U2 Flashcards
In general, IoT is currently changing our lives where it gives birth to many novel applications and technologies. Figure 2.1 depicts some use case of IoT that will widely improve our lives. For instance:
Aruba Networks (n.d.) believes that “by 2019, 87% of healthcare organizations will have adopted Internet of Things (IoT) technology.” In this regard, Google (n.d.) also found that by using its new smart glass (which connected to the Internet) it becomes easier for doctors to access their patients’ information, thus decreasing the time required to diagnose disease.
Similarly, “recent research by Bosch found that?
connected cars will reduce traffic accident injuries by 350,000 ever year and save approximately 11,000 lives by 2025”. In agriculture, it will be much easier to know where, when, and how much seed to plant using sensors, pre-planned seeding maps, and GPS-connected equipment. Accordingly, high-precision farming certainly will turn growing food into a more efficient process and will help farmers keep up with rising food production needs.
In fact, IoT has a clear impact on our lives through introducing?
a new wave of smart consumer and industrial applications. Specifically, consumer IoT (CIoT)
consumer IoT (CIoT):
refers to the category of applications which targets consumer applications and devices, such as wearables or smart home gadgets.
Similarly, industrial IoT (IIOT) is a?
term used to describe those IoT applications in industries, such as industrial robots or IoT logistics systems manufacturing, logistics, healthcare, agriculture, automotive, and industrial markets.
The primary differences between CIoT and IIoT are :
the types of devices and applications,
the technologies which power them,
and their purpose,
but eventually both terms emerge from IoT and there are as much overlaps as there are differences.
Listed below are over 1,600 enterprise IoT projects generated by IoT Analytics, Inc. These projects are classified according to the IoT segment and the location. For instance:
45% of the projects are realized in the US, 23% in developing smart city environments, and 17% in the sector of connected industry.
IoT Analytics discovered that approximately half of the smart city projects (45%) are in Europe, while the Americas lead in the areas of connected health and connected cars, with 55% and 54% of global projects today, respectively.
Chinese enterprises primarily adopt IoT to increase?
competitiveness while American companies tend to adopt IoT in effort to reduce costs.
The IIoT technology generally covers several use cases, industries, and applications. Specifically, IIoT opens the door for various opportunities in:
automation,
optimization,
intelligent manufacturing and smart industry,
asset management,
and industrial control.
Nevertheless, industrial IoT is not limited only to manufacturing as it also covers device connectivity across all industries, such as:
=healthcare.
Wearables, mobile apps, and data-based diagnostics could revolutionize the way patients access and receive medical services.
=business.
Corporations can take advantage of smart buildings to optimize the energy use.
=retail.
Industrial IoT applications can increase supply chain efficiencies.
=transportation.
connected sensors can be used for fuel consumption optimization and fleet maintenance.
=utilities.
Smart grid technologies greatly assist in detecting and isolating outages, handling priority routing to emergency services, and integrating customer-owned power generation systems into the grid.
Before delving into the IIoT use cases and applications, some of the significant benefits of adopting IIoT technologies, such as?
improving efficiency, increasing uptime, and improving safety, are discussed.
In general, most companies can save?
money, time, or both by leveraging their connected devices.
For instance?
energy can be wasted if the lights are not switched off or if machines are kept running even when they are not in use. These sources of unnecessary electricity use can significantly increase the costs of large-scale operations.
In addition to operation efficiency, manpower efficiencies can also be achieved with?
adopting IIoT.
Many jobs which require the frequent intervention of humans, e.g., monitoring oil tanks levels, can be difficult to manage. In this regard, IIoT assists through?
deploying a wireless control system that frequently does the job, e.g., reads the oil level, thus achieving higher manpower efficiency.
Accenture:
This is a global management consulting firm that provides strategy, consulting, digital, technology, and operations services.
Similarly, downtime incurs huge risk and cost, especially for oil and gas production. Fortunately, IIoT can highly help in reducing?
the unexpected machines downtime.
IIoT uses sensors, networks, and data analytics to generate?
predictive insight into the degradation of equipment performance and predict possible failures, pipeline networks, and refineries.
A recent study by Accenture (2015) mentioned that IIoT can reduce the machinery breakdowns by ?
70% together with reducing the overall maintenance costs by 30%.
High-volume manufacturing industries leverage sensor data and advanced analytics to improve?
the operational efficiency where the early identification of process deviation enables proper corrections in a timely manner.
Transportation is another industry leveraging IoT advancement?
To identify potential breakdowns, heavy truck industries exploit streaming data from the engines and subsystems.
To identify potential breakdowns, heavy truck industries exploit streaming data from the engines and subsystems. Thanks to this data?
=efficient maintenance visits can be scheduled outside of operating hours.
= IoT sensors can also be attached to the trailers or actual loads being transported.
For instance, heat, vibration, and sound frequency can all be fused to?
monitor the safe transport of freight. In the automotive sector, onboard diagnostic data is collected for early detection of equipment failure, safety risks, and defects.
A smart city is another powerful application of IoT, generating curiosity among many people worldwide. Examples of IoT applications for smart cities are:
smart surveillance, automated transportation, smarter energy management systems, water distribution, urban security and environmental monitoring.