GreenVaro: Complex Environmental Monitoring System

Technology domains
Cloud Solutions | Mobile | IoT | Low level development
Equipment Maintenance Management System
Large facilities such as shipyards, automotive manufacturing plants, and aircraft maintenance hangars, have a significant amount of various equipment and machinery: forklifts, production machines, critical support equipment, and IoT devices. And all tasks related to their maintenance and monitoring are usually done manually, which is extremely time-consuming and labor-intensive.
Production Monitoring System
Production managers need real-time information about all events on the production floor to timely address any emerging manufacturing problems like production line stoppage, unplanned downtime, quality defects in the manufactured products, inadequate efficiency of processes, low productivity, and many others. However, with old equipment, it’s very difficult to get any data out of production lines other than parts produced per hour.Therefore, there’s an urgent need for industrial monitoring systems that without any modification of the existing equipment would keep track of production areas 24/7 and provide production managers with real-time data on the manufacturing process.
Smart Meter Reading Software
Many people find paying monthly energy bills frustrating and challenging. Owners of standard meters need to take readings manually, which is rather tedious and time-consuming. Besides, this often leads to errors, which later turn into large energy bills. Moreover, in case you forget to submit readings, your supplier will have to send you a bill with an estimated amount of energy spent during the month. These estimates are not always accurate and often lead to shock bills.
HVAC Management System
The recent trend in home automation satisfies the need of today's homeowners for maximum comfort and highly manageable home appliances. Smart home technology transforms a traditional home into a single system that can be easily adjusted according to the user's needs. Apart from lighting, such systems allow homeowners to control heating, ventilation, and air conditioning to create a healthy and comfortable living environment, improve air quality, reduce energy consumption and prevent shockingly high utility bills.
Lighting Management Application
One of the first devices homeowners invest in when equipping their smart homes is connected lighting. There are several options on the market that provide automatic lighting control — from Wi-Fi-based light bulbs that you can buy on Amazon to smart switches and dimmers that take place of old switches on the walls.
Meter Reading System
Many traditional meter owners complain that they often receive unexpectedly huge utility bills at the end of the month. Manual data collection does not allow them to constantly monitor utility consumption levels and, if necessary, limit their energy usage, not to mention that it is quite a laborious procedure.Homeowners need an easy-to-use solution to read meters automatically and provide them with real-time data on their utility consumption.
GreenVaro: Complex Environmental Monitoring System
The rapid growth of manufacturing and increasing resource consumption are inevitably affecting the environment. Today, the world around us is polluted with noise, light, carbon dioxide, ammonia, hydrogen sulfide, and many other hazardous chemicals. Their impact on human health can lead to respiratory infections, hearing loss, and in the long term cause heart disease, lung cancer, and other critical health conditions.
Smart Meter Reading Application
Some homeowners learn how much energy, gas, and water they have used in a month only when they receive a utility bill. Rising utility costs can affect their ability to keep up with monthly mortgage payments and stick to the budget.Therefore, there’s a need for a solution that would keep homeowners up to date with their consumption and empower them to make smarter utility usage choices to reduce costs.
Water Pump Station Management System
Typically, the demand for water varies day and night, resulting in variable volumes of water and output pressure by water supply stations. For this reason, they are equipped with various pumps capable of different throughput, output pressure, and power consumption. Wise distribution of load between the pumps provides very significant cost savings on electricity bills.Therefore, there's a need for a system that will help reduce costs for water supply stations by remotely monitoring water pump parameters in real-time.

Challenge

The rapid growth of manufacturing and increasing resource consumption are inevitably affecting the environment. Today, the world around us is polluted with noise, light, carbon dioxide, ammonia, hydrogen sulfide, and many other hazardous chemicals. Their impact on human health can lead to respiratory infections, hearing loss, and in the long term cause heart disease, lung cancer, and other critical health conditions.

This emphasizes the need for a system that would allow individuals and businesses to check and monitor the environment to protect themselves from exposure to harmful factors and substances and minimize their negative impact on the environment.

Solution

Softarex has developed GreenVaro (Patent Pending. Application No. 15/088,658) a hardware-software system for complex environmental monitoring. The solution can collect and analyze up to 14 environmental parameters, including air humidity and temperature, carbon dioxide and monoxide levels, atmospheric pressure, and many others.

The two main components of the system are the Greenvaro Monitoring Device and the Greenvaro mobile application:

  • The Monitoring Device is a modular system that consists of a Central Unit and additional sensor modules that append to the Central Unit via mini-USB connectors or wireless communications. The Central Unit contains a processor, power supply, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi modules, and a basic set of sensors. So, using the most suitable sensor modules, users can assemble their own system, without changing the Central Unit. The Monitoring Device transfers all data collected and processed to the server.
  • The GreenVaro mobile application allows users to view the data collected by the Monitoring Device and gives them full control over their environment. The app provides the following features:

    • Measurement history and updates — the app stores all collected data in one place, so users always have a complete and detailed picture of environmental changes at their fingertips;
    • Data visualization — the app visualizes the collected data in the form of plain charts and breakdowns to illustrate the dynamics of parameters and their compliance with specified standards;
    • Notifications — users receive notifications if one of the parameters goes above or below the accepted range;
    • Useful tips — the app provides analytical information generated by the expert system and gives recommendations for improving environmental conditions;
    • Configuration settings — app users can configure the delivery of notifications and data transfer to the server;
    • Cross-platform compatibility — the app can run on both Android and iOS.

Project’s results

Environmental monitoring with GreenVaro helps businesses and homeowners achieve the following results:

  • Improved quality of the environment;
  • Timely response to sudden changes in monitored parameters and emergency situations;
  • Reduced risk of respiratory diseases and other medical conditions.

Technical challenges

  • Design of a compact device that can monitor up to 14 environmental parameters;
  • Collecting and comprehensive analysis of huge amounts of environmental data;
  • Implementation of real-time notifications.
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