Nptel: Iiot Applications: Healthcare
Nptel: Iiot Applications: Healthcare
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Earlier so many people died due to lack of health care.
People forget about their health due to busy life.
IIoT makes the healthcare easier.
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IIoT based healthcare service is cheapest.
ECG, blood pressure, glucose level, and temperature can be
monitored from patient’s home.
If any critical conditions are there, it sends alert.
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Populations are ageing all over the world
Different diseases are increasing
Expenditure of hospitals and medical clinic are increasing
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Largest Age Group
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Populations are growing older
Between 2017 to 2050, person’s aged 60 years or over is expected to
increase more than double.
In 1980, there were 382 million older person all over the world.
In 2050, it is expected to be 2.1 billion older person worldwide.
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Telecare applications, smart home or telemedicine helps
older people to live safely.
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Different diseases are increasing.
Telecare applications, smart home or telemedicine helps
older people to live safely.
Continuous monitoring of patient’s health reduces
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hospitalizing.
Sensors collects blood pressure, respiration, pulse rate,
heart rate, and weight. It triggers alarm, if any abnormal
situation is there
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IIoT based healthcare device
Different wearable healthcare devices which reduce the cost of
checkup.
Remote monitoring
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Patient’s health condition can be monitored by sensors, which reduce
the cost.
In hospitals, smart beds can send notification about patient’s
activity.
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Learning
Storing
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Sending
Sensing
Source: Nguyen et. all, “A Review on IoT
Healthcare Monitoring Applications and a Vision
for Transforming Sensor Data into Real-time
Clinical Feedback”, in Proc. 21st Comp. Supported
Cooperative Work in Design, IEEE, 2017
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Monitor patient’s health condition remotely.
Hospital staff can predict the arrival of a patient in PACU.
Hygiene monitoring system can detect the cleanliness of
hand.
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Medical staff can provide quality medical service with small
budget using IIoT.
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Wireless ECG monitor.
Bio signals are collected by ECG sensors.
The collected data are sent to the cloud.
Medical staffs can analyze the health related data in real
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time.
QardioCore is an example of wireless ECG monitoring
device.
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Diabetes is metabolic disease, glucose level is high.
Monitoring the glucose level helps meal planning, physical
activity, medication.
Glucose sensor devices are used to check the glucose level.
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It notifies the doctors and patients if any abnormal situation
occur.
Dexcom develops continuous glucose monitoring devices.
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Using IIoT device, the patient’s blood pressure is measured
and compared with the other blood pressure.
Doctors can monitor patient’s blood pressure in real time.
Medicines can be prescribed based on this.
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iHealth BP5 is IoT based blood monitoring system.
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Wearable sensor to continuous monitoring human body
temperature
It measures skin temperature
The WBAN is used to connect to gateway
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Kinsa smart thermometer is IoT based body temperature
monitoring devices
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Oxygen saturation= ratio of oxyhemoglobin to total
hemoglobin
Pulse Oxiometry measures the oxygen saturation.
IoT is integrated with Pulse Oxiometry.
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Bluetooth is used for connectivity.
Low cost device to remotely monitor patient’s health.
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The IIoT based smart contact lense support WiFi signal,
conneted with smart phone.
It consists of micro camera, sensors.
Sugar level can be measured by tears. Smart contact
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lenses can monitor the sugar level.
It can monitors human health conditions.
It can detect various diseases, if any abnormal situation is
found.
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Asthma is lifelong disease, can be controlled, not cured.
Inhaler is commonly used to give proper dose of drugs.
Smart Inhaler can keep track via GPS.
ADAMM Intelligent Asthma Monitoring device.
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Wearable device, connected with Bluetooth or WiFi.
From the body temperature, cough rate, heart rate, it
predicts pre symptoms of asthma attack.
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Electronic devices consist of sensors, which are supported by
smartphone
Smartphone is used to monitor the health of user and detect
diseases.
Smartphone’s healthcare app provides low cost healthcare
service.
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Diagnostic apps detect patient’s health condition.
Medical communication apps connect patients with hospitals.
Medical education apps provide tutorials.
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Health Assistant: Keeps track of health condition
Google Fit: Keeps track of different physical activity
ECG Self Monitoring: Serves as ECG device, based on
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“ECG Self Check” software.
Instant Heart Rate: Measures heart rate using
smartphone’s camera
Fingerprint Thermometer: Determine body
temperature from the fingureprint
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Cloud computing: Provide facilities to shared resources.
Big data: Includes heath data generated from sensor
nodes.
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Networks: WBAN, 6LoWPAN, WSN are part of IIoT
based healthcare.
Ambient intelligence: It involves continuous learning
and analyze based on the learning.
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Confidentiality: It ensures medical data is not accessible
by unauthorized users.
Integrity: It ensures medical data is not altered by any
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third party.
Authentication: It ensures the identity from which the
data is coming.
Availability: It ensures the accessibility of data to valid
users
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Less computational capability, not able to perform
expensive operations.
Less on device memory.
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Energy limitation, sensor has low power battery.
Not static, mobile devices. Designing mobile enabled
algorithms are challenge.
Designing scalable algorithm without compromising
security is challenge.
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Monitoring Applications and a Vision for Transforming Sensor Data into Real-time Clinical Feedback”, in Proc. Of
21st International Conf. on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design, IEEE, 2017.
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[3] Suwon Kim, Seongcheol Kim, “User preference for an IoT healthcare application for lifestyle disease
management”, Telecommunications Policy, Elsevier, vol. 42, no. 4, 2018.
[4] Shareem Thahir, “6 Applications of IoT in the Healthcare Industry”, CABOT, 2016.
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[5] Bryan A. Lubel, “Internet of Things healthcare applications, benefits and challenges”, IoT World Today, 2017.
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[7] Fadi Al-Turjman, Sinem Alturjman, “Context-Sensitive Access in Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)
Healthcare Applications”, IEEE Transactions of Information Informatics, 2018
[8] Shang F, Zhu Y, Zhu Z, Liu L, Wan Y, “Validation of the iHealth BP5 wireless upper arm blood pressure
monitor for self-measurement according to the European Society of Hypertension International Protocol
revision 2010”, Blood Press Monitor , doi: 10.1097/MBP.0b013e3283638f04, 2013.
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Data collected from IIoT enabled devices increase productivity
and efficiency.
Using IIoT, the equipment can be monitored remotely.
Sensors collect data and sends to cloud.
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Different machine learning and artificial intelligence based
algorithms are used to analyze the data.
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Low cost powerful chips
WiFi chip, cameras, sensors, accelerometers are used.
Standardization with IPV6
3G, 4G, 5G networks are used, the devices are standardized with
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TCP/IP and IPV6 protocol.
Standardization with software technology
Use of artificial intelligence algorithms, and cloud computing software
makes it easier.
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Increase efficiency
Smart grid- automated devices increases efficiency and reduces
manpower.
Reduce cost
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Automated devices- no need of money for manpower, fuel, maintenance.
Improves performance
Turbine’s performance improvement, remote monitoring.
Reduce energy demands
Helps users to learn how to use energy in real time.
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Edge
Hub Storage Analytics Action
device
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IIoT Maturity Model
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Device
Monitor Control Optimization Autonomy autonomy
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Communication Network
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Home area network
Covers in-home IoT devices. Wireless: Zigbee, 6LowPan
Neighborhood area network
Distribution domain networks. Data collected from smart devices and
sent to gateways.
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Field area network
Distribution domain networks. It includes controller, regulators, and
data collector. Wireless: WiMAX, 3G, 4G. Wired: Eathernet.
Wide area network
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Information Wide
Neighborhood Home area
area
flow network
area network network
Distribution
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Power flow Generation Transmission and
consumption
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Digital twins
Considered as virtual power plant, reduce fuel and energy
consumption by incorporating data.
Supply chain management
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Sensors monitor product condition and optimize delivery time.
Smart pumping
Combined with sensors and software. Automated flow control.
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Smart boiler
Customer can control it by mobile application
Energy efficient usage
Automatically reports if any defects are there
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Smart water monitoring
Detect flow of water and volume of water of a pipe in a time period.
Sends data to cloud storage.
Saves wastage of water.
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Smart metering
Important element of smart grid
IoT reduces operational costs as operations are remotely managed.
Reduces the chance of energy loss.
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Building automation
Monitors the building remotely.
Elevators, lighting systems, and other electronic systems are
connected through internet.
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Software and hardware allows organization to process locally
or remotely.
Sensors gather real time data.
Programmable logic controller or remote terminal units
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communicate with different objects and route the data to
SCDA software.
SCDA software processes the data. Then users analyze the
data to make decision.
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It comprises whole infrastructure- smart meters,
communication networks.
Smart meters: collect information about energy, water etc.
Transmits the data to network.
Communication network: Broadband over PowerLine, Fixed
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radio frequency are used.
Meter data acquisition system: gathers data from smart
meters
Meter data management system: analyze the data.
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Efficient power grid system
Collect data from sensors
Use the data to manage resources
Optimization, stakeholders take decision about power usage.
grid.
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Data collected from sensors can easily predict if any failure in
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Saves water using smart sensors.
IoT sensors track water pressure, water quality etc.
The gathered data is sent to utility company to analyze the
data.
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It gives public useful information about how to stop wastage
of water.
It also predicts the water leakage.
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In wind energy sector, large turbines are used. The factories
also locate at remote location, It is hard to maintain.
With IoT, the local control system can adjust switches and
software.
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The remote location of farm is not an issue with IoT.
IoT can predict any issues of turbines easily and it can be
addressed earlier before any large scale damage.
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In IoT based solar energy sector, sensors monitor their
performances from the control panel.
The gathered data is sent to cloud server to analyze.
IoT helps to understand the problem of device whether it is
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hardware related problem or network related problem.
IoT helps to detect any problem in real time.
IoT can manage the largest solar grid.
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Security issues
Privacy issues, chances of denial of service attack.
Low power devices
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IoT devices are resource constrained devices, battery powered
devices.
Scalability issues
Number of devices are increasing, Increase of data bandwidth.
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Determinism of network
Using cloud makes the process delay about 200 msec or more.
Poorly designed
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Most of the devices are poorly designed as different protocols are
used.
It lacks of standard authentication for the edge devices.
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innovation”, The Internet of Things in the electric power industry, 2016.
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wissensforum.de/en/event/iiot-for-power-plants/
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https://www.ge.com/power/transform/article.transform.articles.2017.jun.iiot-in-2017-3-reasons-to-make#
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Inventory
“a usable but idle resource having some economic value”
[P. Vrat, Materials Management]
Inventory Management
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Activities entailing management of inventory such as:
Controlling, overseeing and ordering
Storage
Determine supply for sale
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Raw Material Distribution Retail
Supplier
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Raw Materials
Purchasing Stock Out Production
Stock In
Dept. Dept.
Components
Sales Dept.
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Stock Out
Finished
Product
Stock In
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Meet anticipated demand
Smoothen the production requirement procedure
Decouple components of the production-distribution system
Protection against stock outs
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Proper order cycles
Hedge against price increases or to take advantage of quantity
discounts
Smoothen the flow of operations
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Keep track of the inventory
Forecast of demand
Manage lead times and lead time variability
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Estimate inventory holding costs, ordering costs, and shortage
costs
Classification of inventories
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“system of routine technical activities, to measure and control
the quality of the inventory as it is being developed”
[IPCC Good Practice Guidance and Uncertainty Management
in National Greenhouse Gas Inventories]
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Internally maintained by the management to provide product
satisfaction to the customers
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Routine and consistent checks
Ensure data integrity, correctness, and completeness
Rectify errors and omissions
Document and archive inventory material and record all QC
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activities
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Used in an identification system
Uses Radio waves for communication
RFID Tagging system consists of:
The RFID tag
Read/write device
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Host System
Two types:
Active RFID tags
Passive RFID tags
Finds scope in data collection, processing, and transmission applications
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No internal power source
Relies on backscattering
Wait for a signal from an RFID reader
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Powered by electromagnetic energy from this signal
Have shorter range than Active RFID tags
Small in size and thickness
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Battery powered
Broadcasts information signal in the form of a beacons
Have longer range and memory than passive RFID tags
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Bulky and expensive as compared to passive RFID tags
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Has an onboard battery to power the IC
But no active transmitter
Relies on backscattering
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Does not depend on signals from reader for power
Does not create additional noise
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Barcodes are printed on paper and plastic which makes them
vulnerable
Barcodes need to be on Line of Sight of the readers
Only one barcode can be read at a time
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Barcodes have less security and hence can be forged
Barcodes cannot contain any added information
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Identification of products
Added information along with ID
Comprehensive visibility
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Built in GPS
Warehouse management
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Added information along with ID:
Current storage temperature
Weather condition
Damage (if any)
etc
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Applications (contd.)
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Comprehensive Visibility
Inventory levels
Expiration dates
Item location
etc
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Forecast demand
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Warehouse management
Shrink, Shortage, Overstock of
commodities
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Identification of efficient areas based on
demand
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Similarly in transportation modes
Track time and place of congestion
Compute delay and alternate routes
Commute with efficient time and mode
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Problems that can be eliminated
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Data inconsistency
Staff training expenses
Human errors
Data scattering
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Lapse in security
Slow operation
Other hidden costs
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[1] Vrat, P. (2014). Materials Management. Springer.
[2] Good Practice Guidance and Uncertainty Management in National Greenhouse Gas Inventories. (2000). 16th
IPCC Plenary, Montreal.
[3] Stevenson, W. J. (2001) Operations Management, 7th Edition. McGraw-Hill Irwin.
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IIoT Applications: Plant Security and Safety
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“freedom from risk or danger; Opportunity
safety”
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Motive
Triangle
Means
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Health and well being of the industry as
a whole
Hazards in a plant are catastrophic
Aim: Protection of human and plant
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Software
Network Security
Security
Device
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Security
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Steal valuable information
Unauthorized monitoring of sensitive content
Corrupt behavior of software
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Denial of Service (DoS) attacks
Overflows, Overrides and Overwrites
Padding
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Integrity
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Assurance of an uncorrupted data
Correct functioning even under malicious attack
Maintain consistency, accuracy, and trustworthiness of data
over its entire life cycle
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Assurance that data is not altered by unauthorized people
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Identification of user
Verification of credentials entered (local or remote)
Access control based on these credentials
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Protection of resources
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Ratio of time of functioning to the total time
Extent to which the software continues functioning when a
component or set of components fail
Strong relation between availability and reliability
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Requirements
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Good programming techniques
Install good firewalls
Detect intrusions
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Good preventive measures
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Maintain usability and integrity of network and data
Management of access to the network
Both hardware and software
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Protection against variety of threats
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Access control
Provide access based on user identity
Antivirus and antimalware software
Scan for malware detection and prevention
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Application security
Protection of software after creation
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Behavioral analytics
Detection of abnormal behavior by the network
Data loss prevention
Prevention of unauthorized sharing of sensitive data
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Email security
Protection against phishing attacks
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Firewalls
Barrier between trusted internal network and the external networks
Intrusion prevention systems
Detection and blocking attacks
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Mobile device security
Device level security
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Network segmentation
Divide the network into smaller parts and enforce security policies
explicitly
Security information and event management
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Gather information for security staff to identify and respond to threats
Virtual Private Network (VPN)
Encrypt connection from an endpoint to a network
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Protection of sensitive information stored on and transmitted
by portable devices
Portable devices:
Smart phones
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Tablets
Laptops
Other mobile devices
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Endpoint security
Monitoring of mobile devices (files and processes) that access a
network
Virtual Private Network (VPN)
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Encrypt connection from a mobile device to a network
Secure web gateway
Identification of an attack on one location and prevention of the same
at other locations (integration of security with the cloud)
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Email security
Protection against phishing attacks
Cloud access security broker
Securing the tasks being performed on the cloud
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Virtual Reality (VR)
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Computer generated interactive environment
Transpose the user
Isolate the user from the current world
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Example: Oculus Rift, Samsung Gear VR, Google Cardboard
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Enhanced reality (adds a digital layer over the real world)
Does not isolate the user to a different world
Can add details to things a user tries to examine (can be used
by retailers to sell their products)
Examples:
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Bus stop prank by Pepsi Max
Pokémon Go
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Prone to attacks by hackers
Compromised content on the screen
Intellectual Property (IP) rights
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Privacy and Security issues
Risks pertaining to user’s health
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business/resource-center/secure-my-business/mobile-device-security.html
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“guiding and managing the operations and maintenance of
buildings, precincts and community infrastructure on behalf of
property owners”
[Facilities Management Good Practice Guide]
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Facility Management
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Facility Management
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Support services for organizations
Integrates people, place and process
Improve quality of working environment
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Improve productivity
Owner
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Buildings/Facilities
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Accessing new insights:
Gather data, reduce power consumption
Implementing new technology:
Implementing new technology like Li-Fi (Light Fidelity) and data
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security
Addressing cost barrier:
Increases operating efficiency and reduce maintenance cost
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Support Services
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Finance
Planning and reviewing of budget
Information Technology
Improve the ability to co‐ordinate among the installed devices
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Human Resources
Improve the quality of workforce and the environment
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Administrative Support
Monitoring, gathering, disseminating relevant information and take
decisions
Marketing
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Research potential customers
Knowledge
Business Development
Overall growth of business
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Comprehensive detail of every machine
Faults, history, usage and modifications
Data consistency
Harmonized decisions
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Real Power
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Predict events before they occur
Measures to prevent predicted hazards
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Need for Big Data and advanced analytics to analyze them
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Optimized usage of resources:
Manpower
Assets
Technology
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Cost-effectiveness
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Cost management
Balancing the quality of the facility and its budget
Ageing inventory
Need for proactive preventive and maintenance procedures
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Changing regulatory and compliance standards
Need for improvement and new ways to stand out from competitors
Security Management
Security against breaches and threats
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Lighting
Refrigeration
Smart Meters
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Fire Suppression Systems
Appliances with Embedded Sensors/Software
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Security and Safety Alarms
Monitor alarms, smoke detector, other life safety systems remotely
Real time information about emergency
Central Heating Ventilation and Air-Conditioning (HVAC)
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“we will start to see an ecosystem of tools and services develop that will
make the HVAC system more efficient and easier to operate,” Dan
McJacobson, McGuire Engineers
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IoT Application in Facility Management (Contd..)
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Room Reservation and Scheduling
Checking real time status of meeting rooms and avoid double-booking
Monitoring Stock and Usage of Supplies
Monitor usage of restrooms
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Efficient supply management
Water management
Monitor transmission lines and pipes
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Electricity Lighting
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Security
Subcontractors Customers
Smart Meters
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Managing Energy Consumption
Data-driven Decision-making
Operational Cost-optimization
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Remote Monitoring of Facilities
Determining the Exact Square-foot Utilization of Office Space
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Improve customer experience
Prevent unauthorized access
Real-time tracking
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The ability to do more with less
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