6. Applicability Flashcards
What are some areas in people’s lives that IoT can impact?
- Quality of life for seniors or people with special needs.
- Smart grid systems.
- Help reduce human error and increase efficiency in smart factories.
- Help reduce shipping costs in the logistics industry.
Name three services provided by smart homes.
Home Condition Monitoring, Home Appliances Management, and Home Access Control.
What are the components of a smart home?
- Sensors.
- Actuators.
- Smart home servers and edge processors.
- The local server controls the sensors and actuators, answers queries, and executes the appropriate commands.
- Application programming interfaces (APIs) offer software services to other external software.
- Local databases.
- Cloud services.
- Smart home dashboards.
What are the typical smart devices used in smart homes?
Temperature sensors and smart thermostats, Light sensors, motion sensors, leak detectors, Window and door sensors, video doorbells, weather sensors, and smoke and carbon monoxide sensors.
What does AAL stand for? And what is AAL?
Ambient Assisted Living. To use innovative technological solutions to increase the safety and wellbeing of seniors and people with special needs and support them in their daily lives.
In what areas can IoT be used to improve the quality of life of seniors?
Health, safety, and peace of mind.
What is the smart grid?
It’s an IoT-enabled, self-sufficient distributed system that can provide optimal power usage.
What are the benefits of smart grids?
Reducing the capital and operational expenditure, Managing the demand, and increasing renewable capacity.
What are the five major features of a smart factory?
Connectivity, Transparency, Optimization, Agility, and Proactivity.
What does GPS stand for?
Global Positioning System
What are the five technological applications that make smart logistics efficient?
Resource planning, warehouse management, transportation management, intelligent transportation, and information security.
What does TMS stand for?
Transportation management system.
What does ITS stand for?
Intelligent Transportation System.
What does ETC stand for?
Electronic toll collection.
What does TSP stand for?
Transit signal priority.
What are some solutions that Intelligent Transportation Systems can provide?
Electronic toll collection (ETC), transportation management system (TMS), and Transit signal priority (TSP)
