The Internet of Things (IoT) technology can assist in the effective conservation of resources and energy management. With IoT, managing water level and detecting leakage within water pipeline distribution system can be automated. This is the golden opportunity as the field of water management and distribution progress with the advancement of IoT.

Water shortage has been part of the crucial complications that encountered by many municipalities around the globe and surplus during transmission has been acknowledged as the main problem.

Thus, the key idea for this project is to design a real-time low-cost wireless system called as SMART2L to prevent Non-Revenue Water (NRW) commonly known as unbilled water wastage. SMART2L integrates Internet of Things (IoT) technologies using FAVORIOT platform that will make a change to the way of people live and manage their water resources smartly.

[Note: This project is being done by UNITEN, our FAVORIOT’s University collaborator. Article was written by Haikal Hafiz Kadar]

You can check out the whole LIST of IOT PROJECTS by our University Collaborators.

“All we know Health is Wealth.So the health issue is very important for our daily life. Especially it is very important and sensitive issue when it’s related to Elderly patients.We must be very careful regarding the handling of the Elderly people.
Favorwatch is not only a watch but also giving huge benefits for its users.

First of all, I would like to say this favorwatch is very helpful for everyone.But this watch is more helpful for the Elderly people. The Favorwatch is a great invention by the team of Favoriot. I have used the watches for my residence Elderly patients in my Centre. The favorwatch is very helpful and acts like a 24 hours security system for the Elderly people.It has few great features like 24 hours pulse rates, blood pressure, ECG monitoring, steps, calories.The beautiful feature is Fall detection and SOS button for any kinds of help. The SOS button is connected to the nearby emergency department and also connected to the relatives by the mobile connectivity. It has a SIM card inside and also it is voice enabled. So the Elderly people also can talk with their relatives. It has also the GPS system inside so that the person is easily reachable. So the Favorwatch is very useful for the Alzheimers, Dementia, Parkinsons patients. The Favorwatch will bring more features in the near future.” – Prof.Dr.Zahid Haque,Ph.D, D.Sc MBBS,MPH, MBA, LL.B,FRSPH(UK),FAAFP(USA), Board Certified(USA) , Chairman, PLZ Newage Care S/B

“Things and human intermingle in the cyberspace where the interactions can have real consequences in physical space. Managing, connecting and visualizing these “things” are of utmost importance. Favoriot helps to bring this data to life with rule-based smart action” – Dr. Rozeha A. Rashid, Head of Advanced Telecommunication Technology Research Group (ATT RG), FKE, UTM

“From data to information, information to knowledge, knowledge to wisdom, the journey is fraught with trial and errors. It won’t hurt to have Favoriot help you with your first step and beyond” – Mr. Hadi Fikri Abdul Hamid, Ph.D. Student, ATT RG, FKE, UTM

“Favoriot – my to-go-to authority on all things IoT. It is my best source to learn the latest trends and to leverage on IOT-driven solutions that can make life better, even for my elders.” – Caroline Ang, Yayasan Inovasi Malaysia

‘There are people who just talk and expect things to happen. There are people who rush to supposedly make things happen without talking or thinking through. Favoriot and especially Dr. Mazlan Abas its evangelist talks, shares, educates and tries to ensure that IoT projects by whatever parties are for the right purposes and for the right situations and environments to achieve success for the benefit of all.‘ – Abdul Fattah Mohamed Yatim, Deputy Chairman of National Industry Standards Committee on IT, Communications and Multimedia (codenamed ISC/G), Department of Standards Malaysia. (The National Standards Committee on Internet of Things, codenamed TC/G/16, is a committee under ISC/G.)

“Today, STEM education plays important roles in the development of the younger generation for their future career. Favoriot is promoting #GenerationIOT, in the synergy of the great IOT platform by Favoriot and IOT learning kit from us (MyInvent), we believe our partnership could grow together, then help our younger generation be ready for their future.” – Mohd Ariffin Zulkifli, IoT Engineer/Trainer, MyInvent Enterprise.

“IoT journey could be tough, but you will not be alone with Favoriot. Being part of the ecosystem of IoT with Favoriot bring us move further.” – Tan Chin Luh, Technical Consultant, Trity Technologies

“Whenever I want to connect my IoT devices, the word that will appear in my mind is Favoriot. It’s the best choice of an IoT middleware platform for an IoT developer. Real-time data from the IoT devices can be viewed in graphs. Notification messages can be sent via SMS and email when an event occurred makes Favoriot far superior to others” – Dr. Ansar Jamil, Lecturer, FKEE, UTHM

“Favoriot is awesome and user-friendly!. Visualized data provided based on the real-time aggregation of the data stream.” – Muhamad Nabil Asyraf Ghazali, Student, FKEE, UTHM

“Internet of Things is a complex and connected solution which need to deliver in the simplest manner for a complex problem, this type of solution offering was not possible 10 years ago, while it’s now possible with the development of Low Power Wide Aera connectivity, Cloud Computing, and Artificial Intelligence. Commercialisation of IoT solutions need multi-domain expertise, an organization such as Favoriot provide solutions that reduce time to market and scalability advantages.

EcoSystem owners can depend on Favoriot commitment to ensure robust interface and manage the security’s issue that is required when massive devices are interconnected.” –Mu. Pathma, CEO, Promosys Technology

“Development of IOT system has been growing rapidly nowadays and it comes along with the cybercriminal problems. Favoriot can be the total solution in order to manage the security issue and managing your systems.” – Muhd Arif Ridhwan Mohd Jalil, Electronics Engineer/IoT Trainer, AR Team Electronics

“Dr. Mazlan is one of IoT’s CEOs that worrying about elderly. He has the human touch.” – Francisco Maroto, CEO, OIES Consulting

“Favoriot is a rendezvous for all of the sensors where the data are collected, aggregated and transformed into meaningful ways.” – Helmi Fazalul, technical Sales manager, Xperanti

This article is contributed by Fazira Ridzuan, FAVORIOT’s IoT Apprentice. She joined FAVORIOT in Oct. 2017. Much has been discussed through the eyes of the industry people and the academicians. It’s about time to hear from the students’ perspectives. This is an honest view and we should listen, admit if there are weaknesses and take action to make it better.

Introduction

I was a student a few months back. And this question popped up in my mind a few hours ago. Why not many students willing to take IoT as their Final Year Project (FYP)? After chatting with my ex-course mate, these are our thoughts regarding the above question.

Exposure

1. Not many lecturers specialized in IoT. Lecturer mostly specialized in established computer sciences field than the newfound or emerging field such as IoT.
2. Does guidance matter? I would say, yes. Since the number of tutors (lecturer and tutor) available to teach the IoT course are very limited despite the number of the student are large. Thus, the core understanding of the IoT course might be very inadequate.
3. When there’s no exposure, the knowledge won’t be fully understood. Some university is focusing on their student in mastering the computer programming languages. And mostly, students are required to self-explore.
4. In addition, student has the least info on how to get their hands on of the IoT equipment
5. Although universities have encouraged the growth of the IoT field, with the university budget being cut out affect the required significant cost expends especially in obtaining the IoT’s equipment. Thus, might be given less focus for the IoT fund in university.

Interest

1. Choosing FYP project is a very important decision. Typically, the student will choose the project that they have the most confident on as they might have some idea or experience that related to the FYP project. With the little IoT field exposure to the student, the chances for student to select the FYP project that involve IoT might be very low as they might have found it risky since they don’t know much about IoT.
2. Mindset: Time flies really fast without we are noticing it, and without a good vision and long-term planning on the expected timeline to complete the project, the student might be running out of time.
   • It is kind of cumbersome for them to grab all in once from scratch within limited of time. Most students are interested to do things that already there rather than creating the not-there-yet. Implementing and developing the new product requires more time. Deciding to do an FYP project does require a critical thinking on time and financial management. Moreover, apart from FYP, student need to go for a few other courses during the semester and a few other assignment and exam to be completed. These factors influence the student’s grade and performance. Doing an IoT based project required a huge commitment and discipline. Without discipline, a low-quality report which done in a short range of time is worthless. Having a clear picture of doing the IoT project without an external interruption might solve this issue. Some panel request many things which cause student to lose their interest in completing the project, making them build an application that fulfills the panel requirement rather than solving the real-world problem.
3. Back to the exposure in IoT, less knowledge in IoT will influence student’s thought regarding the project value for future uses. They might not see the potential for their IoT prototype or product to be in industry or commercialize. They don’t find any platform that can enhance their interest, talent and what contribution can be made via it. Most IoT products are for future use. Where the inventor of IoT product need strong support to make the ideas get real.
4. Some student that takes the IoT project is not familiar with the IoT concept. They might not well-explained with the basic components such as client, middleware, server and the data passing and interaction between the process. They might not be knowing where to start, what the needing and how-to setup the environment.
5. Some other factor is lack of basic knowledge in electronics and engineering field. This basic knowledge is very crucial as it might become such a great burden to the student that facing simple electronic faulty configuration if they don’t have the basic knowledge.

Therefore, we should let university and student look at the industry.

1. Encourage the student to do IoT as there is a great opportunity for them as IoT is the popular global focus else than big data. Good at IoT open chances for them to go abroad for future career life.
2. Industry must work together with the university, knowing why a student doesn’t choose IoT and get the reasoning from their perspective not only from the lecturer. IoT has been the big player in these few years and upcoming years, means everyone is already in IoT era without them realizing it.
3. IoT field currently grows very fast. Although there are a lot of things that had been done with IoT. There is still numerous unknown potential on the IoT field waiting to be discovered. With a greater exposure of IoT field in the university side, IoT field will be able to grow further to its full potential and give greater impact to the society beyond anyone could ever imagine.