In this session, you will learn :

▪ Domain Specific applications of IoT

▪ Retail
▪ Logistics
▪ Industry
▪ Agriculture
▪ Health & Lifestyle
Domain Specific applications in IoT
 Overview

▪ Retail
▪ Logistics
▪ Industry
▪ Agriculture
▪ Health & Lifestyle
 IoT in Retail

▪ IoT applications in smart retail systems:

▪ Inventory Management
▪ Smart Payments
▪ Smart Vending Machines
 Retail (Contd.)
▪ Inventory Management
▪ IoT system using Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags can help inventory
management and maintaining the right inventory levels.
▪ RFID tags attached to the products allow them to be tracked in the real-time so that
the inventory levels can be determined accurately and products which are low on
stock can be replenished.
▪ Tracking can be done using RFID readers attached to the retail store shelves or in the
warehouse.
 Retail(Contd.)
▪ Smart Payments
▪ Smart payments solutions such as contact-less payments powered technologies such
as Near field communication (NFC) and Bluetooth.
▪ NFC is a set of standards for smart-phones and other devices to communicate with
each other by bringing them into proximity or by touching them
▪ Customer can store the credit card information in their NFC-enabled smart-phones
and make payments by bringing the smart-phone near the point of sale terminals.
▪ NFC maybe used in combination with Bluetooth, where NFC initiates initial pairing of
devices to establish a Bluetooth connection while the actual data transfer takes
place over Bluetooth.
 Retail(Contd.)
▪ Smart Vending Machines
▪ Smart vending machines connected to the Internet allow remote monitoring of
inventory levels, elastic pricing of products, promotions, and contact-less payments
using NFC.
▪ Smart-phone applications that communicate with smart vending machines allow user
preferences to be remembered and learned with time. E.g: when a user moves from
one vending machine to the other and pair the smart-phone, the user preference
and favorite product will be saved and then that data is used for predictive
maintenance.
▪ Smart vending machines can communicated each others, so if a product out of stock
in a machine, the user can be routed to nearest machine
▪ For perishable items, the smart vending machines can reduce the price as the expiry
date nears.
 Logistics

▪ IoT applications for smart logistic

systems:
▪ Fleet Tracking
▪ Shipment Monitoring
▪ Remote Vehicle Diagnostics
 Logistics(Contd.)
▪ Fleet Tracking
▪ Vehicle fleet tracking systems use GPS technology to track the locations of the
vehicles in the real-time.
▪ Cloud-based fleet tracking systems can be scaled up on demand to handle large
number of vehicles.
▪ The vehicle locations and routers data can be aggregated and analyzed for
detecting bottlenecks the supply chain such as traffic congestions on routes,
assignments and generation of alternative routes, and supply chain optimization
 Logisitcs (Contd.)
▪ Shipment Monitoring
▪ Shipment monitoring solutions for transportation systems allow monitoring the
conditions inside containers.
▪ E.g : Containers carrying fresh food produce can be monitored to prevent spoilage
of food. IoT based shipment monitoring systems use sensors such as temperature,
pressure, humidity, for instance, to monitor the conditions inside the containers
and send the data to the cloud, where it can be analyzed to detect food spoilage.
 Logistics(Contd.)
▪ Remote Vehicle Diagnostics
▪ It can detect faults in the vehicles or warn of impending faults.
▪ These diagnostic systems use on-board IoT devices for collecting data on vehicle
operation such as speed, engine RPM, coolent temperature, fault code number and
status of various vehicle sub-system.
▪ Modern commercial vehicles support on-board diagnostic (OBD) standard such as OBD-II
▪ OBD systems provide real-time data on the status of vehicle sub-systems and diagnostic
trouble codes which allow rapidly identifying the faults in the vehicle.
▪ IoT based vehicle diagnostic systems can send the vehicle data to centralized servers or
the cloud where it can be analyzed to generate alerts and suggest remedial actions.
 Agriculture

▪ IoT applications for smart agriculture:

▪ Smart Irrigation
▪ Green House Control
 Agriculture(Contd.)
▪ Smart irregation
▪ Smart irrigation system can improve crop yields while saving water.
▪ Smart irrigation systems use IoT devices with soil moisture sensors to determined
the amount of moisture on the soil and release the flow of the water through the
irrigation pipes only when the moisture levels go below a predefined threshold.
▪ It also collect moisture level measurements on the server on in the cloud where the
collected data can be analyzed to plan watering schedules.
▪ Cutva’s RanCoudilirils a device for smart irrigation that uses water valves, soil sensors,
and a WiFi enabled programmable computer.
 Agriculture(Contd.)
▪ Green House Control
▪ It controls temperature, humidity, soil, moisture, light, and carbon dioxide level that
are monitored by sensors and climatological conditions that are controlled
automatically using actuation devices.
▪ IoT systems play an importance role in green house control and help in improving
productivity.
▪ The data collected from various sensors is stored on centralized servers or in the cloud
where analysis is performed to optimize the control strategies and also correlate the
productivity with different control strategies.
 Industry

▪ IoT applications in smart

industry:
▪ Machine Diagnosis & Prognosis Indoor
Air Quality Monitoring
 Industry (Contd.)
▪ Machine Diagnosis & Prognosis
▪ Machine prognosis refers to predicting the performance of machine
by analyzing the data on the current operating conditions and how
much deviations exist from the normal operating condition.
▪ Machine diagnosis refers to determining the cause of a machine
fault.
▪ Sensors in machine can monitor the operating conditions such as
temperature and vibration levels, sensor data measurements are
done on timescales of few milliseconds to few seconds which leads
to generation of massive amount of data.
▪ Case-based reasoning (CBR) is a commonly used method that finds
solutions to new problems based on past experience.
▪ CBR is an effective technique for problem solving in the fields in
which it is hard to establish a quantitative mathematical model,
such as machine diagnosis and prognosis.
 Industry(Contd.)
▪ Indoor Air Quality Monitoring
▪ Harmful and toxic gases such as carbon monoxide (CO), nitrogen monoxide (NO),
Nitrogen Dioxide, etc can cause serious health problem of the workers.
▪ IoT based gas monitoring systems can help in monitoring the indoor air quality
using various gas sensors.
▪ The indoor air quality can be placed for different locations
▪ Wireless sensor networks based IoT devices can identify the hazardous zones, so
that corrective measures can be taken to ensure proper ventilation.
 Health and Lifestyle (Contd.)
▪ IoT applications in smart health & lifestyle:
▪ Health & Fitness Monitoring Wearable Electronics
 Health and Lifestyle(Contd.)
▪ Health & Fitness Monitoring
▪ Wearable IoT devices allow to continuous monitoring of physiological
parameters such as blood pressure, heart rate, body temperature, etc than
can help in continuous health and fitness monitoring.
▪ It can analyze the collected health-care data to determine any health
conditions or anomalies.
▪ The wearable devices may can be in various form such as:
▪ Belts
▪ Wrist-bands
 Health and Lifestyle(Contd.)
▪ Wearable Electronics
▪ Wearable electronics such as wearable gadgets (smart watch,
smart glasses, wristbands, etc) provide various functions and
features to assist us in our daily activities and making us lead
healthy lifestyles.
▪ Using the smart watch, the users can search the internet,
play audio/video files, make calls, play games, etc.
▪ Smart glasses allows users to take photos and record videos,
get map directions, check flight status or search internet
using voice commands
▪ Smart shoes can monitor the walking or running speeds and
jumps with the help of embedded sensors and be paired with
smart- phone to visualize the data.
▪ Smart wristbands can track the daily exercise and calories burnt.
 Summary
▪ In this session, you learned :
▪ Retail Automation
▪ Logistics
▪ Agriculture
▪ Industry
▪ Health and Lifestyle
 THANK YOU!

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