Internet of Things (IoT) Applications

by Muhammad Yousuf Ali

Internet of Things Applications are expending and increasing day by day in all walk of life. This small piece of writing describe about the Internet of Things (IoT) application in various professions and human lives. How IoT has positive effect in human life.

The Internet of things (IoT) describes physical objects (or groups of such objects) with sensors, processing ability, software and other technologies that connect and exchange data with other devices and systems over the Internet or other communications networks.

IoT influence the following area of human lives, like Human Automation, Transportation, Medical and healthcare, Manufacturing, Agriculture, Infrastructure, Environmental monitoring and Military Science and Many more.

Consumer Application

A growing portion of IoT devices is created for consumer use, including connected vehicles, home automation, wearable technology, connected health, and appliances with remote monitoring capabilities (Guhathakurta, 2016).

Home Automation

IoT devices are a part of the larger concept of home automation, which can include lighting, heating and air conditioning, media and security systems and camera systems (Kang, et al., 2017 ; Meola, A. (2016) . Long-term benefits could include energy savings by automatically ensuring lights and electronics are turned off or by making the residents in the home aware of usage(Karlgren et al., 2008).

Elder Care

One key application of a smart home is to provide assistance to elderly individuals and to those with disabilities. These home systems use assistive technology to accommodate an owner’s specific disabilities (Demiris & Hensel, 2008). Voice control can assist users with sight and mobility limitations while alert systems can be connected directly to cochlear implants worn by hearing-impaired users (Mulvenna, et al., 2017). They can also be equipped with additional safety features, including sensors that monitor for medical emergencies such as falls or seizures (Mulvenna, et al., 2017). Smart home technology applied in this way can provide users with more freedom and a higher quality of life (Demiris & Hensel, 2008).

Transportation

The IoT can assist in the integration of communications, control, and information processing across various transportation systems. Application of the IoT extends to all aspects of transportation systems i.e., the vehicle, (Mahmud et al., 2018) the infrastructure, and the driver or user).

Organization Application

The term “Enterprise IoT” refers to devices used in business and corporate settings. It is estimated that the EIoT will account for 9.1 billion devices in 2019 (Bello & Otobo, 2018).

Medical Health Care

The Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) is an application of the IoT for medical and health-related purposes, data collection and analysis for research, and monitoring (Da Costa et al., 2018, Engineer et al.,2018 ; Kricka, 2019), & Gatouillat, et al., 2018). The IoMT has been referenced as “Smart Healthcare”, (Dey, et al., 2018) as the technology for creating a digitized healthcare system, connecting available medical resources and healthcare services (Singh, et al., 2020).

Industrial IoT devices acquire and analyze data from connected equipment, operational technology (OT), locations, and people.

Manufacturing

The IoT can connect various manufacturing devices equipped with sensing, identification, processing, communication, actuation, and networking capabilities (Yang et al., 2018). Network control and management of manufacturing equipment, asset and situation management, or manufacturing process control allow IoT to be used for industrial applications and smart manufacturing (Severi et al., 2014). IoT intelligent systems enable rapid manufacturing and optimization of new products and rapid response to product demands (Ersue et al., 2015).

Agriculture Farming and Gardening

There are numerous IoT applications in farming (Meola, A. (2018) such as collecting data on temperature, rainfall, humidity, wind speed, pest infestation, and soil content. This data can be used to automate farming techniques, take informed decisions to improve quality and quantity, minimize risk and waste, and reduce the effort required to manage crops. For example, farmers can now monitor soil temperature and moisture from afar and even apply IoT-acquired data to precision fertilization programs.

Maritime

IoT devices are in use to monitor the environments and systems of boats and yachts. Many pleasure boats are left unattended for days in summer, and months in winter so such devices provide valuable early alerts of boat flooding, fire, and deep discharge of batteries.

Urban Infrastructure

Monitoring and controlling operations of sustainable urban and rural infrastructures like bridges, railway tracks and on- and offshore wind farms is a key application of the IoT (Gubbi et al., 2013). The IoT infrastructure can be used for monitoring any events or changes in structural conditions that can compromise safety and increase risk. The IoT can benefit the construction industry by cost-saving, time reduction, better quality workday, paperless workflow and increase in productivity. It can help in taking faster decisions and saving money in Real-Time Data Analytics.

Metropolitan scale deployments

There are several planned or ongoing large-scale deployments of the IoT, to enable better management of cities and systems. Most of the city is planned to be wired and automated, with little or no human intervention(Poon, 2018).

Energy management

Significant numbers of energy-consuming devices (e.g. lamps, household appliances, motors, pumps, etc.) already integrate Internet connectivity, which can allow them to communicate with utilities not only to balance power generation but also helps optimize the energy consumption as a whole(Ersue, et al., 2015). 

Environmental monitoring

Environmental monitoring applications of the IoT typically use sensors to assist in environmental protection (Davies, 2015) by monitoring air or water quality, atmospheric or soil conditions,(Li, et al., 2012) and can even include areas like monitoring the movements of wildlife and their habitats.

Military

The Internet of Military Things (IoMT) is the application of IoT technologies in the military domain for the purposes of reconnaissance, surveillance, and other combat-related objectives. It is heavily influenced by the future prospects of warfare in an urban environment and involves the use of sensors, munitions, vehicles, robots, human-wearable biometrics, and other smart technology that is relevant on the battlefield(Cameron, 2018).

How to Cite this Article :-

M.Y. Ali (2023). Internet of things Applications.https://profileusuf.wordpress.com/iot-application/

References

  1. Bello, R. W., & Otobo, F. N. (2018). Hardware/software interoperability and single point vulnerability problems of internet of things multiple systems: Causes, solution and societal adoption. Asian Journal of Mathematical Sciences, 2(2).
  2. Cameron, L. (2018). Internet of things meets the military and battlefield: connecting gear and biometric wearables for an IoMT and IoBT. IEEE Computer Society.
  3. Da Costa, C. A., Pasluosta, C. F., Eskofier, B., Da Silva, D. B., & da Rosa Righi, R. (2018). Internet of Health Things: Toward intelligent vital signs monitoring in hospital wards. Artificial intelligence in medicine, 89, 61-69.
  4. Davies, N. (2015). How the internet of things will enable ‘smart buildings’. Extreme Tech.
  5. Demiris, G., & Hensel, B. K. (2008). Technologies for an aging society: a systematic review of “smart home” applications. Yearbook of medical informatics, 17(01), 33-40.
  6. Demiris, G., & Hensel, B. K. (2008). Technologies for an aging society: a systematic review of “smart home” applications. Yearbook of medical informatics, 17(01), 33-40.
  7. Dey, N., Hassanien, A. E., Bhatt, C., Ashour, A., & Satapathy, S. C. (Eds.). (2018). Internet of things and big data analytics toward next-generation intelligence (Vol. 35). Berlin: Springer.
  8. . Designing interiors to mitigate physical and cognitive deficits related to aging and to promote longevity in older adults: A review. Gerontology, 64(6), 612-622.
  9. Ersue, M., Romascanu, D., Schoenwaelder, J., & Sehgal, A. (2015). Management of networks with constrained devices: use cases (No. rfc7548).
  10. Gatouillat, A., Badr, Y., Massot, B., & Sejdić, E. (2018). Internet of medical things: A review of recent contributions dealing with cyber-physical systems in medicine. IEEE internet of things journal, 5(5), 3810-3822.
  11. Gubbi, J., Buyya, R., Marusic, S., & Palaniswami, M. (2013). Internet of Things (IoT): A vision, architectural elements, and future directions. Future generation computer systems, 29(7), 1645-1660.
  12. Guhathakurta, R. (2016). How IoT’s are changing the Fundamentals of’Retailing’. Trak. in-Business of Tech, Mobile & Startups in India.
  13. Kang, W. M., Moon, S. Y., & Park, J. H. (2017). An enhanced security framework for home appliances in smart home. Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences, 7, 1-12.
  14. Karlgren, J., Fahlén, L. E., Wallberg, A., Hansson, P., Ståhl, O., Söderberg, J., & Åkesson, K. P. (2008). Socially intelligent interfaces for increased energy awareness in the home. In The Internet of Things: First International Conference, IOT 2008, Zurich, Switzerland, March 26-28, 2008. Proceedings (pp. 263-275). Springer Berlin Heidelberg.
  15. . History of disruptions in laboratory medicine: what have we learned from predictions?. Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (CCLM), 57(3), 308-311.
  16. Li, S., Wang, H., Xu, T., & Zhou, G. (2012). Application study on internet of things in environment protection field. In Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics: Volume 2 (pp. 99-106). Springer Berlin Heidelberg.
  17. . Integration of electric vehicles and management in the internet of energy. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 82, 4179-4203.
  18. Meola, A. (2016). How IoT & smart home automation will change the way we live. Business Insider. Available online: http://www. businessinsider. com/internet-of-things-smart-home-automation-2016-8 (accessed on 11 May 2017).
  19. Meola, A. (2018). Why IoT, Big Data & smart farming is the future of agriculture (2016).
  20. Mulvenna, M., Hutton, A., Coates, V., Martin, S., Todd, S., Bond, R., & Moorhead, A. (2017). Views of caregivers on the ethics of assistive technology used for home surveillance of people living with dementia. Neuroethics, 10, 255-266.
  21. Perera, C., Liu, C. H., & Jayawardena, S. (2015). The emerging internet of things marketplace from an industrial perspective: A survey. IEEE transactions on emerging topics in computing, 3(4), 585-598.
  22. Poon, L. (2018). Sleepy in Songdo, Korea’s smartest city. City Lab, 22.
  23. Severi, S., Sottile, F., Abreu, G., Pastrone, C., Spirito, M., & Berens, F. (2014, June). M2M technologies: Enablers for a pervasive Internet of Things. In 2014 European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC) (pp. 1-5). IEEE.
  24. Singh, R. P., Javaid, M., Haleem, A., Vaishya, R., & Ali, S. (2020). Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) for orthopaedic in COVID-19 pandemic: Roles, challenges, and applications. Journal of clinical orthopaedics and trauma, 11(4), 713-717.
  25. Vongsingthong, S., & Smanchat, S. (2014). Internet of things: a review of applications and technologies. Suranaree Journal of Science and Technology, 21(4), 359-374.
  26. Yang, C., Shen, W., & Wang, X. (2018). The internet of things in manufacturing: Key issues and potential applications. IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Magazine, 4(1), 6-15.