Top 10 Internet of Things technologies 2017 & 2018

Top 10 Internet of Things technologies 2017 & 2018

IoT technologies have taken the world by storm, but their design, implementation, and deployment pose significant challenges which have to be taken care in the beginning to avoid complete failure of the system and collapse of the whole ecosystem. Gartner’s has released a list of Top 10 Internet of Things technologies 2017 & 2018 which can impact all IoT companies business propositions.

Top 10 Internet of Things technologies 2017 & 2018 According to Gartner

  • IoT Security
  • IoT Analytics
  • IoT Device Management
  • Low-power, short-range IoT Networks
  • Low-power, Wide-Area Networks
  • IoT Processors
  • IoT Operating Systems
  • Event Stream Processing
  • IoT Platforms
  • IoT Standards and Ecosystems

As per  Gartner vice president and analyst, Nick Jones “IoT demands an extensive range of new technologies and skills that many organizations have yet to master. A recurring theme in the IoT space is the immaturity of technologies and services and of the vendors providing them. Architecting for this immaturity and managing the risk it creates will be a key challenge for organizations exploiting IoT. In many technology areas, lack of skills will also pose significant challenges.”

Top 10 IoT technologies:

1. IoT Security

IoT security is a major domain which will have an impact as these technologies are required to protect IoT devices and platforms from physical tampering and information attacks that attempt to encrypt devices communications and to address new challenges such as the impersonation of ‘things’ or denial-of-sleep attacks that drain batteries. IoT security will be complicated by the fact that many ‘things’ use simple processors and operating systems may not support sophisticated security approaches.

Mr. Jones said, “New threats will emerge through 2021 as hackers find new ways to attack IoT devices and protocols, so long-lived ‘things’ may need updatable hardware and software to adapt during their lifespan.”

2. IoT Analytics

IoT business models will exploit the information collected by ‘things’ in various ways like attempting to understand customer behavior, to deliver services and intercept business moments. As data volumes increase through 2021, the needs of the IoT may diverge further from traditional analytics and new analytic tools and algorithms will be required.

3. IoT Device Management

Million of IoT “Things” will require tools capable of managing and monitoring them and generates thousands and perhaps even millions of devices. Management includes software updates, diagnostics, crash analysis and reporting, physical management and security management.

Long-lived nontrivial “things” will require management and monitoring. This includes device monitoring, firmware and software updates, diagnostics, crash analysis and reporting, physical management, and security management. The IoT also brings new problems of scale to the management task. Tools must be capable of managing and monitoring thousands and perhaps even millions of devices.

4. Low-power, short-range IoT Networks

Low-power, short-range networks will dominate wireless IoT connectivity through 2025, outnumbering connections using wide-area IoT networks. However, commercial and technical trade-offs mean that many solutions will coexist with no single dominant winner and clusters around certain technologies, applications and vendor ecosystems will emerge.

5. Low-power, Wide-Area Networks

Traditional cellular networks don’t deliver a balanced combination of technical features and operational cost for those IoT applications that need wide-area coverage combined with relatively low bandwidth, good battery life, low hardware and operating cost, and high connection density.

The first low-power wide-area networks (LPWANs) were based on proprietary technologies, but in the long term, emerging standards such as Narrowband IoT (NB-IoT) will likely dominate this space.

6. IoT Processors

The processors and architectures used by IoT devices define many of their capabilities, such as whether they are capable of strong security and encryption, power consumption, whether they are sophisticated enough to support an operating system, updatable firmware, and embedded device management agents.

An understanding of the implications of processor choices will demand strong technical skills.

7. IoT Operating Systems

Traditional operating systems such as Windows and iOS were not designed for IoT applications. Consequently, a new range of IoT-specific operating systems has been developed to suit different hardware footprints and feature needs.

8. Event Stream Processing

Some IoT applications will generate extremely high data rates that must be analyzed in real time. To address such requirements, distributed stream computing platforms (DSCPs) have emerged.

9. IoT Platforms

IoT platforms bundle many of the infrastructure components of an IoT system into a single product. The services provided by such platforms fall into low-level device control, data acquisition, and application development.

10. IoT Standards and Ecosystems

Standards and their associated APIs will be essential because IoT devices will need to interoperate and communicate and many IoT business models will rely on sharing data between multiple devices and organizations.

Also, Read More about….. Industrial IoT devices and Gateway

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DATA ACQUISITION SYSTEM FOR FIBER BRAG GRATING SYSTEM

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Data acquisition system (DAQ) is an information system that collects stores and distributes information. It is used in industrial and commercial electronics, and environmental and scientific equipment to capture electrical signals or environmental conditions on a computer device.

DATA ACQUISITION SYSTEM FOR FIBER BRAG GRATING SYSTEM

Overview

The most straightforward means for interrogation of a FBG sensor element is to illuminate the
FBG sensor (s) by broadband source & the narrowband component reflected by the FBG is
directed to the wavelength detection system as shown in the below figure.
CCD is illuminated by the optical signals reflected by the FBGs. This implementation supports 8 CCD’s. CCD sensor using Argus developed FPGA controller board.
The FPGA used for the control of CCD processor is Xilinx FPGA — XC3SD1800A-
4CSG484C.

DATA ACQUISITION SYSTEM for fiber brag grating system

Hardware Implementation

  • Aligtron 1×8 Latching Fiber optic Switch (MEMS Latch)
  • InGaAs linear image sensor (Hamamatsu)
  • Image Signal Processor (AD9826)
  • Field Programmable Gate Array Logic (FPGA)
  • Programmable system on chip PSoC5LP)
  • SRAM Memory Unit for data storage
  • System Clock 25MHz
  • Single Power supply (9V, ~300mA)

Block Diagram of the Data Acquisition System Controller

Block Diagram of the Data Acquisition System Controller

Functional Description

  • Receives command bytes from PC to FPGA through UART protocol and act accordingly
  • Controls all the other peripherals in the “FPGA controller board” by providing required
    inputs to them.
  • Receives the signals from the sensor, & modifies them as required control signals for the
    ADC.
  • Receives 8 bit output from the ADC, makes it into 16 bit word & stores in its memory.
  • Sends this 256 * 16 bit words (each pixel voltage in binary) to the Programmable system on
    chip (PSoC5LP – CY8C58LP).
  • Finally, the data stored in the PSoC is displayed on the PC or any other host devices through
    USB by using Lab View software (version 14.4).

Flow of the Hardware

Flow of the Hardware

Key Features

  • Used for detecting the narrow band signal from a broad band source i.e. of infrared rays &
    near visible signals.
  • Supports protocols such as UART, USB, FLASH
  • Synchronous Design
  • System clock speed used is 25 MHz.
  • Design is implemented using Verilog HDL

Advantages

  • Silicon Proven on Xilinx FPGA Spartan-3A DSP (XC3SD1800A-4CSG484C) using ISE
    14.3 and higher versions.
  • The spartan-3A DSP FPGA combined with proven 90nm process technology which delivers
    more functionality and bandwidth.
  • Set up is handy to carry and even give accurate results in sampling the CCD waveform.
  • Customizable with easy integration.
  • Gate count is approximately 1150 logic cells

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Openwrt WiFi Router

Openwrt WiFi Router

OpenWRT WiFi Router

OpenWrt  ​is a highly extensible GNU/​Linux distribution for embedded devices (typically wireless routers). Unlike many other distributions for these routers, OpenWrt  ​is built from the ground up to be a full-featured, easily modifiable operating system for your router. Argus has designed and developed low cost OpenWRT WiFi Router for home/small office use. It gives you power for porting your own application into this platform and use it as per requirement.

The OpenWrt Project is a Linux operating system targeting embedded devices. Instead of trying to create a single, static firmware, OpenWrt provides a fully writable file system with package management. This frees you from the application selection and configuration provided by the vendor and allows you to customize the device through the use of packages to suit any application. For developers, OpenWrt is the framework to build an application without having to build a complete firmware around it

OpenWRT Wifi Router Features

Extensibility: OpenWrt provides many capabilities found only in high-end devices. Its 3000+ application packages are standardized, so you can easily replicate the same setup on any supported device.

Security: OpenWrt’s standard installation is secure by default, with Wi-Fi disabled, no poor passwords or backdoors. OpenWrt’s software components are kept up-to-date, so vulnerabilities get closed shortly after they are discovered.

Performance and Stability: OpenWrt firmware is made of standardized modules used in all supported devices. This means each module will likely receive more testing and bug fixing than stock firmware which can be tweaked for each product line and never touched again.

Strong Community Support: OpenWrt team members are regular participants on the LEDE Forum, LEDE Developer and LEDE Admin mailing lists, and LEDE’s IRC channels. You can interact directly with developers, volunteers managing the software modules and with other long-time OpenWrt users, drastically increasing the chances you will solve the issue at hand.

Research: Many teams use OpenWrt as a platform for their research into network performance. This means that the improvements of their successful experiments will be available in OpenWrt first, well before it gets incorporated into mainline, vendor firmware.

Open Source/No additional cost: OpenWrt is provided without any monetary cost. It has been entirely created by a team of volunteers: developers and maintainers, individuals and companies. If you enjoy using OpenWrt, consider contributing some effort to help us improve it for others All of the above is possible because OpenWrt is part of the Open Source community, and powered by Linux kernel.

Specifications

Argus wifi Router OEM board is based on the RT5350 supporting Linino OS an openWrt Linux distribution

  • Ethernet: 802.3 10/100Mbit/s
  • Wi-Fi      : 802.11b/g/n 2.4 GHz
  • USB 2.0 Host type a connector
  • Micro-SD card slot
  • MMC Card slot
  • External memory (32MB SDRAM, 8MB SPI NAND flash)
  • Micro USB connector for power
  • Rechargeable battery with on board charging circuit for portable applications.

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Industrial IOT Devices & Gateway

Industrial IOT Devices and Gateway

Industrial IOT Devices & Gateway

Internet of things (IoT) in automation industry is proving to be a game changer for automation companies. Industrial automation companies that use IoT solutions can reap new benefits. The Internet of Things (IoT) helps to create new technologies to solve problems, enhance operations, and increase productivity.

The IoT can be explained as the connection of inimitably identifiable electronic devices using Internet ‘data plumbing’ including Internet Protocol (IP), cloud computing and web services. Internet of Things (IoT) Impact on Industrial Automation is very high and it makes us to use tablet computers, smart phones, virtualized systems, and cloud storage of data and so on.

In many industries, there tends to be a large amount of legacy equipment that is installed without any means of connectivity to analyse the possible data they can provide, which leaves a lot of potentially useful data locked away in an array of equipment. IoT Gateways are designed to securely connect to the internet/cloud using WiFi, LAN or cellular communication, this connectivity provides a solution to unlock meaningful data from these legacy devices.

The introduction of IoT Gateways into industrial and mission critical applications helps to address the issue of interoperability of legacy systems and help avoid the incredibly large cost of replacing existing infrastructure with next generation equipment.

Ultimately, the adoption of IoT Gateways offers the ability to access previously hidden data from sensors, embedded controllers and IO devices that can be valuable to a wide range of businesses processes and applications such as:

  • Remote monitoring
  • Preventive maintenance
  • Production optimisation
  • Building automation

This data realisation allows the likes of control room applications, enterprise applications and other business applications analyses monitor and review the data to make critical business decisions, improvements and optimise processes.

Let us check the impact of Internet of Things (IoT) on Industrial

Industrial IOT Devices & Gateway

IoT Gateway Devices
IoT Gateway devices act as a communication bridge between IoT Sensor Network and Cloud Server.
IoT Gateway Devices are emerging as key elements in bring next-gen devices to the Internet of Things (IoT). They help to integrate protocols for networking, help manage storage and edge analytics on the data, and facilitate data flow securely between edge devices and the cloud.

Internet of Things (IoT):
The Internet of Things (IoT) plays a vital role in the industrial automation as it is starting to explore and implement IoT concepts and technology. IoT helps to streamline, collapse, and create system architectures that are effective, affordable and responsive. The major aim is to create frictionless communications and interaction from manufacturing field input/output including analyzers, actuators, robotics etc to enhance flexibility and increased manufacturing. Using IoT, the industrial automation has leveraged commercial technologies in major applications and these examples include PLCs displacing banks of relays.

Industrial IoT Development Kits
Industrial IoT Development Kits provide an entire, high quality design environment for engineers and solution architects to drastically accelerate the development and delivery of IoT applications. Using these kits, any development/industrial environment can be quickly turned into a production ready unit. The IoT Development Kit targets a variety of IoT application requirements by providing a range of different hardware platforms, spanning from very compact low-power ARM-based designs to powerful multi-core, latest generation Intel Atom gateways.

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Fibre Bragg Grating Sensors , FBG Interrogators

Fiber Bragg Grating sensors

Fiber Bragg grating Sensor (FBGS) is characterized by the periodic modulation of the refractive index in the core of an optical fiber. This modulation causes the FBG to reflect a range of wavelengths of the incident light and transmit the remaining wavelength band. Such gratings are intrinsic sensing elements that can be photo-inscribed into the optical fiber usually by exposing its core to an interference pattern from an ultraviolet laser. However, there is a set of other methods for this purpose.

Interrogation system for such sensors can operate based on the multiplexing of several FBGs in a single fiber, when these sensors operate as a quasi-distributed sensing network. Following this idea, grating-based sensors have been employed in a wide variety of applications in sensing and communications, including the sensing of temperature, from the date of its discovery  and also to measure strain or refractive index, to name a few.

Fiber Bragg Grating  Sensors Advantages

  • FBG sensors are passive.
  • Optical fibers are non conductive, so lightning will not destroy FBG sensors with an electrical surge.
  • FBG sensors are immune to EMI.
  • Fiber sensor instruments (aka interrogators) have a range of well over 30 km and a capacity for more than 80 sensors per fiber and 16 fibers. That’s a total of >1280 sensors per demodulation instrument.
  • FBGs respond quickly to even slight temperature variations.
  • FBGs can be spaced at 1 cm intervals along a fiber that is only 155 microns in diameter.
  • FBG sensors are made of silica (i.e., glass). They do not corrode.
  • Multiplexing dozens of FBGs in series in one fiber saves the cost of a home run lead to each sensor. Also, varying FBG sensor lead lengths does not impact sensor calibration.
  • Micron Optics sensor interrogation instruments have built-in calibration artifacts that last for the life of the instrument. The FBG sensors each have a digitally encoded identity that does not change. So once a system is installed and sensor zero points are recorded, no further calibration is required. Ever
  • Optical fiber is amazingly robust. Our FBG gages have been tested to >100 million cycles of +/-3,000 microstrain with no degradation of the measurement.
  • Some FBG strain gages can measure up to ~ 30,000 microstrains (i.e., 3% elongation).
  • Again, multiplexing is the key. A single, small fiber can connect 10s of gages to the interrogator.
  • FBGs measure directly strain and temperature. Tranducer packaging around FBGs makes measurement of other properties possible like pressure, acceleration, displacement, chemical presence, etc. All of these sensors, no matter what they measure, are measured by the same interrogator.
  • Because fibers are so small, they can be embedded in structures built with carbon fibers, glass fibers, concrete and steel, etc.
  • Optical components like the FBGs themselves and those used to build the interrogators, are Telcordia qualified for a >25 year lifetime. Telcordia is a set of standards established by the telecom industry for critical equipment deployed in harsh field applications.
  • Commercial quality FBG-based temperature sensors are available now for the -200°C to 300°C range, and promising prototypes have been shown to operate in 1,000 hour tests at 750°C. Materials like sapphire FBGs are under development for even higher temperatures.

Fiber Bragg Grating Sensors Application

Fiber Bragg granting sensors are used for a number of applications across many industries. some of the applications are listed below

  • Optical telecommunications and optical sensors
  • Fiber lasers
  • Fiber amplifiers
  • Fiber bragg filters
  • Wavelength Division multiplexer/de-multiplexer
  • Dispersion compensation monitoring
  • Optical layer monitoring
  • Humidity sensors
  • Static and dynamic strain monitoring
  • Length measurements in kilometer range

 

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Wireless SCADA Systems

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What is SCADA?

wireless scada Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition
SCADA is the acronym for Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition.
SCADA is a computer-based system for gathering and analyzing real-time data to monitor and control equipment that deals with critical and time-sensitive materials or events.
SCADA systems were first used in the 1960s and are now an integral component in virtually all industrial plant and production facilities.

SCADA Systems are widely used in the following:

Oil and Gas
Pipeline monitoring and control
Remote monitoring and control of production, pumping, and storage locations
Offshore platforms and onshore wells
Refineries, petro-chemical stations

Water and Wastewater
Water treatment centers and distribution
Wastewater collection and treatment facilities

Utilities
Electrical power distribution from gas-fired, coal, nuclear
Electrical power transmission and distribution
Agriculture / Irrigation

Manufacturing
Food and Beverage
Pharmaceutical
Telecommunications
Transportation

Wireless SCADA Importance ?

One of the biggest advantages with the system in place is the fact that the top management always has timely and accurate data available to them at any time.
The real time data can be used by them to optimize the operation of a plant or a business process.
The system enables considerable improvement in the efficient running of a plant.
Moreover, it also ensures data safety, another crucial aspect that needs to be considered by businesses today.
When viewed from a company’s perspective, the system is invaluable, with it lessening the operating cost quite significantly.
The efficiency of the system directly translates into higher profits for businesses operating in various different sectors.

Components of SCADA

SCADA systems utilize Distribution Control Systems (DCS), Process Control Systems (PCS), Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) and Remote Terminal Units (RTU)
that perform the majority of local and remote process alarming, monitoring and control. The PLC or RTU are the Main work horses in the industries listed above.
The main Process of these devices includes observing liquid level and gas meter readings, equipment voltage and current, operating pressure and temperature, or other equipment status.

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