So let's
look at three concrete examples of
iot in this video section
4.2. We're going to look at some I owe
two solutions and until today,
many of the solutions mostly focus
on kind of mono, functional business or user
cases to provide real-time insights, but
how can the cities and communities?
For that matter use iot to make their cities smarter.
So, in this example, and
these three examples, I'm going to show show you how
some cities like Amsterdam. Of course. My favorite are
actually doing that with, with iot devices, and
hopefully, this gives you some inspiration about what kinds
of simple.
Kinds of iot devices, you can help
deploy for your city.
So, the first example, is example
of how communities can use iot devices to start
collecting facts and evidence about their living
environments. So this is called the smart citizen kit.
It's an affordable kit that you
can buy online and you can hang up on the rooftop
or the the side of your building to
start collecting lots of different types of
data about weather conditions,
noise pollution, air quality light.
Action to give neighborhoods much
more insights about what's going on and these are all
open source. So that means it's free and there's
apis to connect to. So you
can have wonderful dashboard where
you can actually start looking. Not only what's going
on in your neighborhood, but other neighborhoods, it's a
public platform that kind of Aggregates all
the environmental data to share with a global global community.
And it's it's a truly kind of smart citizen.
Form in that sense because it's not driven by academics
institutions or for-profit. Organizations. These
are just people like you and me
that are just genuinely curious about what's going on around them and
this smart citizen kit. It's just a kind of simple
way of joining a community of like-minded people to
bring more facts and evidence to the
city about what's happening in terms of environmental level
or even a livable livable City.
The next example is called cool
Fields. There, you know,
with the climate change as we discussed in the previous
section, is a real thing. And there's
something called the heat island effect, which is where cities as they
become bigger. They're absorbing more and more heat. So some
of the research we're doing outside. Our office building. Here is just
looking at kinds of different types
of recycled artificial grass that
when
And with different types of packages underneath whether
its water collection or sand could
help evaporate faster
re cool, the city's better. So
these these three Fields as you see here
in the images, are basically samples of what are
normally. Huge sport, areas recreational areas
in and around the cities, and what happens if you transfer the
transform those areas into kind of cooling systems
to deal with the heat.
Island effects that are happening all over our city. So the
Audi sensors here. In this case are measuring on
a super, super granular. Fine level different
things like UV rays are are
if I perforation rates, soil, temperatures,
ultraviolet levels. And the
idea is that whatever the best results are from
this. From this research gets
deployed into the surrounding areas
of the city.
You're not just fun Recreation sport
areas to to recreate but also perform
at a level to cool the city's off.
So there's a about five years ago. There was this hot, new
startup called, the things that work. And these guys were
all passionate about connecting all of these devices
together with a lower lower one network. So,
Laura Juan is acronym for long-range
little power, a wireless area networks. And
so, this is really the one of
the best kinds of networking Technologies out
there. These lot of these devices can
be hung up.
Indoors outdoors and be left alone for
months sometimes years on end because the it
doesn't require that much processing or
bandwidth. So they can talk to
each other, quite easily. And so, most of these devices are
basically, Arduino Raspberry, Pi types of
micro processors that are built into the devices themselves.
And so, these could be micro trackers. These
could be smart room sensors. These could
be small sensors for monitoring say,
And see flood sensors, ambient,
light sensors, window sensors are
quality sensors, sound level sensors temperature, and humidity
sensors water. Leak sensors vibration, sensors
wireless, emergency buttons, Wireless infrared,
proximity sensors, I go on and on and on
but I think you start realizing what the the
opportunities are for this type of company to basically
connect all of these devices together.
And what's nice is that
If you look at this community, it's pretty robust.
They have devices all over the world. There
are it's the the
things that work is in. 151 countries already. There
are already almost 1000 sort of five developers
that use the things Network. Protocols. There's
over 160,000 members. 2000 gateways
have
YouTube views of the of
these solution?
So for example here where I work
in Amsterdam, we have lights that are using their
connected to a dashboard. And so the
things that were gateways on our roof and from
there it can talk to 45 different, smart
lights and there you
would that kind of communication you have control and you can programming
the days and the times that
you can dim it for Energy Efficiency. So the
connectivity from the things that work is one.
For example, of all of the different possibilities, plus
the ecosystem, that it's created, since the just
in the last five years, is pretty, pretty enormous. And
this is really becoming an industry's industry standard, and
with all this connectivity, of course, brings
a lot of risks. And hopefully, those
of you that are interested in networking, is the cyber
security network of these devices is one of
the most important kinds of aspects, because that's
where, it's
In these devices that safety is
the most vulnerable.
The soda care is a fun
sensor. So not all of these iot devices have to
be stationary or fixed. They
can also be portable or mobile. And this is another way
of kind of visualizing and understanding what's happening all
around us. So this sensor when
you put it on your bicycle, I think I mentioned this
last time, but here in the Netherlands about 50% of
the people commute to work on their bicycle and with that
we can measure air quality.
We can also measure other things, like vibration. So, the
road conditions. And so, when you have a smart OT,
kind of portable iot device like this, you
can start collecting air quality
data every 10 seconds. And when you
start collecting that data collectively, there's
a nice dashboard where you can start seeing, which areas
of your neighborhood, your city. Your
region are the the healthiest in
one sense or another and there's lots of types.
Of data that can be measured from such
a little portable device, like particulate
matter, temperature, sensors humidity at
GPS and accelerometers. So, thanks on robbers is what
I meant about the vibrations. So you can take a
lots of kinds of lots of insights and
lots of facts and evidence about where cities need
to intervene if the air quality exceeds a certain level.
It's unhealthy, the everyday commuter on
their bike can now measure this with these what I care.
Most of these examples, of course, we're talking about cities and
people it's not. It's also important not to forget
their furry friends here in
this case, cows and cows, have become
the farming here in
the Netherlands is becoming super, super intelligent, because
farmers are forced to do much, much more with
a lot less resources. So iot is
helping Farmers become more better business people,
but also improve the health and safety of
The of the livestock in the herds themselves. So,
about four years ago, five years ago. I organized a
hackathon together with the, the dairy industry and
the milk companies, basically,
who put the milks on the shelves of the
of the supermarkets, and so forth, and
their wanted to organize a hackathon to connect the
data from the cows, and put them into the hands of
the hackers, who came up with some wonderful solutions to
basically
Help the farmers, gain more insights, and more control, and,
and create a more ecologically and
environmentally kind of friendly solution for their, for their
farms. And what was interesting is that as I got
into this hackathon. I was really opened
up exposed to a lot of kinds
of wonderful kinds of technologies that
are helping farms around the Netherlands, but certainly around the
world become more effective and more efficient, and
more and more safe.
These are iot devices. So, basically each one of these cows
has a collar. And on, that collar is a
small iot device. And the
device is measured measuring, lots and lots of
things from the reproductive
rates. So when is it going?
Is it need to be when is it going to give birth?
Also, the movement patterns, the
can track them in the fields. How many kilometers?
They're walking by day. These are
Sickly also two keys to unlock the gates to let themselves
out here in the Netherlands. 80% of the cows
are able to 85% are able to walk out
into nice pastures in Greenland. So, what that means
is that, they're not stressed out. They're happier cows and
happier. Cows means more milk in high quality milk,
and that's better for the industry. And it's better for the people consuming
the milk.
And this is all done with robotic robots.
Basically milking these cows. So these cows, when
they're, when they feel like they're full. And they need to be milked. They
can let themselves back into the barn, the
sensors detect, which cow it is, and
give them a little treat. And while they're eating their treat, they
get milked and they let themselves in and out of the milking stations. So
this is a really wonderful way of modernizing
the whole Farm in the dairy farming.
Tree. And the next to that, of course what
kinds of farms are we talking about here in the Netherlands, to
with these kinds of advancements in
technology iot, especially you can actually reduce
the footprint of these Farms into a little floating Barn
which is being tested in
that and in Rotterdam. So
the cows again can let them in and out on
this gang way to a small field and
they can go back and get fed.
Nutritious food from a conveyor belt
and milk themselves. And this
is all under with thanks to all of these kind
of our OT devices that can track Monitor and
Trace the behaviors of the cow so
that they can ensure a more
prosperous and more healthy milk product.
So, let's move on to the last section of iot
and that is, of course about security.