An Analysis of IoT Devices: Smart Homes, Healthcare, and Beyond

This report provides a comprehensive overview of various Internet of Things (IoT) devices, exploring their functionalities, advantages, and disadvantages. The report covers a range of devices, including smart bulbs, Google Daydream with a virtual reality headset, Sony speakers with Google Assista...Read More

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Executive Summary
This report is all about internet of things, which can be, said as the connection various devices
like smartphone, tablet, laptops and mobile phones with the internet. Due to the development of
various Iot devices people can get an endless array of opportunity and connection at various
places like home, office, shops and playground.
Various Iot services like smart bulb, Google Daydream with virtual reality headset, Sony speaker
with Google assistant, Portable Wi-Fi video camera, Doorbell cam, Gesture control technology,
smart thermostats and wireless blood pressure monitor has been discussed in the report with
their advantages and disadvantage.

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Table of Contents
Executive Summary.........................................................................................................................1
Introduction......................................................................................................................................4
Discussion........................................................................................................................................5
Smart bulb....................................................................................................................................5
Advantages..............................................................................................................................5
Disadvantages..........................................................................................................................5
Google Daydream with virtual reality headset............................................................................6
Advantages..............................................................................................................................6
Disadvantages..........................................................................................................................6
Sony speaker with Google assistant............................................................................................6
Advantages..............................................................................................................................7
Disadvantages..........................................................................................................................7
Motorola Smart Nursery Camera.................................................................................................7
Advantages..............................................................................................................................7
Disadvantages..........................................................................................................................8
Doorbell cam...............................................................................................................................8
Advantages..............................................................................................................................8
Disadvantages..........................................................................................................................8
Gesture Control Technology........................................................................................................9

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Advantages..............................................................................................................................9
Disadvantage............................................................................................................................9
Smart Thermostats.......................................................................................................................9
Advantages............................................................................................................................10
Disadvantages........................................................................................................................10
Smart blood pressure monitor....................................................................................................10
Advantages............................................................................................................................11
Disadvantage..........................................................................................................................11
One floor of a multistore home..................................................................................................11
Table of IoT Devices.................................................................................................................12
References......................................................................................................................................13

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Introduction
Internet of things can be said as the connection of devices to the internet using embedded
sensor and software for communication and collection and exchange of data with one another (Al
Ameen, Liu & Kwak, 2012). With the help of this new technology, people from all across the
globe can get an endless array of opportunities and connections at various location like home,
work and play (Gubbi et al., 2013).
Here are some names of IoT devices like TP-Link multicolor smart Wi-Fi, Google
Daydream with virtual reality headset, Sony speaker with Google assistant, Portable Wi-Fi video
camera, Doorbell cam, Gesture control technology, smart thermostats and wireless blood
pressure monitor. There are many more IoT devices coming in action in near future (Harrington
& Krapf, 2014).

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Discussion
In the following report IoT devices like smart bulbs, Google Daydream with virtual
reality headset, Google speaker with Google assistant, Motorola Smart Nursery Camera,
Doorbell cam, Gesture control technology, smart thermostats, and wireless blood pressure
monitor will be discussed (Riva, Wiederhold & Gaggioli, 2016).
Smart bulb
LED smart bulbs are available in different sizes which have a wireless connectivity
feature. These unique features allow homeowners to connect their mobile phones with bulbs.
Smart bulbs have internet connectivity option which gives us a lot of option like simple on/off
command and it gives more advanced option like scheduling their operations. When the
smartphone senses the presence of house owner the lights will automatically turn on. These
bulbs give us the option of automatic changing of colours according to the requirement (Al
Ameen, Liu & Kwak, 2012). In the near future, some bulbs are coming into action which will
have the feature like it can sense the presence of someone when a doorbell ring is detected and
some bulbs can act also as a Bluetooth speaker (Vandenberg, Stevenson & Levin, 2012).
Advantages
Smart bulbs are more flexible compared with smart switches. These bulbs need minimum
time to install. They offer a wide variety of colour choices.
Disadvantages
Smart bulbs lack the different shapes and sizes. Smart bulbs are costlier as they often
require the use of a hub for their functioning which it is an additional cost to the user.

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Google Daydream with virtual reality headset
Daydream with virtual reality headset is designed and developed by Google which gives
the user a Daydream View, with it the user can experience sports, live events and many more
things in 360degree paranomic view. The ultimate aim of the developers is to provide VR
experience to all mobile user and so that the customer can easily carry and use them (Tanabe et
al., 2012).
Advantages
Google Daydreamer with virtual reality headset is the most comfortable VR headset. It is
inexpensive. It has high quality content (Lin et al., 2014). It works smoothly and has motion-
tracking remote. It is very easy to setup.
Disadvantages
It works with specific mobile phones. It looks cheap from outside as it has a plastic
frame. Some lights bleed from its edges.
Sony speaker with Google assistant
Google announced that its assistant will be soon expanded to third party speaker maker.
This Assistant power speaker will allow the user to play various songs based on the commands
from different services like Google play music. This new device by Sony is not waterproof (Lin
et al., 2014). As per some experts, Sony has the latest speaker that provides complete 360 audio
experiences to user. It has the power to completely fill the average room its sound. It has some
of the recent technologies like NFC, gesture control which allow various user to perform
activities like playing music, skip track and adjust the volume (Al Ameen, Liu & Kwak, 2012).

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Advantages
This new box by Sony supports all the latest connectivity technologies like Bluetooth,
NFC and gesture control (Lin et al., 2014). It gives 360-degree audio experience which has
enough power to fill an average room with sound.
Disadvantages
Sony speaker with Google assistant is not waterproof. It uses latest technology like
Bluetooth and NFC which is distance depended (Vandenberg, Stevenson & Levin, 2012).
Motorola Smart Nursery Camera
Motorola new smart camera provide us option of watching dear and near ones from
anywhere on the compatible smart phone, tablets or computers. It provides us with features like
two-way communication, infrared night vision. It gives a variety of option to user like video
streaming and video analytics which provide active monitoring, expression detection
(Vandenberg, Stevenson & Levin, 2012). Through this user can get peace of mind. It provides
pan, tilt, zoom and crystal-clear image to the user so that they can have a perfect view of their
near and dear ones. It has two-way audio feature which allow the users to communicate from any
location. Through this latest technology the users can connect to each other and can keep an eye
on necessary things on their smart phone, tablet and computers (Barley & Roach, 2013).
Advantages
It provides a path for two-way communication between users. It provides peace of mind
to various users. Users can get a perfect view of their near and dear ones from any location.

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Disadvantages
The initial cost of these cameras is very high. There is increase in expenditure like Wi-Fi
and electricity.
Doorbell cam
Video doorbells are nothing but most basic devices that are equipped with video cameras
that allow user to communicate with anyone standing in front their gate. It mainly requires a
Smartphone or laptops (Vandenberg, Stevenson & Levin, 2012). By the help of these gadgets
user can communicate with the visitors. It gives the user certain feature like having a
conversation with the delivery person while the owner is at office (Barley & Roach, 2013). The
installation process of this doorbells is quite easy, just a WIFI network is needed. It offers
endless security and convenience to different users.
Advantages
House owner can have a communication with any visitors. It gives endless feature like
having a conversation with the delivery person while the owner is at office (Lin et al., 2014).
Disadvantages
It depends on Wi-Fi for its working. Some systems are more prone to signal
interference. Burglars have now learned how to disable the doorbell cam. During the power- off
doorbell cam will not work which will give the burglars an open access to different houses
(Tanabe et al., 2012).
Gesture Control Technology
Gesture control technology is nothing but a new technology used in cars for enhancing
the performance of the driver (Harrington & Krapf, 2014). Automaker from all across the globe

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are focusing to implement gesture control function in the car (Chang & Liu, 2015). Car
producing firms like Hyundai is focusing to implement 3d gesture so that drivers can operate
audio system of their car with simple wave (Migos et al., 2013). The ultimate goal of the
designers is to provide comfort to the drivers by providing voice commands to certain functions
like radio stations, calling and searching of address (Bolkhovsky, Scully & Chon, 2012).
Advantages
This new technology provides voice command to the functioning of radio stations,
mobile phone and searching of address (Harrington & Krapf, 2014). It minimizes the physical
use of buttons, knobs, switches or icons on an electronic display (Suo et al., 2012).
Disadvantage
It has limited the distance factor in controlling of various devices (Barley & Roach,
2013). Line of sight of communication between transmitter and receiver must be directly aligned
for proper communication. The data rate or speed of transmission is much lowered than the
typical transmission (Svigals, 2016).
Smart Thermostats
A thermostat generally works as per the requirement of a heating system. It mainly
senses the air temperature and starts the heating process as per the requirement (Saha, Kuzlu &
Pipattanasomporn, 2013). If the heating system is a boiler with radiator then one room
thermostat will be enough to control the working of whole house (Scalisi, 2015). It provides a
sense of safety so that owners do not have to worry about their house. It reduces the electricity
bill largely. It creates an opportunity for developing and selling various apps that can be used
with smart thermostats.

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Advantages
Gives customer from all nation a sense of safety as do not need to worry about their
houses as they do not have to control everything. It reduces installation and production cost of
various firms (Saha, Kuzlu & Pipattanasomporn, 2013). It creates a new platform where
developer can develop new software’s and sell them (Ricci, 2014).
Disadvantages
If the thermostats are lacking proper use then they are not considered as energy saving.
Sometimes users are unable to detect the working of a thermostat. Intelligent feature of
thermostat is considered to be useful as expected (Gubbi et al., 2013).
Smart blood pressure monitor
Nokia BPM+ is a most popular among the all blood pressure monitoring devices. It has
some key features like instant feedback upon Measurement, health management tools, online
capabilities (Riva, Wiederhold & Gaggioli, 2016). If the user sees a red colour band then they
can conclude that their health level must be optimized. This smart blood pressure monitor can
detect the blood pressure which gets automatically synchronized with app provided by doctor
which is used for creating a chart (Chang & Liu, 2015). Due to this modern feature, monitors
allow doctors to keep a regular eye on their patient health and get timely advise when needed (Jia
et al., 2012).
Advantages
Nokia BPM+ is very compact device as it is highly travel friendly device. Due to its ease
of use these devices can be fully implemented in our daily life.

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Disadvantage
Products related to blood pressure like Nokia BPM+ have short term reliability which
means that the product must be replaced every year. If the user gets stuck at any stage then
customer support for it behind an email (Saha, Kuzlu & Pipattanasomporn, 2013).
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Source: (Riva, Wiederhold & Gaggioli, 2016)

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Table of IoT Devices
Product name Description Manufacture Cost
Smart bulb Simple on/off
command using Wi-Fi
or Bluetooth
Philips $65
Google Daydream with
virtual reality headset
Provides 360 degree
paranomic view
Google $98.26
Sony speaker with
Google assistant
NFC, gesture control
technology for
playing music, skip
track and adjust the
volume
Sony $199
Motorola Smart
Nursery Camera
Keeping an eye on
near and dear ones
Motorola $415.00
Doorbell cam Keeping an eye on
house from distance
Godrej $82.75
Smart thermostat Used in heating
system of homes
Npower £159
Smart blood pressure
monitor
Instant feedback and
report to doctor
Nokia BPM+ $129.95

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