Smart real-time meeting room

The monumental changes happening in present infrastructure industry can mostly be attributed to developments in Internet of Things. Developing smarter conference rooms in offices have a great scope for innovation and digital transformation. In this paper, we have developed a Smart Meeting Room (SMR) architecture and addressed various imminent issues pertaining to a meeting room environment by providing automation. The Smart Room requirements at real-time are automatically customized and act according to the customer's needs. Due to the developments in Machine to Machine (M2M) communication, we can establish a connection between the devices and the customers on a real-time basis. This enables the smart rooms to interact with the users and act according to their needs as well as automatically establish communication with other meeting rooms. Various types of sensors like temperature sensor, humidity sensor, PIR (Passive Infrared) based motion detector etc. are deployed in the smart room to monitor and enable the actuators. Ericsson's APPIoT framework facilitates smooth discovery, attachment and data sharing between devices in a close proximity. Gnokii and Pidgin systems are used with our architecture to ease the customization and execution of different events. A microcontroller serves as the brain and gateway for the control operations and provides users with additional features such as setting up of the room environment, loading presentations on the display in advance etc. By continuously learning from the environment within the room, the actuators trigger a responsive event automatically to control the room's ambience and the bookings.