wallet. IoT Applications in Different Domains • • • • • • • • • • Smart Lighting Smart Appliances Intrusion Detection Smoke / Gas Detection Smart Parking Smart Roads Structural Health Monitoring Surveillance Emergency Response Weather Monitoring Smart Lighting • Smart lighting is broadly understood to cover the automation of lamp responses, such as dimming or on/off control to enhance user comfort and save energy. An ambient light sensor (ALS) can be used to detect the amount of natural light available, allowing a lamp's output to be adjusted accordingly IoT Applications – Smart Home Applications • When we talk about IoT Applications, Smart Homes are probably the first thing that we think of. The best example here is Jarvis, the AI home automation employed by Mark Zuckerberg. • There is also Allen Pan’s Home Automation System where functions in the house are actuated by use of a string of musical notes. The following video could give you a better idea. IoT Applications – Smart Cities • The term Smart City. The hypothesis of the optimized traffic system I mentioned earlier, is one of the many aspects that constitute a smart city. • The thing about the smart city concept is that it’s very specific to a city. The problems faced in Mumbai are very different than those in Delhi. • The problems in Hong Kong are different from New York. • Even global issues, like finite clean drinking water, deteriorating air quality and increasing urban density, occur in different intensities across cities. Hence, they affect each city differently. Smart Cities • Let’s take an actual example of a Smart City- Palo Alto. • Palo Alto, San Francisco, is the first city of its kind, that took a whole new approach towards traffic. • They realized, most cars on the streets go around and round the same block, in search of parking spots. That’s the main reason for traffic congestion in the city. • Thus, sensors were installed at all the parking spots around the city. • These sensors pass the occupancy status of each spot to the cloud. • Any number of applications can consume that data. It can guide the drivers through the shortest route to an open spot. Smart Cities • This solution here involves the use of sensor arrays feeding back to a point which, aggregates the data and uses it for various purposes. IoT Applications – SMART ROAD • Smart roads , also known as smart highways , is a term used to describe roads that use sensors and IoT technology which makes driving safer and greener. Smart cities and self-driven cars of the near future would not be ‘smart’ enough without smart roads. Intrusion Detection Systems • Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) are devices or software applications that monitor network or system activities for malicious activities or policy violations and send reports to a management station. • ID systems are being developed in response to the increasing number of attacks on major sites and networks, including those of the Pentagon, the White House, NATO, and the U.S. Defense Department. IDS Detective system using IoT Structural Health Monitoring • Structural health monitoring (SHM) is the process of monitoring or assessing the condition of a structure in order to gather information on its current state by tracking variables like vibration, strain, stress and other physical phenomena, responses and conditions. • The idea behind SHM is to collect data from multiple sensors installed on structures in order to process and understand useful information about the current state of the structure for maintenance and safety purposes. • Sensors can be placed at critical locations on members of the structure and relay information to the cloud through LPWAN, BLE mesh or 5G networks. Surveillance • The security and surveillance industry is changing, and solutions have moved far past basic alarm monitoring. Smart video surveillance is a IOT-based application as it uses Internet for various purposes • The Internet of Things (IoT) is helping create safer cities, homes, and businesses by enabling both private and public organizations to securely and remotely monitor facilities and public spaces in real-time with smart security and surveillance solutions. • It senses the flame detection information, motion detection information, biometric detection information and store the data to the web server, where it could be fetched anywhere and anytime through web. Emergency Response • The development of advanced sensors has allowed devices, buildings, and even clothing to become smart and connected. • In emergency Responders, the huge benefit is the more information they have, the easier and safer their jobs become. All branches of emergency serve are benefiting from IoT solutions in unique ways. • Fire Departments: • Few organizations will benefit from IoT more than fire departments. Fire departments are improving their response thanks to sensors and databases providing advance information on the progression of fires, number of building occupants, and floor plans. Fire Departments: • IoT is also making the jobs safer for firefighters. New smart clothing, armed with sensors, reports the vital signs and temperature of firefighters in dangerous situations. This information helps firefighters decide when to retreat or alerts a rescue team that a firefighter is in trouble. EMT • EMT’s goal is to save time and improve patient care. Now IoT is allowing EMTs to access patient records from databases on the go. They can also transmit patients’ vital signs to hospitals while they are in transit via ambulance, giving hospital staff the information they need to prepare for intake. The advance knowledge of the patients’ condition allows them to have the right personal and equipment on hand when the patient arrives. Weather Monitoring • In IOT enabled weather monitoring system project, Arduino Uno measures 4 weather parameters using respective 4 sensors. These sensors are temperature sensor, humidity sensor, light sensor and rain level sensor. These 4 sensors are directly connected to Arduino Uno since it has an inbuilt Analog to digital converter. Arduino calculates and displays these weather parameters on an LCD display. Then it sends these parameters to the Internet using IOT techniques. • IOT weather reporting system has an application to farmers as well. The weather forecasting plays a very important role in the field of agriculture. • IOT weather monitoring project proves really helpful for monitoring weather at places like a volcano, rain forests. It is quite difficult for a human being to stay for a longer time at such places. Or even areas that are exposed to radioactive leakage. • IOT weather monitoring system project using Arduino is fully automated. It does not require any human attention.
