Examples for environmental monitoring using IoT

• Municipal water treatment monitoring

• City water and drinking water quality monitoring

• Agricultural irrigation monitoring and control

These are the drawbacks of traditional method of environmental monitoring.

• Limited data frequency

• Labor-intensive

• Time-consuming

           The advantages of IoT-based environmental monitoring

• High Cost
• Efficiency and Scalability
• Limited Connectivity
• Complex Setup

Sensors used in IoT-based environmental monitoring

• Pressure sensors
• Motion sensors
• Magnetic field sensors
• Temperature sensors, humidity sensors, air quality sensors, light sensors, soil moisture sensors.

Which Industries Use IoT Environmental Monitoring?

• Agriculture, Manufacturing, Healthcare, Logistics, Smart Cities
• Retail Management
• Telecommunications
• Financial Services

The data collected in environmental monitoring is used to

• track social media trends
• assess environmental conditions and inform policy decisions
• measure economic growth
• analyze consumer behavior

The architecture of an IoT system comprises

• Three layers: perception layer, network layer, application layer.
• Four layers: perception layer, network layer, edge computing layer, application layer.
• Two layers: perception layer and application layer.
• Five layers: perception layer, network layer, cloud layer, application layer, security layer.

Reorder - architecture of an IoT system

1.Gateways and data acquisition systems 2.Sensors and actuators 3.Data centers or cloud services 4.Edge computing 

• 2-1-4-3

• 1-2-4-3

• 1-4-2-3

• 1-2-3-4

Examples of IoT platforms

• Salesforce IoT
• AWS IoT, Google Cloud IoT, Microsoft Azure IoT, IBM Watson IoT
• Oracle Cloud IoT
• Alibaba Cloud IoT

Which of the following touch sensors is used in a cell phone?

• Resistive touch sensor
• Optical touch sensor
• Infrared touch sensor
• Capacitive touch sensor