The Application of IoT in the Area of Detection
Petr Doucek, Miloš Maryška, Lea Nedomová · Hradec Economic Days ... · 2019
The article presents the application of Internet of Things (IoT) technologies in the distribution of utilities.The presented application -detection of the integrity of seals of meters of certain utilities (water, gas or electric power) -is based on an extensive analysis of opportunities in applying the IoT principles to the distribution of utilities, in particular the distribution of electric power.One of the opportunities with rather high expectations from distributors is detection of the integrity of meter seals.The article includes a proposal of the technical solution of such an IoT application and discusses the cost-effectiveness of the solution.We have reached the conclusion that an isolated implementation of IoT technology is much more expensive than the currently used solution, which is based on labor and on having meters checked by people.Another way to increase the cost-effectiveness of IoT devices is to add the function of remote meter reading and its follow-up interconnection with data mining technologies and the evaluation of a large volume of data.However, this addition goes beyond the scope of this article.