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Footprint of IoT Powered and Filter Free Air Purifiers

The presence of dust in homes, offices, and other human environments are unavoidable. In fact, according to the Environmental Protection Agency, indoor air can be 2 to 5 times more polluted than outdoor air. This airborne pollution contributes to minor annoyances such as itchy eyes, sneezing, and headaches to human beings. Worst still, it can be a major contributing factor to severe allergies, life-threatening asthma.
To solve this problem, a working air purifier machine well address this issue. there are various IoT based air purifiers available in market, Xiaomi beat all of them with low price and advance feature.

IoTMania - IoT Based Air Purifirs

Xiaomi launched their IoT based air purifier. It can clean the air in a 23-square-metre room in 10 minutes.
The Mi Air Purifier can be controlled by a smartphone and uses a brush-less DC motor for better performance and less friction. It delivers clean air at the rate of 330 m3/h. Xiaomi promises that it can clean 99.7 percent of small PM 2.5 particles in a room.
The air purifier, which is WiFi linked, has different modes that can be changed through an app for the device from your phone, tablet or desktop. It can also detect your presence and can switch off when you leave the house. It also learns your sleeping patterns and changes the modes accordingly.
Coway’s innovative technology, which combines its core competitiveness “care,” Big Data and the Internet of Things (IoT), is also attracting attention from the global and domestic markets.
Coway’s innovative technology, which combines its core competitiveness “care,” Big Data and the Internet of Things (IoT) with air purifiers, is also attracting attention from the global and domestic markets.
Coway Dual Power Air Purifier IoCare checks the levels of fine dust, ultra-fine particles, carbon dioxide and gas, which are the major factors that affect the air quality of households, in real time. It then offers customized solutions, such as ventilation and air cleaning, via smartphones in accordance with real time household air quality. Instead of changing filters all at once, the product also provides personalized filters, including yellow dust filters, old house filters and new house filters, according to pollutant types and concentration levels, which vary with the lifestyles of households.

What's Not So Cool?

The filter is the major component on the device and that will be an additional cost that the consumer will have to bear with every three to 4 months. The filter costs Rs 2,499 and this will be a recurring cost for the consumers.

What's Next?

Technologies like electrostatic precipitator and electrostatic ionization have potential to remove the filter dependency completely. Many companies trying to make such air purifiers. Gurgaon based Bitspi is in the way to launch one of kind intelligent, fully connected indoor working air monitoring, control and purification system. The new air cleaning system is potentially capable of detecting and combating airborne germ, chemical, smoke and other particle attacks, and also no dependency on filters.
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Top Cloud Service providers for IoT

We are living in the age of Internet of things, the network for connected devices are keep growing. One of the big challenge for these trillion of connected devices is data storage and data processing.

A few cloud service providers are transforming application development to meet the needs of the evolving IoT trend. They are building APIs, tools, and platforms that enable developers to build IoT applications that connect devices with the cloud.

Here are some promising providers who have built amazing platforms for IoT.

thethings.iO

Barcelona-based thethings.iO proclaims to be the “Amazon Web Services (AWS) for IoT companies”. The key differentiating factor is in its interoperability. thethings.iO is one the few platforms to expose both REST and CoAP APIs. Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP) is a protocol designed to be used in low-powered devices to allow them to communicate over the Internet. It is targeted at sensors, switches, valves, and actuators that are controlled remotely via standard Internet networks. thethings.iO uses CoAP to perform operations like activation, reading, writing and subscribing to sensors and channels.

Konekt

Chicago-based Konekt brings together a powerful union of cellular plans, cloud infrastructure, and APIs. Though most IoT developers prefer serial communications, WiFi, and Bluetooth, the protocols come with many constraints. Konekt is building upon GSM’s popularity and availability for machine-to-machine communication.

Xively

Xively is a division of LogMeIn, the company known for the remote access and collaboration products including Rescue, Boldchat, join.me, and Cubby. It is positioned as a PaaS built for IoT. Directory services, data services, and business services are the key components of Xively. The platform supports REST, WebSockets and MQTT protocols to connect devices to Xively Cloud Services. There are native SDKs for Android, Arduino, ARM mbed, Java, PHP, Ruby, and Python languages.

PubNub

PubNub is a platform that provides real-time network service. Its vision is to enable developers to build real-time apps as quickly as creating a web page. The PubNub data stream network provides global cloud infrastructure and essential building blocks for real-time interactivity. As one of the early movers in this space, the company claims to process 3 million real-time messages per second originating from 100 million devices in a month. Powered by 14 data centers, the network delivers under a quarter of a second latency from any location in the world. One of the interesting features of PubNub is the web-based console to view and debug events.

SensorCloud

SensorCloud  is a sensor data storage, visualization, and remote management platform. The platform supports the lifecycle of IoT applications starting from data acquisition to visualization to monitoring and analysis. MathEngine is a service to analyze the data stored in SensorCloud. The platform is optimized for LORD MicroStrain’s sensors and gateways. Developers dealing with 3rd party sensors can ingest data via OpenData API or the provided CSV uploader.

Temboo

Temboo makes it incredibly easy for developers to connect sensors to the cloud. It is a cloud-based middleware to connect with hundreds of services exposed by storage providers, social media networks, and content providers. Dubbed as Choreos (short for choreography), Temboo generates code snippets to consume the service APIs in popular languages such as PHP, Python, Java, JavaScript, C#, and Ruby. It also has native SDKs for traditional languages and runtimes. Temboo partnered with Arduino to include its headers, libraries, and SDK in Arduino Yun, a microcontroller development board that has built-in WiFi. As IoT development goes mainstream, Temboo has the potential to become the default middleware for cloud APIs.

TempoIQ

TempoIQ has an API layer, storage service, and an analytics backend to perform historical data analysis. Developers can start monitoring sensor data with just three lines of code. TempoIQ’s strength is in its analytical pipeline that defines a sequence of operations that are applied to a stream of data originating from sensors, resulting in a new output stream of data points. Each pipeline operation contains a mathematical function such as max and min. Sophisticated analysis can be performed by chaining pipeline operations. TempoIQ built SDKs in popular languages for sensor management, data collection, storage, analysis, and alerting.
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Internet Of Things - Impact on our life style and wealth

The Internet of Things is a growing network of everyday objects from industrial machines to consumer goods that can share information and complete tasks while you are busy making other plan. Our Bikes, our homes, our audio system and even our city streets will be connected to the Internet, creating a network of objects that is called the Internet of Things, or IoT for short. 

The IoT is creating a new world, a quantifiable and measurable world, made up of millions of sensors and devices that generate incessant streams of data and can make more timely and better informed decisions. This new connected world brings with it fundamental changes to society and can be used to improve our lives and our businesses in many ways. But how it impact our day to day life?, how does it work? And  Is IoT a new source of wealth creation?

How Internet of Things impact our day to day life?

In our day to day life prospective, IoT devices can be classified in three categories: 
  • Wearables
  • Smart home devices
  • M2M devices
Wearables are the devices that people carry with them, which usually connect via Bluetooth or WiFi to a smart phone, and from there to the Internet. This category includes devices such as smart watches, fitness bands and devices to help people to live more ’mindfully’ – increasing the wearer’s awareness of how well they sleep, how much they move around, monitoring their vital signs, tracking their exercises, tracking their gadgets etc. 

Smart home devices are also part of the IoT and usually connect to the Internet via ZigBee or  low power wireless communication and the home router. These include all domestic devices, from lights and light switches to motion sensors, thermostats, door locks and automated curtains. The smart phone also becomes an online dashboard and control device for Smart Home applications via its WiFi connection to the router.

The third category, M2M (Machine to Machine) devices, comprises devices that are directly connected to the cellular network and internet, such as vehicle that can report their location (in case of an accident or theft), vending machines that can alert when their stocks are running low, industrial machines that can predict their fault very early stage and alert before failure etc.

How does Internet of Things work?


Whatever the type of IoT device, it consist of a sensor, a micro-controller and a real time operating system running on micro-controller. Sensor will sniff a wide variety of information ranging from Location, Weather/Environment conditions, Grid parameters, Movement on assembly lines, Jet engine maintenance data to Health essentials of a patient. Microcontrollers and RTOS together create a IoT Gateway, that enables companies to seamlessly interconnect industrial infrastructure devices and secure data flow between devices and the cloud. 

At device end various range of hardware boards, like PanStamps, Raspberry Pi, and Pinoccio, different RTOS like Contiki, TinyOS and Kura, many communication technologies like Zigbee, 6LoWPAN, and WiFi and protocols like CoAP and MQTT are playing vital role to put these device online. On the other side at cloud end various type of infrastructure are there to provide a middle layer for IoT devices and real world, currently REST API is the best choice as a middle layer. Mobile Apps and Web Applications are working as presentation layer, providing UI to control and access IoT devices.

Is Internet of Things a new source of wealth creation?

Cisco estimates that 50 billion devices and objects will be connected to the Internet by 2020. Yet today, more than 99 percent of things in the physical world remain unconnected. The growth and convergence of processes, data, and things on the Internet will make networked connections more relevant and valuable than ever before. This growth creates unprecedented opportunities for industries, businesses, and people, but the real benefits of the Internet of Things will not, however, be realized until leading companies develop the next generation of applications that address specific business needs.

The IoT can potentially transform nearly every industry-locally and globally. It is creating new opportunities for business in four main ways

  • Advance business models:  The IoT will help companies create new value streams for customers, institute processes that speed time to market, triage market performance, and respond rapidly to customer needs. Uber is one of the example of such a business model.
  • Real-time critical information:  With IoT, organizations can capture more data about their processes and products in a more timely fashion to create new revenue streams, improve operational efficiency, and increase customer loyalty, e.g. vending machines that can alert when their stocks are running low.
  • Diversification of revenue streams:  The IoT can help companies create new services and new revenue streams on top of traditional products, e.g smart shopping malls and their automated inventory management system.
  • Efficient and intelligent operations:  Access to information from autonomous end points, as today’s smart grid already supplies to utility companies, will allow organizations to make on-the-fly decisions on pricing, logistics, sales, and support deployment, etc.
With policies to encourage interoperability, security, and property rights, the Internet of Things can begin to reach its full potential, if leaders truly start embracing data-driven decision making.
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