Internet of Things And Its Usage Assignment

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Internet of things and its usage in household
Name of the student:
Name of the university:
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Introduction to Digital Wellbeing:
Proposal title: “The impact of Internet of things on household”
1. Background of the Research project:
The “digital wellbeing” is considered to be one of the essentials of digital capability
framework. It can be referred to the ability to look after the personal safety, health, work-balance
and relationships under digital settings. It is implemented for using detail tools in pursuit of the
personal goals like fitness and health and to take art in community and social activities. This helps in
resolving and negotiating the conflicts and manage the digital workload, distraction and overload. It
also acts as the concern for natural and human environment while utilizing digital tools. Moreover, it
is the understanding of risks and benefits of digital participations related to well-being and health
outcomes. Apart from providing the metrics that let people fetch the greatest demands on the
utilities, few platforms of IoT deliver suggestions for a maximum of practical and proactive ways.
This is to minimize the use at home. Apart from that, utility firms rely on the technologies of IoT. It
is to streamline the practices of business that typically save time and bring more advantages to
clients Cui (2016). The following topic is chosen as people commonly speak about the way IoT or
Internet of Things can dramatically affect the current society’s interactions with the technology.
Nonetheless, it also to be understood that they never consider particular methods that can occur. The
study is opted due to the reality that IoT can end the case where individuals gain utility bills and can
feel checked by amounts.

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2. Aims and objectives:
The following study aims to understand the impact of IoT on a household. Hence, the objectives
of the study include the evaluation of the following concerns.
 What are the benefits of healthy use of technology?
 How much awareness are needed for tech usage of smart devices?
 What type of smart devices are used for Digital wellbeing?
 What are benefits of digital wellbeing?
 What are the drawback of digital well-being?
3. Research questions:
This includes the following.
 What is the impact of IoT on households?
 How IoT can be used to draw benefits from households?
4. Literature review:
Lo, Ip and Yang (2016) explains in the digital world, there is rapid growth in the part of
people’s daily lives. The youth are spending more time with the digital devices. Again, the
technological impact comprise of various positive effects. For instance, there is a rise in scope of
studying new knowledge and then linking with other people across the world. Nevertheless, it has
turning to rousingly necessary for youth to adopt the healthy habits while using digital devices such
that they can totally develop the social, physical and mental wellbeing. Stojkoska and Trivodaliev
(2017) smart devices are of daily objects that are meant to be intelligent having the computing power
and linked to Internet to create IoT or Internet of Things. The smart devices collect and share the

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information the network’s edge as they are small and is powerful. Here, they has been ranging from
small the asset tracking systems to the wearable monitor health, various smart home elements and
refrigerators. Kim, Park and Cho (2017) demonstrates the fact that smart devices utilizes the sensors
for collecting physical data like presence, temperature and light and provide the data to be used and
assessed.
Yang et al. (2015), describes that the smart devices can connect the building or home to IoT.
This makes the space intelligent through rise in security, rise in energy efficient and automating
ambient controls. The smart devices are also implemented by organizations at all the step of supply
chain. This is to develop the decision making of business and the customer services and refine and
help the manufacturing process as shown by Gaikwad, Gabhane and Golait (2015). Again, Alsaadi
and Tubaishat (2015) discusses that the smart meters for those water supplies have essential benefits
for providers especially related to maintenance systems. Though the representative of utility
businesses determines the benefits and cost savings for the customers and businesses served, few
entities never embraced IoT technologies very fast in every situation. Further, the aging
infrastructures are the resistance towards adoptions. For instance, as researched by Gunawan et al.
(2017), 70% of power transformers in the U.K. are more than twenty-five years old. This is also
complicated for the utility business to undergo upgrades that are system-wide as the maximum of the
elements gets updated. The technogical fragmenetation at the industry and also the interooprabilty
issyes due to varous protocols utilized by manufacturers generates scopes for disruptor firms like
Apple and Google for developing solutions and systems assuring seamless level of interoperability
among those disparate systems.
Wang (2016) investigates that the IoT powered setup functions best as every element of that
makes communication with others and the transmit information. Hence, this is expensive for the

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utility business in getting board with IoT as the executives agree on the fact to make moves. Already
IoT has positive effects on utility areas and consumers. Since, the technologies are improving and
people are seen to be exploring various methods to utilize them, Branger and Pang (2015) explains
that the benefits must turn to be more apparent. Nevertheless, the primary barriers for the mass
adoption involves the security threats, costs and technological fragmentation there in the industry of
smart home. This is because of the plethora of devices, networks and standards in ecosystem.
Besides, there are difficulties that are inherent to integrate and link different and disparate smart
home systems and devices.
5. Methodologies:
Here, interview will be conducted with common people who might be colleague or friend of
the researchers utilizing smart devices in their home like fridges, TVs and many more. The interview
will be taken at their home. The phase of the interview will be done during the overall research, after
the project proposal is developed and the fact findings are continued. The overall nature of the
methodology is demonstrated hereafter. The research inion demonstrates the various stages across
what the researcher should pass while formulating the efficient methodology. The advantages of
research onion lies in the fact it can generate series of stages where various methods to collect data
could be analyzed and presents every stages through which the methodological analysis can be
explained. Here, the philosophy to be used is epistemology. It is been concerned with the limitations
of knowledge, sources, nature and possibilities. The paradigm is interpretivism. Its ultimate objective
is to provide the view-points of the situation and assess the situation within the study. This is for
delivering insights for a specific community and understand the phenomenon and situation that are
encountered. Further, the approach must be inductive. It is used here as the research involves
forecasting and prediction. Again, here qualitative data analysis must be performed. It is helpful

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since it can provide details and in-detailed analysis. Besides, it generates openness that encourages to
widen the reactions to open up new areas of topics that is never initially considered. The research
strategy is narrative. This is because the approach typically concentrates on individual lives and is
revealed through own stories. Above all, the primary data collection is implemented in the research
in the form of the interview.
The purposive sampling must be used here and this is a type of non-probability sampling.
Here, the researchers depend on their individual judgment while opting members of populations in
participating in the research. This purposive sampling must be done on ten employees of ten
different top IT companies from the United Kingdom who use IoT at their home. The participants
are to be set as per the criteria set. This method is to be implemented as the researcher must be
confident enough regarding the representatives of participants about the entire target population.
6. Ethical considerations:
It must be assured that the interviews are informed of arrangements done for the preservation
of the method of recordings. Further, it must be assured that the interview is cataloged, indexed
documented and made available for the interviewee. The eventual access and data ownership must
be cleared with commissioning and funding bodies. Interviewees must be treated with courtesy and
respect. Anonymity must never be promised as one is certain to provide that. The interviewee must
be warned and made aware of the probability of libel and defamation. All of these go beyond the
legal requirements of data protection and copyright. These are primarily on the query of the
relationship with interviewees and the way to treat that and the testimony and create the degree of
the trusts.

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7. Timeline:
Task Name Duration Start Finish
Project Timeline 20 wks Mon
10/7/19
Fri 2/21/20
Part 1 Project Proposal 6 wks Mon
10/7/19
Fri
11/15/19
1.1 Background research on effect of
Internet of things on household
2 wks Mon
10/7/19
Fri
10/18/19
1.2 Aims and objectives of the research 3 days Mon
10/21/19
Wed
10/23/19
1.3 Research questions 4 days Wed
10/23/19
Mon
10/28/19
1.4 Literature review 1 wk Mon
10/28/19
Fri 11/1/19
1.5 Research methodologies 1 wk Fri 11/1/19 Thu
11/7/19
1.6 Ethical considerations 6 days Thu
11/7/19
Thu
11/14/19
1.7 Proposal approval 1 day Fri
11/15/19
Fri
11/15/19
Part 2 Fact Findings 8 wks Mon
11/18/19
Fri 1/10/20

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2.1 Applying qualitative research
methodology
1 wk Mon
11/18/19
Fri
11/22/19
2.2 Producing interview questions 2 wks Mon
11/25/19
Fri 12/6/19
2.3. Setting and conducting interviews 2 wks Mon
12/9/19
Fri
12/20/19
2.4 Collecting data 2 wks Mon
12/23/19
Fri 1/3/20
2.5 Organizing and saving the collected
data
1 wk Mon 1/6/20 Fri 1/10/20
Part 3 Analizing the collected data and
reflection of the research
6 wks Mon
1/13/20
Fri 2/21/20
3.1 Transcribing the interviews 2 wks Mon
1/13/20
Fri 1/24/20
3.2.Analysing the data in relation to the
research question
2 wks Mon
1/27/20
Fri 2/7/20
3.3 Project evaluation and
recommendations
1 wk Mon
2/10/20
Fri 2/14/20
3.4 Finalizing and submitting the project 1 wk Mon
2/17/20
Fri 2/21/20

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Figure 1: “Gantt Chart for the present project”
(Source: Created by Author)

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8. References:
Alsaadi, E. and Tubaishat, A., 2015. Internet of things: features, challenges, and vulnerabilities.
International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Information Technology, 4(1), pp.1-13.
Branger, J. and Pang, Z., 2015. From automated home to sustainable, healthy and manufacturing
home: a new story enabled by the Internet-of-Things and Industry 4.0. Journal of Management
Analytics, 2(4), pp.314-332.
Cui, X., 2016. The internet of things. In Ethical Ripples of Creativity and Innovation (pp. 61-68).
Palgrave Macmillan, London.
Gaikwad, P.P., Gabhane, J.P. and Golait, S.S., 2015, April. A survey based on Smart Homes system
using Internet-of-Things. In 2015 International Conference on Computation of Power, Energy,
Information and Communication (ICCPEIC) (pp. 0330-0335). IEEE.
Gunawan, T.S., Rahmithul, I., Yaldi, H., Kartiwi, M. and Ismail, N., 2017. Prototype design of smart
home system using internet of things. Indonesian Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science, 7(1), pp.107-115.
Kim, H.S., Park, B.J. and Cho, Y.J., 2017. Smart outlet system for single-person household based on
IoT (Internet of Things). Journal of Digital Contents Society, 18(5), pp.895-904.
Lo, B.P., Ip, H. and Yang, G.Z., 2016. Transforming health care: body sensor networks, wearables,
and the Internet of things.
Stojkoska, B.L.R. and Trivodaliev, K.V., 2017. A review of Internet of Things for smart home:
Challenges and solutions. Journal of Cleaner Production, 140, pp.1454-1464.

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Wang, D.L., 2016, August. The Internet of things the design and implementation of smart home
control system. In 2016 International Conference on Robots & Intelligent System (ICRIS) (pp. 449-
452). IEEE.
Yang, S.H., Chen, X., Chen, X., Yang, L., Chao, B. and Cao, J., 2015, December. A case study of
internet of things: A wireless household water consumption monitoring system. In 2015 IEEE 2nd
World Forum on Internet of Things (WF-IoT) (pp. 681-686). IEEE.