A Smart IoT System for Remote Refrigeration Monitoring

Abstract

The realm of refrigeration industry has marked its significance for storing food and beverages. Refrigeration warehouses are extensively used to store various combinations of large fresh food stock at favourable temperatures to maintain its quality. Any deviations from these favourable temperatures pose negative impacts on the cold stock. Hence, it is essential to minimize the margin of these potential risks that can incur huge loss to the cold-storage industries. On-site evaluation can be reliable to address these risks, but it is time consuming and an inefficient process as human intervention can be prone to manual errors. The paper, therefore, proposes a methodology to build a smart IoT system to remotely monitor and evaluate the refrigeration warehouses seamlessly at one’s fingertips using a mobile or laptop through dashboards. Furthermore, this paper addresses the difficulties in managing and analysing the large sensory data which are the result of seamless monitoring by unleashing the power of edge computing and cloud computing.

A Review on Applications of IoT in Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning and its Control

“…It's reducing by using IoT and also its increase the Indoor comfort. B. Padmaja et al, [5] discussed that the uses of IoT. How it can be used effectively in different industries like food, automobile etc.…”

“…As per the research by the CISCO (Commercial and Industrial Security Corporation), the number of things connected to the internet is increasing in remarkable way and it is expected that there will be 50 billion number of IoT connected devices in total up till 2021. An IoT designed system can be useful for checking the internal temperature of the refrigerators used in transportation system [5]. As per the assumption of World Bank, over 85% of population will be situated in the developing countries by the year 2030.…”