Condition Monitoring of Industrial & Commercial Refrigeration Systems Using IoT

IoT will be the future of connectivity, from having your coffee ready before you are, to automated doors, inter-connected vehicles, buildings, and almost everything. It is in fact, getting implemented in every major sector and we are rapidly witnessing rise of new terms like HIoT, IIoT, etc., as the extension of conventional IoT. One such usage of IoT is in the development of monitoring systems. These systems are used to gather sensory data such as motion, temperature, CO
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levels and provide sufficient data to the admin or data processing center to predict any forthcoming faults and give useful insights. If we talk about the industries and what they have as future for IoT, we cannot forget the refrigeration industry. This industry has seen a rapid rise in the last few years. From storing food & medicines to transportation of fresh produce from one place to another, refrigeration is a crucial part and requires frequent maintenance. This paper presents the design and development of a real-time monitoring system based on the 4-layer architecture of IoT, which will help in condition monitoring of these refrigerators and support the facilitation of condition-based maintenance. It consists of a sensing node, a router (as a gateway) and an Android application to visualize the gathered data. It is being tested for a non- commercial refrigerator however, it has the potential to be implemented in an industrial environment.