Track & Trace your assets for years using Low Power Wide Area Network solutions

AMIA Systems has participated to a hackathon[1] to positively impact society with IoT and postal assets. We have built prototypes demonstrating the collection of data using Low Power Wide Area Network technologies. The idea was to collect data from the postman/postwoman and provide an added-value to the customers of the Post.

Why should you consider the Low Power Wide Area Network?

Track products for several months or years that are not directly connected to a power supply
- Track the humidity of the warehouse storing sheet metal and send notifications to engineers if the level of humidity has reached a certain level
- Hide the tracker inside your packaging or your items to collect valuable data that the transporter does not share with you
Build new business models by allowing peer-to-peer deliveries
- Track the temperature of the items that are delivered by transporters you have never dealt with
- Track the shock taken by the furniture and accessories carried by the transporters

The use case: collect data from devices such as CNC machines, Thermostat, GPS or Air quality sensor

Data are collected from sensors or machines (CNC Machines)
SIMOGGA Connect grabs the data generated by the sensors and the machines
SIMOGGA Layout Design displays the status of the machines and sensors in real-time
SIMOGGA Planner uses the data collected in order to impact the schedule of the operations
The engineers and operators implement the changes (Schedule, Shop floor layout, Warehouse Management) based on the data analytics

SIMOGGA Solution-Industrial IoT use case

SIMOGGA Solutions-Industrial IoT use case

SIMOGGA Solutions

Alimenting the SIMOGGA solutions with your data helps you to better visualize, quantify and optimize your operations.

SIMOGGA Layout design: A 2D CAD solution to visualize, quantify and optimize the facility layout
SIMOGGA Planner: An Advanced Planning & Scheduling solution (APS) to optimize your goals, with limited resources under constraints
SIMOGGA Connect: Deliver the Overall Equipment Efficiency (OEE) using the Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) giving Shop floor transparency based on real-time, objective data collected from the machines (Industrial IoT)

Technicalities: Data collected from the sensors (non exhaustive)

Stream Name	Stream Value
Loudness sensor is designed to detect the loudness of environmental sound Grove – Sound Sensor	71
Binary sensor	false / true
Pressure sensor detects barometric pressure Grove – Temperature, Pressure, Humidity sensors	1013.200012207 hPa
Battery level of the component/board	15%
Binary tilt switch is the equivalent of a button, and is used as a digital input Grove – Tilt Switch	tilt is on / tilt is off
Humidity sensor Grove – Temperature, Pressure, Humidity sensors	35.152954101562 RH (% Relative Humidity)
Air quality sensor monitors indoor air condition. Useful when you require qualitative results, like auto refresher sprayers and auto air cycling systems. Grove – Air Quality Sensor	The air condition could be: air fresh low pollution high pollution without force signal active high pollution with force signal active
Light sensor incorporates a Light Dependent Resistor or a Photo resistor that will decrease when the ambient light intensity increases Grove – Light Sensor	1.6448602676392 (high in bright light, low in the dark)
GPS is space-based navigation system that provides location, altitude and time information Grove – GPS	{“longitude“:4.3271551132202, “latitude“:50.832420349121, “altitude“:1, “timestamp“:1455715728000}
Push button is a momentary push button Grove – Push button	on/off
3-Axis Digital Accelerometer(±16g) is a high resolution digital accelerometer providing you at max 3.9mg/Least Significant Bit (LSB) resolution and large ±16g measurement range Grove – 3 Axis Digital Accelerometer	{“x”:0, “y”:0, “z”:0}
Temperature sensor	20.051658630371 °C
Passive Infrared Sensor (PIR) sensor allows you to sense motion, usually human movement in its range. Grove – PIR Motion Sensor	High signal/Low signal (when a motion is detected within a certain range or not)

Glossary

Hackathon: A hackathon is an event in which computer programmers and others involved in software development and hardware development, including graphic designers, interface designers and project managers, collaborate intensively on software projects.

Contact the Authors

Abdelkrim BOUJRAF (abo@amia-systems.com), Germain DENIS