IoT/M2M Telemetry for precision farming, water and renewable energy tele-monitoring George Suciu, BEIA Consult International Triple Helix Conference on Bio-based Economy Budapest, 2016-07-20
Outline Short Biography and Company Profile Introduction in IoT/M2M Telemetry Bio-based challenges and opportunities Related work on precision farming, water and renewable energy tele-monitoring Conclusions and discussions
Short Biography (1) Graduated from the Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Information Technology at the University Politehnica of Bucharest (UPB), Romania (www.upb.ro) MBA in Informatics Project Management from the Faculty of Cybernetics, Statistics and Economic Informatics of the Academy of Economic Studies Bucharest (www.ase.ro) Ph.D. Student / Researcher at Aalborg University Currently, Ph.D. Eng. Post-doc Researcher focused on the field of big data, cloud communications, open source, IPR and IoT/M2M Since 2008 IT&C Solutions Manager - R&D Department, being employed starting 1998 at BEIA Consult International, a research performing SME (www.beiaro.eu)
Short Biography (2) Projects www.beiaro.eu / www.mobcomm.pub.ro FP7 (2 on-going) REDICT : Regional Economic Development by ICT NMSDMON : Network Management System Development and Monitoring FAIR : Friendly Application for Interactive Receiver Cloud Consulting : Cloud-based Automation of ERP and CRM software for Small Businesses ACCELERATE: A Platform for the Acceleration of go-to market in the ICT industry ewall : Electronic Wall for Active Long Living H2020 (3 on-going, 3 under review) SWITCH: Software Workbench for Interactive, Time Critical and Highly self-adaptive Cloud applications (ICT-9) Power2SME: Cloud Platform for intelligent energy use by SMES Speech2Platform S2P: Smart, natural language semantic analyser platform to process oriented back-ends National (more than 10 past projects, 5 on-going) MobiWay: Mobility Beyond Individualism: an Integrated Platform for Intelligent Transportation Systems of Tomorrow EV-BAT: Redox battery with fast charging capacity as a main source of energy for electric autovehicles CarbaDetect: Imuno-biosensors for fast detection of carbamic pesticide residues (carbaryl, carbendazim) in horticultural products SARAT-IWSN : Scalable Radio Transceiver for Instrumental Wireless Sensor Networks COMM-CENTER : Developing of a cloud communication center" by integrating a call/contact center platform with unified communication technology, CRM system, text-to-speech and automatic speech recognition solutions in different languages (including Romanian)
Company profile (1) Company Name General Manager Business Field Team Headquarters Beia Consult International SRL George SUCIU Sr. Trading and distribution of IT, telecommunications and telemetry equipment National and EU R&D Projects IT&C turn-key projects Total: 40 employees ; 7 management personnel 12, Poiana Narciselor st., sect.1, Bucharest Tel / Fax Tel: +40 21 332 3005 Fax: +40 21 332 3006 Home Page www.beiaro.eu Certification ISO 9002/2000; ISO 14001;ISO27000 Established 1991
Company profile (2) Good partnership in Romanian industry: large companies as well as SMEs Partners in Romanian R&D: University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest (www.upb.ro) Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (Romanian Academy) (www.racai.ro) Romanian Space Agency (www.rosa.ro) National Institute for Research and Development in Electrical Engineering (www.icpe-ca.ro)
Introduction in IoT/M2M Telemetry (1) In a few years from now, wirelessly connected machines will form a new web. Only be of value if torrent of data generated can be stored, processed, analysed and interpreted Bio-based approach for data flow impact estimation (genetic/epidemic algorithms) By 2020, the market for the IoT (Internet of Things) industry alone is expected to rise to $7.1 trillion. By the year 2050, technology experts predict that there will be 50 billion devices that are connected to the Internet (Cisco) considered too conservative (other predict 100 billion) M2M (Machine 2 Machine) communication paradigm advances to IoT and cloud/fog computing Done by developing highly innovative and scalable service platforms Enable secure-, smart- and partly-virtualised-services Big Data processing can decentralize the concept of the current cloud operation for answering the demands of IoT applications that are distributed in nature
Introduction in IoT/M2M Telemetry (2) Sensors extremely low power consumption bio/physical principles (leaf simulation, etc.) Gateways extremely easy to install (adaptive control); fully remotely controlled (autonomous); very long life time (self healing) = very low TCO (Total Cost of Ownership); solar powered (green energy); media independent radio communication (GSM, GPRS, 3G, UHF); Telemetry servers based on a client/server architecture collects data from one or several Telemetry Gateways (receivers) makes it available for viewing or for specialized analysis (fully web-based)
Introduction in IoT/M2M Telemetry (3) Use of GSM/GPRS data transmission is extended in areas where no coverage by using a UHF bridge operating in fixed range of 430 440 MHz connected to gateway with access to the Internet. Gateway Application Service (SaaS) GSM - GPRS Internet RTU Sensors and Actuators User User Presentation Service (PaaS)
Bio-based challenges and opportunities (1) Drones and Robots a Market to 2050 ($67 Billion) Smart Dust, Elevator to the moon, etc. but the ancient art of origami is more than just child s play; its principles are being used to meet a wide range of modern engineering challenges from how to fold up a tennis court-sized solar array for use in space to reducing the amount of waste in a tube of toothpaste Agriculture to feed 9 billion Farmers and big data companies invest in precision agriculture, using sensors, drones, satellites and GPS tracking systems farmers using only one type of precision technologies increased their yield by 16% and cut down water use by 50%. rapid payback using these technologies a 15% savings on seed, fertilizer, and chemicals 3D sensing /printing / vision Imagine touring a city like Rome and with a simple command touching / viewing it as if you were present when Julius Caesar became emperor use that same pair of glasses and Internet connection to look up information about someone standing near you
Bio-based challenges and opportunities (2) Biosensors Plants and animals as sensors (mussels, etc.), even humans (citizen scientists, etc.) Accelerators, Incubators, Fertilizators, Cloud/Fog computing Inspiration from Nature / SF Privacy It's possible that in this future, privacy becomes obsolete Singularity would arrive in 2045 (Kurzweil) as AI overpasses total human brain equivalent
Related work Triple Helix REDICT: Regional Economic Development by ICT / New Media Cluster (FP7) Dublin Adaptive Information Cluster National Digital Research Centre Amsterdam City of Amsterdam University of Amsterdam SARA Amsterdam Innovation Motor Vicar Vision Copenhagen Crossroads FORA Berlin Technologie Stiftung Berlin City of Berlin Paris Paris Regional Economic Development Agency Cap Digital GET Paris Bukarest The National Center of Management Programs Universitatea Politehnica din Bucuresti BEIA Consult International Strategy and action-plan to strengthen the economic competitiveness in the region, with a focus on role and potential of R&D performing SMEs
Related work Triple Helix Accelerate: A Platform for the Acceleration of go-to market in the ICT industry Concrete examples: Scalable new business Collaboration to enable sustainable business Create new business ideas Idea Stage Concrete examples: Initial concept Vision of new business Committed people Concrete examples: Validated and desired solution Initial business model Resources to move forward Scaling Product / Market Fit Problem / Solution Fit Concrete examples: High value concept At least one happy customer Resources to move forward
Related Work Bio-economy CarbaDetect: Immuno-bio-sensors for rapid detection of some carbamate pesticide residues (carbaryl, carbendazim) in horticultural products Quantified Justified Will reduce the soil pollutant with 35% per each season. The application can measure many pollutant levels simultaneously in real time. Substantial Will increase trust in usage of telemetry in Romania.
Related work on precision farming, water and renewable energy tele-monitoring BEIA has implemented tele-monitoring applications (www.beia-telemetrie.ro) in the field of agriculture (frost warnings, disease alert for plants, evapo-transpiration calculations, soil moisture, remote control of irrigation systems, measurement of cumulated degree days), hydrology(water level and flow on Danube and tributary rivers) renewable energy (hydro, solar, eolian) environment (monitoring of water and air quality) heliports (measurement of meteorological parameters) e-health (tele-diagnosis of diabetes, emergency communication systems for patients, nurses and doctors) energy efficiency in buildings
Related work telemetry for agriculture (1) Vineyard Application - Valea Calugareasca accumulated quantity of heat received by the culture measured in accumulated degree-days,. The accumulated 1.600-1.700 degree-days, considered as necessary for e.g. Cabernet Sauvignon full maturation, were reached on 15.09.2014 and 01.10.2015 respectively a bit later than in other years
Related work telemetry for agriculture (2) Visualizing disease management progress Quantity of heat received daily (daily degree-days)
Related work telemetry for agriculture (3) Quantity of grape bunch rot in April-June period Comparing disease evolution and treatments applied in another season
Related work telemetry for water (1) Beia Consult International installed and is further developing for the National Administration Romanian Waters (ANAR) an automatic telemetry system - continuously monitor the level and water temperature along the Danube and some of its tributary rivers. - virtually all communication within the Danube telemonitoring system is performed via the Internet - brings to the system important advantages in what concerns investment and operation. - users can have access to the system using any device connected to Internet.
Related work telemetry for water (2) At the end of 2014, a number of 14 stations to monitor water level and temperature were installed.
Related work telemetry for water (3) - At the end of 2015, the number of telemonitoring installations cut-in service by BEIA for the National Administration Romanian Waters amounts to 21. - The most Western can be found at Lugoj (on the Timis river), while the most Eastern finds itself on the Danube s Chilia arm, not far from the Black Sea.
Related work telemetry for water (4)
Related work telemetry for renewable energy (1) TELEGREEN - Telemonitoring of clean energy sources: hydro, solar, wind Purposes of the project: Monitoring of primary energy source: water, sun, wind Monitoring of installations: output, efficiency, status of batteries & consumables, security
Related work telemetry for renewable energy (2) Tele-monitoring at a water intake on a tributary river for Lotru Hydro power plant Underground are water level sensors, water flow meter and sediment level.
Related work telemetry for renewable energy (3) BEIA crew near a freshly installed wind power monitoring station near Brasov (Pro-DD Institute) Tele-monitoring a photovoltaic park near Sf. Gheorghe
Related work telemetry for environment Environment parameters: air temperature, relative humidity, presure, wind and solar radiation
Conclusions and Discussions IoT/M2M telemetry for agriculture, energy and water Bio-based opportunities / challenges in all major domains Accelerated Development up to 2050 Robots could be taking over our lives and jobs: by 2040, cabs will be driven by Google robots, shops will become showrooms for online outlets and call centres will be staffed by intelligent droids Singularity around 2050 our intelligence will become increasingly nonbiological and trillions of times more powerful than it is today the dawning of a new civilization that will enable us to transcend our biological limitations and amplify our creativity Hyper-Acceleration Beyond H2050 competition for work caused by a rise in the robots population will see us heading to surgeons for additional processing power for our brains requesting bionic implants for our hands that will make us able to perform tasks as fast as any machine
Telemetry for Agriculture, Environment and Energy, an important and fascinating activity!! George Suciu BEIA Consult International george@beia.ro Thank you for your attention!