You are likely benefitting from The Internet of Things (IoT) today, whether you’re familiar with the term. If your phone automatically connects to your home, or if you have a smartwatch counting your steps, congratulations! You have adopted one small piece of a very large IoT pie, even if you haven’t adopted the name yet.

IoT may sound like a business buzzword, but it’s a real technological revolution that will impact everything we do. It’s the next Internet Tsunami of new possibility that is destined to change the face of technology, as we know it.

IoT represents a massive wave of technical innovation. Highly valuable companies will be built and new ecosystems will emerge from bridging the offline world with the online into one gigantic new sensor network.  Our limited understanding of the possibilities hinders our ability to see future applications for any new technology. Mainstream adoption of desktop computers and the Internet didn’t take hold until they became affordable and usable. When that occurred, fantastic and creative innovation ensued. We are on the cusp of that tipping point with the Internet of Things.

IoT matters because it will create new industries, new companies, new jobs, and new economic growth. It will transform existing segments of our economy: retail, farming, industrial, logistics, cities, and the environment. It will turn your smartphone into the command center and gateway for both digital and physical objects in your life. You will live and work smarter, not harder – and what we are seeing now is only the tip of the iceberg.

A very important concept within IoT is the “last 100 meters connectivity” concept, which refers to the low-power wireless devices that operate in the short-range of 100 meters. These are the devices that represent the growth in IoT.  In fact, 90% of the market share will be in the small things that are in the short range of 50 m to 100 m. The “last 100 meters connectivity” presents a huge potential since today most of these devices are not yet connected to the Internet.

Due to the heterogeneous nature of IoT service i.e. sensors, connectivity, protocols, middleware, and analytics, how do we ensure we can provide a ubiquitous IoT solution?

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MyDuino.com conducted another IoT Workshop with hands-on using FAVORIOTPlatform (Oct. 20-21, 2017). The 2-day workshop is conducted at UniSZA Besut Campus.

FAVORIOT also offered very affordable rates (as low as RM 100 per year) for a Beginner who wanted to use an IoT middleware to connect their sensors. This platform will allow users to develop IoT prototype in a very short time.

MyDuino can also offer the FAVORIOT IoT workshop at customer’s premises.

Below Photos are courtesy of MyDuino.com

This is our effort to increase more IoT talents in Malaysia. Our training partners have been aggressively conducted several workshops nationwide. For those that feel can start doing their hands-on independently can check the full documentation at Favoriot’s website.

Contents of the Workshop

Getting Started with Favoriot IOT Platform:
1. Getting Started with Favoriot Platform.
2. Understand Favoriot Hierarchy and JSON Data Format.
3. Create Project, Application, Group and Device.
4. Favoriot REST API & MQTT.
5. REST API Testing with Postman.
6. Create Graph on Favoriot.
7. Create Email & SMS Rules on Favoriot.

Below are some interesting IoT projects that students can develop further:

• How-To Develop Smart River Monitoring
• How-To Develop Smart Garbage Collection
• How-To Develop Smart Flood Monitoring System
• How-To Develop Smart Agriculture Solutions

Taylor’s University has improved its standing among universities in Asia by 29 places to break into the top 150 position, as announced by QS Asia University Rankings today. Taylor’s is also listed in the top 1 percent of universities in Asia, an outstanding achievement and an important milestone for the University.

Dr. Mohsen Nabipoor (Programme Director – Electric & Electronic Engineering) from School of Engineering shared his IoT Projects using FAVORIOT platform.

(1) An IOT Tyre Management system.

The device reads truck’s ID as well as individual tyres’ pressure and tread depth and uploads them to the FAVORIOT cloud. An Android app will read data from the cloud, displays the data and creates proper notifications based on the data.

(2) An IOT breath sensor.

The device measures human breathing pattern and rate and sends the data to FAVORIOT cloud. The data will be retrieved and processed by the server to diagnose possible respiratory problems.

(3) An IOT Air Conditioning system

The device measures few parameters such as the electrical power, refrigerant pressure as well as the pressure drop across the filter and sends them to the FAVORIOT cloud. An app will analyze the data and creates proper notifications for maintenance of the unit and filter. It also compares the data with similar units installed elsewhere to provide the comparison results to the user or the manufacturer.

Interesting Articles

• How-To Develop Smart River Monitoring
• How-To Develop Smart Garbage Collection
• How-To Develop Smart Flood Monitoring System
• How-To Develop Smart Agriculture Solutions
• Check out the COMPLETE Tutorial How to connect an Arduino to FAVORIOT Platform. You can also download a STEP-by-STEP Tutorial –  TUTORIAL – Cytron Uno with FAVORIOT Platform (56 downloads)