“Internet as a tool for environment protection”

The Internet of Things (IoT) has a large role to play in the future of smart cities.
IoT can be used in practically all scenarios for public services by governments
to make cities environment friendly. Sensor-enabled devices can help monitor
the environmental impact on cities, collect details about sewers, air quality, and
garbage. Such devices can also help monitor woods, rivers, lakes and oceans.
Many environmental trends are so complex that they are difficult to
conceptualise. IoT is a recent communication paradigm that envisions a near
future, in which the objects of everyday life will be equipped with
micro-controllers, transceivers for digital communication, and suitable protocol
stacks that will enable them to communicate not only with one another but also
the users, becoming an integral part of the internet and the environment. IoT
environmental monitoring applications usually use sensors to lend a hand in
environmental protection by monitoring air or water quality, atmospheric or soil
conditions, and can even include areas like monitoring the movements of
wildlife and their habitats.
An urban IoT platform can provide means to monitor the quality of the air in
crowded areas, parks, or fitness trails. From real time monitoring of water
quality in the ocean through sensors connected to a buoy that sends information
via the GPRS network, to the monitoring of goods being shipped around the
world, and smart power grids that create conditions for more rational
production, planning and consumption can all be achieved via microchips
implanted in objects that communicate with each other.

From real time monitoring of water quality in the ocean through sensors
connected to a buoy that sends information via the GPRS network, to the
monitoring of goods being shipped around the world, and smart power grids that
create conditions for more rational production planning and consumption can all
be achieved via microchips implanted in objects that communicate with each
other.

Some applications related to the IoT aren’t new: toll collection tags, security
access key cards, devices to track stolen cars and various types of identity tags
for retail goods and livestock. Other monitoring and tracking systems have more
business uses such as solving or averting problems like sending a cell-phone
alert to drivers that traffic is backed up at a particular exit ramp, and increasing
efficiencies such as enabling a utility to remotely switch off an electric meter in
a just-vacated apartment.

Some of the key usage of IoT in saving the land from excessive misuse is in
adopting SmartFarming. With over 70% cultivable land in India, usage of IoT
can greatly benefit the farmers in not only controlling production but also in soil
protection. Productive cultivating has an enormous positive effect on nature.
Innovation was being utilized to control harvest or nursery water systems
through sensors. For example, the programmed water system in Southern
California is being conveyed as an approach to battle the intermittent dry
seasons giving water as per the states of soil. Associated automatons are
likewise being sent in cultivating. Their on-board sensors help ranchers enhance
the utilization of composts and plant assurance items other than giving airborne
soil condition information to supplement soil sensor data.