GPS positioning bus video surveillance system

一、Background

Developed with the traffic flow of people increases, the various buses began to increase

in recent years . The dynamic needs of a modern remote monitoring system to improve

the bus monitor.

Characteristics of modern surveillance systems to solve the following problem

1.Prevent overloading

2.Positioning bus location

3.Monitoring passenger status

4.Drive to prevent time out

5.Monitoring vehicle speed ​​

6.Bus information from time to time the diagnosis

7.Abnormal alarm

8.Video Surveillance

二、System project

1.1 Data collectien terminal

  Data collectien terminal is consist of video cameras, DVR and On-board control equipments.

1.2 Data transmission terminal

  DVR sends data to monitor center via Internet , and our F7623 CDMA-EVDO router does the work between DVR and Internet. F7623 router supports VPN (PPTP ,L2TP ,IPSCE and GRE) , fix ip dialing, Two-way authentication functions. It supports WEB/CLI ,so it is easy to configure F7623. F7623 has one WAN interface ,one LAN interface and one console interface.

1.3 Monitor  center

    A VPN server is working in the monitor enter ,and it provides VPN access services for F7623.  The monitor disposes a  variety of datas. The job of monitor center is bellowing: video monitoring , state monitoring, vehicle positioning and information services.

三．Case Application

  2.1 System topology

DVR connect to F7623 ,then sends data to monitor through EVDO network via F7623, realizing the interaction of video , transmiting /receiving, encryption, and decoding. All of the data is through the VPN tunnel transmission. DVR supports multiple transmissions ,for example: real-time transmission, timing transmission, triggering transmission.

 

  2.2 VPN tunnel

     Our F7623 Industrial EVDO router works as VPN Client ,and can active connected to the VPN Server. VPN Server will distribute VPN tunnel ip to VPN Client, so VPN Client can communicate with VPN Server.

 

四、Brief  introduce

Xiamen four faith based on the current business situation and the need for government regulation, based on the wireless network technology and satellite GPS positioning and monitoring solutions proposed to facilitate users to quickly set up video surveillance platform.

五、Summary

Vehicle wireless video surveillance system with other wireless monitoring systems to ensure the vehicle during the move data and audio and video of the normal communication, and always 

locate the vehicle position, fully in line with the government and enterprises of the strict requirements of the wholedigital, intelligent, network-based, systematic typical wireless monitoring system.Xiamen four-faith wireless transmission system solutions have been widely used in buses, long-distance transport vehicles, freight vehicles, special vehicles, police, fire and armed police to direct exploration,  flood water, road rescue, urban management inspectors, emergency response command system,etc.

How to never lose your kids?

To be forgotten in a mall. To be left alone at home. To be lost in a park. Such nightmares for both children and parents alike can be easily overcome with M2M technology, which allows to locate them wherever they are.

There are a lot of GPS based solutions which allow you to monitor the movement of children through a computer or a smartphone. The child only has to carry a small device that will keep the parents informed on his or her whereabouts.

Some of these solutions can be set up to alert parents when their children move out of their sight or when they are approaching some places which are considered to be dangerous for children. For instance, imagine that you live in a house on a cliff; you could program an alarm in case your kid wanders off.

Children tracking is probably the first and most common use of M2M F7133 Industrial GPS Router (4xLAN) technology to protect kids, but there is a huge variety of solutions based on the Internet of Things which apply to children. Four-Faith has launched a connected car seat for kids which sends alerts to the parents’ mobile whenever the seat is not well fixed or if it’s in a bad position.

Beyond security, M2M also offers entertainment applications to kids. There are a great variety of toyswhich have connectivity as one of their main features, from video games, to teddy bears.

FourFaith Vehicle Tracking System

Project Introduction
 With rapidly development of network marketing & sale distribution, Logistics play an important role in quickly-respond door to door services .So logistic company face constant pressure to improve their operational availability, reliability, safety, and service quality while goods are under transportation. As a result ,Many logistic company try to find a best way to upgrade the vehicle tracking system, in order to accommodate growing competition and provide premium service .By employing IP-based technology, the operator can remotely monitor vehicle system status and receive early warnings of systems malfunctions.
System Requirements
   The vehicle tracking system consists of one remote data center and onsite controller/sensor and data transmission facility which can acquire and collect and transfer data. In this project , FourFaith F7X14 GPS dtu,GPS ip modem  act as transmission facility that quickly and exactly send monitoring information to remote data supervising and controlling center.F7X14 bridges the connection between remote data center and operating vehicle, not only sending information ,also providing positioning function. It is important for operator in the data center to supervise and control the vehicle working condition.F7X14 transfers such data as temperature, humidity, gas level quickly exactly from on-site to controlling center ,in case of emergency happening, confirming logistic time effective

FourFaith Solution

System Topology

Real Site 

Favourable Application
   Detecting and controlling truck engine temperature、oil tank temperature、oil level、tyre barometric pressure,and positioning .Other vehicle like car、public bus、school bus、ambulance、police cruiser ect

Modem interface

Why FourFaith
1.ARM9 CPU、TCP/IP protocol、DDNS
2.low power consumption mode, including multi-sleep and trigger modes
3.Real Time Clock(RTC) circuit、hardware and software WDT、auto recovery mechanism
4.TTL logic level RS232、5 I/O channels, compatible 2 pulse wave output channels, 2 analog inputs and one pulse input counters ect.
5. Professional technical support.

Enjoy high speed bandwidth in the intelligent bus via Four-Faith F3X34 router

The car is the 3rd largest consumer on the planet, right behind mankind and fixed housing. And car is a moving object, it is the most suitable one to adapt mobile network technology to realize information service, so there comes "vehicle networking", which means the interactive of car and car, car and road, car and people, car and sensing device, and to build a dynamic mobile communication system of vehicle and public network. 
   
    The development of vehicle networking promotes intelligent bus business in recent years. According to statistics, bus is becoming a major travel tool, and wireless internet access is playing an important role in people's daily life, they expect to access the internet, brush blogs, browse webpage, upload video via wireless network.     

    Four-Faith is a key enterprise in the field of wireless communication of Internet of Things. Based on 3G/4G technology, F3X34 high-speed router series use WCDMA / EVDO / of LTE / HSPA + to provide wireless long-distance data transmission. F3X34 equipped in the bus is as a mobile carrier to provide wireless network coverage, and switch mobile signal of 3G base stations along to stable network signal (such as Wi-Fi signal), can easily meet the passengers' requirement to browse the Web, watch video, brush blog, etc.

    Four-Faith F3X34 high-speed industrial 4G router adapts high-performance industrial-grade 32 bytes communication processor and wireless module, embedded real-time operating system software supported platform, and provides a RS232 (or RS485/RS422), 4 Ethernet LANs, 1 Ethernet WAN, as well as a WIFI interface, which can connect to serial devices, Ethernet devices and WIFI devices to achieve transparent data transmission and routing function. It is widely used in intelligent transportation, smart grid, financial, mobile POS terminal, industrial automation, smart building, fire, public safety, environmental protection, meteorology, agriculture, forestry, water, coal and mine, petrochemicals and other fields.

IP MODEM supports connected domain functio

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2)The floating IP public network server mode 

IP MODEM supports connected domain function, if there is no fixed IP on the server side, we can bind domain on the server side. IP MODEM can access the server-side by binding domain linked to a server. 




3) APN (VPDN) special nets 
 IP MODEM supports the APN (VPDN) feature, the customer who applied of the APN (VPDN) network can easily achieve the communication between the terminals and data center. 



4) point to point mode 
      If remote communication only needed to implement between two serial terminal, then can transmitted by using point to point. 
Point to point transmission, one IP MODEM as the server and another IP MODEM as a client, the client IP MODEM can connected actively to the server IP MODEM actively, to realize thecommunication between the two terminals. While server IP MODEM’s sim card should have a fixed IP. 

Four-Faith ZigBee module applied in intelligent storage system

    Management and maintenance of modern warehouse is increasing heavy, large amount of warehouse storage information need statistics, summary to warehouse management center. The collection of warehouse data information is gradually changes from manual work to various types of data collection terminal. Compared to troditional manual recording way, data collection terminal save time and cost, and reduce the error rate. However, most companies’ transmission mode is still in the wired stage. Existing network is also special network, resulting in new equipment needs new network support, causing the rising cost of inter-network interference and network layout. Four-Faith introduces ZigBee technology in intelligent storage system, realizes automatically wireless data collection and update of warehouse receiving inspection, in and out, transfering, shifting place, storage checking and other operating procedures.

    Four-Faith ZigBee products mainly applied in data transmission layer of the system, in ZigBee network topology, the layer is mainly composed of ZigBee coordinator device, routing device and various types of collection terminal, ZigBee module etc.

    Coordinator device is responsible for the entire network initialization, determine ZigBee network ID, provide data correction, integration and other processing; through serial port to realize data communication with host computer of warehouse management center; select different number of sub nodes for data monitoring.

    Routing device is used to absorb routing relay in the network, to realize multi-hop of ZigBee network.

    Major functions of collection terminal: to complete automatically record and transmission of warehouse products in and out, and transmission of warehouse goods statistics, child node low voltage alarm, automatically collection and transmission of warehouse environment information.
　　

    A large number of Four-Faith F8913 ZigBee module wireless network used in the system, after the device is started, the master node will start to set up ZigBee network, all sub nodes will be joined the network and at the same time the network address is assigned to each sub node, and the information will be stored into the database. Card Reader collectes the tag data, first sends the data to the connected router, then router sends tag data together with Card Reader to the master node for storage through multi-hop ZigBee network, the master node sends Parameter configuration command of Card Reader back to itself through the communication with router, later location node device entering powe save mode; when the master node makes a command to sub nodes, can wake up location node device, by looking for the network address of sub nodes to send the command to the router by multi-hop network, than sent the command to the corresponding Card Reader through the router, finally the router will send the confirmation notice of receiving the command to the master node. The data of warehouse uploaded to monitoring center computer for analysis and storage through the data transmission network.

    Intelligent storage system based on Four-Faith ZigBee technology, will enhance the accuracy and rapidity of warehouse operation, reduce the loss of illegal in and out of storage, misplacement, steal and error data of stock and shipment caused by mismanagement of whole warehouse, and minimize the storage cose, improve the efficiency of material support.

The place where M2M router experts connect with you

The relationship between M2M and nature brings results which are very satisfactory. This is not only because machine-to-machine technology contributes toward a more sustainable world, but because many devices are designed specifically to protect the environment.

There are many examples of this collaboration which we have talked about many a time on our blog, such as technologies to protect endangered animals and to fight against illegal tree cutting. Another one is the help that M2M router can provide toward battling forest fires, one of the most dramatic issues in this time of year in the Northern Hemisphere.

It is impossible to avoid fires, be it because of natural causes or be it due to human intervention. The challenge is to extinguish it as soon as possible, before it becomes a tragedy. What M2M systems can do here is to give the authorities with sensors and camera networks that alert in real time when the fire starts, its magnitude and the areas the flames will probably extend to.

Since smoke is one of the visibles signals of a fire, cameras only have to detect it to locate the flames. The previous requisite is that they have to know what smoke is. There are mathematical applications which achieve this. The next challenge is to spread an extensive network of cameras in towers into a natural park to monitor the situation.

This is what the U.S. Forest Service and the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection did. "Our system now helps to protect over 31 million acres of private and public forests in California," said James Cinquini, president of Vicom, the company responsible for this technology.

In addition to cameras, there are many sensors that can help detect and control a fire. By deploying sensors in a forest, we can find measure elements such as the temperature, humidity, wind and smoke in a given location, so that firemen can be aware of where a fire is taking place and where it will spread to according to these indicators.

Four-Faith 483pcs of wireless communication terminal successfully applied in Dongguan PM2.5 monitori

　　Urban dust, industrial pollution, automobile exhaust are the most important factors leading to PM2.5, and the 1st quarter of this year, slight pollution more than 26 days in Dongguan, exceed the standard rate was 28.9%; PM2.5 exceed the standard for 16 days, haze increased compared with the same period last year. Air quality monitoring task has been put on the agenda, Dongguan Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau expanded air automatic monitoring station construction.

　　Using wireless technology to carry out wireless data applications, to achieve high speed, remote access of data terminal, and provide wide area of wireless IP connection, has been vigorously promoted in the field of environmental monitoring in recent years. Xiamen Four-Faith Communication Technology Co., Ltd. established strategic cooperative partnership with the supplier of Dongguan environmental protection monitoring project in 2012, through industrial wireless communication equipment to provide network function for the environmental monitoring station, beginning in 2013, cooperated to build more than 50 environmental monitoring stations in Shenzhen, Guangzhou and other cities, at the beginning of April, the customer once again purchased 483 pcs of wireless communication terminal to apply in Dongguan PM2.5 monitoring project.

　　Online monitoring system of PM2.5 dust wireless transmission type particles, composed of 1 central station and n sub-stations. Laser dust monitor as the terminal, through Four-Faith Communication wireless data transmission unit of F2X03 Industrial DTU Industrial IP MODEM , to achieve two-way communication from the terminal to data center and from data center to the terminal. To analyze the data of each collection point, the user can see the real-time data change trend of each collection point through charts and curves, to do effective management for different sub-station.

　　Traditional line access has high cost, construction inconvenience, but wireless transmission can get rid of the cable, and has the features of low cost, safe and reliable data transmission, flexible and convenient, 24 hours real-time monitoring, etc., favored by the customers.

More than 300 sets of Four-Faith industrial dual SIM router applied in the southwest land and resour

    Recently, Xiamen Four-Faith Communication Technology Co., Ltd. delivered more than 300 sets F3B3X industrial router to the customer, they are applied in Southwest Land and Resources video monitoring project.

    In some illegal lands of the southwest or in the remote areas, due to the influence of inspection cycle, differences in geographical location, usually found the illegal behaviors by dynamic inspection and the year(season) satellite images, and there is the problem of the time lag, causing illegal facts exist and difficult to solve. Despite establishing the early investigation mechanism, still have to pay the higher law enforcement cost. Therefore, Four-Faith cooperative partner sets up land and resources video monitoring system to solve the problems, realizing passive law enforcement to active protection.

    After many times of field investigation, Four-Faith engineers fully understand customers’ needs, customized video monitoring wireless data transmission solution. Facing the problems of outdoor fixed collection, bad natural climate, processing large data etc., Four-Faith industrial wireless router adopts solar power, 3G private line(VPDN & APN) networking, and transmits real-time target scene to command center. Four-Faith industrial wireless router  F3B3X realizes from user equipment to command center of data transmission, with high bandwidth, highly reliable product characteristics in the system and achieve data stabilization and smoothly transmission.

    The system has the characteristics of real-time, direct, 24-hour supervision, remote control etc., can make up for the lack of law enforcement vehicle inspection, satellite remote sensing in law enforcement supervision. Not only enhance the protection of land and resources, and strengthen law enforcement and supervision, but also creat new management mode of land and resources by modern technology.

The Four - Faith 3G Industrial Router based on the bank 's video surveillance system applications

    The main circulation areas of the bank as a social currency today , an important part of the functioning of the national economy , the requirements of the people of their increasingly high demand not only clean and beautiful , and the need to facilitate efficient, safe, high-tech environment . Bank financial institutions , while the growth in the volume of business , business disputes are also increasing , the bank robbery vicious violence have also occurred , so the proposed new requirements for the safety of the financial system .

    Traditional single - mode analog TV monitoring system , whether it is from the means of surveillance or video means has lagged far behind in modern security requirements of commercial banks . With the Internet of Things development of wireless communication , network digital video surveillance has become the first choice of many banks to monitor user provides a viable solution for the promotion the bank three anti guarantee the implementation of the work , to achieve modernization and efficient management .
　　
　　System Concept:

　　Digital hard disk recorders, digital multimedia graphical control and management of the entire system , the control system as the core of digital multimedia , real-time display of all monitoring points monitor screen single multi-channel digital video surveillance system can be realized for all monitoring points . display function with automatic switch , alarm , control PTZ and network transmission function , may at any time on the monitor screen of the digital system operation and video , network transmission control points of the image of the front - end monitoring points for each choice , and does not affect the system digital surveillance work properly.
　　
　　Topology is as follows :
　

　　system composition

　　Can be installed in the field with a fixed lens camera or PTZ controllable camera, outdoor use more rain PTZ lens cover decoder control. Electronic map alarm arming partition set each alarm point location and alarm response action. The event of an alarm, the alarm detectors and video control linked. Each network can install multiple cameras monitoring center can remotely optionally a camera image or optional multiple camera images constitute a monitoring screen. Implementation of image motion detection, When engine room image changes, timely alarm to the monitoring center of the engine room no man's land. Infrared probe detector can be placed at the ATM to leave the ATM machine, the system begins recording when the body close to the ATM machine, the human body when to stop recording.

　　Transmission network and back-end part

    Control center through a Four-Faith 3G Industrial Router with multiple remote branches wireless networking center LAN host of several different branches of the scene at the same time monitoring . Relevant departments , such as the presidents , security room set up sub-control computer , monitor live video image of an arbitrary number of sub-control computer at a time , and can be controlled . Of Server / Clients system using state-of-the-art image compression with TCP / IP transport . Therefore , the image remote transmitter or the image remote receiver simply define the IP address , to any network.

    The DVR capture image data in each branch , through the Internet to send data to the monitoring center . System DVR with Internet Netcom Communications work is four letter the 3G router F3X23 and the telecommunications network . The 3G router F3X23 only uses ARM9 processing industrial wireless router as a system platform to maximize the throughput of the system , the smoother video surveillance images . The transmission equipment with multiple watchdog , and online to keep the mechanism , to be able to ensure that the equipment is stable for a long time to run , in order to effectively guarantee the data transmission reliability . Taking into account the security issues , the device supports VPN tunnels , fixed IP dial-up , two-way authentication functionality , fully guarantee the security and stability of the system.

 

Four-Faith Zigbee module is successfully applied in Suzhou bicycle rental system

         Public bicycle affordable, convenient, low carbon,energy-saving environmental protection concept is favored by the citizens andthe government, to manage these rental points by using “public bicycle rentalsystem”, using intelligent device of the bicycle, to manage each bike rentalprocess through resident card way.

In March, Four-Faith communication and one technology company inJiangsu reached a cooperation on public bicycle rental system, and made a pilotproject for a few tourist attractions. The development of “public bicyclerental system” by our partner was adopted mature technology, completely got ridof parking pile by using Zigbee communication technology, as long as we were inwireless communication sensing range, we could realize bicycle free renting andinformation management, breakthrough the limitation of parking pile and space,effectively solve the problems of renting car, will be more convenience for theusers and more environmental protection.

“No parking pile technology” is mainly uses Four-Faith Zigbee wireless technology, the wireless communication network covered the rental carregion. Four-Faith Zigbee terminal--F8914 installed on the bicycle rentalpoints, mainly used for the center node, Four-Faith Zigbee module F8913-E isinstalled on the bicycle, as the communication points, the bicycle willautomatically connect to the Zigbee center node when near the rental pointswith a certain range to rent car.

Through the application of Four-Faith Zigbee wireless technology,people only need to apply for a car rental card, then will be free to take aride, when in the tourist attractions, they can lock the car easily, and returnthe car to bicycle management sensing area in the end.

Recently, the pilot of several scenic spots“bicycle rental system” have passed the acceptance of environmental andmunicipal departments, have been run in the area, to provide good service forthe society, also favored by the general public.

M2M in aeroplanes: security and more

Security is one of the most important variables for any mode of transportation but it gains even more relevance in aviation. M2M(industrial wireless router) technology plays a fundamental part in the safest means of transportation which complements more traditional maintenance and alert systems.

Flying has specially meticulous and consolidated security processes. Each advancement must be absolutely reliable in order to be integrated into the planes. This is one of the challenges for machine-to-machine technology.

Dozens of sensors around all the plane can offer very valuable information which not only avoid accidents, but also save time in the maintenance, something critical in scales for carriers’ rentability and passengers’ comfort.

High accuracy GPS, temperature, pressure, humidity, accelerometer, shock, vibration and motion are some of the parameters that the Sentry tracking system can measure. This is a solution is that it has been certified as safe to use on aircraft.

The possibilities of M2M on aircrafts was very well explained by Bill Ruh, vice-president for software at GE Research, in Computerweekly: “A GE engine on an aircraft could alert ground engineers when the plane has landed, through its social network of engineer friends. Potentially, this would allow the engineers to be alerted that the aircraft is on the ground, so the ground team can carry out any maintenance that the engine has alerted them about through status updates.”

Furthermore, M2M technology not only offers a faster and more efficient maintenance of the aircrafts, but also flight possibilities that were very complex to reach until now. A good example is how it has let planes fly over Polar Regions for the first time. A new satellite communications company will provide data service for air traffic control communications when flying across oceans and over the Polar Regions.

M2M advances in aviation also has to do with flight automatization. Some days ago, a bat-winged experimental Navy drone executed landings on an aircraft carrier which had never before been done.

the data transmission via Wireless Industrial Router

More than 30 million homes in the UK will start to be ‘smart’ thanks to the smart meter implementation program awarded by the Government. Four-Faith is one of the companies that will be part of the deployment of this solution which will contribute to save energy and money to both consumers and companies.

Smart meters will form the essential foundations for a revolution in energy consumption and management. They are the modern day infrastructure equivalent of building railways. They pave the way for the smart homes, grids and cities of the future.

 In the United Kingdom, a cut in energy bills for end users of £6 billion in 20 years is estimated, which is a total of 11,5£ per household per year. They represent 26% of the UK’s total energy use, which will reduce carbon emissions due to the fact that the overall electricity demand will be reduced by up to 5% annually.

Furthermore, customers will have visibility and control over their energy usage leading to accurate and more predictable bills and cost savings. There will also be new opportunities for pre-paid energy payment or tailored tariffs, offering greater control of energy usage. However, the benefits of smart meters go beyond energy saving. They will open the door to a wide range of potential new services through the connected home: remote control of energy usage (turn heating on via your smartphone, remote control household appliances), service integrations such as electric cars and manage via mobile, renewable micro generation integration (i.e. solar panels), link in new eHealth services and connect via Home Area Network...

 This will be possible thanks to the real time monitoring of energy consumption (gas and electricity) thanks to the data transmission via Wireless Industrial Router (M2M communications). Here is the point where telcos as Four-Faith will play a key role: more than 30 million SIM cards will be deployed by 2020. More than 7,000 people will work to make it possible, reaching a peak installation figure of 20.000 Comm Hubs each day.

 Four-Faith´s propietary Smart M2M platform will be the main system to support all m2m services provided by the operator like managed connectivity and device management. Furthermore, the company will be in charge of supply chain, security operations, service desks, event management and network planning and deployment.

Your house is your new follower on Twitter

It’s hard to believe that the social media hype could ever be matched. However, the ubiquity that social media has in today’s world could soon apply to M2M. The integration of social media and machine to machine technology is developing fast.

There are some clear initiatives which have anticipated the coming together of two of the biggest trends today: Web 2.0 and the Internet of Things. Had it not been for M2M technology, it wouldn’t have been possible to carry out Guarana Antarctica’s advertising action which fueled a campaign car with likes and comments from its Facebook page, driving it to its destination.

Another example of how to combine social media with web-based M2M applications are NFC tags. By tapping the card on any activated station, a wireless connection is established which sends a message to the user’s social platforms or information to the user’s email address. This social application of NFC is becoming more and more common. Cutty Sark, for instance, uses it for socializing party moments, as we saw in a previous post about connected drinks which includes some other examples of the combination of M2M and Social Media.

Furthermore, many people who work with Wireless Industrial Router have had the same thought: if people can tweet, then why can’t objects do the same? Perhaps in a more experimental way, there are already many objects tweeting about what happens to them. Tom Coates’ house is one of the most well-known examples. From its account on Twitter,  @houseofcoates published when the owner arrives or when the lights are turned off thanks to a full intelligent management system.

Arduino is a platform which is widely used for this kind of experiments.Four-Faith’s Jesús Zorzano has tested a chair that tweets when anybody sits on it. It may seem like a pretty useless application of M2M, but it is just a prototype that shows how objects will be able to communicate in the future. Your computer could alert you when somebody turns it on, or your bed could send you a message if someone is lying on it. Let your imagination run wild.

M2M also matters to animals

M2M also matters to animals

The behavioral habits of wild animals have been traditionally studied through long periods of observation. These were hard processes and the results were not always optimal because the mere presence of humans always distorts results to some degree. Technology has vastly improved these processes; first with video cameras to record habitats in order to study them. Secondly, M2M devices to monitor animals’ activity have been deployed.

A collar or a bracelet placed on the animals are some of the M2M methods that scientists use to know their location at any time. They are also able to be aware of the weather conditions that the animals are subject to. This allows them to know more accurately about their way of life.

Those devices can also be useful to control animal populations, especially those of endangered species.

M2M has many benefits. For instance, the advancements in sensors could allow for the incorporation of dozens of features which can protect animals such as gunshot sensors to fight against poaching.

However, this technology has yet to overcome some challenges. Human settlements are scarcely found in areas in which wild animals live. This means that there is little or no mobile coverage which is why we depend on satellite monitoring. Also, the battery life of devices is another hindrance. Animals certainly aren’t going to spare the time to charge the batteries which is why it is necessary that these devices be autonomous during several months to fulfill their purpose.

The use of M2M in aid of animals doesn’t only entail placing devices on the animals themselves, but also solutions which monitor their environment. For example, the MolluSCAN Eye Project tracks pollution levels by monitoring sea animals and providing researchers with valuable data.

Pet tracking management system

Keeping pets has become a part of urban life, but the social problems have become even more prominent. In the UK, pet feeding and management have strict requirements, including a requirement that the pet must take pet card, so that the benefits, first to prevent pet wandered off, and second, management departments to conduct unified management for pets.

With the development of technology, especially the popularity of smart phones, mobile Internet and the development of IOT, two-dimensional code pet cards came into being.

Two-dimensional code pet card is the first phase of its entire product family of products, is also a pet's identity, its biggest advantage is to facilitate pet management department to unified management of the city. Each two-dimensional code card is numbered, such as Beijing's pet numbers beginning with 010, a total of eight digits pet ID.

Two-dimensional code information covered include pet owners contact, pet photos, vaccination information, etc.. When faced with a pet with two-dimensional code identity card, simply scan two-dimensional code card, you can directly dial the number of pet owner. If someone's phone did not have code sweeping function, then he can call national service hotline on the back of the pet card, customer service personnel will through the numbers on the card link to the pet owner. Moreover, the point of sale of the product can also be carved your own telephone number.

In the two-dimensional code pet GPS chip built into the card, as long as through the APP will be able to initiatively locate the pet position.

Let’s toast for the Internet of Things

When M2M experts say that everything will be connected in the future, they mean it. This includes drinks; maybe not the liquid itself (for the time being) but their recipes or glasses are already becoming objects which interact with others or with social media to enrichen the drinking experience.

There are several ways to connect drinks, such as the glass that updates your Facebook status by Budweiser. The Buddy Cup has a sensor that detects when you are toasting with another user. It is connected with your Facebook login and it automatically makes a virtual friendship with the other Buddy Cup user. Budweiser claims that this happens as it does in real life: you make new friends whilst you are partying and toasting.

Heineken is also experimenting to connect its beer. In some festivals, the recipe is connected to the DJ’s cabin and, depending on whether people are drinking or not, the music and lights’ performance vary. Furthermore, the Dutch company has also tested bottles that recognize its owner through his or her fingerprints.

Nevertheless, the bottle or the glass is not the only way to connect the drinking experience. Cutty Sark, for instance, has developed a bracelet which also connects with your Facebook profile and updates it when you drink whiskey in one of its parties. It is connected with NFC technology and users can approach it to a sensor when they ask for another drink.

Beyond the social use of machine-to-machine technologies to connect drinks, there is also a retailing application. Through IOT, bars can track the consumption of their clients to charge them the accurate bill without the need of a waiter who takes notes of it.

The possibility of connecting your drinks will become more a more frequent, but there is always the possibility of keeping this information private.

Monitoring sport performance with M2M

Not long ago, the most sophisticated way to measure sport performance for common people (not professionals) was a chronometer. Sport lovers now have a great opportunity to measure their workouts thanks to smartphone’s implantation. These devices through different Apps are able to monitor dozens of parameters.

GPS geolocalization is probably the most simple example and also the one which has brought the greatest advantages. Anyone can measure the speed and the routes of a training day. Uphill and downhill routes and rhythm changes can be checked on the mobile or with other devices in order to analyze the workout. A smart phone is not always necessary as there are many other devices which offer these possibilities, including the evolution of the chronometer: the smart watch.

You can achieve an all-rounded evaluation of your sport activity when these devices are combined with others that measure your physical performance. BodyMedia is an example of the connectivity at the service of sport. Their device can measure parameters such as the pulse, sweat or the temperature of the skin that are transmitted through blue tooth.

BodyMedia measures all these parameters thanks to a bracelet. But this is not the only way. Nike has launched shoes that provide athletes with information such as vertical leap, quickness (“hustle”) and how many times they jumped during a game or workout.

However, the smartphone continues to be main technology which measures amateurs’ physical efforts. According to Consumer Insights, 10 percent of US Cellular customers use a mobile phone or tablet for health or fitness on a regular basis.

Beyond performance analysis, other M2M solution for sport are becoming more and more usual. Some of them are very useful in improving the safety in more violent sports. The Checklight, developed by Reebok and MC10 is a beanie which can be worn either by itself or under a helmet that uses sensors to monitor head trauma and provide real-time data. The device comes with a light, which provides visual cues. A green light indicates that the device is active, but no trauma has been sustained. A yellow light indicates a moderate, though not necessarily hazardous impact. A red light indicates a severe impact.

This pioneer project uses M2M Industrial Router (M2M) technology to allow customers to pay for their car insurance policy based on how they drive

Four-Faith has joined forces with one of Europe’s largest insurers, The Generali Group, to pilot a new form of car insurance in Spain. This pioneer project uses M2M Industrial Router (M2M) technology to allow customers to pay for their car insurance policy based on how they drive. It will not only help customers drive more responsibly, but also potentially save them money on their car insurance.

Four-Faith’s telematics service, which is installed in the car, will tell the driver how many kilometres they drive a year, whether they mainly drive during the day time or evening, in urban areas or the countryside, whether they keep to speed limits and whether they accelerate or brake sharply.

All of this information can easily be accessed by the insured party through a mobile application or website, letting them know which driving habits they can improve.

The insurer, Generali, is provided access to a final ‘score’ which they can use to adjust the insurance premium. They do not have access to any other detailed information.

The project is a joint collaboration between Generali and Four-Faith both through its Digital unit and Four-Faith Seguros, the Four-Faith Group’s insurance company. Following the pilot, a commercial service is planned to launch in Spain in the first quarter of 2013.

Four-Faith believes that M2M technology has the potential to revolutionise the car industry from innovative car insurance policies such as this to connected cars. In addition to this pilot, Four-Faith Digital’s UK Product Development team has also been trialling a service called Drive to Improve, which uses the same technology to let consumers monitor their driving habits via an app. Visit http://www.four-faith.com/En/Solutions/   for more information.