'Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)'
Doi
Abstract
This paper presents an IoT (Internet of Things)
system designed to allow the monitoring and control of
parameters of the users’ vehicles, anytime and anywhere in the
world, through the Internet. The system prototype was developed
and tested using an electric vehicle (EV) and the respective sensor
systems. The main components of the proposed IoT system are: a
Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) intra-vehicular wireless sensor
network (IVWSN); a mobile device that acts both as the vehicle’s
gateway, connecting the IVWSN to the Internet, and as the
vehicle’s human machine interface (HMI); an online
server/database, based on Firebase; a client, which can be either
a mobile device or a personal computer; and a residential
wireless sensor network (WSN). The use of a wireless network to
collect sensor data inside of the vehicle introduces some
advantages when compared with conventional wired networks,
whereas the inclusion of a residential WSNs in the proposed IoT
architecture allows the provision of additional features, such as
automatic control of the EV battery charging process.
Experimental results are provided to assess the performance of
the developed IVWSN and HMI.This work has been supported by COMPETE: POCI-01-0145-
FEDER-007043 and FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e
Tecnologia within the Project Scope: UID/CEC/00319/2013.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio