Integrated Sensor Gateway for Digitisation ( ISGD)

Current IoT Gateways in the market are industry/sector specific and do not have the ready-to-use built-in functions that can be easily adaptable/customised for quick deployment turnaround time.

The ISGD has all the ready-to-use built in functions to link up network of physical devices, vehicles, home appliances, and other items embedded with electronics, software, sensors, actuators, and connectivity, which enables these things to connect and exchange data, creating opportunities for more direct integration of the physical world into computer-based systems.

The ISGD is a versatile platform intended to be used in any IoT and many other applications. It provides most IoT and other common functions in industry. Users can ‘pick and choose’ the functions and deploy them quickly. Furthermore, it is highly flexible and expandable to many other functions.

One example of ISGD application is in the medical and healthcare sector for monitoring the health and general well-being of senior citizens to ensure proper treatment is being administered. Other consumer devices to encourage healthy living, such as, connected scales or wearable heart monitors, are also a possibility with the ISGD.

The ISGD is an “All in One” platform to be used in any IoT applications of the following:

• IoT Applications For Wearables
• IoT Applications In Retail
• IoT Applications For Smart Cities
• IoT Applications In Healthcare
• IoT Applications In Agriculture
• IoT Applications in Automotive/Transportation
• IoT Applications For Industrial Automation
• IoT Applications Energy Management

The ISGD supports sectorial applications that are in line with the RIE 2020, these are:

Urban Solutions and Sustainability (USS) - Smart Homes using energy-saving devices by automatically ensuring lights and electronics are turned off, monitoring and intervention of abnormality in water consumption.

Advanced Manufacturing and Engineering (AME) - It can benefit the manufacturing industries by cost saving, time reduction, better quality workday, paperless workflow and increase in productivity. It can help in taking faster decisions and cost saving with Real-Time Data Analytics. It can also be used for scheduling repair and maintenance activities in an efficient manner, by coordinating tasks between different service providers and users of these facilities. 

Health and Biomedical Sciences (HBMS) - Specialized sensors can also be equipped within living spaces to monitor the health and general well-being of senior citizens, while also ensuring that proper treatment is being administered .Other consumer devices to encourage healthy living, such as, connected scales or wearable heart monitors, are also a possibility with the ISGD.. More and more end-to-end health monitoring IoT platforms are coming up for antenatal and chronic patients, helping one manage health vitals and recurring medication requirements

Services and Digital Economy (SDE) - The fusion of  brick and mortar retail with real-time analytics of sales ordering, management of inventories, warehousing and delivery will transform the retail landscape into the digital economy. The matching of demand and supply will be optimised with IoT that will reduce overstock, warehousing costs and reduce inventory write-offs using predictive consumption analytics.

The ISGD provides the following benefits:

1. Ready-to-deploy All-In-One IoT Gateway with short turnaround time
2. Versatile and utilizes various wired or wireless protocols for easy integration to existing industrial equipment.  
3. Collection of real time data for real-time analytics, modelling and simulation
4. Remote monitoring and access for product reliability, utilities consumption, healthcare
5. Optimisation of supply and demand, i.e., able to use real time data analytics to bridge the gap between manufacturing/warehousing and sales.
6. Tracking the consumption patterns that helps to chart the marketing and product design planning