Integrating building and urban semantics to empower smart water solutions

Current urban water research involves intelligent sensing, systems integration, proactive users and data-driven management through advanced analytics. The convergence of building information modeling with the smart water field provides an opportunity to transcend existing operational barriers. Such research would pave the way for demand-side management, active consumers, and demand-optimized networks, through interoperability and a system of systems approach. This paper presents a semantic knowledge management service and domain ontology which support a novel cloud-edge solution, by unifying domestic socio-technical water systems with clean and waste networks at an urban scale, to deliver value-added services for consumers and network operators. The web service integrates state of the art sensing, data analytics and middleware components. We propose an ontology for the domain which describes smart homes, smart metering, telemetry, and geographic information systems, alongside social concepts. This integrates previously isolated systems as well as supply and demand-side interventions, to improve system performance. A use case of demand-optimized management is introduced, and smart home application interoperability is demonstrated, before the performance of the semantic web service is presented and compared to alternatives. Our findings suggest that semantic web technologies and IoT can merge to bring together large data models with dynamic data streams, to support powerful applications in the operational phase of built environment systems

Generic Home Automation System Using IoT Gateway Based on Wi-Fi and ant+ Sensor Network

This research article explores the use of internet of things (IoT) technology in home automation, including cloud computing and sensor networks to improve quality of life, and the increasing affordability through mobile connectivity. In this proposed smart home system, our main objective is to build a home automation system for the common consumer, which can help him to use home appliances with confidence and control at a low cost. The paper describes the building of an IoT gateway using the ANT multi-hop wireless network protocol and the Wi-Fi protocol, specifically utilizing the nRF24L01 and Esp8266 chips. Various sensor nodes, such as a water tank level sensor, human presence sensor, smart LED door sensor, and smart switch, will be integrated into the system. The main goal of the research is to develop an affordable solution for smart home technology for everyday consumers

Internet of Things Based Technology for Smart Home System: A Generic Framework

Internet of Things (IoT) is a technology which enables computing devices, physical and virtual objects/devices to be connected to the internet so that users can control and monitor devices. The IoT offers huge potential for development of various applications namely: e-governance, environmental monitoring, military applications, infrastructure management, industrial applications, energy management, healthcare monitoring, home automation and transport systems. In this paper, the brief overview of existing frameworks for development of IoT applications, techniques to develop smart home applications using existing IoT frameworks, and a new generic framework for the development of IoTbasedsmart home system is presented. The proposed generic framework comprises various modules such as Auto-Configuration and Management, Communication Protocol, Auto-Monitoring and Control, and Objects Access Control. The architecture of the new generic framework and the functionality of various modules in the framework are also presented. The proposed generic framework is helpful for making every house as smart house to increase the comfort of inhabitants. Each of the components of generic framework is robust in nature in providing services at any time. The components of smart home system are designed to take care of various issues such as scalability, interoperability, device adaptability, security and privacy. The proposed generic framework is designed to work on all vendor boards and variants of Linux and Windows operating system

SCOPE OF INTERNET OF THINGS: A SURVEY

The advent of internet of things (IoT) has influenced and revolutionized the information systems and computing technologies. A computing conceptwhere physical objects used in daily life, will identify themselves by getting connected to the internet is called IoT. Physical objects embedded withelectronic, software, radio-frequency identification, sensors, actuators and smart objects converge with the internet to accumulate and share datain IoT. IoT is expected to bring in drastic changes and solutions to most of the daily problems in the real world. This paper explains in detail the keyconcepts of IoT, the applications of IoT, the challenges in establishing IoT. This work also explains in detail the future scope of IoT in different fields.Â

Design of a Remote Real-time Groundwater Level and Water Quality Monitoring System for the Philippine Groundwater Management Plan Project

Recent technological advances allow us to utilize remote monitoring systems or real-time access of data. While the use of remote monitoring systems is not new, there are still numerous applications that can be explored and improved on, one such is groundwater level and quality monitoring. In the Philippines, the extraction of groundwater for both domestic use and industrial use are manually monitored by the government’s concerned agency and is done at least once per year. With this current setup, the real and significant state of the groundwater is not reflected in a way that is most valuable to the government and to the community. This project aims to design and develop a remote real-time groundwater level and quality monitoring system. It is intended to provide quantitative data for policy makers in addressing recurrent water shortages in the Philippines. This paper discusses the designed system composed of three modules: power module, sensors and control, and data visualization. These three modules provide real-time data from far-flung locations while being energy-sustainable. Dry runs of the system in a controlled environment yielded excellent results — average data accuracy of 96.63% for all six (6) groundwater quantity and quality parameters namely: pH, temperature, electrical conductivity, total dissolved solids, salinity, and static water level (SWL), and 90.63% data transmission reliability. Initial deployment of the system on one of the groundwater monitoring well in Metro Manila, Philippines returned a 91.16% data transmission reliability. The system is currently installed in 20 groundwater monitoring sites all-over the Philippines and is scheduled for more installations

Symbionte - Desarrollo de un dispositivo IOT enfocado en la protección y monitorización de compresores en aplicaciones de aire acondicionado y refrigeración

ilustraciones, fotografías a colorThis project addresses the problem of the correct diagnosis of air conditioning and refrigeration systems compressors, using instrumentation easily found in the market. For this work, the use of an Espressif ESP32 controller programmed under the Arduino language is proposed, in addition to sensors and algorithms based on trends that allow real-time knowledge of relevant variables of the process that allows anticipating to the failures under a scheme condition-based maintenance.Este proyecto aborda el problema del diagnóstico correcto de compresores de sistemas de aire acondicionado y refrigeración, utilizando instrumentación fácil de encontrar en el mercado. Para este trabajo se propone el uso de un controlador Espressif ESP32 programado bajo el lenguaje Arduino, además de sensores y algoritmos basados en tendencias que permitan conocer en tiempo real de variables relevantes del proceso que permitan anticiparse a los fallos bajo un esquema de mantenimiento basado en condiciones. (Texto tomado de la fuente)MaestríaMagíster en Ingeniería - Automatización IndustrialProcess and Machines Automation, Instrumentation, Tecnology for Educatio

Open source SCADA systems for small renewable power generation

Low cost monitoring and control is essential for small renewable power systems. While large renewable power systems can use existing commercial technology for monitoring and control, that is not cost-effective for small renewable generation. Such small assets require cost-effective, flexible, secure, and reliable real-time coordinated data monitoring and control systems. Supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) is the perfect technology for this task. The available commercial SCADA solutions are mostly pricey and economically unjustifiable for smaller applications. They also pose interoperability issues with the existing components which are often from multiple vendors. Therefore, an open source SCADA system represents the most flexible and the most cost-effective SCADA solution. This thesis has been done in two phases. The first phase demonstrates the design and dynamic simulation of a small hybrid power system with a renewable power generation system as a case study. In the second phase, after an extensive study of the proven commercial SCADA solutions and some open source SCADA packages, three different secure, reliable, low-cost open source SCADA options are developed using the most recent SCADA architecture, the Internet of Things. The implemented prototypes of the three open source SCADA systems were tested extensively with a small renewable power system (a solar PV system). The results show that the developed open source SCADA systems perform optimally and accurately, and could serve as viable options for smaller applications such as renewable generation that cannot afford commercial SCADA solutions

Intelligent rainwater reuse system for irrigation

Os avanços tecnológicos na área da Internet das Coisas têm vindo a criar cada vez mais soluções na área da agricultura. Estas soluções são bastante importantes para a vida, uma vez que conduzem à poupança do recurso mais precioso, a água, sendo esta necessidade de poupar água uma preocupação mundial. A dissertação propõe a criação de um sistema Internet das Coisas, baseado numa rede de sensores e actuadores interligados que monitorizam automaticamente a qualidade da água da chuva que é armazenada dentro de um tanque, a fim de ser utilizada para irrigação. O principal objectivo é promover a sustentabilidade, reutilizando a água da chuva para sistemas de irrigação, em vez da água que normalmente está disponível para outras funções, tais como outras produções ou mesmo tarefas domésticas. Foi desenvolvida uma aplicação móvel, para o Android, para que o utilizador possa controlar e monitorizar o seu sistema, em tempo real. Na aplicação é possível visualizar os dados que traduzem a qualidade da água inserida no tanque, bem como realizar algumas acções sobre os actuadores implementados, tais como iniciar/parar o sistema de rega e despejar a água em caso de má qualidade da água. O sistema implementado traduz uma solução simples com um elevado nível de eficiência e testes e resultados obtidos, dentro do ambiente possível.The technological advances in the area of Internet of Things have been creating more and more solutions in the area of agriculture. These solutions are quite important for life, as they lead to the saving of the most precious resource, water, being this need to save water a concern worldwide. The dissertation proposes the creation of an Internet of Things system, based on a network of sensors and interconnected actuators that automatically monitors the quality of the rainwater that is stored inside a tank, in order to be used for irrigation. The main objective is to promote sustainability by reusing rainwater for irrigation systems, instead of water that is usually available for other functions, such as other productions or even domestic tasks. A mobile application was developed, for Android, so that the user can control and monitor his system, in real time. In the application it is possible to visualize the data that translate the quality of the water inserted in the tank, as well as perform some actions on the implemented actuators, such as start/stop the irrigation system and pour the water in case of poor water quality. The implemented system translates a simple solution with a high level of efficiency and tests and results obtained, within the possible environmen