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 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:
|
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.
Links
- 3-Axis Digital Accelerometer (~16g):
- Air Quality Sensor:
- Loudness Sensor:
- PIR Sensor: A Passive Infrared Sensor:
- PIR Motion Sensor:
- Push Button:
- Tilt Switch:
Contact the Authors
Abdelkrim BOUJRAF (), Germain DENIS