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WFIoT-2023

Faculty and students published the following papers at the 9th IEEE World Forum on Internet of Things (IEEE WFIoT-2023) held in Aveiro, Portugal from 12  to 27 October:

  • String tension based Borewell Water Level Monitoring  using IoT – Dr. Sachin Chaudhari and his students Tanmay Bhatt, dual degree student, UG 2020;  Ritik Yelekar, Masters student and Thomas David Tency,,  working as a startup founder housed in CIE. Here is the research work as explained by the authors: 

The high rate of groundwater usage has resulted in a rapid decline in groundwater levels, which has necessitated its monitoring. This paper focuses on estimating the groundwater level inside borewells remotely and in real-time using the Internet of Things (IoT). For this, a solution is proposed which is based on string tension and does not require any electrical components to be lowered into the borewell. The solution provides a completely automated, real-time, reliable, and IoT-enabled alternative to existing methods for borewell water monitoring. The proposed

approach is compared with an ultrasonic sensor-based approach in a controlled environment as well as in a tank. Additionally, four nodes were deployed in a small educational campus in the

Indian city of Hyderabad to ascertain its usability and reliability in practical situations. The observations from the data collected over a month show that the proposed low-cost solution is reliable and has a good performance in the field.

Tanmay Bhatt, dual degree student, UG 2020
  •  Software Architecture for Multi-User Multiplexing to Enhance Scalability in IoT-Based Remote Labs – Dr. Sachin Chaudhari  and his students Akshit Gureja, Dual Degree Student, in ECE (1st author); Rishabh Agrawal, B.Tech (Hons), ECE; Dr. Karthik Vaidhyanathan and Dr. Venkatesh Choppella.  Akshit Gureja is the 1st author of this paper. Here is the research work as explained by the authors: 

Remote Labs refer to an end-to-end system, including hardware and software built to access scientific equipment and resources remotely. The software platform built for such purposes needs to be robust enough to handle the communication of inputs and outputs between the client and the hardware nodes with minimal latency and simultaneously provide a seamless user experience. This paper highlights the importance of scalability in Remote Labs and presents multi-user multiplexing as a solution, to essentially provide users with concurrent access to the hardware node for experiments, which can generate outputs instantaneously. The paper discusses the inefficiency of existing web-based Remote Labs with 4-layered architectures and proposes the use of WebSocket with a 3-layer software architecture to enhance user experience, accelerate input-output communication and implement multi-user multiplexing. To showcase the effectiveness of the proposed architecture over existing implementations using the Blynk IoT platform as the middleware, a comprehensive communication pipeline was developed from scratch to perform Kirchhoff’s Voltage Law (KVL) experiment remotely.

The 9th IEEE World Forum on Internet of Things (IEEE WFIoT-2023) is the premier event of  the IEEE IoT Technical Community, a multiple Society initiative aggregating the wide expertise inherent to the IoT domain. This year, the theme for WFIoT-2023 was The Blue Planet: A Marriage of Sea and Space

Link to Conference Page : https://wfiot2023.iot.ieee.org/

 

November 2023