Low-cost, Long-range open IoT for smarter rural African villages

Pham, Congduc; Rahim, Abdur; Cousin, Philippe

doi:10.1109/isc2.2016.7580823

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“…LPWAN can be operated at a very low cost and was used to make IoT applications in Rural African Villages [8]. IoT also plays an important role in the development of urban environment; here the LoRaWAN [9] can be used for data transfer as it provides long range low power wireless communication.…”

Section: International Journal Of Engineering Research and Technology (mentioning

confidence: 99%

IoT - Enabled Smart Huts for Sustainable Development

Shankar¹,

G²,

V³

2018

IJERT

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-Large scale urbanization has been a growing trend in the recent years with cities becoming the development centres, yet the rural economy still plays a major role in the overall development of any country. In a recent survey, nearly 69 percent of India's population lives in its villages, accounting for nearly 50% of the GDP of the nation. These rural areas range from being small settlements with less than 500 people to small towns. Similar scenarios exist in western countries also. In spite of their contribution to the economy, the smaller villages tend to receive less in the way of infrastructural investment. The key issues faced in these small villages revolve around a lack of reliable public transport system, emergency services and inadequate information about government subsidies for rural areas. Our idea is to extend the concept of Smart Cities to Smart Villages by utilizing recent technological developments and pay closer attention to the problems in these rural areas. Our solution in this paper is to introduce IoT technology to Huts in Villages through a straightforward demonstration of network of connected sensors and devices for information dissemination, managing energy usage and ensuring safety of the infrastructure. This enables us to address the basic requirements of domestic villagers.

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Section: International Journal Of Engineering Research and Technology (mentioning

confidence: 99%

IoT - Enabled Smart Huts for Sustainable Development

Shankar¹,

G²,

V³

2018

IJERT

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“…On one hand, as a potential solution, using long-range LPWAN or cellular technologies for providing rural connectivity has been proposed by several researchers [4], [5], [6]. Examples include the use of traditional mobile networks (e.g., GPRS, LTE), NarrowBand-IoT (NB-IoT) [7], LoRa, and SIGFOX.…”

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Real-Time data dissemination and analytics platform for challenging IoT environments

Daneels¹,

Municio²,

Spaey³

et al. 2017

2017 Global Information Infrastructure and Networking Symposium (GIIS)

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The advent of Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications, such as environmental monitoring, smart cities, and home automation, has taken the IoT concept from hype to reality at a massive scale. However, more mission-critical application areas such as energy, security and health care do not only demand low-power connectivity, but also highly reliable and guaranteed performance. While fulfilling these requirements under controlled conditions such as urban and indoor environments is relatively trivial, tackling the same obstacles in a more challenging and dynamic setting is significantly more complicated. In environments where infrastructure is sparse, such as rural or remote areas, specialized infrastructure-less ad-hoc solutions are needed, which provide long-range multi-hop connectivity to remote sensors and actuators. In this paper we propose a new general-purpose IoT platform based on a combination of Low-power Wireless Personal Area Network (LoWPAN) and multi-hop Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) technology. It supports reliable and guaranteed realtime data dissemination and analysis, as well as actuator control, in dynamic and challenging infrastructure-less environments. In this paper, we present the IoT platform architecture and an initial hard-and software prototype. Moreover, a use case based on realtime monitoring and training adaptation for cyclists is presented. Based on this case study, evaluation results are presented that show the ability of the proposed platform to operate under challenging and dynamic conditions.

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“…Some commercial IoT systems employ a special watchdog service for added reliability but charge a premium for added features [7]. There has been a lot of research into developing inexpensive IoT solutions for developing countries, however, they use new cloud platforms or LoRa based systems [8], [9]. In this paper, a model IoT system has been presented which has several analog and digital sensors and costs less than 100 USD.…”

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Design and Development of an Open-Source and Affordable LoT System for Developing and Least Developed Countries

Karmaker

Hasan

Nahid

2021

Preprint

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The Internet of Things (IoT) has improved the quality of our lives through various interconnected gadgets and devices. Despite having great potential, IoT systemsstill have not made it into the mainstream industries orresidential complexes due to the high cost associated with commercial IoT solutions particularly in developing or least developed countries. In-expensive and open-source IoT-based systems could be employed in these fields to improve overall safety and drastically reduce accidents. In this paper, a model IoT system has been presented that could be used in any commercial apartmentor building complex or retrofitted to existing industry and can augment safety and reliability along with improving the quality of life. For this purpose, Atmega1284P and ESP32 microcontroller-based IoT device was developed and implemented.For IoT integration and cloud operation, the Google Firebase IoT platform was chosen. To monitor the system using both Bluetooth (low energy, BLE) and Wi-Fi, an Android application was created usingMIT App Inventor 2.This device is capable of receiving and handling multiple analog or digital sensors andwill send an automated email whenever a threshold value for the sensor is exceeded which could be easily changed via the application. Furthermore, the delay and system response of this device were experimentally determined. This type of system could be easily scaled for various applications which are also discussed in this paper. It also offers better flexibility and cost-effective solution to commercially available alternatives.

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Low-cost, Long-range open IoT for smarter rural African villages

Cited by 41 publications

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IoT - Enabled Smart Huts for Sustainable Development

IoT - Enabled Smart Huts for Sustainable Development

Real-Time data dissemination and analytics platform for challenging IoT environments

Design and Development of an Open-Source and Affordable LoT System for Developing and Least Developed Countries

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