Portable IoT Parameter Monitoring With Automatic Stabilization
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current IoT systems are limited to single applications and perform only a few steps of sampling, measuring, analyzing, and reporting, lacking the capability for continuous monitoring and automatic stabilization of multiple key parameters across various industrial and environmental fields, leading to inefficient and laborious processes with potential errors due to manual data recording and delayed corrective actions.
Innovation Solution
A portable SMART IoT device and system that integrates sampling, measuring, analyzing, reporting, and stabilizing functions, utilizing a Sensor and Sampling Box, Actuator Box, Control Panel, Network System, and Controllers to continuously monitor and stabilize key parameters like pH, EC, Temperature, and Liquid Levels, with cloud storage and automatic corrective actions based on predefined instructions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If multiple measuring devices/instruments are used to monitor multiple key parameters, then measurement capability is improved, but device complexity and operational difficulty increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple measuring devices, sampling systems, analyzers, and actuators into a single integrated portable device. The device includes a housing containing multiple sensors for different parameters (pH, EC, temperature, dissolved oxygen, etc.), a sampling pump, analyzers, and actuators all within one unit, eliminating the need for multiple separate instruments
Solution Approach 2:
The portable device is designed as a universal monitoring system that can measure multiple key parameters simultaneously across different application fields (agriculture, wastewater treatment, aquaculture, etc.). The device performs sampling, measuring, analyzing, reporting, and stabilizing functions for various parameters using a single multi-functional unit
2Productivity
If manual data recording and monitoring is performed, then device complexity is reduced, but productivity and reliability deteriorate due to labor intensity and potential errors
Solution Approach 1:
The device automatically performs sampling through an integrated pump system, measures parameters using onboard sensors, analyzes data through embedded processors, generates reports, and activates actuators for stabilization without human intervention. The system is self-sufficient in executing the complete monitoring and control cycle
Solution Approach 2:
The device incorporates continuous feedback loops where measured parameters are compared against target values, and actuators are automatically activated to stabilize parameters when deviations are detected. The system continuously monitors and adjusts based on real-time data, ensuring automatic correction of parameter deviations
3Reliability
If corrective actions are delayed or manual, then device complexity is reduced, but reliability and productivity worsen due to adverse effects on activity
Solution Approach 1:
The device incorporates continuous feedback loops where measured parameters are compared against target values, and actuators are automatically activated to stabilize parameters when deviations are detected. The system continuously monitors and adjusts based on real-time data, ensuring automatic correction of parameter deviations
Solution Approach 2:
The device proactively detects parameter deviations and automatically initiates corrective actions through actuators before adverse effects occur. The system continuously monitors parameters and takes preventive stabilization measures, rather than waiting for manual intervention after problems arise
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AI summary
The invention discloses a SMART, portable internet of thing (IoT) based device and/or system to monitor various key parameters automatically, in a given operating area or operating system in various application fields, which automatically performs multiple monitoring functions such as sampling, measuring, analyzing, reporting and stabilizing key controllable parameters and there auto-maintain these parameters as per desired level. The SMART, portable device and system of the invention can be used in many applications in various fields such as Bio-Medical, Agriculture, Waste Treatment, Distilleries, RO Plants, etc, to name a few, where maintaining the key parameters like, pH, EC, Temperature, etc, are key for higher yields and/or efficient/smooth functioning and there these key parameters are required to be controlled.