The Internet of Things
Opportunities for senior design projects
2014-2015 academic year
What is the IoT?
 Pretty soon, EveryThing will have an IP address.
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Household appliances
Thermostats (e.g., Nest)
Wearable computing
Vehicles
Farm crops and animals
 30B devices by 2020
 Need for IPv6
 Low-cost platforms
Example Applications
 Wireless sensing
 Environmental monitoring.
 Infrastructure monitoring (smart bridges).
 Logistics
 Instant inventory control.
 Amazon on wheels
 Fleet monitoring
 taxi, bus, trucks, rental cars.
 Energy management
 Scheduling of appliances
 smart grid
 Servitization models
 Example: As an alternative to selling jet engines, Rolls offers
“power by the hour” providing a fully serviced solution.
Project Components
 Things
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Internet-connected devices
Low-cost
Wireless
Platforms for sensors
 Software framework
 Environment for developing IoT applications.
 Back-end processing for running the application.
 User interface
 Hosted on a PC or mobile device.
ThingWorx
 ThingWorx is an enablement
platform that lets you build an
IoT application.
 It will be made available in a
hosted environment.
 Programmed via Java snippets.
 Search people, systems, and
machines to find what you want,
when you need it.
 Video tutorials available.
IoT-Enabled Apps
 ThingWorx can be used to create the user interface.
 Support for mobile devices
Raspberry Pi
 IoT requires low-cost computing
platforms.
 The group should use the
Raspberry Pi as the platform for
its sensors.
 Supported sensors:
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Temperature
Humidity
Motion
Accelerometer
Light
EKG
 Can bind the data to ThingWorx
Thingz to Think About ...
 Concept: What is the goal of the app? Who is the
user? The customer? How will they use it? What is its
Business Model and value proposition? Are there
partners needed?
 Inputs: What Data Is Collected? What is the Source of
this Data? What kinds of sensors are needed?
 Outputs: What Alerts are Triggered? What are the
Responses to the Alerts? What kind of data analytics is
needed. How to interface with the user to make the
data actionable.
If You are Interested...
 Contact the faculty advisor:
Matthew Valenti --- Matthew.Valenti@mail.wvu.edu
 Information Session by corporate sponsor:
Friday, Sept. 5 @ 11 AM in G102
 About the group composition:
Only one team can be sponsored this semester
Interdisciplinary team of 4 is preferred
Apply as an individual, not as a team
(though you can indicate teaming preferences)