Top 7 projects equipped with IoT | Home automation, jarvis and lot more
Top 7 projects of IoT:
Hi guys! And welcome to this interesting session on Internet of Things projects.
Now in this session, we’ll be talking about the top seven projects which are outstanding themselves in the Internet of Things domain. Now, before we talk about each of these projects, let me start off with a simple introduction to what is the Internet of Things.
Internet of Things, basically, is a concept or a technology, which aims to connect all the devices to the Internet and have them communicate with each other using the internet as a medium.
Now, these devices can be anything, it could be a TV, it could be a mobile phone, it could be a watch, even your car as such, anything that can be connected to the internet can be considered as a device for the Internet of Things.
The intention of using the internet as a medium of communication is to help you achieve a wider and greater reach with respect to these devices. Again, the end aim of the Internet of Things is to help you create a smart world that’s out there.
Now let’s talk about each of these projects.
Biometric system:
Let’s start with number one, which is a biometric system. Now a biometric system is something that we always encounter on a daily basis as well because we always either use a fingerprint sensor or use an iris scanning.
So it depends from organization to organization.
But how does this actually work?
The system there, let’s take in case of this example, has a fingerprint scanner. Now the first time that I’m presenting my fingerprint, it scans the fingerprint and considers this as part of an enrollment process.
From this fingerprint template, what it does is that it extracts certain key features, which makes it different from others, and stores it into a database.
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And from then forward, every time that I place my finger on top of this fingerprint scanner, it creates a template and compares this with all the templates that are present in the database.
If it matches, then correspondingly, let’s say gives me an attendance or lets me access a door and if it does not, then it raises an alert with respect to that same. Now, this is just a foundation.
Now, as I said, this biometric system can be a fingerprint, it can be either scanning, or it can be a combination of both as well as the condition system is one of the key products in the biometric domain.
Smart irrigation system:
Next, we have a smart irrigation system. Now I am someone who personally likes gardening a lot.
Now, this is something that would really make my life easier, because usually what I do is that on Sundays, I spend an hour- two hours just watching and looking after my plants through a smart irrigation system, what it does is that it checks the moisture present in the environment or in the water lines that I have created.
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Now to help you understand how it works. Usually, there is two main Internet of Things devices that I use here, which are the Arduino board and the Raspberry Pi, your Raspberry Pi becomes the main processing unit.
And I place an Arduino board for each of my water channels. These address boards themselves are connected to multiple sensors, which are part of this water channel. So what these sensors do is that they check the moisture present in these lanes as such.
So let’s say a specific link does not meet the minimum required moisture, then what it would do is that it would send a signal to the Raspberry Pi. Again, all these devices are connected to the same wireless router network.
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And the Raspberry Pi would identify the lack of moisture and pass a signal to the relay, the relay, in turn, would initiate the water pump and water would be pumped. Now in order to ensure that water is not wasted, we would create gate controls, and only the gate where the moisture is less would the gate be open.
Once my sensor detects that the moisture level has gone beyond my required level, it will again send another signal to the Raspberry Pi asking you to stop the pump as well. So this in turn helps you to save a lot of water and also makes your life quite easier as well.
So after this, your only task in your garden would be either setting up new plants or creating new water channels as such.
Security Camera and Door unlock system:
The next project on our list is a security camera and door unlock system. Now, this is something that’s quite interesting.
And I’ve personally tried to solve and it’s really something that you should try out as well. Here what happens is that you place a camera on top of the door, which in turn clicks the photo of a person who comes into the frame.
Now, this photo is again sent to an analytical system which in turn compares this with all the photos that it possesses in order to identify whether to let the user open the door or not.
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Now an evolution to this is that if it does not find the photo of that person, it can notify the concerned person that so and so the person is trying to access to students.
Would you like to authorize this person and add his information to the database? Or would you like to deny access to this person as well?
Usually, this is used in areas where you have highly sensitive information stored in order to maintain strict control to the access to this information as well as the usage of the security camera and door unlock system can be even at our homes when we can identify who’s come at our home when we’re not there and either decide to give them access to our homes or not.
Now the next thing is something that we all really designed to have, which is a smart home system. And the smart home system can be something that really makes our life quite easy.
Starting from energy management, where the light control system is the AC, the appliances that we use the thermostat, all this is managed, in short, trying to cut down the power consumption that’s taking place.
My door management system is also part of this, my security system is also part of this, my water management system, again, becomes a part of this as well.
Again, these are key things that really stand out in the smart home system. But again, what I would personally recommend is that the limitations of a smart home are where our imagination stops. Anything that you wish to automate or make a wish to make your life easier, can be part of a smart home system as well.
Now, a smart home usually is going to be a base for our next project, which is a smart city. Smart City is an evolution of a smart home. Here, it’s not just the sensors of a single home that is connected here.
It’s a correlation or a network or a connection between various organizations, various domains, as well as various segments of that city as a whole. As such, here, the life of every single dependent person in that city becomes easier as a whole as well.
And in turn, it will really help develop that city to a greater extent as such. Now, the key factor here for a smart city is government support as well.
And if governments are really willing to take the step, then I hope we would see a smart city completely built on the Internet of Things, maybe the next five to 10 years as well.
Zelda Ocarina controlled home automation:
Now the next project is something that really stands out on a personal level. This is a Zelda Ocarina controlled home automation system. This is personally something that I feel is the closest to a smart home system, where most of the elements of the home are completely controlled by an aquarium.
What Allan pan has done here is that he’s created a note based recognition system, which completely automates his home. But rather than telling more about this, let’s just look at a quick video, which will give you a glimpse into how he has done this and what has he done.
Jarvis:
Next on our list at number one, if you’ve not already guessed is Jarvis. Jarvis is the artificial intelligence system that Facebook’s creator Mark Zuckerberg has built for his home automated system.
I’m quite sure you have already seen the video of Mark Zuckerberg interacting with Jarvis, which has Morgan Freeman’s voice. And if you’ve not, here’s a quick glimpse into the same.
Air pollution monitoring system:
It’s a very good idea to monitor the air pollution in real time so that, preventive measures can be taken and air pollution is reduced in this way. But how does it work? It uses affordable and readily available devices such as a dust sensor, carbon monoxide gas sensor, carbon dioxide gas sensor, and nitrogen dioxide gas sensor.
For controlling these sensors, microcontrollers are used and the microcontrollers also act as transmitter to transmit the data to the cloud database. The information of air quality can be accessed through a smartphone app in real time.
Conclusion:
You know, what you need to understand here is that the Internet of Things is not something that is dependent on a sensor, or a few sensors, which is connected to a Raspberry Pi or an Arduino board. When I look at the entire architecture of IoT, this is a complete ecosystem wherein my sensors gather information, which is again stored on a platform and then processed on this.
Now, if there have been any issues or failures that have been reported by these sensors, then I need to create actionable items in order to ensure that this is never really repeated again.
But the information once it’s been processed, the process data is then passed into machine learning and artificial intelligence in order to understand analyze and identify various patterns that are out there and help pass the information on back to the sensor.
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This in turn helps you have a better experience. And also improve the system as a whole system where I come home every day at 8:30. Start off my AC, wait 15 minutes for it to cool down is a tedious process. But say today, my Internet of Things platform identifies this pattern already switches on the AC at 8:15.
And then I just need to come home and I can relax right away. This is one of the key examples or one of the key ideas that are out there today. And the limitation, here again, is just your imagination. So with this, we got to come to a conclusion of this discussion.
But we are going to come up with a lot more discussions on the Internet of Things and the various projects are on that. So if there’s some project that really you want to know more about, please let us know in the comment section below. With this Thank you and goodbye.
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