In this presentation, Abbas introduces IoT and associated trends. Abbas's interest area lies in deploying IoT in warehouses to prevent food wastage and add more value to the farming community.

1. Internet of Things
Name : Syed Abbas Taqi Abidi
E-mail: abbas.taqi129@gmail.com
Twitter Id:abbas.taqi129
University: NMIMS
Year/Semester:2nd/4th
Branch: I.T

2. Introduction
 Internet of things can be explained as an embedded
system consisting of a physical object and perhaps a
component(computer) to process the sensor data and
supports a wireless or cellular data link to the internet.
Internet of things, as creative the topic is, I’d like to take
this opportunity to explain this topic with a scenario and
not by any definition.

3. Scenario
 Lets take the following scenario to explain the IoT idea simply and precisely- You are
leaving from your office after a normal days’ work. You swipe your card to mark your exit
out of the office. Now, with IoT, since every thing is integrated, it sends a message to a
application which buys your ticket for the bus or cuts you a ticket for the train you take
daily from office to home . You reach home and the sensors located around the doors
locate you near the house and ask for a password/thumbprint to enter on your mobile
application and opens your house up for you. The home application asks you if you want
hot/cold water for the bath and prepares the same by sending a signal to the sensors of
the bathtub. The bathtub cuts off the supply of the water after three to four minutes
automatically. You can control the music system of your home as you’re bathing. You get a
notification from your fridge that your supply of grocery stock is down and it asks you if
you want to place your order from the nearby grocery store. That’s right! You just got
yourself new groceries from the supermarket store while bathing. As you are going to
sleep, you wear your rest-device, which stores all the data overnight, looks at your
heartbeat, sleep cycle and other data and sends the data to your doctor (this might come
handy if you are suffering from any disease or insomnia).
 There are vast and wide possibilities with internet of things concept. Huge use case
scenarios can be made and implemented. Though, there are concerns over the privacy
and security.

4. Trends
 The recent growth in IoT has been really promising.
The noise generated from the components and
physical objects and might keep the UI designers,
statisticians, software engineers busy for the next
coming decades but the future seems enthralling.
 Projects like Google cars, connected home service,
Sparks’ Electron, Nest’s Thermostat and iBeacon
technology from Apple have already appeased the IoT
crowd. Spark has been a major contributor in IoT
society and has come up with great ideas in past.

5. Sparks’ Core
 In particular, I think Sparks’ Core is going to a starting
platform for other IoT application.
 The spark core package comes with a microprocessor, a
breadboard, a USB cable and a LED. By connecting it
simply on a breadboard, one can perform various activities
just by coding it on REST API. You can, make the LED go
on and off; connect a sensor to the breadboard and note
the temperature, or even send a message to the Sparks’ core
from the internet. Sparks’ core provides the basic
fundamental building of the IoT and tells us how
hardwares can be controlled not with an OS- but just by a
firmware(in this case, Sparks’ firmware).

6. Interest Area-
Application in Agriculture
 Agriculture has been recently benefitting from IoT. IoT’s presence in agriculture
makes it easy for farmers to detect crop compositions, regulate mineral and moisture
level in soils with the help of data mining. IoT helps get farmers enough data about the
soil composition and hence the level of pesticides etc to add in it. IoT helps in
determining plant health, the plan irrigation time and the frost and heat events. IoT
can be used to monitor the crops in the warehouses and safeguard any accident due to
the overheating of the conveyer belt, grain elevators can be quite accident prone too
etc. IoT is also used in the agricultural engineering equipment that are made today.
Flying probes or drones can also help fetch the data from on-field inspection and can
be instrumental when this data is interpret with the help of field mapping,
fertilization planning, precision agriculture etc. Weather condition detection also
plays a vital role in agriculture and hence IoT has been developing in this segment too.
 One thing that really disappoints me is the inefficiency in warehouses and when it
comes to store the crops(this has been a major source of loss of income of farmers in
India). IoT can be used to develop and manage warehouses and storage systems much
more efficiently.
 Warehouses can be managed efficiently with the help of IoT and the use of sensors,
remote sensing, RFID and embedded technologies. Not only IoT should help in
hazard management of the warehouses, but it should also help in better management
of the warehouses. The stocks should be managed efficiently and also their should be
tracking of the crops. There should be a warehouse management app where a farmer
could keep track of all the stocks left, manage the warehouse area effectively, manage
financial equations with the help of corresponding data. Calculate the potential loss
and gains and suggests what prices the crops should be tagged at so as to make a profit
of x%. Also, updates you with all the new agricultural methodology applied and the
market rates.
 If given an internship, I’d like to work upon better storage and management of
warehouses.