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Smart City & Urban Areas
Waste Management
What it is
Monitoring waste containers or bins using distance sensors to obtain a real-time measurement of usage levels and help optimizing collection routes.
Challenges:
- Waste collection processes generally do not take into account the fill-level of containers and bins.
- Resources are applied ineffectively by sending resources to collect containers even if they are empty.
- Millions of kms are spent everyday in unnecessary routes to reach empty containers and waste bins, contributing an increase in carbon emissions.
Benefits:
- Monitor fill ratio data to optimize vehicle routes and collection frequency.
- Simplify the waste collection routes and increase efficiency of resource usage.
- Reduce carbon emissions by saving fuel used in unnecessary routes.
- Help guaranteeing hygiene and safety in cities.
Waste collection is a key to guarantee hygiene and safety in many areas of society, but it can be a complex, time-consuming and inefficient process.
Businesses and municipalities are employing IoT technology to improve waste collection processes by using smart sensors that provide real-time readings of the fill level of containers with the objective of reducing container overload and optimizing collection routes.
These smart containers can then transmit their real-time fill level information to waste collectors. Using this data, waste collectors can select optimum routes for waste collectors with areas in urgent need of cleanup on priority while avoiding units that still have room.
The sensors collect location, temperature and fill ratio info and these data help to optimize vehicle routes, or estimate the frequency of visits and fill levels. This results in a more efficient pickup process, which doesn’t consider empty trash bins, saving fuel as well as manpower costs.
What can you monitor?
- Fill-level in containers
- Fire detection in containers
- Garbage in bins
- Tampering of trash cans
- GPS positioning of containers
- Public need for more bins
Smart City & Urban Areas
Water & Fuel Monitoring
What it is
Monitoring the level of water or fuel containers using water level sensors to obtain a real-time measurement of usage levels.
Challenges:
- Many industrial processes depend on the availability of water or fuel to run.
- Depletion of water or fuel in tanks can cause costly downtime.
- Monitoring the evolution of water levels in tanks in drought areas is critical.
Benefits:
- Track, control and plan the efficient usage of water, liquids and fuels.
- Define thresholds and alerts based on the real-time tank level.
- Prevent situations of depletion, avoiding emergency shutdown and unnecessary losses.
Monitoring the level of water or fuel in a tank can bring meaningful advantages in many economic sectors. Through real-time readings of liquid level, users can track, control and plan the efficient usage of water in municipalities or agricultural fields, refrigerating liquid and fuel in machinery.
One of the key benefits is to be able to prevent situations of depletion, which could lead to an emergency shutdown and therefore losses. Another advantage is to optimally plan the fuel control and sending tanker trucks to fill-in the tanks only when necessary.
Monitoring of water levels in drought areas is critical. Being able to monitor the evolution of the level of the tank over time, with the events of filling or emptying is a strategic data point. Also, being able to define thresholds and alerts based on the real-time level would be key to quickly identify situations of risk before it becomes an emergency.
What can you monitor?
- Water level in tanks
- Sewer monitoring
- River or sea water height
- Flood alarms
- Industrial liquids monitoring
- Drainage monitoring
Smart City
Smart Parking
What it is
Using smart sensors to wirelessly monitor occupancy of urban parking spaces in real-time.
Challenges:
- Real-time visibility of available parking spaces is currently not possible.
- Looking for a parking space in the city is a stressful and wasteful activity.
- A significant portion of the traffic in cities is caused by vehicles looking for a parking space.
Benefits:
- Collect real-time data about parking availability in urban centers.
- Simplify the flow of urban traffic while saving time and fuel for drivers.
- Reduce emissions caused by vehicle congestion.
Looking for a parking space in the city is a stressful and time consuming activity.
However this reality is changing with the implementation of IoT solutions for urban mobility.
Smart sensors placed on parking spaces collect real-time data about parking availability, both outdoors and indoors, simplifying the flow of urban traffic, reducing emissions caused by vehicle congestion and offering drivers a more enjoyable and time-saving experience.
An IoT cloud-based system using LoRaWAN allows these sensors to be connected to a server and the data to be directly accessed by users, providing real-time traffic occupancy data for any in public or private parking facility.
In the near future drivers will be able to check a mobile app to see in real-time how many parking spaces are available at their destination, with red or green light signs indicating which parking spaces are currently free or occupied.
What can you monitor?
- Urban parking availability
- Behavior of vehicles in cities
- Parking in forbidden areas
- Automatic parking tickets
- Need for additional parking
- Occupancy in venues/events
Smart City
Smart Meters
What it is
Using smart sensors with wireless connectivity for remote metering of resource consumption (e.g. energy, water, gas) without human interaction.
Challenges:
- Manual collection of meter readings is a time and resource consuming task.
- Physically dispersed meters make data collection expensive and infrequent.
- Lack of predictability of unusual events in resource consumption.
- Automate monitoring of gauges and transmit readings wirelessly in real-time.
- Improve control and automatically generate reports, bills or invoices.
- Take quick action in case of malfunction, leakage or abnormal usage.
- Implement preventive actions to improve the security and operational efficiency
Companies are investing in solutions at the intersection of IoT and Artificial Intelligence to forecast the remaining useful life of assets and ensure they are repaired before they fail.
Real-time monitoring of industrial machines and components is an essential practice to optimize manufacturing capacity, reduce losses and prevent costly downtime on the production line.
Smart sensors can detect increased temperatures, unusual noises, water leakages and automatically alert staff to intervene, thereby preventing or quickly solving breakdowns and malfunctions before the production line needs to be stopped.
The data collected by the sensors is a key input for the utilization of machine learning algorithms that continuously monitor and interpret the behavior of the machines and allow managers to precisely anticipate and avoid future breakdowns and production losses.
What can you monitor?
- Watermeters
- Gasmeters
- Electrical units
- Alerts on increased usage
- Tampering of meters
- Hourly, daily or weekly reports
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