DynamIoT - Geomatics Synthesis Project on IoT

DynamIoT - Geomatics Synthesis Project on IoT: Using a dynamic sensor network to obtain spatiotemporal data in an urban environment

Angelova, Lilia (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)
Flikweert, Puck (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)
Karydakis, Panagiotis (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)
Kersbergen, Daniël (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)
Teeuwen, Roos (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)
Valečkaitė, Kotryna (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)

Verbree, E. (mentor)
Meijers, B.M. (mentor)
van der Spek, S.C. (mentor)

Delft University of Technology

Geomatics

2017-06-23

Along with the rise of the smart city movement, Internet of Things is an upcoming phenomenon. Objects and devices are becoming more and more wirelessly interconnected, communicating information between themselves and to human beings. As an extension on static sensor networks that gather real-time environmental data, the feasibility of implementing a dynamic sensor network based on LoRa
communication is researched. To achieve such a dynamic system, a self-developed sensor platform was constructed, based on the microcontroller LoPy. Sensors attached to it include a hygrometer, thermometer and microphone.
The emphasis of the research was on localisation of the sensors, to put the gathered sensor data into geographical context. A WiFi fingerprinting radiomap was constructed based on available MAC-addresses, their signal strengths, and GPS coordinates. The GPS module was only used for composing the radiomap. When the radiomap is completed, the module can be switched off, only to be switched on for periodical updates of the radiomap. The quality of the radiomap methodology was evaluated by constructing it of measurements gathered in four days, and testing it for the remaining three days. This test gave a correctness of 50% while another 38% of measurements were localised in a neighbouring cell. The correctness can be improved by having a longer training period.
The quality of the collected sensor data turned out to be dependent on the weather conditions and the placement location on the carrier vehicle. Vehicle requirements were specified as driving through the city centre and having a schedule and route producing as little noise, heat and air pollution as possible. Another topic of research was LoRa communication, which was deemed as very limited for dynamic implementations, as the sending of location-related data takes up a large part of the already limited message size. To decrypt the sent message and store it in a meaningful database, Node-RED was used. Despite visualisation of measurements showed promising results, there is margin for improvement as far as data capturing is concerned.

geomatics synthesis project
Internet of Things (IoT)
sensor city delft
sensoring the city
sensor network
WiFi
LoRa
LoPy
PyCom
Air quality sensing
Noise sensing
Temperature sensing

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© 2017 Lilia Angelova, Puck Flikweert, Panagiotis Karydakis, Daniël Kersbergen, Roos Teeuwen, Kotryna Valečkaitė