Applications of IoT and Our Future

What is IoT???

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a network of physical objects—"things"—embedded with sensors, software, and other technologies for connecting and exchanging data with other devices and systems via the internet. This equipment ranges from mundane domestic items to advanced machinery. Experts predict that the number of connected IoT devices may grow to 10 billion by 2020 and 22 billion by 2025, from more than 7 billion presently.

IoT technologies have numerous applications because they are adjustable to nearly any technology providing high quality useful information about its own operation, the performance of an activity, and even the environmental conditions that we need to monitor and control from such a distance.

Many organizations from many industries and sectors are now using this technology to simplify, optimize, automate, and control production operations. Following that, we will demonstrate some of the unforeseen practical applications.

Internet of Things

1. Wearables.

Virtual glasses, fitness bands that track calorie expenditure and pulse rate, and GPS tracking belts are just only few examples of wearable technologies that we've been using for a while. Companies like Google, Apple, and Samsung have developed and implemented the Internet of Things and its applications into our daily lives.

These are modest and energy-efficient devices equipped with sensors, measurement and reading hardware, and software that monitor and process data and information about users.

Smart Watches

2. Health.

Doctors can monitor a patient's status outside of the hospital and in real time by using wearables or sensors connected to patients. The Internet of Things allows to improve patient care and the prevention of lethal incidents in high-risk patients by closely monitoring certain metrics and providing automatic alerts on their vital signs.

Another usage is the incorporation of IoT technology into hospital beds, leading in smart beds outfitted with unique sensors to monitor vital signs, blood pressure, oximeter, and body temperature, among other features.

Healthcare

3. Traffic monitoring.

The Internet of Things can be very effective in managing road congestion in major cities, contributing to the smart city concept.

When we use our mobile phones as sensors, capturing and sharing data from our vehicles via apps like Waze or Google Maps, we are leveraging the Internet of Things to inform us while also going to contribute to traffic monitoring, showing the conditions of different routes, and feeding and improving information on different routes to the same destination, distance, and estimated time of arrival.

Traffic Monitoring

4. Fleet management.

Sensors installed in fleet vehicles aid in the creation of effective interconnectivity between vehicles and their managers, as well as between vehicles and their drivers. By accessing the software in charge of collecting, processing, and organizing the data, both the driver and the manager/owner can discover all sorts of details about the vehicle's status, operation, and needs. Receive real-time notifications on maintenance incidents that have not been discovered by the driver.

The use of the Internet of Things in fleet management aids in geolocation (and thus route monitoring and identification of the most efficient routes), performance analysis, telemetry control and fuel savings, the reduction of polluting emissions to the environment, and can even provide valuable information to improve vehicle driving.

Fleet Management

5. Agriculture.

Smart farms are becoming a reality. Soil quality is critical for producing high quality crops, and the Internet of Things enables farmers with access to detailed knowledge and valuable information on their soil condition.

A significant amount of data on the state and stages of the soil may be collected by using IoT sensors. Soil moisture, acidity level, presence of certain nutrients, temperature, and many other chemical properties enable farmers control irrigation, make water use more efficient, find the ideal times to start sowing, and even detect the presence of diseases in plants and soil.

Agriculture

6. Hospitality.

The application of IoT to the hotel business outcomes in remarkable improvements in service quality. It is conceivable to automate various exchanges by implementing electronic keys that are sent immediately to each guest's mobile device.

Thus, the location of the guests, the sending of offers or information on activities of interest, the completion of orders to the room or room service, the automatic charging of accounts to the room, or the request for personal hygiene supplies are all activities that can be easily managed through integrated applications that use Internet of Things technology.

The use of electronic keys streamlines the check-out procedures, disabling door functioning, providing immediate access to room information, and even assigning housekeeping jobs to maintenance employees.

Hospitality

7. Smart grid and energy saving.

The progressive adoption of intelligent energy meter, or metres equipped with sensors, and the installation of sensors at various strategic sites along the path from the manufacturing facilities to the various distribution points, allows for enhanced monitoring and control of the electrical network.

By establishing bidirectional communication between the service provider firm and the end user, information of enormous value for detecting defects, decision making, and repair can be acquired.

It also lets the end user to acquire vital information about their consumption habits and the best ways to cut or change their energy expenditure.

Smart Grid and Energy Savings

8. Water supply.

A sensor, either incorporated or adjusted externally to meter readings, connected to the Internet and accompanied by the necessary software, aids in the gathering, handling, and analysis of the data, designed to allow consumers' behavior to be comprehended, faults in the supply service to be detected, results to be reported, and courses of action to be offered to the company that provides the service.

Likewise, it allows final consumers to watch their own consumption details in real time via a web page, even receiving automatic alerts in the case of detecting consumption that is out of range with their typical consumption record, which could indicate the presence of a leak.

Water Supply

9. Maintenance management.

Maintenance management is one of the areas where IoT technology is being used most intensively. The combination of sensors and software specializing in CMMS/ EAM maintenance management yields a multifunctional instrument whose use may be extended to a variety of disciplines and activities, with the goal of prolonging the usable life of physical assets while ensuring asset reliability and availability.

When the characteristics of the software in charge of processing and arranging the data obtained by the sensors are especially tailored to address the maintenance management demands of physical assets, their application is practically unlimited.

Real-time monitoring of physical assets allows detecting when a measurement is out of range and condition-based maintenance (CBM) is required, as well as implementing Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques such as Machine Learning or Deep Learning to anticipate failure before it arises.

Maintenance Management

Our Future and IoT???

The future of IoT has the potential to be limitless. Increased network agility, integrated artificial intelligence (AI), and the ability to launch, automate, orchestrate, and secure various use cases at hyperscale will speed development toward the industrial internet. The potential is not only in enabling billions of devices simultaneously, but also in leveraging large amounts of actionable data that can automate a variety of business operations. As networks and IoT platforms evolve to overcome these challenges, service providers will move further into IT and web scale markets, opening up completely new revenue streams.

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