IoT Use Cases
Become the role model for increasing creativity and productivity in various industries.
Cities, Our Big Homes
A nice home is usually beautiful, comfortable, and reliable, which brings a sense of comfort along with security. Cities, as the big houses for citizens, should evoke the same feelings in us. In this modern world, safe transportation infrastructure, traffic management, and public facilities are basic welfare requirements, and new concepts are drawing people’s, including smart cities.
Internet of Things, Champion of Disrupt
Smart cities collect various data from all over the city using modern technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence, blockchain, and machine learning to improve infrastructure, public facilities, and services. Smart city services include all aspects of smart energy management, smart fleet management, smart buildings, and smart farming.
IoT-based smart cities rely on real-time data and sharing important information with citizens to improve the experience of living in cities and solve infrastructure issues due to urban population growth. Here, you can see some impressive IoT applications for smart cities:
Smart energy distribution and smart meters
Smart power grid using solar panels
Smart public transportation
Smart parking lots for finding and reserving parking spots
Smart traffic management
Environmental pollution monitoring and weather forecasting
Waste management through smart trash bins
You probably have a thousand other ideas reaching your creative mind now that you know better about the power of IoT in developing smart cities. But, when applying IoT capabilities to implement your ideas, you will need certain skills and tools. Thingspod can be a dreamy tool to make your ideas come true!
ThingsPod, the Ideal Tool
ThingsPod is a comprehensive Internet of Things platform for managing your IoT devices, which makes processing, storing, and displaying data fast, easy, and delightful.
You can send all sorts of data related to the vehicle location, cargo status, and driver behavior to the ThingsPod platform using smart devices (nodes). Thingspod supports many web protocols such as MQTT, HTTP, and CoAP and other industrial protocols such as Modbus, OPC-UA, and LoRaWAN. Then, you will be able to process your data from fleet devices through platform programming blocks and display the information by default widgets.
In ThingsPod, you can manage the smart city in the following ways:
Collecting different data from sensors and nodes
Using Rules Engine for processing the gathered data and generating alerts
Calculating data and sending information to external systems
Displaying historical or real-time data by flexible dashboards
Defining Roles for managing users’ access to devices and dashboards
Remote control and OTA update for smart devices
Sending information with custom frameworks to external user apps
Achieving all initiatives with almost no coding!
ThingsPod Roadmap
In the diagram below, we show the development process of a smart city solution, including transferring the device’s data to the platform directly or through intermediary systems and processing and storing information before sending it to the application layer (and vice versa).
Next-Generation Industries
Key Features
Data Collection
Collecting and storing telemetry and attribute data with high reliability through MQTT, HTTP, and CoAP protocols to protect data from network and hardware failure.
Management and security
Registering, managing, and grouping devices in assets while supporting encryption in the transmission layer and providing API for server-side applications to send RPC requests.
Rule Engine
Processing input data through creating rule chains by dragging and dropping pre-programmed blocks regarding alarm activation, transferring messages to external systems, filtering and transporting messages, analyzing, etc.
Data Visualization
More than ten different default/customizable widget categories: alarm displays, graphs, digital and analog gauges, maps, control tools, etc.
Multi-Workspace
Supporting multi-tenant and multi-workspace to allow one user to have different roles in several dashboards while being able to create millions of user, customer, and device groups in each separate workspace.
Edge Computing
Providing all the platform’s features on the edge where data is created. Automatically synchronized with the cloud platform to increase reliability and reduce latency in times of unstable communication network.
Assigning Role
Assigning multiple roles to users and customers individually or in groups to define their access levels to platform resources, including dashboards, devices, etc.
Solution Template
Ready-to-use templates of pre-designed scenarios in fleet tracking, smart office, air quality monitoring, etc. fields to reduce errors and enhance creativity while developing similar projects.
Start Developing, For Free!
By creating an account, you can start developing using the platform’s limited Free Pod resources. Also, you can enjoy a 10% discount on your first tenant top-up.