Disruption has been one of the most notable business buzzwords of this decade - that’s probably because the term does a good job of appropriately characterising the waves that pulsed through the global economy in the wake of the technological revolution.&nbsp;The early years of the previous decade saw the almighty corporation bow down to the plucky upstart, the lean, agile startup. For what it’s worth, that’s some properly legitimate disruption - the stratospheric rise of lean, well-funded, tech-oriented startups will come to define our era, in all likelihood.&nbsp;With internet access becoming more and more of a commodity that we all are coming to take for granted, the startup model is likely to grow and continue merrily, causing disruption in its wake.&nbsp;Today, the arsenal of technological possibilities that each one of these companies has at their disposal is simply otherworldly.&nbsp; Disruption 1.0, if you will, represented the triumph of the savvy, modern startups that just proved to be more competitive than the lumbering and unwieldy giants that massive corporations had become - being unable to innovate, build and deliver products as fast as their lean counterparts.&nbsp;Over the last few years, though, some of the most feared corporate players of our world have reclaimed lost ground to some extent - most of them directly owning sizable slices of successful startups, having thrown themselves frantically into identifying and funding the best ones. For just a tiny blink in time, it seemed as though Goliath had found a way to keep David at bay.&nbsp;This was not to last.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/onio/image/upload/v1661848912/onio-website/2022-08-07/onio_ai_future_002_e40d97923b.jpg"><figcaption>AI-generated image “AI + IoT - A Force for Disruption.”</figcaption></figure><h2>The IoT revolution</h2>It is safe to say that the IoT revolution has well and truly swept through the entire edifice of modern human civilisation.&nbsp;There doesn’t seem to be a single industry or sector that hasn’t been unrecognisably transformed thanks to the emergence of the Internet of Things.&nbsp;The proposition that IoT technology makes has always been an irresistible one for businesses - more insights, more precision, more efficiency but lesser costs. What’s important is that, in most cases involving robust IoT infrastructure, this promise has been delivered upon.&nbsp;Why has the Internet of Things had such a transformative effect on our lives? The answer is, very simply, data. IoT makes it possible for any operation to find ways to optimise at an exponential rate by collecting enormous amounts of data. And boy, has IoT come good in this regard - the data-collection equipment that the market has on offer today is frankly ludicrous - wireless sensors - sometimes even batteryless,self-powered sensors - capable of enormous feats of data collection, are being offered at unimaginably low costs.&nbsp;With 5G emerging as a reliable wireless internet standard, the role of IoT in modern business has taken on further importance. With this kind of a base, it was almost inevitable that IoT-based technologies and solutions would find the kind of acceptance and adoption that they did.&nbsp;<h2>IoT and AI - unstoppable together</h2>The previous decade saw the emergence of two incredibly powerful technologies that each seemed poised to cause some large-scale disruption in the world of business and technology. Together though, they represented something unimaginably capable - the technologies we’re talking about are - IoT and AI, of course!As we have seen several times in the past, IoT technology has been a blessing to us primarily because it allows us to split open nearly all aspects of the physical world into nearly endless streams of usable information. It has allowed us to digitise the physical reality around us, as it were, converting predefined slices of our world into 0s and 1s.&nbsp;Now, AI helps us make sense of these huge troves of data that we gather using IoT sensors. AI is an indispensable part of this couplet - making for the analytics arm of the system - allowing for meaningful insights to be gleaned from the mined data.&nbsp;In the early years, these technologies grew independently of one another. In the modern playing field of today, though, they work in tandem as one unstoppable agent of disruption. The phenomenal rise of cloud computing doesn’t hurt this combination either - these three technologies together are changing the way we do business.&nbsp;Before we see how they work together and why they are so powerful in tandem, let’s take a deeper look at AI.<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/onio/image/upload/v1661848846/onio-website/2022-08-06/onio_ai_future_001_9770d42273.jpg"><figcaption>AI-generated Image “AI &amp; IoT - a force for disruption”</figcaption></figure><h2>Artificial Intelligence decoded</h2>The term artificial intelligence is by no means esoteric or unheard of - thanks to scores of sci-fi works that have tickled the imagination of many a generation, the idea doesn’t really need introduction.&nbsp;The idea with AI is simple - machines - i.e computers - can process orders of magnitude more data than we can - and what’s more is that they can do it in a fraction of a second, most likely. So, why not deploy this immense information processing power to pertinent problems and find novel solutions?In a very stripped-down sense, this is the fundamental principle behind AI. To put it more technically, artificial intelligence refers to a class of technological applications that are designed to process incredibly large amounts of information, interpret said information, unpack the information along certain pre-decided lines, and in doing so, be able to make smart real-world decisions - most importantly, artificial intelligence technologies are meant to do all this without any direct human involvement.&nbsp;With the widespread proliferation of reliable and inexpensive wireless sensors, data collection was never going to be a problem - with artificial intelligence, we are actually able to make use of this data in a practical and relevant way.&nbsp;Artificial intelligence can cut through vast swathes of random data-points and deliver coherent, actionable insights, making it possible for us to impose almost impossible standards of efficiency and productivity on all manner of processes.&nbsp;In essence, this is why AI and IoT are proving to be so important for each other.&nbsp;There are three main types of artificial intelligence in use today -&nbsp;<h3>1. Rule-based artificial intelligence</h3>Also known as simple AI, this category refers to those technologies that have strictly codified heuristics or rules that allow it to connect events to certain complementary actions. These heuristics are obviously programmed into the technology, so it might be the case that your average Joe might not identify it as a form of artificial intelligence.&nbsp;However, this is the most simple form of AI, and we can see several examples of this kind of AI being used around us.&nbsp;<h3>2. Machine Learning (ML)</h3>Machine learning is a type of artificial intelligence where the software is able to learn novel patterns of behaviour rather than having denied rules, to begin with - The learning can vary from the really simple to the impossibly complex. Machine learning programs can monitor a system, tabulate large amounts of data pertaining to the conditions on which the system is contingent and use this data to identify unique connections between events and responses. It builds on this understanding cumulatively, getting more and more effective in its ability to predict outcomes and make decisions concerning the system.&nbsp;These systems can identify a potential action to have desirable effects on the system, given certain conditions - and then repeat those responses when those conditions recur.&nbsp;In a nutshell, machine learning systems are what we usually think of when we try to conceive of AI.&nbsp;<h3>3. Neural networks&nbsp;</h3>Also known as inference engines, artificial neural networks represent the cumulative pinnacle of a number of allied research fields - Designed to operate almost exactly like a sophisticated nervous system, these systems are able to make inferences about the prevailing conditions within a system at a given moment in time, and make decisions accordingly.&nbsp;If you are thinking about your favourite AI-based image analysis application or writing assistant, it's probably based on neural networks. Most types of complex processing and analytics make use of neural networks these days.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/onio/image/upload/v1661849377/onio-website/2022-08-06/onio_ai_future_003_36d2c50539.jpg"><figcaption>AI-generated image “AI + IoT - A Force for Disruption.”</figcaption></figure><h2>Harnessing IoT and AI together</h2>Against the backdrop that was drawn in the preceding sections, it should be rather easy to appreciate why there is so much excitement about IoT and AI being deployed together in exciting new ways.&nbsp;The question that IoT developers, users, and insiders are contending with is not “do we use IoT and AI together?” but “how can we better use these technologies together?”So, in this section, we’ll take a look at some of the most popular use cases and applications.&nbsp;In the previous section, we’d seen how any system that uses software to generate responses to real-world situations constitutes at least a basic form of artificial intelligence - so, the how question, in the real world, is often answered by the nature and size of the IoT network in question.&nbsp;Depending on the complexity and sophistication of the IoT network in question, AI can be integrated in very simple or rather intricate ways -For instance, say the system is equipped with rule-based AI, it would be good for operations that involve a standing instruction for an action in response to a trigger - a trigger switch is involved and it goes something like this - “if trigger-switch is activated, turn on A”. Further down the road, as this kind of a simple system evolves into more complexity, it can handle instructions like “If trigger-switch is activated, and it’s humid outside, then turn on A”.&nbsp;In this case, the AI is also having to contend with state recognition in addition to trigger switch signal recognition. Programmers might use these kinds of AIs in situations where the number of states to be recognised is few in number and the complexity involved is very little.&nbsp;In most use cases, these kinds of systems make for incredible savings and efficiency. Let’s take a look at an example use-case -&nbsp;Imagine you are the owner of a factory to which goods are delivered on a daily basis at varying times - using a very simple rule-based AI would allow you to hook it up so that whenever a delivery driver shows up in his truck, the system would use the trigger switch of his lorry pulling up at the gate to respond with the action of opening the date - even this rudimentary system, it’s fairly obvious to see, would make for some incredible savings in terms of the cost of operation.&nbsp;Now, imagine the extent to which you stand to benefit if the system could do more than just respond to a switch-actuated command - what if the system, in addition to just identifying when a delivery vehicle has pulled up and opening the gate for him - can actually predict, when the driver is going to arrive - or maybe say, respond usefully across various other parameters? What if say, we want the AI to also turn on the light if it knows that the driver has pulled up at night?When more complex variables need to be processed or accounted for, we’re looking at using something like an inference-engine AI or ML.&nbsp;In our case, a machine learning system could monitor the arrival of several delivery vehicles to the location and over time, accumulate enough information and patterns to be able to predict when the driver is going to need light, and the system is then able to actuate that command - i.e. in addition to opening the gates as in our first example, the AI, in this case, is also able to turn on a light.&nbsp;Similarly, multiple layers of complexity can be programmed into an AI system. The more an AI system is able to learn by itself, the more of an advantage it confers to the owner.<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/onio/image/upload/v1661849441/onio-website/2022-08-07/onio_ai_future_004_910ae26075.jpg"><figcaption>AI-generated image “AI + IoT - A Force for Disruption.”</figcaption></figure><h2>The Age of AIoT</h2>We’re heading towards a place where IoT and Ai will no longer be distinct entities - our ability to harness data has grown exponentially - In a way, any modern IoT system, worthy of the name, is not going to be good for very much if it requires a human being to make sense of the collected data - that is simply not a feasible option considering the sheer volume of data even simple IoT systems play with these days.&nbsp;What adds to the inevitability of this merger is that our IoT sensors are getting so much better, year on year.&nbsp;The overall quality and functionality of our IoT sensors are growing by the day - and they are also getting more efficient. Thanks to the emergency of energy harvesting technologies like RF energy harvesting and Triboelectric energy harvesting, it looks like the wireless sensor space is going to look dramatically different in the next few years.So, to break it down, we’re going to have sensors that are faster, cheaper, and more energy efficient - not to mention that we’re going to have a lot of them! The amount of data gathered from even the simplest of setups is going to be too much for any number of people to analyse for insights or to plan timely interventions.&nbsp;Just handling the data collected by a network of IoT sensors needs a dedicated solution - AI fulfills this role. Back in the day, the data collected by a system of sensors would be displayed on a monitor to a human operator who would then have to contend with the data dn use it to make real-world decisions. This is simply not possible with the level of complexity we are dealing with today - there’s way too much data and often, decisions have to be made in a fraction of a second. Too many of these split-second reactions are involved in the working of any modern IoT system - this is why we’re witnessing the fusing together of AI and IoT.&nbsp;Without the tremendous power of AI, we will simply not be able to leverage the power of our data capturing assets (DCAs).&nbsp;<h2>The second disruption</h2>Much like the first wave of disruption that well and truly ushered in the dawn of the information age, this second wave of disruption will also leave a lasting impact on the face of global business.&nbsp;In the first wave of disruption that we initially looked at, businesses were forced to adapt from the outside, so to speak - with this AI+IoT powered round, the forces of disruption will remodel businesses from within.The artificial internet of things or AIoT as its being called, will incentivise businesses to embrace big data and AI analytics like nobody’s business. The more relevant data a company has, the more it stands to gain. Period.&nbsp;<h2>Evolution to Revolution</h2>The future of our civilisation is being built right in front of our eyes. We are living in an era of culmination - the incredibly feats of technology we’re seeing around us represent the apotheosis several hundred years of inquiry and innovation.Simple technologies giving way to more and more complex ones. Breakthrough technologies changing environments and thus, making way for more innovation and s on. The cycle of relentless technological evolution is very much a spectacle to behold. And it seems reasonably certain to assume that the evolution of today’s cutting-edge technology is going to leave the world a very different place than it is today.&nbsp;

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A lot of us are familiar with IoT and AI. These are by far the most influential and powerful technologies of our time. But what if they are made to work together? When IoT and AI come together, they make for one indomitable team - wide-scale disruption then becomes an eventuality. In this post, we take a look at what makes AI and IoT so powerful and disruptive together.


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AI + IoT - A Force for Disruption

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Healthcare has evolved a lot over the years - even those among us that are not doctors can attest to this fact - technology, much like it does with all other domains of human life, has left an indelible mark on medicine. The object of this piece is to try and envision the way healthcare will evolve in the next few years.&nbsp;<h2>The age of IoT</h2>We live in the golden age of technology - the information age has ushered in possibilities that were unimaginable just a few decades ago. The&nbsp;<a href="https://www.onio.com/article/what-is-the-internet-of-things-onio-explains.html">internet of things</a>&nbsp;has laid the foundation for the information age's next quantum leap - IoT technology has brought the power of the internet to all manner of objects, situations, and applications - far from requiring a device from a traditionally narrow band of applicable options, IoT has got the internet to shed its shackles and really break free.&nbsp;Today, in all likelihood, your air conditioner, refrigerator, television set, car stereo, and even your&nbsp;<a href="https://gadgets360.com/wearables/features/nikes-self-lacing-shoes-are-a-lesson-in-the-internet-of-things-2008173">shoes</a>&nbsp;can be connected to the internet. This is in no small part due to the massive advances we have made in semiconductor technology. Today, we are able to manufacture reliable sensors for a fraction of the cost from just a decade or two ago.&nbsp;This widespread proliferation of smart devices has been really exciting to watch - IoT technology has left large-scale disruption in its wake - across several industries and verticals, IoT-based smart technology has really made a huge and possibly epochal impact.&nbsp;<h2>The Internet of Medical Things</h2>As we've said several times in the past, it is really only through use-cases that we can understand the sheer scope of IoT technology; the tremendous promise that it holds can only be comprehended if we examine the various ways in which it is being used around us.&nbsp;When we understand how smart technology and the large-scale, real-time data processing that it enables are revolutionizing, say how our&nbsp;<a href="https://www.onio.com/article/precision-agriculture-using-less-to-grow-more.html">food is grown&nbsp;</a>or the way we are able to track consignments in real-time, we begin to get a sense of how powerful and promising IoT technology is.Similarly, the potential applications of IoT-enabled connected technology within healthcare have garnered significant interest among policymakers and onlookers alike.&nbsp;The Internet of Medical Things, as it's called, or IoMT for short has fast become one of the most hotly followed verticals within the IoT world. The reasons are probably not that hard to understand - Firstly, we all want better healthcare - it is a field that is quite tangibly a part of all our lives. We all have a stake in one way or the other. Moreover, it is a field that is in dire need of disruption.&nbsp;The ongoing pandemic has exposed just how sub-optimally our healthcare systems are organized and how close to utter collapse they are at any given moment in time. Healthcare is this ungainly monster that has grown so rapidly that we haven't been able to optimize and organize from the ground up using first principles thinking.&nbsp;This is where IoT comes in.&nbsp;<h2>Lots of applications</h2>The world of IoMT involves a lot of different sectors - imaging and diagnosis, hospital management, patient home care, doctor-patient communication systems and so on.&nbsp;For the purposes of this article, we are interested in technologies that enable a more seamless and holistic approach to caring for patients. The traditional model that assumes that a person needs to visit a hospital or a surgery to get healthcare is being seriously challenged by recent breakthroughs in health technology. IoT is paving the way for healthcare establishments to extend the scope of their care beyond their physical locations and really enter into a symbiotic partnership with their patients.&nbsp;As a result, there has been enormous interest in this area from scientists and investors alike. The IoT market is already worth a&nbsp;<a href="https://www2.deloitte.com/global/en/pages/life-sciences-and-healthcare/articles/medtech-internet-of-medical-things.html">staggering</a>&nbsp;$150 Billion. This is only set to grow exponentially in the near future.&nbsp;<h2>Batteryless Smart Patches</h2>The thermometer - think about this humble device that we're all familiar with. You don't need to be a doctor to know that the mercury thermometer has been with us for a long, long time. Very little has changed in the way we use thermometers over the last 100 years - yes, there have been digital thermometers, infrared temp-guns and the like, but in essence, it is fair to say that the thermometer hasn't really evolved much for a long time now.&nbsp;Now imagine a discrete patch that sticks onto your skin - a patch that looks no different from a band-aid. Today, we have technology that enables us to stash a super-tiny microcontroller (MCU) into this plaster and open up a tremendous range of functionality - thanks to connected technology, we can equip this discrete plaster-looking object with state of the art semiconductor technology - This is accomplished through the use of a cutting-edge technology known as energy harvesting - our very own ONiO.zero is an MCU that utilizes energy harvesting to charge itself (RF, solar, piezo, thermal, kinetic)- i.e., it's completely batteryless, with the end user oblivious to its presence.Now, this&nbsp;<a href="https://www.onio.com/article/real-world-use-cases-for-batteryless-iot-sensors.html">batteryless sensor</a>&nbsp;can interface with the larger web, sending and receiving packets of information. Coming back to our thermometer conundrum, a patch like this equipped with a temperature sensor and a batteryless MCU could make for an exponential improvement on a thermometer's range of functionality - a continuous monitoring patch like this could relay multiple readings of your body temperature, in real-time, to your smartphone. That can be invaluable information as far as your doctor is concerned. Or if you're just a health nut who can get nerdy about running sophisticated health analytics on yourself just for the fun of it, you could really have a ball with that kind of access to data.&nbsp;This, in a nutshell, is what we're trying to explore at ONiO. The fever patch example is just one of many ways in which we think batteryless IoT technology can change the way we gather patient data.&nbsp;What else can we do with batteryless IoT patches, you ask?Continuous glucose monitoring is a notable example - Diabetes is one of the deadliest diseases in the world, affecting millions worldwide. It is estimated that it claimed about 1.5 million lives globally in the year 2019. A huge number of people around the world have to live with this incurable disease - the only hope that we can offer these patients is that with the appropriate lifestyle modifications, assiduous follow-up, and some skilled medical intervention, diabetes can be managed quite successfully.&nbsp;Now, this is far easier in theory than in practice - in reality, diabetics have a lot to contend with - they are essentially required to conduct the entirety of their lives around their diabetes - keeping strict meal schedules, constantly titrating the dosages of their medication, scheduling doctor visits, etc - if you're the type of diabetic who needs insulin shots, your quality of life is all the more directly impacted by the disease.&nbsp;Diabetes requires a lot of back and forth between the patient and the doctor - because of the uniquely multifarious nature of the condition, a lot of trial and error is involved in figuring out the right treatment plan for a particular patient. Typically, patients have to meticulously take a whole lot of blood sugar readings at various times and in various physiological states in order for their doctor to best understand their therapeutic needs.&nbsp;This can be a huge hassle using pre-IoT technology - the patient will have to prick themselves a whole bunch of times - and that is considering they didn't just jump off the treatment bandwagon altogether. This is where a technology like CGM (continuous glucose monitoring) can be invaluable - with CGM; we're talking about an IoT-enabled smart device that tracks your blood sugar levels in real-time and gives you access to detailed trends and analytics.The unique value propositions that such a device brings to the table are manifold and significant - firstly, the device dramatically slashes the pain factor, which is huge in how people respond to a product or service. Secondly, such a device offers so much more than traditional modalities in terms of data - thanks to modern technological standards such as AI and energy harvesting, we are now able to cheaply and reliably build systems that are super-tiny, discrete, and offer you access to analytics that even pro-athletes didn't have access to just a few years ago.&nbsp;<h2>Remote monitoring for the win</h2>Remote monitoring, as enabled by connected health technologies such as smart patches, represents a watershed moment in the history of modern healthcare. These technologies allow the patient to be an active participant rather than a passive onlooker in the maintenance of their own health.&nbsp;Smart health technologies enable patients to take charge of their health in a way that has never been possible before - Today, thanks to these devices and the allied systems that are being widely put in place, patients have access to a tremendous level of insight into the functioning of their own bodies.&nbsp;Apple watch is a hugely popular and notable example that illustrates this very fact - devices like apple watch and others in the overcrowded consumer wearables and trackers space allow users to monitor certain parameters of their physiology in real-time. This allows them to make better dietary decisions, plan more effective exercise routines and in our case, seek timely medical help.&nbsp;There have been numerous testimonials from users of apple watch that claim that they owe their lives to the timely notifications that their smart devices sent them about an impending health crisis - maybe these stories are few and far between now - but they indicate that there is major paradigm shift that is currently underway in the world of medicine.&nbsp;Remote monitoring allows the patient to feel secure in the knowledge that a pair of eyes is watching over them even if their doctor is physically distant from them. Especially in cases where a lot of hands-on care is required around the clock, these devices can be incredibly useful. Costs associated with healthcare are rising in most parts of the world - a lot of patients who suffer from chronic diseases simply can't afford to spend weeks at a time in hospital. Remote monitoring using smart IoT health devices is a huge boon for these kinds of patients.&nbsp;True to the term "connected health", these technologies allow for a deeper and more resilient connection between the patient and the healthcare setup - one that delivers more times than not.&nbsp;<h2>Just the tip of the iceberg</h2>Continuous temperature monitoring and continuous glucose monitoring are no doubt exciting examples of connected health technology. These possibilities, although they sound futuristic, are very much a reality of the world around us today.&nbsp;But the true potential of IoT in healthcare is simply orders of magnitude bigger than just these kinds of devices. With our burgeoning data processing abilities and the widespread, global proliferation of high-speed mobile data, we are witnessing the beginning of a healthcare revolution that is poised to make a huge impact on the way we go about taking care of our sick.&nbsp;With connected health solutions such as batteryless patches, we may be seeing the advent of a new era in healthcare where machines and humans work together in order to produce the best possible outcomes for the most number of people.&nbsp;

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The problem with healthcare as we know it can quite simply be understood as a problem of logistics - healthcare expertise and the people that need it are not able to be made to interface with one another in those moments where the interaction is likely to be the most fruitful.  In short, it's a classic case of misallocated resources. The healthcare system is a tremendously massive, complex, and intricate beast - it is no mean feat what we have accomplished as a species in the field of medicine - the sheer amount of human effort and ingenuity it has taken to build such a vast repository of medical knowledge is mind-boggling. Furthermore, the ongoing challenges of dispensing sensible therapeutic interventions using this immense body of knowledge are numerous and herculean. 

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Are Batteryless patches the future of healthcare?

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Agriculture is incontestably one of the most important and essential human occupations,&nbsp;<a href="https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/agriculture">providing most of the world's food and fabrics (cotton, wool and leather), as well as wood and paper products</a>. The dawn of agriculture&nbsp;<a href="https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/agriculture">about 12.000 years ago</a>, often called the Neolithic Revolution, is considered to have sparked the birth of the earliest civilizations, allowing the emergence of villages and cities and the growth of the human population. Today, agriculture is strongly challenged by the need to provide adequate food for a fast-growing world population -&nbsp;<a href="https://populationmatters.org/population-numbers">expected to increase by about 2 billion people, i.e., by about 25%, by 2050</a>.&nbsp;On the other hand, today's intensity of agriculture means that it is one of the human activities that put immense pressure on the environment and the planet's resources. Agriculture involves the combined use of land, water, fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides, livestock and energy, among other production factors - occupying nearly&nbsp;<a href="https://www.oecd.org/agriculture/topics/agriculture-and-the-environment/">40% of the terrestrial area of the planet and using 70% of the freshwater consumed globally</a>. The environmental and derived societal impacts range from soil, water, and air pollution, to reduced biodiversity, water depletion, and climate change.&nbsp;So, making the best possible use of the planet's resources and exploiting all the existing possibilities for optimizing agriculture practices is a must - bottom-line, towards "using less to grow more". This means optimizing water and energy use through rational and sustainable use of these precious resources. It also means reducing to all the extent possible inputs like fertilizers, pesticides, and herbicides - which are today used in excess, causing nutrient and chemical stresses in soils, as well as water and air pollution, with nasty consequences on biodiversity, climate change and, ultimately, on human health. Precision agriculture strives to solve this equation - balancing between preserving the planet's environment and the need to feed the world.<h2>What is Precision Agriculture?</h2>According to the International Society of Precision Agriculture (ISPA),&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ispag.org/about/definition">precision agriculture</a>&nbsp;is defined as "a management strategy that gathers, processes and analyzes temporal, spatial and individual data and combines it with other information to support management decisions according to estimated variability for improved resource use efficiency, productivity, quality, profitability and sustainability of agricultural production". The exact definition may vary depending on the source, but some common ingredients clearly emerge: data, along spatial and temporal axes; information systems to support management decisions; resource efficiency, sustainability and productivity. So, it becomes pretty evident that precision agriculture lies at the intersection of agro-sciences and new information and communication technologies (ICT). Let's then explore how ICT and digitalization are increasingly becoming critical ingredients in agriculture and farming.<h2>Farming systems made smarter.</h2>As in most other areas of human activity, technology and digitalization have an increasingly important role in improving agriculture. Technologies like satellite imagery, drones, IoT, smart sensors, cloud computing, machine learning, etc. are already transforming the sector and hold the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/12/20/8596">potential for many further impacts in the near future</a>. Smart technologies - sensors, IoT systems, machine learning - can play a key role in real-time monitoring of critical parameters for precision agriculture, namely soil properties, weather conditions, pests and insect attacks, plant nutrition and health.&nbsp;As such, agriculture IoT is now an established segment of its own right - with smart sensor systems, and in particular&nbsp;<a href="https://www.onio.com/article/wsn-ai-driving-the-iot-boom.html">wireless sensor networks</a>, placed as key enablers in the path for precision agriculture. An overall look into sensors for agriculture shows a market estimated in the order of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.thebusinessresearchcompany.com/report/agriculture-sensor-global-market-report">$1.3 billion (2021) and growing at a CAGR of approximately 14%</a>. The market is highly fragmented with numerous players offering diverse sensor types and system solutions - such as Acclima, Acquity Agriculture, CropX, Glana Sensors, Libelium, Monnit, Pycno, Sensoterra, Sentera, Sentek, etc. Sensors for monitoring soil parameters constitute the largest segment, with soil moisture sensors at the top - so let's focus our attention on these ones for a while.<h2>Grounded in data straight from the soil&nbsp;</h2>Sensors have been used to monitor the principal soil parameters - i.e. moisture/humidity, temperature, pH and nutrient contents, especially nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium (so-called NPK). Other relevant soil parameters include organic matter, exhaled gases, salinity, concentration of pollutants, presence of pests and insects, etc. For each of these parameters, there are multiple sensing methods and off-the-shelf sensors. More information about soil sensors for smart agriculture applications, including the recent R&amp;D progresses and systems commercially available, can be found in a few recent review papers on the topic - such as&nbsp;<a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/adma.202007764">Yin et al. 2021</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9328258">Kashyap and Kumar 2021</a>&nbsp;or&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9040/10/1/35">Nadporozhskaya et al. 2022</a>.Wireless soil sensor systems are particularly attractive. Nowadays, the market offers a choice of sensor systems and providers serving diverse contexts - from professional solutions for large deployments to budget options for home-use. For professional agriculture deployments, wireless systems enable large arrays of sensors communicating seamlessly with a reader infrastructure; the choice of the communication technology depends on the context - such as total area to be covered, density of sensors, required data bandwidth, urban vs. remote areas, etc. Today's options go from short range - Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, ZigBee or Ultra Wide Band - to long range prototocols - including cellular networks; low-power wide-area network (LPWAN) technologies, such as NB-IoT, LoRa, LTE-M, Sigfox, etc.; or even upcoming satellite IoT networks. On the other end of the spectrum, for small deployments - such as residential owners/managers monitoring soil moisture conditions of potted plants, vegetable gardens or lawns; urban gardens; urban farming - there are&nbsp;solutions based on simple sensors that the users stick in the soil and which communicate wirelessly, e.g. using Wi-Fi, Bluetooth or ZigBee protocols, with smartphones or simple gateways.&nbsp;Let's give a closer look at a couple of examples from each type.<a href="https://cropx.com/">CropX</a>&nbsp;is an Israeli company founded in 2015 and focused on soil sensing for management of irrigation and fertilization in a precise, predictive and effective manner. The company offers sensors for continuous monitoring of soil conditions and a data and analytics platform (software) to assist farmers in planning and decision-making. The sensor units collect soil moisture, temperature and electrical conductivity (representing the soil salinity level) data at multiple depths. All data is geo-tagged, based on GPS coordinates, creating geospatial time series for all measured data. The sensor units transmit data through the cellular network (3G or 4G) to the cloud system. In addition to data from the soil sensors, CropX's platform integrates other types of data, namely weather, aerial imagery, topography, soil mapping, hydraulic models, crop models, and other user inputs. This data integration improves the analytics and management support services provided to the farmers.<a href="https://www.sensoterra.com/">Sensoterra</a>&nbsp;is headquartered in the Netherlands and focuses on wireless soil and water optimization solutions. The company commercializes a sensor to measure soil moisture, communicating through LoRaWAN technology - using gateways that must be within 4 kilometers from the sensor units. The solution includes a mobile app and a cloud-based server that assist the user and provide data insights. Besides agriculture, Sensoterra focuses on water management, for instance within the scope of smart/green cities.The&nbsp;<a href="https://www.netrohome.com/en/shop/products/whisperer">Netro Whisperer</a>&nbsp;is a smart sensor for home-use (indoor plants, outdoor gardens, etc.) measuring soil moisture, surface temperature and sunlight. It connects via Wi-Fi to a smartphone app that collects the data and gives notifications to the user about plant care.Xiaomi launched the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.techpunt.nl/en/xiaomi-mi-flower-care-plant-sensor.html">Mi Flower Care</a>&nbsp;series for home-use, with different versions for indoor, large plants and outdoor. The sensors monitor soil moisture, temperature, nutrition and sunlight, connecting through Bluetooth to a smartphone app that gives care recommendations tailored to the user plant type, based on a collection of more than 6000 plants.We have analysed products from a number of other vendors for professional use - namely Libelium, Monnit, Pycno, Sentek, Zimmer &amp; Peacock - and for home use - such as Verdmo, Ecowitt, Sonkir, XLux. Overall, the professional solutions are complex and very costly. For instance, the sensor units from CropX have an upfront cost of minimum $600; Sensoterra sells at €150-200 per soil probe. In addition, most systems entail quite considerable costs with communication hardware (gateways, base stations, etc.) and subscription fees for connectivity, software tools, etc. - for instance CropX charges an annual subscription fee of $275 per sensor. And, many of the sensor units are bulky and rely on wired connections to electronic casings or gateways - hardly qualifying as true wireless solutions. The home-use solutions can be quite cheap - as low as $20 per sensor - but are meant for individual sensors or small arrays.&nbsp;<h2>Challenges</h2>Drilling into the pros and cons of existing solutions there are two challenges that clearly emerge across the board: batteries and cost.&nbsp;First, the vast majority of the existing sensors run on batteries: some are equipped with solar panels, but still integrated with internal batteries. So, there are no real batteryless solutions - apart from a couple of very simple home-use devices (such as Sonkir and XLux) which do not provide any kind of data connectivity. We have repeatedly battled against the use of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.onio.com/article/energy-harvesting-trumps-batteries.html">batteries in IoT devices</a>. But here we'd like to add a couple of evidences specific for agriculture applications. A&nbsp;<a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2102.10260.pdf">recent study</a>&nbsp;reported that batteries were the cause of more than half of the failures found in a wireless sensor network to monitor soil moisture - including low batteries, moisture in enclosures, and sensor nodes that froze and drained their battery in one shot. Also, in agriculture, batteries represent an&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-12162-z.pdf">increased risk of soil and water contamination</a>&nbsp;due to direct leakage of harmful chemicals, such as lithium and lead. So, batteries are a no-go!Second, as seen above, systems for professional use are very costly - which hampers the deployment of large sensor arrays.<h2>Looking ahead</h2><a href="https://www.onio.com/products/onio-zero.html">ONiO.zero</a>&nbsp;is leading the way in ultra-low-power and energy harvesting technology, making it possible to deploy true wireless and batteryless sensor systems across IoT verticals. Agriculture is no different. ONiO.zero is breaking sensors free from batteries and implementing an unprecedented level of on-chip integration - drastically reducing the number of electronic components for a functional sensor unit, with a parallel reduction in cost. And so the magic happens: batteryless, low-cost sensors and systems - where form factors and footprint are not determined by the electronics but rather by the sensory elements and use-case needs. This will unshackle the potential of precision agriculture - with wireless sensor arrays spreading faster than weed! The simplicity of the underlying technology will enable diverse use-cases and application segments - from high-end smart platforms tailored to farmers, to mid-range applications like urban farming and gardening and to consumer products for home use.All of this is expected to come with deep respect to the environment: saving freshwater, using less energy, reducing deleterious inputs like excess fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides. Ultimately, minimizing the environmental footprint of agriculture - while providing a steady stream of healthy food to all on the planet! Agriculture and sustainability hand-in-hand!

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Agriculture has in many places been regarded as a rather traditional sector. Yet, in the past couple of centuries, it has gone through a number of technology-driven revolutions, such as the ones fostered by mechanization, electrification and automation, the availability of chemical fertilizers or the emergence of biotechnology and genetic engineering. Now, with the explosion of new digital technologies and the Internet of Things (IoT) we are entering the era of so-called precision agriculture. This article will introduce the concept of precision agriculture, with particular emphasis on how smart sensors and wireless systems contribute to improving agriculture practices' sustainability while optimizing resource efficiency and productivity.

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In an <a href="https://www.onio.com/article/internet-of-things-and-airlines.html">article</a> we posted last year, we’d spoken at length about how IoT technology was all set to transform the aviation industry as we know it today. In this article, we’ll take a deeper look at how batteryless sensors are changing the world of aviation.&nbsp;Let’s face it, if you’re like the rest of us, you probably hate airports. Or maybe, you are far too moderate for hate - but any rate, you probably don’t love airports. Say, you’re playing a word association game, a la <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ALlJJT62VA">Skyfall</a> - what do you reckon is the word that’ll spring to your mind when you hear airports - wait let’s guess - tedium? Pain? endless queues - oh wait that’s two words - but you get the point.&nbsp;Airports are just not fun - When you’re in them, there’s this perennial sense of - Isn’t there a better way to do this? seemingly hanging in the air. Can’t we work out how to solve the problem of identifying potential terrorists in a less boring way, with all our collective intelligence? <a href="https://www.onio.com/article/what-is-the-internet-of-things-onio-explains.html">IoT</a> technology often has a way of doing just that - just like its predecessor and progenitor from the previous century - the internet - it has a way of seeing through the pain points that unite all of us in our exasperation - and solving them in one fell swoop.&nbsp;Well, it’s not quite that magical - but you get what we’re trying to say - IoT technology is sweeping through the modern world like a tornado, leaving behind a wondrous trail of innovation and disruption in its wake. In a sense, what we’re witnessing now is an evolution more than a revolution - IoT technology just takes all the epochal advances we’ve made in our ability to harness, distribute and synthesise information - with the internet - and blows the roof off by dramatically expanding the scope, scale and magnitude of computing power.&nbsp;What we’re seeing with IoT is essentially the internet unchained! It’s all well and good to say we’re all connected, but it’s hardly the case when it’s only our tablets, phones and laptops that are connected. That, in a nutshell, is IoT for you. It’s taking the internet out of computing devices and bringing it out into the world to play!Alright alright! We get it - you guys love talking about IoT! But what’s this all got to do with airports?Patience! Here’s why - To understand how IoT slots into pretty much anything, it is essential to see that IoT is better understood as a technology architecture - a framework if you will - than anything else. Which is why we keep drawing comparisons to the internet. So, the internet of things basically brings together a bunch of technologies towards a desired end result - say, making airports more tolerable for the irate traveller - or say, making them cheaper to run, which hopefully means you don’t need to pay quite as much for flight tickets the next time you go on holiday.&nbsp;No matter what the application - when IoT is used to restructure the way something has been done - it’s always in order to&nbsp;<div class="raw-html-embed"> <ul class="ul--list">
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Say that goes pretty smoothly - not so fast! Yet another tiresome line! This time, you’re being frisked for explosives and such - we’ll stop here in the interest brevity but you get the point. When it comes to airports as we know them today, even the best-case scenario looks like an episode of Takeshi’s castle.&nbsp;But, this simply won’t do. This is not to suggest that implementing IoT solutions will fix all these issues magically but is more to highlight just how user-unfriendly airports have become. For the most part, we the consumers have allowed the aviation industry to get away with this.&nbsp;This is the problem that IoT is purported to solve - can IoT help make the airport experience less grating for flyers?<h2>What is a smart airport?</h2>The connected airport, otherwise known as the smart airport, is likely going to be the future of aviation. What is a connected airport you ask? A connected airport brings together an entire range of technologies, all aimed at making the airport process safer, more efficient and in doing so, improving the overall experience of fliers.&nbsp;The answer, as it is the case with everything IoT lies in - data. The more information we have at our disposal, the more effectively we can organise processes and plan the most effective interventions. Airports have already come a long way in terms of technology - In the past, airports were considered "smart" if they had an automated check-in system or a baggage drop. These days, however, with the advent of IoT technology, we're starting to see a new type of airport emerge - the connected airport. So what is a connected airport? Simply put, it's an airport that uses IoT technology to connect all aspects of the travel experience - from check-in to security to boarding. This allows for a more seamless and efficient travel experience for passengers.Smart airports make use of connected technology in order to increase levels of connectivity between various operations within the airport facility - helping them work better together and achieve high levels of efficiency, synchronisation and economy of operation.&nbsp; With all aspects of the airport connected, passengers can move through the airport with ease, without having to worry about missed connections or delays. Additionally, connected airports are able to provide real-time updates on flight information, security wait times, and gate changes - all of which can be accessed by passengers via their mobile devices. This allows travellers to plan their time at the airport more efficiently and avoid any potential disruptions.Connected airports or smart airports make use of technologies such as the Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence, Self-powered sensors, bluetooth 5.0 and GPS in order to execute operations more effectively and also to provide their customers with a much more enjoyable and intuitive flying experience.&nbsp;In addition to a more seamless travel experience, connected airports also offer a number of other advantages. For example, because all aspects of the airport are connected, it's easier for airport staff to manage operations and ensure that everything is running smoothly. Additionally, connected airports are able to collect data on behaviour, which can be used to improve the overall travel experience. Finally, because they're connected, airports can easily add new features and services as needed - making them more flexible and adaptable to the ever-changing needs of travellers.<blockquote>“Airports are constantly looking for ways to make the flying experience better for their passengers. One way that they are doing this is by implementing IoT technology into their operations. A connected airport is able to use sensors and data analytics to make smarter decisions, which ultimately leads to a better experience for flyers. For example, a connected airport can use data collected from sensors to determine how long security lines are and then allocate more staff members accordingly.”</blockquote><h2>Examples of IoT smart airport technology in action</h2>There are several ways IoT technology manifests itself within the space of an airport. The essential ideas that unite all these use-cases is this - reducing lags, increasing efficiency, reducing costs, improving user experience.This is done using large amounts of data that are gathered by wireless sensors - this information is fed into the wireless sensor network which contains a data processing arm - state-of-the-art analytics systems crunch these numbers and come up with valuable, actionable insights that can be used to actuate interventions directed towards more efficiency.&nbsp;<h3>Here are some common use-cases of IoT technology in smart airports -&nbsp;</h3><div class="raw-html-embed"><ul class="ul--navi">
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 </ul></div>1. Self-Service Check-In Kiosks - Self-service kiosks are connected to the airport’s central database. They use facial recognition software in order to verify the identity of flyers and then proceed to check them in. This helps to reduce check-in times as well as queues at the airport.2. Automated Passport Control Gates - These are gates that use facial recognition software in order to verify the identity of passengers. Once the identity of the passenger has been verified, they are then allowed to proceed to their next destination. This helps to speed up the process of passport control and also reduces queues at the airport - no more panic about being late for check-in.&nbsp;3. Baggage Tracking Systems - These systems make use of RFID tags in order to track the location of baggage. This helps to ensure that baggage is not lost or misplaced and also helps to speed up the process of baggage handling at the airport. The RFID tags can easily be tracked on the central airport database - much like your apple tags.&nbsp;4. Weather and Flight Information Displays - These displays are connected to the airport’s central database. They provide real-time information on weather conditions as well as flight information. This helps to keep passengers informed and also helps to reduce delays at the airport.5. Aircraft Maintenance Tracking - This is a system that is used to track the maintenance needs of aircraft. This helps to ensure that aircraft are always in good working condition and also helps to reduce delays caused by aircraft maintenance.6. Air Traffic Control - This is a system that is used to control air traffic. It makes use of wireless IoT sensors in order to track the location of aircraft and then provides instructions to pilots accordingly. This helps to ensure the safe operation of aircraft and also helps reduce delays caused by air traffic congestion.&nbsp;7. Car Parking Systems - These systems make use of wireless sensors to track the location of cars. This helps to ensure that cars are parked in the correct location and also helps to reduce congestion at the airport. Most of us don’t have to look very hard to remember a stressful experience with finding a parking lot at the airport or having to scramble with anxiety to find the parking receipt - IoT-based car parking systems can help ease this process and make it more user-friendly.&nbsp;8.<a href="https://www.onio.com/article/what-is-energy-harvesting.html"> Energy Harvesting </a>-&nbsp; Energy harvesting is another crucial technology that makes smart airports feasible - Energy harvesting enables batteryless IoT sensors These self-powered sensors make use of renewable energy sources in order to power the airport IoT system. This helps to reduce the carbon footprint of the airport and also helps to reduce costs.<h2>Connected airports are the future</h2>The potential applications of IoT in a smart airport context are many and varied - the examples listed here are more to give the reader an idea of what IoT can enable and why this is something airports in the world are keenly looking into - There are many more ways in which IoT can be used to optimise processes in the airport - The idea is this - they can help increase levels of efficiency at the airport and also provide passengers with a much more enjoyable and intuitive flying experience. In the future, it is likely that more and more airports will make use of smart airport technology in order to improve their operations.So what does the future hold for connected airports? It's hard to say for sure, but one thing is certain - they're here to stay. As the benefits of connected airports become more and more apparent, we can expect to see them popping up in airports all over the world. So whether you're a traveller or an airport staff member, it's time to get connected!

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The world of today is no place for dumb things it would seem. If it ain’t got a “smart” prefix attached to it, it might as well not exist. Smartphones started the trend and now it’s caught on like a house on fire - smart houses, smart cities, smart air conditioners, well you name it. Hey, we’re not complaining - we love it. Guess what? In this post, we’re going to talk about the latest “smart” twist on a thing that is just not good enough in its dumb avatar anymore - the smart airport! 

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