IoT Usecases

Usecases taken from kaaproject.org. Relisting all of it together here to give a better overall picture.


AGRICULTURE

• Sensor-based field and resource mapping
• Remote equipment monitoring
• Remote crop monitoring
• Predictive analytics for crops and livestock
• Climate monitoring and forecasting
• Livestock tracking and geofencing
• Stats on livestock feeding and produce
• Smart logistics and warehousing
  

Automotive

• Connected car systems monitoring
• Smart driving assistance
• Cloud-based infotainment solutions
• Automated emergency management
• Real-time fleet management
• Driver safety systems
• Optimized logistics
• Predictive maintenance

Consumer Electronics

• Device profile management and inventory
• Remote provisioning and firmware distribution
• Remote control
• Configure events for smart interaction
• Monitor and analyze activities of devices / users / groups
• Monitor device performance
• Collect user experience and use data
• Smart house and smart office solutions

Healthcare

• Ability to manage virtually any number of devices
• Automated device-to-analytics data flow
• Remote monitoring of patient’s health statistics
• Hospital asset management
• Remote device configuration and tuning
• Data analytics applications for clinicians and patients
• Predictive device maintenance
• HIPAA-compliant data security

Industrial Internet of Things

• Production line remote monitoring
• Unified factory-wide interconnectivity
• Predictive maintenance
• Failure mitigation and safety control
• Gateway apps and edge analytics
• Centralized config data updates
• Workforce tracking
• Cloud-based data storage and analytics

Logistics (Smart supply chain solutions)

• Real-time fleet management
• Smart labels
• Predictive maintenance
• Storage conditions control
• Cargo integrity monitoring
• Optimized warehouse workloads
• Inventory tracking & analytics
• End-to-end visibility into delivery process

Smart City

• Smart meter networks
• Smart city lighting
• Smart grid automation
• Ecology monitoring solutions
• Energy-saving buildings
• Efficient public services tracking
• Ad-hoc traffic balancing
• Smart public safety systems

Smart Energy solutions and smart meters

• Smart metering solutions
• Fault detection
• Smart lighting
• QoS data collection & analytics
• Smart grid asset monitoring
• Smart appliances
• Remote infrastructure maintenance
• Smart building energy management

Smart Retail

• Interactive digital signage screens
• Mobile shopping applications
• Sensor-based items tracking
• Tailored digital marketing
• Optimized inventory management
• Mobile payment solutions
• IoT-enabled beacons
• Customer preferences analytics

Sports and Fitness

• Fitness trackers to mobile devices integration
• Data integration from different sports gear
• Configurable alerts and notifications for the user
• Near real-time analytics over collected data
• In-cloud data storage for easy sharing
• Support of tiny sportswear sensors
• Sports equipment predictive maintenance
• Remote equipment control for gyms, sports venues, etc.

Wearables

• Multi-device data exchange
• Broad sensor hardware support
• Data integration across apps/devices
• In-cloud data storage
• Topic-based notifications
• Controlled firmware updates
• Customized data analytics and reporting
• Autonomous interoperability