IEEE Bangalore section, in collaboration with Basaveshwar Engineering College (BEC), Bagalkot organized IEEE student Leadership Congress – 2014. About 100+ IEEE student leaders from top engineering colleges of Karnataka were selected for this conference, where team Emertxe for an opportunity to provide a keynote address followed by a demo about Internet-Of-Things (IoT).
BEC is one of the popular college in North Karnataka area, existing for more than 50 years. Team Emertxe was invited by IEEE Bangalore chapter for offering a keynote about IoT, as we have been working on some real time devices. Considering the vast nature of IoT it was decided to keep the topic to basics thereby making the title as “IoT : A beginners view” covering how IoT have evolved over a period of time which is now about connecting anything, anytime and anywhere.
To provide a practical view of IoT, we have built a Machine-To-Machine (M2M) use case for IoT using our reference device. In case of beverage industry (as a case) when IoT used, it can automate the whole chain of process by connecting various entities in the chain. Starting with the retailer’s ordering system, this can go all the way up to triggering a manufacturing job at the shop floor for producing required number of beverage bottles. Assume the following workflow:
- End customer picks up a set of beverage bottles from the retail shop
- Number of bottles for that particular type of beverage runs out due to this purchase
- Automatic sensors detect this information and creates a new order with the beverage manufacturer
- After taking care of necessary purchase-ordering process, the order now needs to be routed to the manufacturing line for producing the requested number of bottles automatically
- The final entity in this chain runs the manufacturing job and gives notification about the job
- This whole message gets routed back and appropriate shipment process gets kick-started, which is eventually received by the retailer
In the above-mentioned flow we have demonstrated step number (4) and (5) using our reference devices. There were many questions around the embedded programming, sensor interfacing and building business logic etc. from the students, which was clarified well by our expert team.
The conference concluded with a price distribution ceremony for various activities/competition held during the conference days. It was a mixture of students from EEE / ECE / CSE background, our talk was well-received by the team by providing positive feedback. We also announced Emertxe internship program in the conference in order to engage interested folks in the area of IoT. Our presentation and conference video are provided below for reference.
We had great fun in the event, looking forward to sharing our knowledge in future events as well. PFB video collage and slide-deck shared in the event.
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