Applications

For indoor lighting, wireless systems allow users to control lights remotely, enabling energy savings through automation, such as dimming or switching off lights when not needed. This is especially beneficial in large commercial buildings where wired control systems are costly and complex to install. Moreover, wireless communication facilitates the integration of smart lighting systems that can adjust lighting based on occupancy or natural light levels, improving both comfort and energy efficiency. But to make it happen the employed wireless network technology must support thousands of devices spread over many floors, reaching even most unfavorable locations. It must support low latency asynchronous messages for direct communication between the light switch and a lamp and at the same time still being able to communicate within a large building system. With embeNET this is possible.


In outdoor lighting applications, embeNET enables the centralized control of streetlights and other public lighting, which can be managed remotely to adapt to changing conditions such as weather or time of day. This leads to significant energy savings and extends the lifespan of lighting infrastructure by reducing unnecessary usage. Additionally, wireless systems can be integrated with sensors to provide real-time data on the status of lights, enabling predictive maintenance and reducing downtime. With embeNET you can equip the street lamps with a low cost radio interface and make them join a common wireless network with just one LTE-enabled gateway. This significantly reduces the overall cost of the system while still delivering similar functionality. 


Emergency lighting is another critical area where embeNET can offer substantial benefits. Wireless emergency lighting can be easily reconfigured or expanded without the need for extensive rewiring, making it ideal for buildings that undergo frequent changes in layout or use. It also simplifies the required maintenance procedures which can be automated and run remotely. In all these cases embeNET comes fully prepared with additional features such as strong security, remote telemetry and diagnostics and over-the-air firmware updates.

Smart building is a type of building with designed by considering the optimized relationship among structure, system, service, and management. As denoted by the term “smart” building, it has intelligent control systems and smart and interconnected devices beyond the traditional building structure and function. The modernized sensor-embedded residence with various integrated systems was thought to be the basis of smart buildings in initial research. The system communication between external and internal was operated remotely and efficiently. Wireless networking is at the core of many building automation systems, allowing seamless communication between various subsystems and services such as heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC), access control and security, sanitation and waste management, smart metering and other. Such applications often require superb radio sensitivity as the signal is heavily attenuated by walls and ceilings.

Emergency lighting is a safety-related system mandatory for many types of buildings. It includes escape lighting as well as backup lighting. With reliable wireless communication it is possible automate a lot of tasks related to installation and maintenance of emergency lighting devices. These tasks include periodic functionality tests, that are required by law, but also on-line status monitoring, backup battery conditioning etc. Network self-configuration allows to speed up the installation process, as well as adapt to changes within the building interior.

The primary goal of a smart city is to create an urban environment that yields a high quality of life to its residents while also generating overall economic growth. Therefore, a major advantage of smart cities is their ability to facilitate an increased delivery of services to citizens with less infrastructure and cost. As the population within cities continues to grow, it becomes necessary for these urban areas to accommodate the increasing population by making more efficient use of their infrastructure and assets. Smart city applications can enable these improvements, advance city operations, and improve the quality of life among residents.

Smart city applications enable cities to enhance their existing infrastructure. The improvements facilitate new revenue streams and operational efficiencies, helping governments and citizens save money.

Potential applications of wireless mesh networks in cities include city lights control, parking space management, traffic control, garbage collection, construction monitoring and other. For many of them, system responsiveness plays a crucial role, which leads to local communication systems, that can span across multiple city blocks.

All these features can be achieved within embeNET capability.

The IoT is essentially ushering in a new era of energy and utilities. The various insights that can be accessed using IoT can drastically transform the industry overnight. In particular, the information collected using IoT and the IoT cloud can be used to develop new, more efficient services, boost productivity and overall efficiency, solve critical and potentially detrimental issues, improve our ability to make real-time decisions. By upgrading to smart meters and grids companies can once again gain control of this wildly flourishing industry.

Rather than shunning these new methods of acquiring energy, energy companies can simply embrace them and use them to the advantage of us all. IoT is the key to this collaboration. By providing much-needed real-time data and insights, using the IoT will enable energy companies to manage infrastructure and function, thus creating a more stable network overall. This will ultimately allow energy companies to begin using wind and solar energy to boost the efficiency of services while also reducing the cost to consumers.

Potential applications include smart factories, warehouses and asset optimization. In many cases radio transmission enables new applications in industrial processes, eg. when sensors need to place on moving/rotating parts or in hard-to-reach places. This combined with the possibility to power the devices from batteries allows to build new and innovative solutions to problems, that previously couldn’t be addressed.

The industry itself is already embracing the 21st century, thanks to a paradigm shift towards the application of technology to improve operations and progress towards a connected “digital mine” that operates at the pinnacle of safety and efficiency. One of the key technologies providing the framework for connecting the mine site, is IoT.

Because IoT can be made up of a variety of independent parts and components, it can be challenging to take a step back and appreciate the wide-ranging aspects of a mining operation that it can meaningfully improve. However, once you get an idea of what’s possible, it’s easy to see why it’s so transformative.

Transportation is one of the major industries that is moving towards a new digital era. The implementation of IoT applications can fully transform the logistics sector. It tends to empower every industrial segment by embracing a connected ecosystem in the entire supply chain management process. The business can make the operations more technology-driven with the help of powerful capabilities and monitoring solutions.

The adoption of IoT in transportation and logistics has allowed the industry to modify its modus operandi. Therefore, they can simplify the process and make it more efficient. Leveraging IoT solutions can revamp the supply chain management that can take your business to the next level.

The aim of most agriculture IoT products is to enable farmers to use these insights to make operational decisions around planting, irrigating, harvesting and more.

Efficient and robust wireless connectivity in agricultural context refers to the use of sensors, cameras, and other devices to turn every element and action involved in farming into data. Weather, moisture, plant health, mineral status, chemical applications, pest presence and much more can all be turned into large data sets that allow big data engineers to draw out insights about the farm at varying levels of granularity via software algorithms.

Environmental monitoring involves the capture of any type of data that contributes to showing how the world around us behaves, how it affects our lives, and how it can be controlled. Environmental monitoring data includes data from natural sources – for example rainfall or soil composition – and human or industrial processes, for example human waste or vehicle emissions.

In the natural world, environmental monitoring focuses on air, soil, and water. For example, in air monitoring, sensor networks and geographical information systems (GISs) monitor pollution, topographical, and meteorological data to analyze air pollutants. In water monitoring, water samples are analyzed to measure chemical, radiological, and biological data against population demographics. In soil monitoring, soil grabs are monitored for salinity, contamination, and acidity to analyze soil quality in farming and to predict the potential for erosion, flooding, and threats to environmental biodiversity.

The biggest challenge in smart environments is the massive amounts of data that need to be sifted, monitored, analyzed, and proactively used to create solutions for everyday challenges.