Domain Specific IoTs

Outline
IoT Applications for :
• Home
• Cities
• Environment
• Energy Systems
• Retail
• Logistics
• Industry
• Agriculture
• Health & Lifestyle
Home Automation

IoT applications for smart homes:

o Smart Lighting
o Smart Appliances
o Intrusion Detection
o Smoke / Gas Detectors
Home Automation
Smart Lighting
 Smart lighting achieve energy savings by sensing the human movements and their environments
and controlling the lights accordingly.
 Key enabling technologies for smart lighting include :
- Solid state lighting (such as LED lights)
- IP-enabled lights
 Wireless-enabled and Internet connected lights can be controlled remotely from IoT applications
such as a mobile or web application.
 Paper:
- Energy-aware wireless sensor network with ambient intelligence for smart LED lighting system control
[IECON, 2011]  presented controllable LED lighting system that is embedded with ambient intelligence
gathered from a distributed smart WSN to optimize and control the lighting system to be more efficient and
user-oriented.
Home Automation
Smart Appliances
• Smart appliances make the management easier and provide status information of appliances to the
users remotely. E.g: smart washer/dryer that can be controlled remotely and notify when the
washing/drying cycle is complete.
• OpenRemote is an open source automation platform for smart home and building that can control
various appliances using mobile and web applications.
• It comprises of three components:
- a Controller  manages scheduling and runtime integration between devices.
- a Designer  allows to create both configuration for the controller and user interface designs.
- Control Panel  allows to interact with devices and control them.
• Paper:
- An IoT-based Appliance Control System for Smart Home [ICICIP, 2013]  implemented an IoT based appliance
control system for smart homes that uses a smart-central controller to set up a wireless sensor and actuator network
and control modules for appliances.
Home Automation
Intrusion Detection
• Home intrusion detection systems use security cameras and sensors to detect intrusions and raise
alerts.
• The form of the alerts can be in form:
- SMS
- Email
- Image grab or a short video clip as an email attachment
• Papers :
- Could controlled intrusion detection and burglary prevention stratagems in home automation systems
[BCFIC, 2012]  present a controlled intrusion detection system that uses location-aware services, where
the geo-location of each node of a home automation system is independently detected and stored in the
cloud
- An Intelligent Intrusion Detection System Based on UPnP Technology for Smart Living [ISDA, 2008] 
implement an intrusion detection system that uses image processing to recognize the intrusion and extract
the intrusion subject and generate Universal-Plug-and-Play (UPnP-based) instant messaging for alerts.
Home Automation
Smoke / Gas Detectors
• Smoke detectors are installed in homes and buildings to detect smoke that is typically an early sign
of fire.
• It uses optical detection, ionization or air sampling techniques to detect smoke
• The form of the alert can be in form :
• Signals that send to a fire alarm system
• Gas detector can detect the presence of harmful gases such as carbon monoxide (CO), liquid
petroleum gas (LPG), etc.
• Paper :
- Development of Multipurpose Gas Leakage and Fire Detector with Alarm System [TIIEC, 2013] 
designed a system that can detects gas leakage and smoke and gives visual level indication.
Environment

IoT applications for smart environments:

1. Weather Monitoring
2. Air Pollution Monitoring
3. Noise Pollution Monitoring
4. Forest Fire Detection
5. River Flood Detection
Environment
Weather Monitoring
• It collects data from a number of sensor attached such as temperature, humidity, pressure, etc and
send the data to cloud-based applications and store back-ends.
• The data collected in the cloud can then be analyzed and visualized by cloud-based applications.
• Weather alert can be sent to the subscribed users from such applications.
• AirPi is a weather and air quality monitoring kit capable of recording and uploading information
about temperature, humidity, air pressure, light levels, UV levels, carbon monoxide, nitrogen dioxide
and smoke level to the Internet.
• Paper:
- PeWeMoS – Pervasive Weather Monitoring System [ICPCA, 2008]  Presented a pervasive weather monitoring
system that is integrated with buses to measure weather variables like humidity, temperature, and air quality during the
bus path
Environment
Air Pollution Monitoring
• IoT based air pollution monitoring system can monitor emission of harmful gases by factories and
automobiles using gaseous and meteorological sensors.
• The collected data can be analyzed to make informed decisions on pollutions control approaches.
• Paper:
- Wireless sensor network for real-time air pollution monitorings [ICCSPA, 2013]  Presented a real time air quality
monitoring system that comprises of several distributed monitoring stations that communicate via wireless with a back-
end server using machine-to machine communication.
Environment
Noise Pollution Monitoring
• Noise pollution monitoring can help in generating noise maps for cities.
• It can help the policy maker in making policies to control noise levels near residential areas, school
and parks.
• It uses a number of noise monitoring stations that are deployed at different places in a city.
• The data on noise levels from the stations is collected on servers or in the cloud and then the
collected data is aggregate to generate noise maps.
• Papers :
- Noise mapping in urban environments : Applications at Suez city center [ICCIE, 2009]Presented a noise mapping study
for a city which revealed that the city suffered from serious noise pollution.
- SoundOfCity – Continuous noise monitoring for a health city [PerComW,2013]  Designed a smartphone application
that allows the users to continuously measure noise levels and send to a central server here all generated information
is aggregated and mapped to a meaningful noise visualization map.
Environment
Forest Fire Detection
• IoT based forest fire detection system use a number of monitoring nodes deployed at different
location in a forest.
• Each monitoring node collects measurements on ambient condition including temperature, humidity,
light levels, etc.
• Early detection of forest fires can help in minimizing the damage.
• Papers:
• A novel accurate forest fire detection system using wireless sensor networks [International Conference on Mobile Ad-
hoc and Sensor Networks, 2011] Presented a forest fire detection system based on wireless sensor network. The
system uses multi-criteria detection which is implemented by the artificial neural network. The ANN fuses sensing data
corresponding to ,multiple attributes of a forest fire such as temperature, humidity, infrared and visible light to detect
forest fires.
Environment
River Flood Detection
• IoT based river flood monitoring system uses a number of sensor nodes that monitor the water level
using ultrasonic sensors and flow rate using velocity sensors.
• Data from these sensors is aggregated in a server or in the cloud, monitoring applications raise
alerts when rapid increase in water level and flow rate is detected.
• Papers:
• RFMS : Real time flood monitoring system with wireless sensor networks [MASS, 2008]  Described a river flood
monitoring system that measures river and weather conditions through wireless sensor nodes equipped with different
sensors
• Urban Flash Flood Monitoring, Mapping and Forecasting via a Tailored Sensor Network System [ICNSC, 2006] 
Described a motes-based sensor network for river flood monitoring that includes a water level monitoring module,
network video recorder module, and data processing module that provides floods information n the form of raw data,
predict data, and video feed.