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THE INTERNET OF THINGS SYMPOSIUM Date-3 rd &4 th August, S.P. Jain Institute of Management & Reasearch,Sardar Patel Institute of Technology Sardar Patel Institute of Technology (SPIT) is an engineering college located in Andheri, a suburb of Mumbai. It is affiliated to Mumbai University and offers graduate (Bachelor), post-graduate (Master) and doctoral (Ph.D.) degrees in Engineering. Lab-X Foundation is a non-profit committed to bringing world-class higher education in developing nations and helping to retain talents within the community. We provide hands-on opportunities and global exposure to students and create a unique ecosystem fostering research, innovation and entrepreneurship by partnering with some of the best institutions and corporations in the world. The Internet of Things (IoT) is the network of physical devices, vehicles, buildings and other items— embedded with electronics, software, sensors, actuators, and network connectivity that enable these objects to collect and exchange data. British entrepreneur Kevin Ashton coined the term in 1999 while working at Auto-ID Labs. In the initial part of the symposium, Juergen Hase rightly quoted, “We are moving from a world of materialism to experimentalism.” And so he believed that Internet of Things is infact Internet of Brains. The fast moving technology mainly is focused on building smart cities,smart factories, smart utilities, etc. While explaining the idea of smart factories Mr. Juergen said that Industry 4.0 is a factory that can almost run itself. In an article about Maersk seeing savings in using drones at seas published in Wall street journal on 16 th March, it was stated that A.P. Moller Maersk A/S, the world’s largest containership operator by capacity, is studying deploying drones aboard its giant vessels and at its port operations around the world in an effort to cut the cost of supplying ships at sea thereby giving a whole new dimension to the marine industry.
Transcript of THE INTERNET OF THINGS SYMPOSIUM
THEINTERNETOFTHINGSSYMPOSIUM
Date-3rd&4thAugust,
S.P.JainInstituteofManagement&Reasearch,SardarPatelInstituteofTechnology
Sardar Patel Institute of Technology (SPIT) is an engineering college located in Andheri, a suburb ofMumbai. It is affiliated toMumbai University and offers graduate (Bachelor), post-graduate (Master)anddoctoral(Ph.D.)degreesinEngineering.
Lab-X Foundation is a non-profit committed to bringing world-class higher education in developingnations and helping to retain talentswithin the community.We provide hands-on opportunities andglobal exposure to students and create a unique ecosystem fostering research, innovation andentrepreneurshipbypartneringwithsomeofthebestinstitutionsandcorporationsintheworld.
TheInternet of Things(IoT) is the network of physical devices, vehicles, buildings and other items—embeddedwith electronics, software, sensors, actuators, andnetwork connectivity that enable theseobjectstocollectandexchangedata.BritishentrepreneurKevinAshtoncoinedthetermin1999whileworkingatAuto-IDLabs.
In the initial part of thesymposium, Juergen Hase rightlyquoted, “We are moving from aworld of materialism toexperimentalism.” And so hebelieved that Internet of Things isinfact Internet of Brains. The fastmoving technology mainly isfocused on building smartcities,smart factories, smartutilities, etc. While explaining theideaofsmartfactoriesMr.Juergensaid that Industry 4.0 is a factorythat can almost run itself. In anarticle aboutMaersk seeing savings in using drones at seas published inWall street journal on 16thMarch,itwasstatedthatA.P.MollerMaerskA/S,theworld’slargestcontainershipoperatorbycapacity,isstudyingdeployingdronesaboarditsgiantvesselsandat itsportoperationsaroundtheworldinaneffort to cut the cost of supplying ships at sea thereby giving awhole new dimension to themarineindustry.
In the Internet of Things, devices gather andshare information directly with each other andthe cloud, making it possible to collect, recordand analyze new data streams faster and moreaccurately. The IoT plays a significant role in abroad range of healthcare applications, frommanaging chronic diseases at one end of thespectrum to preventing disease at the other.Hospitalized patients whose physiological statusrequires close attention can be constantlymonitored using IoT-driven, noninvasivemonitoring.Thistypeofsolutionemployssensorsto collect comprehensive physiological information and uses gateways and the cloud to analyze andstoretheinformationandthensendtheanalyzeddatawirelesslytocaregiversforfurtheranalysisandreview.Itreplacestheprocessofhavingahealthprofessionalcomebyatregularintervalstocheckthepatient’s vital signs, instead providing a continuous automated flow of information. In this way, itsimultaneouslyimprovesthequalityofcarethroughconstantattentionandlowersthecostofcarebyeliminatingtheneedforacaregivertoactivelyengageindatacollectionandanalysis.Therearepeopleall over theworldwhosehealthmay suffer because theydon’t have ready access to effectivehealthmonitoring.Butsmall,powerfulwirelesssolutionsconnectedthroughtheIoTarenowmakingitpossibleformonitoringtocometothesepatientsinsteadofvice-versa.Thesesolutionscanbeusedtosecurelycapturepatienthealthdatafromavarietyofsensors,applycomplexalgorithmstoanalyzethedataandthenshareitthroughwirelessconnectivitywithmedicalprofessionalswhocanmakeappropriatehealthrecommendations.
Thelong-predictedIoTrevolutioninhealthcareisalreadyunderway,astheexamplesinthispapermakeclear. And, those are just the tip of the proverbial iceberg, as new use cases continue to emerge toaddress the urgent need for affordable, accessible care. Meanwhile, we are seeing the IoT buildingblocks of automation and machine-to-machine communication continue to be established, with theaddition of the service layer completing the infrastructure. Freescale is excited to be a part of thisrevolution by providing end-to-end processing and connectivity solutions for IoT-driven healthcaresolutions, working toward establishing standards for these solutions and accelerating innovation fororganizationseagertorealizethebenefitsoftheIoTinhealthcare.
Mr.Hasealsomentionedthekeythingstobesuccessful intheIoT,wherebyfocusingonkeyverticals,corestrengthandopeninginterfaceswereprimary.Besides,partneringandidentifyingthepatternsinaparticulararchitecturewereequallycrucial. Itwashisbelief thatwhen IoTwilldominateour livesthescenariowillbesomewhatlike,“Ohmyfridgeisempty.Nowitsgoingto‘tell’methatitsempty!”
Mangesh Pathankar from IBM explained how IoT is used in accident prone region allowing othervehiclestochooseanalternativepath.WithevolvedCloudTechnology,youwillhavetorunapplicationsinvariouscloudenvironments.These includesPrivateCloudandPublicCloud.Therewillbesituationswhere you will be moving your solutions (applications) in Hybrid model which includes Public and
PrivateCloud.Insuchascenario,therewillbelotofeffortsintermsofSoftwareDevelopmentLifecycle.To reduce the efforts in porting these applications on Cloud, you can use Docker. Bluemix is a PaaS(PlatformasaService)offeringfromIBM.Bluemixplatformsupportsvariousruntimeslikejava,nodejs,php,rubyetc.WithBluemixyoucreate,deploy,andmanageyourapplicationsinthecloud.NodeRedisaneditorthatactsasavisualtoolforwritingforIoT.
In a webinar withThinagaran Perumal hesaid,“TherealkeybehindIoT isnotconnectivitybutservices.” According tohim a smart home shouldfollow the three I’s:Instrumented,Interconnected,Intelligence. He definedIoT as 'The Internet ofThings is a computingconcept that describes afuture where everydayphysical objects will beconnectedtotheInternetandbeabletoidentifythemselvestootherdevices.'Hefurtherexplainedthekey components in a smart home.Microcontrollers play a very dominant role in Smart Homes alongwith sensors and actuators. One of the challenges faced by a smart home is an ‘accidentally smarthome’.However,whilenewhomesmayeventuallybepurpose-builtforsuchsmartapplications,existinghomes were not designed as such. Perhaps homeowners may decide to "upgrade" their homes tosupport these new technologies. But it seems more likely that new technologies will be broughtpiecemeal into the home. Unlike the "lab houses" that serve as experiments in domestic technologytoday, thesehomeswill notbe customdesigned from the start to accommodateand integrate thesetechnologies.Wecall thisphenomenonthe"accidentally"smarthome. Inparticular, thehomeownersmay not realize that their wireless speakers can actually connect themselves to sound sources inanotherhouseaseasilyastosoundsourceswithinthehome.Modelsofconnectivityareexplicitwhenphysical wires are present: the "range" of connectivity is apparent, connections are observable, andconnections don't change on their own. Another challenge is the impromptu interoperability. Webelievethat impromptuinteroperability isnot justthesimpleabilityto interconnect,buttheabilitytodosowithlittleornoadvanceplanninginmuchofthecurrentliteratureofubiquitouscomputinginthehome.With fluid, impromptu interoperability, individual technologies have the potential to create afabric of complementary functionality. Without it, the smart home of the future is likely to becharacterizedbyislandsoffunctionality(Suchaworldislikelytobeoneofsoftwareupgrades,versionmismatches,anddriverinstallations)Suchinteroperability,whileachallengeinitsownright,increasesthe challenges of intelligibility. Along with these,social implications of smart home, reliability, andintereferenceinthepresenceofambiguityarethechallengesbeforeasmarthome.
The symposium was taken further by Soumya KantiDatta who outlined IoT as a data communicationamong physical things that do not need humanintervention.ThemajorproblemsfacedbyIoTinIndiais the Urban Traffic, droughts, potholes, parking,public safety and city lightning. Mr. Datta alsoemphasized on pollution management by IoT thatprovides valuable data for analytic operations andforecasting.Thethreefundamentaloperations inthismanagementarethecollectionofdata,processingofdata and control. The collection of data is done bysensor based technology followed by processing ofdatawiththehelpofsemanticreasoningandartificialintelligence.Thecontrollingisdonebyactuators.Theproblems in thiskindofmanagement is theheterogeneity in thesensors thatbelong todifferentdomain. Themanagement of the collected objects is also amajor concern due to highmobility anddiscoveryofobjects.Duringprocessing,utilizingsemanticweb techniquesposesagreat threat.Thereare two types of objects, smart and legacy, that needs to be managed. Smart object allows restfulinteraction and legacy object allows restless interaction. The main objective of managing theseconnected objects is to ensure flexibility, scalability and dynamicity. Mr. Datta also introduced theconceptofSensorMarkupLanguage(SenML)whichisawaytoexchange“metadata”andtoimplementJSON.
In a later session,Mr Lee Stognermarked IoTas anintegration of real world data and services intocurrent information networking technologies. Hespoke about smart farms. Of the many advantagesthatIoTbringstothetable,itsabilitytoinnovatethelandscape of current farmingmethods is absolutelygroundbreaking. IoT sensors capable of providingfarmerswith information about crop yields, rainfall,pest infestation, and soil nutrition are invaluable toproductionandofferprecisedatawhichcanbeusedto improve farming techniques over time. Newhardware like the corntending Rowbot, is making strides by pairing data collecting software withroboticstofertilizethecorn,applyseedcover-crops,andcollectinformationinordertobothmaximizeyields andminimizewaste. Alongwith smart farms, smart buildings and smart environment are alsoheaded towards creating a phenomenon as per Mr. Antonio Skarmeta. In collaboration with IoTecosystems,thereisalsoaneedforcommonprotocolsandshareddatawhichinreturnallowsflexibleandnonverticalsolutionstherebypermittinginteroperabilitybetweenstakeholders.
Although the definition of ‘Things’ has changed as technology evolved, the main goal of making acomputer sense information without the aid of human intervention remains the same. A radicalevolution of the current Internet into a Network of interconnectedobjects that not only harvestsinformation from the environment (sensing) and interacts with the physical world(actuation/command/control), but also uses existing Internet standards to provide services forinformation transfer, analytics, applications, and communications.The proliferation of devices withcommunicating–actuating capabilities is bringing closer the visionof an Internet of Things,where thesensingandactuation functions seamlesslyblend into thebackgroundandnewcapabilities aremadepossible throughaccessof richnew informationsources.Theevolutionof thenextgenerationmobilesystemwilldependonthecreativityoftheusersindesigningnewapplications.IoTisanidealemergingtechnology to influence this domain by providing new evolving data and the required computationalresourcesforcreatingrevolutionaryapps.
OrganizingCommittee-
ProfDayanandAmbawde, SaishDesai, Anuj Johri, Ankesh Patil, Saniya Santhosh, Prachi Pedhambkar,PratikGawli,VideetSinghai,DhamendraNasit,MohitJoshi,SarveshBedekar
AttheendoftheeventoftherewasanawardfunctiontofelicitatethewinnersoftheDemo-ITposterpresentationcompetition.
The event was concluded with a vote of thanks by the eventconvener Prof. Dayanand Ambawade. He thanked all thespeakers, participants and specially Lab-X Foundation for givingS.P.I.Ttheopportunitytohostsuchagreatevent.
