Gokhan Yanmaz

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Why Smart Agriculture?

Okunma Süresi: 6 Dakika Yazar: Gokhan Yanmaz Güncelleme: January 16, 2021 18:42Leave a Comment Filed Under: Internet of Things

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To be able to reap what is planted correctly (Why Smart Agriculture?)

My family’s origins are based in Eastern Anatolia. Like many families in the region, he made his living from both agriculture and livestock, and he stayed in the village in summer and in the city in winter. I both hear most of this and learn it when we visit during the summer holidays.

My uncle is still trying to make a living with agriculture and livestock. Well, I’ve always thought about how he knows the right plant or what needs to be planted. He talks about crops, and I understand it goes on and on for years, just as it was planted and where it was planted. But why? What’s better or more efficient? Can the same product be fertile every year? Can’t it vary by year and ambient conditions?

What We Experience in Terms of Agriculture

Looking at the above facts, yes, agriculture is carried out in many parts of Turkey with the same logic. How and where crops have been planted for hundreds of years, they are planted, grown and harvested in the same way. No one will ask if there is anything that can grow better in the soil, or what year we should plant, only EKER, and when it decreases, it is called fortune and fate.

When the Agricultural Engineers were actually here for this job, I didn’t hear or see an ordinary farmer asking the Agricultural Engineers questions, “Come, engineer, what should I plant in our land?”. In my opinion, this figure is applied in a very small or limited area.

In summary, work is done by heart.

How can we understand the right attachment in the right place?

I would like to point out that what has been planted here all this time has not been planted incorrectly, but how we can find more truth by using information, understand it and act accordingly increase the return.

Logically, no one monitors the watering in the soil, watering should be carried out at the most accurate time is not monitored, the minerals found in the soil are actually more suitable for which crop and when to plant it, provided by years of habits. Fertilization sometimes increases, because the soil alone is not enough, it is supportive.

So how do we know if the soil is more suitable for grapes than wheat? What decision would the farmer make if our potato plantation actually know that it is more suitable for beets this year and sunflowers next year? It can continue as it knows it or decide to plant another product, taking into account the recommendations it receives (multiple products may be recommended).

For all this, current technologies can lead us, we may have a chance to find a better one with a small investment of information and the support of an Agricultural Engineer. Of course, the result can still give the same information as the products planted so far, at least confirming that the right product is used, and we can continue to plant with peace of mind, agriculture in normal environments (I do not take into account flood.b s, weather opposition, etc.). A little information can be given about fertilization.

On the other hand, with a new information and suggestion we will receive, the opportunity can be provided to direct a product that can give more products, the cost is more affordable and the income is higher.

How to Plant What with Smart Agriculture?

As a technology consultant and Electrical Engineer, I have no chance of informing anyone about planting technologies, but I will have tip-tip recommendations on how to provide information support on what to plant and how to plant it.

First of all, information about the soil should be obtained. We need to understand what’s inside the soil. Soil analysis sensors will provide us with information about the general properties of the soil. What minerals are there, how the state of the demity, how it changes (a little longer-lasting data is required for this), can there be.b an external factor that causes the state change, etc. data is shared with Agricultural Engineers, Engineers analyze and provide us with information.

Based on the tips given by our engineers, what to plant, how to plant, how to water and possible fertilization, additional protection and practices that need to be done can be presented to our farmers as a guide or report, and even support can be provided through cooperatives.

Just agriculture?

Smart Agriculture; We can actually say what is said for field and agriculture for livestock. Would it be more appropriate to engage in animal husbandry where we want or in the best developed places?

How to ensure this? Basically, there will be a difference in quality between both meat and animal products, which is most suitable for livestock and is fed in the natural environment (with plants grown in grass and highlands other than feed). In the best environment, the meat of animals is fertile, milk is more abundant and delicious, data that they can be more peaceful and happy can be communicated to us by Agricultural Engineers. Of course, in the used images, the large corral is connected to a feeding machine on the one hand and milking machines on the other hand, while obtaining products in more natural conditions cannot be discussed in my opinion in terms of quality.

Technology is also at the service of agriculture and livestock

The technology developments we read in different articles and reports every day also provide value in agriculture and animal husbandry, information can be provided on how to produce the best product in the highest way, and more products can be purchased at less cost.

The investments that need to be made to provide them will be much, very much below the value to be achieved. Initial investment costs can be supported by the relevant Chamber Associations or the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry and funds can be established. We even have the chance to buy foreign products through on-site domestic technology providers, so it is also a matter of supporting domestic technology.

While technology-supported agriculture and livestock are carried out together, providing domestic technology support can create a complete boiler environment. Considering the provision of new business opportunities to Agricultural Engineers, a full 3-boiler environment can be designed. Don’t you think we can do this?

Gokhan Yanmaz

October 2020

Pandemia; What Has The Meter Changed in Reading Operations?

Okunma Süresi: 8 Dakika Yazar: Gokhan Yanmaz Güncelleme: January 16, 2021 18:33Leave a Comment Filed Under: Analysis Tagged With: meter reading operations, pandemic

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I have previously stated my ideas about what will be considered the ‘New Normal’ in our lives with pandemia in my article New Normal Covid 19 with the label YNC19. Now let’s look at what’s going to happen to the ‘New Normal’ when it comes to ‘Meter Reading Operations‘.

New Normal for Meter Reading Operations

Every day we hear on the news how COVID-19 will affect our lives today and in the future. What the new NORMAL will be like or the measures taken, un taken measures; what is going on in other countries, etc. are constantly being hosted in our homes in the evening news or post-discussion programs.

On some issues, covid-19 actually offers us new opportunities, unfortunately we can’t hear enough. It can offer us a fresh start for subjects that are constantly rejected or seen as distant, and will cause significant positive changes in our daily working life or consumption habits.

Covid-19 Meter Reading Operations in Turkey

Previously, many white-collar employees started or continued to work in their homes due to the epidemic while working at work places for at least 8–9 hours a day, in multi-storey work centers and campus areas.

Whether or not this causes serious and negative effects on the already available power grid and other utilities. The systems are designed, operated and offered to subscribers according to the laws that have been fundamentally set out for more than a century.

In general, the pre-epidemic residential electricity consumption has changed completely; whether it is partial street restriction or closed to the house due to changing working life. Many of the electrical appliances used by white-collar workers at work have been shifted to residential areas, especially due to the use of computers and modems. If there is more than one device in the house, it is much more intense. In our house, for example, everyone has a tablet or computer as well as a phone. With up to three clients per day, this number has tripled or even quadruped. In summary, due to the electricity distribution network COVID-19 is on its way to a completely different NORMAL.

EPDK’s Benchmark Billing Decision to avoid Meter Reading Operations

Let’s remember the beginning of April 2020 for Turkey. Epdk homes, because the meter reading processes pose a risk to both households and meter readers; KIYASEN BILL has decided, the consumption of electricity and natural gas meters for 3 months will be billed based on the consumption of past months. But they have to come all the way to the buildings to leave a bill. After a while, due to consumer complaints and excessive bills, it was subsequently resned. The interesting thing is, no decision has been made on water bills. It’s like they’re not in the risk group…

So, was the decision wrong or was it actually true? According to deloitte’s april 2020 study; household electricity consumption increased by 4% compared to the same month last year; but total consumption decreased (overall at 23%-25% as industrial consumption decreased). If the same months had been compared based on the data of the previous years; there would probably have been fewer complaints, in this way the yes decision is correct, the benchmark method is wrong. Of course, if there is no consumption, do not be billed, I agree with that.

Meter reading operations can first pose a risk to the health of those who read counters in terms of the location of the counters; because they have to come to buildings.

Locations of Meters

The counters for residents in large cities are generally outside households. In many parts of Anatolia; meters can be found either inside the house or on external walls or on electricity poles. Electricity meters are in the basement of the apartments, while water and gas meters are located on the floors.

Whether they come to buildings, enter floors or basements; or read the counter inside the home, counter reading workers are at risk in all cases and the risk can only be fixed by remote reading systems.

For today, in all cases, those who read counters should come to buildings; read and examine the meters on site, because there is no “Remote” or “Automatic Meter Reading system (OSOS)” for household consumers in Turkey yet. There are different reasons for this.

Why Are There No AMR in Housing?

Anadolu Agency reported on June 5, 2019 that the number of electricity subscribers has passed 44 Million, and the number of residential subscribers in this is 36 million. If a decision was taken today and everyone was told that a smart meter would be given, a very serious cost would arise.

The average known communication mono phase meter price is at €50 (a price that can be taken if millions of meters are produced). There is a cost of 1.75 Billion to 2 Billion € i.e. 10 – 15 Billion TL. Of course, operating expenses and so on should be taken into account (roughly €5 – €10 means additional expenses).

The price paid for reading the unit counter in Turkey; is impossible according to OLD NORMAL conditions because it is at a much, much lower value. Another obstacle is that it replaces the counters that are there, meaning it’s not attractive just for reading. If it is to be used for monitoring household consumption, shopping for energy, applying energy tariffs to the user, adapting voltage levels according to energy consumption, delivering household energy management solutions and so on, and so on, smart meters will actually open a whole new door for smart grid solutions.

Although it is in the public interest for all operators to be conved in one infrastructure because the administrations are different, since no agreement can be reached, three different systems are still being constructed for three services (electricity, water and gas), which is a serious waste. The solution must be the only infrastructure.

Smart Meters and European Union

According to the previous joint decision in the EU; the number of people who have implemented at least 80% in 2020 on the recommendation to implement smart meters is limited. According to Tractabel’s july 2019 report with Engie; countries such as Scandinavia, Spain, Italy and Estonia are at completion point, with France, Great Britain, Greece and Austria joining them by the end of 2020. Other countries are setting a date for 2025 and later.

The BBC reported in September 2019 that the smart meter switch, which is said to be finished in Great Britain 2019, has been postponed until 2024. The biggest reason for this is cybersecurity and the protection of personal data. Similar reservations are seen in other European countries and elsewhere in the world.

The issue of abstaining actually revolves around both the amount of investment and the protection of personal information.

Smart Meters and Other Countries

In North America, due to EU-like grounds and cost issues, the implementation of Smart Meters will be as long as 2024. A similar approach applies to other regions.

Smart Meters and Beyond

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common intellect counseling — Remote Meter Reading Operations

The smart meter is not only used to measure electricity consumption for today. It provides additional services to both the operating organization and many users. We’ll have to remember there’s a service point beyond the counter. Instead of re-sorting the benefits of smart meters here, I’ll try to summarize potential weaknesses.

Although digitization brings significant advantages, it also invites cyber attacks. Cyber attacks are inevitable, especially in structures that are not carefully designed. Based on the assumption that anything can be attacked, we’ll have to consider how to close it with the least damage. Unfortunately, only known attacks can be prevented, we can only set up trap-like (honey-pot) systems for new types of attacks.

Denial on service, virus attacks, replacement of counter software, infiltration, etc. are the attacks we know about today. Attacks such as “Notpetya” or “Stuxnet” showed that these were not enough.

Counter solutions must either go to a closed design, so that only physical attacks are allowed and they can be detected, or they will need to be designed to protect them from robust cyber attack.

New Business Opportunities

Smart meters also open doors for yen business areas instead of remote reading. Each apartment can be treated as a new shop and different business models can be offered.

Home Energy Management, Home Elderly and Care Service delivery to people in need, Renewable energy with “Producing Consumer” (ProSumer), Digital Home Solutions (Entertainment, Security, Comfort, etc.) and many more.

The question that really matters…

We need to ask the questions that are really important to these days when COVID-19 has shut us down and requires us to be more at the forely towards each other: What is the value of human life? How much monetary investment does one’s workforce and health resist? Investment and Money or Human Life?

These questions may bother you, but in many countries in recent years investors have always argued, “Labor costs and the costs paid by the government are cheaper than intelligent and remote reading solutions”!

To emphasize for the last time, it is important to remember that human life is worth more than smart investment per household.

Gokhan Yanmaz

May 2020 / Istanbul

New Normal COVID-19 (YNC19)

Okunma Süresi: 14 Dakika Yazar: Gokhan Yanmaz Güncelleme: November 21, 2020 15:31Leave a Comment Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: new digital life, New Normal Covid-19, pandemic

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New Normal COVID-19 (YNC19); Covid-19 May 2020, the first week of may 2020, the number of active patients based on 4 Million worldwide and 270 thousand deaths in our lives is accepted by the world as a reality.

In early April 2020, a close friend of mine asked me if I would write a piece about COVID-19, and I took over. I have to be honest, it’s more about the new, 2-3 weeks past, and i can’t think of anything about the new normal situation that we’re just getting used to. I said I couldn’t write without wanting to.

It’s different today. Like many others, I had my own experiences and knowledge from numerous channels. So what are we going through these days?

New Normal Covid-19 with Pandemia (YNC19)

Many of us have seen that some of the information and solutions that emerged after the announcement of pandemia were intended for commercial anxiety and advertising. Currently, institutions advertise their own solutions and express how to serve you against YNC19. And what do you want or expect? Did anyone ask you that? Has there been any support for what you’re going through or what we need to do, what’s best for what you need to do during the YNC19 period, and how to minimize the loss of your values?

What New Normal Covid-19 (YNC19) Brought Us Today

Years ago, when we were told to work from home, corporate executives would look at us like they’d seen the devil and give long speeches explaining why not. A few years later, this one was called NO, but one day it was only two days later, which, even on that day, would not let go of control, but it would constantly control us from home.

They’ve completely changed today. We’re being forced to change completely.

New Normal Covid-19 (YNC19) specifically showed us that remote work, digital transformation is imperative, why to avoid crowded environments, the value of neighborhood markets and grocery stores, reminding us of our social responsibilities, etc.

While everyone’s been telling you about the negativity of the virus at length, I’d like to tell you a few positive things.

New Business Opportunities and Nationalization Attack

Yes, YNC19 has caused us to develop many positive activities. I’ll share a few of these with you.

Production of Domestic Medical Supplies

We hear that a new Medical Device can be produced with local resources every day, especially in the lead of artificial respiration. We have seen together what will be achieved if national resources and values are developed by our own experts without going abroad and if cooperation is made.

Medical Mask and Protective Clothing

The companies that produce daily clothes started to produce masks and protective clothing with some small settings made on the production line. It has offered new opportunities to its own staff and new hope for some of our employees who have been fired these days.

Technology Support for New Normal Covid-19 (YNC19)

By re-interpreting the popular technology solutions for New Normal Covid-19 (YNC19), the management of crowds is now at stake with the new interpretation of technologies that detect, stimulate and protect different environments.

Not only that, but our domestic companies are becoming more and more in the task, localized some solutions from foreigners and make them a national value.

New Normal Covid-19 (YNC19) Affected

It is expressed by everyone that nothing will be like before March 2020. So what is affected or forced to change? I tried to give you a short compilation. Of course, this result is not a list, but it was created according to our knowledge today.

Collective Life

We’re not going to find it the same where we’re together and it’s busy.

Public Transport use

There will be no 50% rule and no unmasked use, which was actually something you have to pay attention to as us humans. You’ve lived too, even if those who sneezed or sneezed in vehicles covered their face with their hands, would delete it on top of it and then keep holding on to it again. This must change and consciousness must be formed.

Manufacturing Industry

Institutions that are based on weight and resist to move to automation must inadvert so that production does not disrupt, albeit inadvertously, into digital transformation.

Daily Working Life

Instead of busy and overcrowded vehicles in the early morning, job opportunities should be developed where they live and directed from indoor and central areas to living spaces.

Shopping Centers (Shopping Malls)

I think the most critical and important issue to think about is shopping malls. It became a socializing area, where all the shops came together and wandered for hours. They will be allowed to watch crowds, invite long-time survivors out and work at an acceptable rate of occupancy.

Sports Matches

Basketball leagues, volleyball, etc. boxing (which is located in a narrower area, where no one speaks, not just football, will be performed by lowering capacities in areas such as gymnasiums. Our athletes should be more protected, locker rooms should be organized. How we get it in small cities is a separate problem.

Concerts

Looks like there won’t be a concert like before. The crowds, the organizations where we sing, dance, jump in a community will be left behind. We even had some examples online. Manga in Turkey, ROLLING STONES in usa and METALLICA are my rei:

Congresses and Fairs

Again, the densely populous areas will become virtual and places to travel by recording, we will start to get used to a virtual navigation environment where additional information is presented along with the visuals.

These can also be evaluated in this category of Museums, Libraries (which are REAL libraries other than Wikipedia).

Those caught off the prep at YNC19

In addition to the good examples, unfortunately, there are also sectors that are caught off the prep. Looking at both cost pressure and profitability-oriented, I would like to address sectors that can’t keep up with being left behind due to excessive intensity. The goal here is not to eat them, but to lead them with the right.

Internet Service Providers

The sector, which provides high capacity internet access in the workplace, has developed a more central network system and stronger infrastructures are available where there are busy workplaces.

Unfortunately, this has been reversed with New Normal Covid-19 (YNC19). Students who had to do the training remotely, us employees who had to work from home, environments that took advantage of the Internet to spend time at home suddenly became a workplace, a classroom in each household.

There are over 6.5 million houses in Istanbul, and the total number of buildings is over 1.6 million. With a population of 16 million, there are about 3 people on average in the houses, and the average number of apartments per building is around 4. I’d like to give you an example from my building. There are around 20 apartments and there are over 10 clients in our house including ladies and children (phone, computer, tablet etc.b.)!!! Of course, this is way above the default load and causes serious disruption when connecting from home. Previously, the number of devices used in schools and workplaces was 7 –8, but suddenly moved into homes. From time to time, we even have to use the Internet.

Public Service

We can call them Electricity, Water, Gas, heating in winter. Again, the number of electrically connected devices has increased as described above, the electricity network that feeds the houses is being forced and aging faster. If not today, the problems may occur in the future, it has become mandatory to take precautions.

Water and Gas are the same way. As the weather warms up, the load is going from gas to water, and the issues will force the area, especially municipalities.

The landlines and mobile lines that provide telephone services are also being forcedd, with the same coverage. The base calculated usage values go far, far over.

Cargo and Courier companies

While online shopping has gained weight, courier and cargo companies, a natural extension, have also been unprepared. There are serious problems and there are serious sythings between the customer and the cargo authority at a cargo branch that I witnessed yesterday. It cannot be delivered on time, and almost all cargo companies make it available on their web pages. The same number of staff are forced to serve more customers, while new staff purchases are not due to the “temporary” period. Some companies discover these problems early and deliver products to customers with their own courier and cargo services.

We can extend this list further. I’d like to tell you some new normals. I’ve compiled environments that we’ll be very used to to see in the near future.

New Normal Covid-19 (YNC19); Digital Life Means

Those of you who know me well know that my workplace is where I can find electricity and internet for my computer. I’ve made a habit of working remotely for the last few years and can do my job in almost any environment. This will slowly become a new normal. Point to open them up a bit and tried to compile what would be considered NORMAL:

New Normal: Working From Home / Working Remotely

Yes, until recently, while the negative view was taken by the companies, the added value they brought was always ignored. As the name of remote operation suggests, we are the ones who can work in the environment in which they are located. It’s always accessible (phone, tablet, etc.) and a working audience has evolved that chases the internet.

Advantages:

Companies are reduced from the costs of renting and owning office space, with costs called cold expenses, electricity, water, cleaning, hot and cold refreshes provided for free, office equipment such as desks, chairs, transportation costs paid to reach work areas (whether the vehicle itself or rental car and fuel, etc.), being in the comfort of our home or the environment we want to work in, not obligatory to come together, the possibilities of being together with the people we want can be sorted

Disadvantages:

Companies’ habits of controlling their employees, or thinking if they are not working, rehavet when working from home, distraction of non-business issues, etc. can be listed. Most subjects can be improved by self-educating.

New Normal: Transport and Public Transport

We’ve all been on overly busy, almost hugging public transport. Thanks to the remote work described above, it is possible to avoid them, but organizations that make public transport experience problems due to declining income. In the same way, the transportation sector, which has the problem of carrying fewer people in the same area, is negatively affected and the revenues of activities carried out by municipalities are often reduced.

Air and road transportation and rail transportation can also be added to these.

Advantages:

More comfortable and comfortable journey, being able to go anywhere without health problems.

Disadvantages:

The development of new business environments, perhaps the obligation to move businesses to different areas, declining transportation revenues and indelopment of transportation costs. To be directed to personal vehicles with concern about public transport.

New Normal: Digital Manufacturing and Manufacturing Sector

It is stated that we are in Industry 3.0 as it is used in automation, i.e. literature, in the manufacturing sector, which is produced based on human weight. When I was talking to some customers, I saw people who said the truth wasn’t like that, some 2.0 or even no one else, we’re only 1.0.

Digitalization is no longer a luxury, especially in human-based productions, it has become a necessity and conversion calculations should be made. Even if initially the costs are a bit intimidating, there is a possibility that in the future the cost of owning will rapidly reduce and lower costs and relatively high profitability than before.

Advantages:

Cheaper production and control work environments, the opportunity to monitor and supervise production from anywhere, to use staff more effectively, to minimize health conditions and virus-transmitted risks

Disadvantages:

The initial cost of implementation is partly high and taking time, the requirement for re-training existing staff, insufficient existing profile and problems with work contracting.

New Normal: Changing Social Spaces

Digitalization has reached our homes and we make a lot of use of social media. Due to COVID-19, education and training were added to this. Many applications to be moved from physical to virtual are seen and seen. Here are a few examples:

Home education (EBA-like environments), virtual collective art activities (Museum rides, concerts, sports matches, etc.b.), sparsely made houses of worship, sports centers, grocery stores, etc.

Advantages

To achieve everything at our fingertips, to create safer environments.

Disadvantages

Changing the way socializing and setting up asocial environments, setting up new costs.

Old technologies we’ve rede discovered

Although we haven’t known it’s been around for years, we’ve re-discovered some technologies that haven’t been used or cared for with YNC19, and it’s been revealed how much we need them. I tried to compile some technologies for you.

Person Counter

It is especially used for instant monitoring of the number of people who should be per square meter in grocery stores and crowded indoor areas. Until yesterday, we have reinsned some of the solutions used to monitor employees and customers in more areas (heat map, customer employee interested, etc.) for social distance.

Remote working environments

While many database-like systems, libraries, etc. have been allowed and authorized to be used by a small number of employees over the years, this number has reached higher numbers with YNC19, new added values have been discovered due to remote work or we have remembered again

Virtual Meetings and Classrooms

It’s been a long time to discuss digital media collectively, whether for meeting (video conferencing) or lecture purposes. Heavy equipment is replaced by more software used in each computing hardware and a more flexible environment is provided.

Perimetric Applications

Devices that measure people’s proximity to each other and give warnings when over-proximity begins to arrive. In fact, it is a very close application to the solutions used in car parking systems.

Risk Meter

The Risk Meter, which we remember #hayatevesigar the new one application developed by the Ministry of Health and is also used by some municipalities, gives warning to users when it comes to critical areas (with sound and vibration) to sort different risks in the current environment.

Digital Transformation

Transformation projects, which are often ignored especially due to costs, are on track to be compulsory. Some companies are compiled under the concepts of Digital Transformation, Smart Factory or Manufacturing, Industry 4.0 etc.

Digital media increases people’s chances of minimizing health risks. I think there will soon be an issue that could become a necessity by the state.

New Business Opportunities and Business Opportunities with YNC19

Apart from health supplies, new business opportunities are being formed and new normals are being protected. Some advisory channels, etc. will be needed to make all the above. So what could all this be? I wanted to make a short list:

Social Media Solution Providers
Medical product industry / localization
Remote working environments / Tool working technologies
Virtual Meeting / School / Classroom Solution providers
Camera Solution Providers
Digital Transformation Consulting
Guidance services (guidance on limited socialization, etc.)
Consulting for training staff for Virtual School solutions (how to behave in front of the screen, how to explain topics, etc.)
Digital / Digital Fair and Museum Environments (paid and free)
Software for controlling ads in a virtual environment (name remove)
Setting up Work Environments (What Computer Operating Systems and package programs can’t)

Our changing lives and the Age of YNC19

It’s going to be a little pretentious, but we’re dealing with a new way of life and an era. Our daily habits will change dramatically and we will be approached more carefully than we do not know, we will try to move away from preferences.

Our habits will also change for good, and we have to learn to position ourselves in this YNC19 period over time, so that we can continue our lives.

I wish you a quality life in the New Normal.

Gokhan Yanmaz

May 2020 / Istanbul

Integrity of Cities and Technology

Okunma Süresi: 14 Dakika Yazar: Gokhan Yanmaz Güncelleme: May 27, 2020 12:09Leave a Comment Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Technology

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Integrity of Cities and Technology; Today

Worldwide cities are the new playground of business and entertainment. The population of cities are increasing every year and it is obvious that the shift has turn from rural areas to the cities everywhere. According to a study conducted by the United Nations in 2018 (UN, “The World’s Cities” / 2018), while 55.3% of world’s population lives in the cities today (was 54.3% by 2016), it will be increasing above 60% by 2030. Likewise, the number of cities with a population of more than 1 million is expected to rise from 548 in 2018 to 706 in 2030 (the foresight has been increased by more than 5% since 2016). Mega Cities, with a population over 10 million will be increasing from 33 in 2018 to 43 in 2030 and also possible city fusions to create several Mega Cities will be seen in a foreseen future.

All this brings serious problems and serious opportunities for many sectors to life. If the planning of such cities has been made with normal increases in mind, sudden unexpected changes will put the city administration in serious trouble. As example seen in a near past in Mugla / Fethiye (Turkey). The area is one of the famous summer resorts area in Turkey and receives multimillion domestic as well as international guests.

Due to the dramatic change in population between winter and summer (over the 10-fold of the calculated value), pollution in the area is exceed of any plans and causes green algae density on the beach to grow due to waste poured into the sea in summer times. The reason for this is a miscalculation done on population movement (even not considered at all), since the planning of the water treatment of the city has only been based on the CITIZEN in Fethiye rather than all possible movement of tourist or travelers within the year!

Unfortunately, this was only one of many examples and many similar problems will been experienced in the future worldwide, independent from any geographical region. To overcome similar examples and issues, population behavior based on an annual schedule must be taken to account and planned accordingly. Of course, information and data collection are important and technology creates a significant added value for all resources around us.

Some cities in Turkey

Especially in big cities, everyone can see that there are serious population movements in daily life. Focusing on resort and vacation regions, we are experiencing a serious intensity in summer, but decreasing in other seasons and although this intensity decreases from time to time in years, migration from rural areas to city continues in recent years. Due to the fact that they are attraction centers, there is a serious increase in population around major cities.

Looking at the three major cities in Turkey, there is an increase of 50% or more from 2000 to 2018 and according to the United Nations sources will be even more by 2030. The prediction shows that there will be a double increase compared to the amount of population from 2000.

What does this mean for us or our city? Cities which haven’t been planned to cover such an amount of increase in population will confront serious issues in the coming years, such as transportation (private and public), service delivery (electric, gas, water and waste treatment), etc. Most of the infrastructure in cities are aging and needs to be retrofitted and upgraded for new services to come. Nevertheless, investment and funds will be necessary to cover such efforts in the field. We can feel this at our daily city life confronting events such as traffic, streets, crowds, the cue that we are waiting and so on. There will be definitely some new efforts necessary to keep the city a place where everyone of us can live, breathe and work.

Technology will lead the way for us

To keep the cities a place where we can live, work and still breathe, we need to use new emerging technologies and make the city a SMART place for us. The topic of SMART CITY might be different in definition and expectations, based on the region and countries where we are living. All the different examples we have seen has one thing in common; the use of technologies. Main focus on the technologies will be in Information Communication Technology (ICT). Pure ICT will not be enough since we need the human edge and a management of the components we bring into the city. Also, we need to remember the interoperability between different systems and solutions will be another important building block of a smart city.

Most of the use cases that we have seen and would be implemented in ease (fast roll out, quick-wins etc.) for Smart Cities will be not limited to lighting solutions, waste collection and treatment, water solutions. Some other use cases like transportation (private or public) on road, water ways and rails as well can be considered, but even harder to implement due to the complex nature of the services.

Lighting Solutions

Every municipality and big city have a lighting system transformation ongoing. The transformation activity will not be that different from region to region or even from country to country. Main action will be the replacement of traditional bulbs with LED’s which will enable a 20% to 40% decrease in costs starting from day one. Turkey also did start this EASY transformation in almost every city and province all over the country.

Cities which takes the approach a bit more serious also looking into the surrounding of the lighting poles, by using sensors to control and manage the lighting system remotely. Even more control and management can be achieved by focusing on the up-times of the LED’s, checking against the atomic clock inside the cabinet(s) or avoid unnecessary day burning due to dirty or mis-functional photocells etc. The collected data from such poles can used to calculate;

when and where the LED’s needs to be maintained,
failure of the LED infrastructure
surrounding illumination will be enough so that the LED’s can be dimmed
dimming based on brightness level, weather status or even time-based control (reduce of power consumption will be possible).

Lighting solution will not be only affected by the system itself, but also affected by the event around the installation. The service management can understand which part will be have a continuously failure, from whom this part (s) has been acquired, understand the assets situation and check on their lifecycle. Cities like Oslo, Los Angeles, Paris etc. have achieved a 60% and more reduction in cost of the lighting system by making it “connected”. Reduction in operational costs (less trucks rolled, time used more efficiently, sending the right personal to the right location etc.) will show a certain value add for all cities on their way to go SMART.

Sensors and IoT will be used whether the solution are replacing the control devices inside the pole or in the cabinet. Not only for lighting purpose, multi services can be enabled from the pole, such as flood control, speakers for public announcement air quality control, listening to gunshots or increase noise in the surroundings, charging points for multiple purpose (wheels chairs, phones, PC’s etc.) , etc., not only service for reduction, but also for increase quality of services of the city as well.

Mr. Berat Albayrak, former Minister of Energy and Natural Resources, mentioned in an interview in March 2018 that Turkey has 7.5 Million Street lights, whereas roughly 400.000 poles are in Istanbul only (Ayedas, Bedas and IMM total amount of poles). Based on Mr. Albayrak’s announcement the payment for lighting of total lighting were 650 million TL (~100 million €) TL. Due to local regulations, all poles maintenance and operations has been split between the local distribution companies and the municipality. If the City of Istanbul would have been replacing all poles (based on a common understanding) to LED’s only (no connected infrastructure), a 40% reduction will enable 260 million TL (40 million €) savings in energy consumption. Based on the examples of connected lighting systems worldwide another up to 20% reduction can be achieved for street lighting systems (+130 Million TL / 20 million€).

Waste Collection Solutions

We all have faced a waste truck collecting the waste bin’s trash and blocking the road in rush hours. In cities without a level sensor data collection, waste trucks will travel all the way to the trash bins on a routine base and collect the waste even if the bin isn’t full at all. Also, some of the bins are filled, but no-one is collecting those waste in time.

By using smart waste collection solution, municipalities will understand which waste bins are filled (by using level sensors) and has to be collected, create the best and most affordable route to collect the waste and avoid unnecessary time in traffic and on the road. We will receive a cleaner environment, less smell, better management operations and avoided costs due to less rolled trucks and labor costs.

Even by using historical data, a better planning of routes can be achieved, what type of truck and waste bins are necessary in reality and statistical data of which bins have been visited frequently and which are less. Istanbul has different types and size of waste bins in its inventory and people are confusing somethings why too many are located closely and why somewhere none are found. Using LPWA Technologies will enable a certain value add to determine the bins and the routes for collection.

Waste or trash collection truck driving in average 3.000 – 4.000 km per month and roughly up to 40.000 km annually. Istanbul creates daily 20.000 tons of waste (monthly 600.000 tons), with trucks used to collect up to 7 tons each, at least 3.500 trucks rolled per day will be necessary to collect them all. Assume to reduce the truck roll amount by 20% annually a saving of 5 million TL will be possible for the city. Remember less truck rolls means less carbon emission and less labor costs as well, even less traffic congestion.

Water solutions

Turkey is in a region where water scary will be a big issue in a foreseen future. Based on data of DSI (Turkey’s state-owned water administration) average water usage have been decreased from 4.000 m3 to 1.500 m3 and we will be soon within countries facing water scarcity. The reason for this will be losses or non-revenue water and climatic changes in our region. According to UN resources, Turkey is within countries which having high water stress.

Cities in Turkey have an average of 40% losses according to official statements. In one of my former articles “the Value of Water” former Minister of Forestry and Water Management, Mr. Veysel Eroglu, mentioned at the “3rd Water Loss Form” that the real loss volume in Turkey is above 50%. You can image why water is an important topic of the cities.

Looking into Istanbul losses between 2014 and 2017, average around 1 billion TL (~153.75 million €) water revenue loss was seen. Since the municipality manages 6 million subscribers, each subscriber has to cover additional 167 TL (~25,70 €) to overcome such losses. The biggest loss (85% – 90%) isn’t caused by water meters, it’s causes by transmission lines, bringing the water to the city from rural water resources. To decrease evaporation on surface water resources, PV panels used to reduce water loss and produce electrical energy. Unfortunately, this also cause algae growth on the source and therefore can’t be used in bigger scale (not the magic wand as expected). Main losses will be at the water pipelines, which are aging, broken due to earthquakes and similar natural causes.

Just to understand roughly how the system is working;

1) Every time we open the water tap, water will be pumped from the pipes or the local inhouse storage

2) In case of the local storage, it will be filled by the water pipelines which will be fed from the city’s infrastructure

3) The water system pumps will work until the lost amount will be balanced in the system

4) Pumping from the pipeline, tanks and storage structure will be filled and some losses will be created due to vibration in the system and minor or major water floods can be seen in the buildings.

5) Concrete or PVC / PE pipes might be broken, which are cause the losses in the system.

To understand whether losses or other issues are occurred sensor technologies will be used, to determine to locate and resolve such issue as soon as possible.

Another important issue will be the water quality. It will be continuously measured and checked whether an issue will be available. Many events in the past has shown that the quality checks only done in certain periods and will not enable a real time understanding of the water. The control and checks might be done on a monthly or in best case on daily base (based on the size of the city’s water sources and locations). Some international examples can be referred to how that can be achieved. In Turkey we have faced in the past, disposal of construction wastes, unintentional or intentional poisoning of sources as well as lightweight poisoning of the water by barrels from multiple different sources. Again, using sensor-based technology at and around water sources can help to understand the source quality level and determine immediately if someone is attempting on the water source.

Water losses can be reduced by 10% annually and might create a saving of more than 40% in 5 years’ time (roughly a volume of 400 million TL / 61.5 million €).

Business models and funding opportunities

With regard to the mentioned topics and possible savings, applications and use cases can fund itself base on a step by step approach and using right project management consulting efforts. With a roughly estimation, the breakeven point can be reached within 28 to 36 month and afterwards a certain gain will be achieved.

The municipality only needs to select the right consultancy and solution structure before starting with a starting investment in the smart city use case.

Nevertheless, don’t forget health solution and warranties are priceless and shouldn’t be a concern for funding or similar commercial structure.

Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)

To enable and boost all the use cases mentioning above, ICT will be the leverage for the city to start the solutions. Create senseful data, analytics, big data understanding etc. will be created on ICT structure of the city. To be independent from any public system, the most selected solution by municipalities was based on LPWA (low power, wide area) technologies.

NB-IoT (narrowband internet of things) can be used where the coverage of cellular network is acceptable and create no issues to acquire any cellular signal. Bigger issues are existing if any data wants to be collected from rural areas. LoRaWAN, Ingenu or Weightless can be used in such problematic areas. Those can be permanent solutions, temporary solutions (until the cellular coverage will be available) or complementary solution for other telecom infrastructure (such as cellular etc.). Sigfox is a kind of cellular network and has its own operated solution. Some cellular network operators have been used to complement their solution as well. Some other examples are based on a hybrid wired and wireless solution as well.

There is no magic wand to create a solution based on just one system. A hybrid structure will enable multiple possibilities for the public or private operators.

Not without communication

Becoming smart without certain technological approach is impossible. The main bullet for smart and technological solution is the data itself and this must be collected and delivered to a control center or similar central structure for evaluation of the data. Using the right and best effort technology will be the key for a successful adaptation of a smart city solution to all stakeholders and citizens.

Gökhan Yanmaz

January 2020

Honey…shall we leave the car for today?

Okunma Süresi: 7 Dakika Yazar: Gokhan Yanmaz Güncelleme: February 29, 2020 08:37Leave a Comment Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: IoT Turkey, smart parking, turkey

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Smart Parking! People in metropolitan areas using this phrase several time today. Based on the duration wasted in traffic, trying to find a parking lot or similar issues makes driven a real blight.

The most problem for me is always the parking issue. After leaving home, where to park, shall I leave at a road or side way parking slot (security???) or a parking spot at a shopping mall??? Searching for a free spot is always a time-wasting issue and keeps the driver occupied and nervous.

What do we waste for parking?

Maybe you will think “just the time to find a spot”, some other might reply to air pollution and increased fuel consumption.

A report about Smart Parking based on IoT by Libelium (www.libelium.com) showed that we spend per day in average 10 minutes. A study done for Istanbul from Istanbul Major Municipality (IMM) even shown 12 minutes of wasted time.

Let’s calculate, even if we use 10 minutes. per day, we will lose annually 3.650 minutes (61 hours or 2,5 days). What if we have to do these multiple times a day and at different locations in the city, we might even end up in weeks!

Remember I even didn’t consider carbon emission and air pollution at this time…

Lost fuel for parking

To consider fuel we spend for a parking spot, I tried to use a simple mathematically equation.

Based on a study of Sakarya University, issued by Metin Varan and Ceylan Karakus at Sep 25th 2017, average speed during park searching will be around 40 km/hour, consumption at 5lt/100 km and average carbon emission will be 132 gr/km. I tried to use such values for my calculation.

Search for a parking spot will waste 10 minutes per day. Average daily a distance of 6,7 km and used fuel at 0,33 lt. Average fuel at Sep 2018 in Istanbul was at 6,30 – 6,90 TL (roughly 1 USD per lt). Lowest fuel would be diesel and costs 2 TL / day (0,33 USD/day), annually average 730 TL (~122 USD) wasted.

According to IMM the total amount of vehicles in Istanbul was at 2016 around 4 Million and 2,6 Million automobiles. Annually calculated a waste of money at 1,9 Billion TL or in other currencies 250 Million Euro / 290 Million Dollar spend for car parking duration only in Istanbul!!!

Looking to the country, Turkey has according to Turkish Statistical Institute (TÜİK) in April 2018 over 12.130.000 automobiles and the wasted amount of money for parking will reach 8,8 Billion TL (1,2 Billion Euro/1,3 Billion Dollar) in total.

Air pollution in cities

Looking to air pollution will also give a dramatic picture based on the parking issue. Average values will show 6,7 km, 132 gr/km and 884,4 gr / vehicle. 12.130.00 cars/automobiles will cover up 10.700 tons of CO2 whereas Istanbul supports this by 2.300 tons CO2.

Based on an article at “The Guardian” in UK, at August 13th 2018, 1 ton of CO2 will cost in Europe 18 Euro. Even if we don’t have an official exchange for carbon dioxide; the emission produced by Istanbul will costs on International markets 41.400 Euro and for Turkey 192.600 Euro.

Another information shared by ISBAK in February 2017 during “Smart City Istanbul” workshop(s) shown that Turkey’s average carbon emission per capita was at 1.757 tons. Only for parking 23 households in Istanbul and 110 households in Turkey will be spend only for parking in the city/ country.

What can be done?

I can hear you saying “no more car using”. Unfortunately, in metropolitan areas like Istanbul that is unlikely to do. Also, the level of public transportation is also low compared to other European examples. The existing ones are overcrowded and not that much spread out to the city today. I don’t want to stress the situation in summer time.

Another option might be the successful usage of mobile apps by ISPARK (Parking Authority in Istanbul). I used that app ones few month back, was afraid that I can’t find a spot. Surprise a spot shown in the app was really free and I could part without any doubts. Real status information on the parking status is shown. Major issue here will be that the parking spot you aim to can be filled even before you are there. Today no reservation possible.

Adding parking reservation services will be a big value add and will bring a new revenue to the city; as well as a convenient service for drivers searching a parking spot and want to be sure that this exists when arrived.

Smart Parking Solutions

Reservation sound good, but needs new application and technology approach before getting operational.

IoT based systems will give a serious advantage to smart parking solutions. On the surface or buried to the ground sensors will give real time information and status of the parking spot. Together with the right communication solution the operator can manage the parking spots even remotely. Collected information will be transferred to the mobile app or through the web interface.

Most of these are already given by the mobile app of ISPARK; hence the accuracy will be better and a reservation option can be added as well. First step will be in closed parking arrays, parking arrays in streets or on similar free space areas will be harder to manage.

Nevertheless, human attitude and parking behavior also needs to be considered as well. Multiple communication protocols are possible for today and based on my previous articles; today the best option will be LPWAN (low power wide area network -any type available and affordable).

One comment of the parking faults by human being :D, is there any possible and serious solution for such people? Issues can be wrong parking, parking where a reservation is active etc. There are some solutions. I f a driver parks outside the restricted space or parking in the middle of two areas; a double fee can be charged to such drivers. I’m sure if anyone needs to pay several times or even one time, the driver will be more careful to park at the right spot.

Some tests and proof of concepts have been done in Turkey, but I have no certain knowledge why they have been cancelled or not proceed further? May be there was a budgetary or operational issue.

Rethink while you looking for a parking spot

Based on the information shared above, we will be less selective for a parking spot search. I do believe there are a lot of people who willing to save 730 TL and this will create a big source for anyone in the country. It will be clear that this value can’t be reduced to zero. Image that we can cut this only by 10%. This will give only in Istanbul a saving of 190 Million TL (32 Million USD / 27 Million Euro) and for Turkey a saving of 880 Million TL (147 Million USD / 125 Million Euro). Possible investment in smart parking systems will definitely cost less than this and can give a fast RoI (return of investment) considering parking revenues etc.

If you can’t use public transportation or even don’t want to use your car at all, you still can use a bike (like myself) for certain distances. It will save you money and will be good for your health as well.

Gokhan Yanmaz

Istanbul – June 2019 / first published in Turkish at September 2018

5G Applications: Energy Sector

Okunma Süresi: 8 Dakika Yazar: Gokhan Yanmaz Güncelleme: November 23, 2020 18:28Leave a Comment Filed Under: 5G Tech

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Energy Solutions in 5G! Access to information is the key to your future!

“I want to, now now!”; in fact, this short sentence allows us, i.e. from the ordinary consumer, to the end user as much as it means to all of us. Not so much, cell phone 25 years ago, while the internet and computer know and use a restricted environment, today We can’t do it without them. Institutions and companies have had their share of this. is in a state of Telegraf, which began in the late 18th century, was built in the late 19th century. Century With Fax starting in the middle, today’s working life is unthinkable, but in the 20th century, the 20th century was the beginning of the year. Towards the end of the century, the Internet, Mobile Communications, Data Communication, Speed and more many concepts entered into our daily work and private lives.

Mobile in Turkey less than 25 years after the start of communication, “we are social” digital 76.3 Million mobile contracts as of 2019, 56.3 Million Internet users, 52 Million active social media users and 44 million of them are social media users on mobile devices in the 1980s In 2016, these values were 47 million (5.5%) for our 79 million inhabitants. annual increase) people are connected via Internet user and mobile device Our number of social media users was 36 million (annual increase of over 6%).

While mobile technologies are used in all areas of life in many countries of the world, Turkey is rapidly closing the gap and taking advantage of not doing some wrong. Some examples of applications that have not yet come to Turkey; The most advanced example of integrated service delivery TV, Internet, Communication, energy, water, security.b, etc. for home users is “AT&T Digital Life” in the United States and different services are offered in different packages. Today, mobile operators and landline operators provide us with similar applications, but public service coverage seems to be in its early stages or never started.

Resulting Needless to say, the information opens a new revenue gate!

The world of energy and communication

Both sectors in the past years, they have experienced a change and transformation in themselves. Communication the “change” itself, which is seen as the constant of the world, is considered natural energy, while also expressing that we are still going through the initial steps Is. So, what are the similarities and differences?

Communication is almost completely wireless today. Wireless phones that we connect to landlines at home, from simple types of mobile phones at hand to smartphones, then from landline internet to mobile internet were seen. Today, 2G to 5G has been reached, discussed and field trials are spreading rapidly in mobile communication that reaches from anywhere to access the internet. Public services also benefit from this all over the world.

In the world of electrical energy, one-way service and information flow has become two-way in a 100-year-old electrical system. With many software, the old-type network is monitored and tried to be understood. In other words, trying to “rationalized”. Today, as well as increasing renewable energy sources, smart devices (meters, sensors, thermostat.b s, etc.), monitoring and imaging solutions, Control Centers are now fully digitized. With many unalkable data, better decision-making opportunities are offered and faster and more accurate decision-making is achieved in the face of facts.

As a natural consequence of digitization, the capacity to be used in communication, i.e. the bandwidth to be transmitted, also affects. As the devices evolve, they provide more information, and operators are forced to analyze more information. Communication is tried to solve this phenomenon by moving it from wired or wireless 2G to 5G (2G also has a speed of 0.1 Mbps, while 5G reaches 10 Gbps), using smart devices. A similar phenomenon seems inevitable to occur in electricity and other energy services and transformation projects are designed.

What is this 5G?

While we just met “improved 4G (LTE advanced)” in April 2016, there must be some who say where 5G came from. As of “LTE advanced” or 4.5 G days in Turkey, it is the most advanced communication system. Advertised with the impression of continuous video in HD quality, reaching speeds of 250 Mbps and above, 4.5 G is 10 times faster and more than the 3 G that has been used in capacity and provides capacity possibilities.

What about 5G? Capacity close to 10 Gbps, i.e. at least 4.5 G It can give 30 – 40 times more. Guarantee the quality of service “network slices” to get to the bottom of the is available. Technology is being tried in many countries and help shaped is taken. 4 G and 4.5 G are supported by newer smartphones, public use of modems, router devices, etc.b. devices, is more new is emerging. Commercial reach of 5 G and the supply of devices will be in the 2020s. Field trials aren’t started in many countries (3 mobile operator trials in Turkey in 2019 Istanbul, Ankara and Izmir).

Energy Solutions in 5G – Energy Solutions and 5G

Energy is also increasing significantly today with the amount of data requested from the field. While household users are only asked for load profile and index information once a month until yesterday, 15 minutes of sampling data to understand usage habits can be counted, information such as understanding and installing appropriate consumption tariffs for the user, two-way communication in prepaitable condition, on-off or understanding of loss and leaks, real.b-time monitoring of critical devices from transformers and stations, and making sense of the data sent by sensors, etc.

The “simple counter” of the past era is a management tool for intelligent service. In some countries, the voltage value at the counter end is read and used at the lower limit of the voltage value, thus extending the material life. The voltage adjustment is made by transmitting the relevant values of the meter to the capacitor banks through the communication infrastructure.

The graphical representation given in Figure 1 hints at what is expected and what to prepare for. The amount of data, the number of devices to be taken data, the number of data to be evaluated and the number of data that needs to be examined to prevent interruptions and failures are at least doubled every two years.

Energy Solutions in 5G

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What's 5g — Innovations in 5G and Industrial Solutions

Figure 1: Energy intelligent asset and deployment solutions available in applications

The diss dispersed structures in renewable energy sources also radically change the traditional communication infrastructure. The necessity of providing communication every time it is needed, every failure or problem, is led to new searches in place of communication infrastructures that provide limited or incomplete solutions today.

What should be looked at?

Very short and summary topics that need to be looked at:

Bandwidth: 1 kbps per device or user is predicted
End-to-end latency: Must be under 1 second from control center to end devices
Packet loss: it doesn’t matter much after six end-to-end seconds
Availability: Must be 99% or higher (deductions are 90 hours / 4 days per year max.)
Error recovery time must be under 1 second

Above expectations are provided however with fiber optic infrastructure or 5G.

Why do we start talking about 5 G’s today? Energy Solutions in 5G

In many field implementations, government and regulators take special measures for services that remain within the scope of public service and appeal to a wide range of consumers. In some countries, public service institutions are provided with the right to establish their own communication solutions, while in some countries they are guaranteed services by special regulations and the right to independent service continuity.

Certain service level agreements (SLA) are offered and guaranteed for data communication required by public service providers. Coverage issues are concluded by public service providers in their own way.

Similar application must be guaranteed or allowed by pre-5G regulations. Public service institutions, for example, although the energy sector is run by the private sector today, are actually conducting operations on behalf of TEDAS, and the result is TEDAS, which is the main owner of the infrastructure. Before 5G arrives, it will be in the best interest of all of us in terms of public service to reserve certain frequency ranges to ensure the safety of the supply of services free of money to TEDAS and similar institutions.

Within the scope of the ongoing “Turkey Smart Grid Roadmap 2023” works throughout Turkey, 5G and related service infrastructure, including design, should be offered the right to benefit from advanced technologies. Otherwise, public service providers will be directed to alternative solutions, as is the case today, some will be directed to dormant solutions that are desed to the old, while others will be left within the scope of the service of alternative operators as they are done today.

References:

“Digital 2019 / Turkey”, 2019 user statistics
www.att.com/digital-life/
The voice for 5G in the Americas

Energy As a Service Application

Okunma Süresi: 9 Dakika Yazar: Gokhan Yanmaz Güncelleme: November 28, 2020 12:52Leave a Comment Filed Under: Analysis Tagged With: business model, energy services

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In a brief article in April 2019, Navigant Research recalled energy as a service and referred to its report for the third quarter of 2017. I was intrigued by the subject because some familiar topics were told. After a brief internet search, I found out where he looked familiar. Siemens Inc., where I used to work, examined a similar subject and went to my group’s office in Manchester at the time to learn about the practice in the UK on site. “Energy as a Service” has actually been re-addressed as the operating model of “Energy Management Systems” to point as energy business model. In some literature, the title is shown as ESCO (energy service company/ energy service company).

I’m interested in the time of the subject, and i’m still interested in it. to address the issue of “How should a model suitable for Turkey be” I ‘d like.

What does energy as a service mean?

In fact, in the simplest words, it promises to save energy and side services by using technology. Side services include operating and maintenance expenses, spare materials, less use of associated services and products, etc.b, etc.

In addition to the service, energy delivery is included in the UNITED States and an additional stakeholder is put in place in terms of energy retailers. The target customer is usually a multi-dwelling and workplace building, campus area or industrial facilities. An agreement is made at a fixed rate on an energy consumption figure calculated as a result of the analysis (not per kWh). If there is less consumption, the operator wins, if there is more, the operator loses the model came to life through it. There are several options within the model, such as partnering with or without investment.

Electricity consumption distribution in Turkey

According to epdk’s 2018 Electricity Market Development Report, our industrial facilities remain at 41.2%, commercial houses at 29.23% and houses at 23.45% (agricultural irrigation 3.77% and lighting 2.04%). 80% of the subscribers described over the years consume 20% of the energy, it can be seen how accurate the information is. More than 70% of consumption is dense and few consumers remain. The biggest item that can be saved will be in Industrial and Commercial Houses that consume more than 70% energy.

Energy Business Model

Thoughts on Electric Energy Legislation and the “Energy as a Service” model; Needless to say, the legislation that applies in Turkey is often not inherally similar to those in the European Union or the United States. Epdk implements these regulations according to its own habits and regulatory options. E.g. In order to provide the Energy Service, there must be institutions that can trade retail licenses or wholesale energy. Since high-consuming subscribers will naturally be included in the free consumer class, only the issue of the service provider should be taken into account.

Energy as a Service model, which also applies to the UNITED States or the EU must be protected or licensed for retail or commercial matters. Predictably, our own model or an available and matching model should be selected.

Energy business models as a service

Among the models currently in use, I briefly listed the major business models below:

Full Business Model

The contractor can use both energy (electricity, gas and heat, etc.b.) infrastructure, funding and staffing. Provides. Customer only uses, payments under the agreement and enjoy the gains fixed by the agreement. This type of model Performance Agreements are also called.

Investment partner model

Similar to the full business model, the only difference is either in financing Seen. The issue is divided into two parts, either the customer provides the entire financing or deposit becomes a partner. Of course, due to these expenditures, the agreements are a bit should be more limited and controlled. E.g. investments or improvements the contractor cannot do so arbitrarily as he would like, on the contrary, and with approval. Semi-Investment Model or Semi-Investment Model It’s also called a performance model.

How should the Energy Business Model be?

It can be applied in environments where energy retail licenses are difficult or difficult to obtain. The contractor reviews the workspace and organizes an agreement on possible savings. If savings are achieved, he earns the price under the agreement, and if no savings are achieved, he will not receive money or receive money if he is unable to provide the intended amount. Of course, a base should be calculated and added to the agreement. E.g., a template must be created for the savings provided. Increases in energy prices during the year make the fixed price guarantee business model impossible.

The contractor makes improvements within the plant, or make a common model, rent the devices used, or within the service price. Gain payment on savings provided Gets. At the end of the customer agreement period, you will be able to purchase the technology-enriched infrastructure.

Model proposal in accordance with Turkish market conditions

Saving the subject unfortunately make the topic a bit deadlocked of the system. Trying to implement similar models in the past years failures have been seen many times. The problem is in the case of savings how to make a payment model is causing problems.

Topics that need to be resolved for proper modeling:

Duration of business model?
- It is generally applied abroad for 10 – 15 years
What is the success criterion?
- In which case the contractor is qualifying to pay, in which case it is considered unsuccessful and cannot receive payment
How will the success payment be?
- E.g. guarantees savings of 0% in the first year, at least 10% in the second and third years, 13% in the fourth year and 15% at the end of the fifth year.
- If the targets are kept, half of the winnings are paid to the Contractor during the term of the agreement (5 years or 10 years.
How will investments be shared?
- Who will provide financing for investments
- Who’s going to make the bank deal, the client or the contractor?
- How to deliver space so that investments can be made, etc.b.
Will the contractor use his or her own staff or will the customer take over?
- Will the staff be transferred at the end of the period?
- How will the personnel’ rights be .b.

As it can be seen, a serious agreement must be made and should be written.

Where could the target sites be?

Especially high consumption of industrial and commercial houses will be found organized industries, campus areas, multi-storey buildings and businesses, schools, hospitals v.b. private sector applications can be targeted.

Another topic can be added to state-controlled government buildings, street lighting applications, air conditioning (heating and cooling), building lighting systems and even communication.

I’ll sort briefly among the field application examples multi-branch trading houses within solutions (even if franchising), service buildings, etc.b. structures can be taken into account.

Compliance with the National Energy Efficiency Roadmap

The National Energy Efficiency Roadmap announced by the Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources at the end of 2017 specifically describes the actions involved in its buildings. Energy as a service will bring new opportunities, especially for these titles. Topics such as energy saving works in buildings, energy efficiency in municipal services and energy efficiency development are directly involved in energy as a service.

Energy Business Model – Who can be the contractor?

In the new energy world, the profile of contractors or players is changing seriously, and some investors who used to be successful in different industries will want to buy slices of the pie. Telecom operators, especially those with scattered locations, stand out as the first group (e.g. AT&T, Telefonica v.b.), companies that own another player product and are warm to semi-business (e.g. my old firm Siemens) or new participants from the computing industry can be joined specifically by data center managers. Of course, other than that, financial sector, service firms or investor firms looking for new business space can be seen.

Energy Business Model; Siemens field applications

I would like to briefly share siemens’ activities for some organization as I have worked and studied before. Of course, similar applications from different companies can be seen in different customers or in the same customers.

All information is available online and bidd by global information about related applications can be obtained from the page. Re-ingict I would like to, an application that I used to work with and tried to commission a verb to provide brief summary of my old company’s gains because it is a series I ‘d like. Similar to other large or domestic firms that are active in the market I should also point out that the action has just begun.

Improvements for Siemens’ fast food industry

Developed in 2010 for the fast food industry Remotely controls its restaurants and saves energy with EcoView solutions. Generally accessible from anywhere, fast and easy application, rapid recovery of investment (less than 24 months) and .b. solution 6% year-on-year.

Siemens’ work for mail

A plant established in 1998 in the U.S. productivity studies were implemented in the 2010s and Savings of USD 120,000 have been saved, due to the government’s energy efficiency plan up to 50% gains per m2.

University transformation of Siemens

Universities have the same buildings or branch systems energy management from the beginning in order to save energy. in the 1980s Up to 10% or up to 30% in applications in the UNITED States returns have been provided.

New world new game rules

A new world dominated by sustainability and savings It’s no mistake if I say there will be new game rules in the layout. Even this game new stakeholders who follow the rules of the future and save money it’s a separate reality that there will be companies that can win. Here’s the real problem. how to convince customers and how to implement successful business agreements is important.

Gokhan Yanmaz

Istanbul / August 2019

Is It Really Dangerous to Stay Connected?

Okunma Süresi: 10 Dakika Yazar: Gokhan Yanmaz Güncelleme: November 29, 2020 19:21Leave a Comment Filed Under: Internet of Things Tagged With: Connected Device Security, IoT Security, network security

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The technology trends that have developed in recent years have made us more connected and connected, and the Internet of Things has also raised the issue of Cybersecurity Measures. Autonomous vehicles tell us that we will be safer by taking information from each other, smart devices will provide us with a much more comfortable.b and safe living and working environment, while away valuables, people, etc. can provide their safety with each new news, article and advertisement presented to us in gold trays. Connected Device Security. is a trending question for IoT!

And is it really? To be connected or Even if he argues that staying in contact makes us safe, is he actually in danger? throws?

Smart Device or Smart Human? For Better Connected Device Security

Reason is actually the most important feature that separates us from animals. At least that’s how it was described in biology class. We can look at the situation and take action accordingly, choose what suits us best within endless options and take action. What technology is providing us is actually making this decision-making process a little faster, and in some cases making it decide for us.

In addition to the high quality of old-school TV sets in our homes, internet-connected Smart TVs, internet-connected vehicles on the road, mobile phones, not to mention, most of us have more than one device in our pockets (company lines, private lines, etc.b.).

In recent months, Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk may remember the debate over virtual-minded robots. When people leave their decision-making to the devices, they are exposed to some seeming attacks that they don’t even know how much danger they’re in.

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The keyword is STUXNET. I think many people have heard or read about the virus attack targeting the Iranian Government’s nuclear enrichment program, which was installed during a simple maintenance effort developed by the state, incubated, and activated by learning the most accurate moment of attack. The incident is so critical that in addition to publishing the books, the documentary was even filmed. It has been repeatedly said that the attack on the Iranian government, which is anti-U.S., was actually carried out by the United States and its supporter Israel. While the attack remained fresh, Venezuela, which is also anti-U.S., has re-raised the issue of state attacks in a succession of similar incidents. Similar purposes such as “WannaCry” and “Petya” have caused millions of dollars in losses and severely affected human life.

Some other events that have occurred have been presented by the World Energy Council with a one-page visual “The road to resilience managing cyber risks”. It has also been seen in Ukraine, the United States, Saudi Arabia, .b countries, and no one has been able to escape its influence.

Among the damages experienced are people’s energy-free can not be done, prevented, many services based on electrical energy, disruption of electricity power generation, deterioration of supply-demand balance, etc.b. problems and will be experienced. In fact, in 2015, we lived and that the power outage was also such an attack. has been introduced.

Computing systems have more access to energy and similar critical infrastructures, while the syndrome of connected worlds unfortunately brings with it serious connected device security.

The inevitable risk of being connected device security

This year (2019) DEFCON (Las Vegas / USA) also discussed the risk of connected worlds, IoT World Today (Brian Buntz / August 15, 2019) also turned into an article. In addition to the short events listed above, it is stated that there may be much more serious problems. Potential risks include security cameras, smart TVs, smart vehicles, security cameras, etc., while I.b remembered a problem in The UK a few months ago.

The UK is one of the first countries across Europe to move into the Smart Meter environment, but has decided to slow down the application. A similar situation has occurred in the United States. It was about the security of housing and personal data. Based on consumption information, it is listed that cycles on what times to be in the house, payment data to be uploaded to smart meters can work, account information will.b be disclosed, etc., etc.

In fact, the risks are just as great as the advantages of being connected. Brian Buntz’s article mentions the 12 IoT threats listed, and there is a common view that hackers’ new target will be IoT devices in particular. Some critical warnings in the article that we must also consider.

Possible examples

It’s possible that connected systems can give us I would like to present the problems with a few brief examples.

Programmable Logical Controllers (PLC)

The devices are more commonly used in industry and are also seen in some energy solutions. In fact, these devices, which are a bit “mindless”, are sent commands and do what is called “YAP”, not inspected or inspected.

Imagine someone in a critical environment what happens if the “STOP” command goes to devices in an environment that should not stop? Water where water should be given in the turbines are called STOP at once, if the lights go out in traffic at once, or Think of the catastrophes that can occur if they are told to continue.

Smart Meters

The above briefly describes the risk of personal data, and other than that, credits uploaded to your counters are stolen, and if money is requested, as in RANSOMWARE to access your electronic data, consider that the connected objects that need to work ask you for MONEY.

Another threat is that deleting or changing consumption information on counters can be undesirable for both the agency and the customer. It is important to remember that this change comes through the communication system, which is considered safe, not external.

Enterprise Security Vulnerabilityes

Almost everyone on mobile devices browses corporate data, intranets, and emails. If devices are not protected by tried-and-tested apps, it’s only a matter of time before critical and sensitive data is in the wrong hands. Companies can be blackmailed based on relevant data, industrial espionage can be done using critical data, clauses of very important agreements can be disclosed, and some critical facilities that should not even appear on maps may be exposed.

Smart TVs

Which broadcasts you’re watching are recorded And if I say it’s shared, how would you feel? Some TV producers are new share their data with third parties with next-generation Smart Devices and that you have obtained additional profits from it, that it has been shared without your permission. I’d like to emphasize.

Another issue is the cameras. Laptops the camera on the camera that closes with paper so that it does not display you. friends, something similar to turn off the camera of the smart TV in the house Does he do it? You are aware of the remote camera of your TV set connected to the Internet and someone else was watching you while you were watching TV. How would you feel?

How would you feel if WiFi was automatically connected to connect to the Internet? Smart TV doesn’t just come to your home or work by improving image quality.

Autonomous or connected vehicles

Completely re-equipped with electronic equipment information from other vehicles on the road, speed, phone usage habits, microphone that you can listen, or even that your vehicle is dominated by foreign interference? Fuel by increasing, reducing, overcharged or discharged the battery. v.b. interventions are unfortunately among the possible examples. These are Hollywood. they seem to come from their cinemas, but they are now new realities.

Internet of Things Cyber Security Measures – Critical Infrastructure facilities

What would you say if I told you that critical infrastructure facilities (chemical, biological, fuel, etc.b.) that have been damaged or not properly built can threaten you and your relatives by evacuating hazardous substances that they should not have flowed through foreign intervention in the wrong place and at the wrong time, and the environment and its surroundings? Is it better for Connected Device Security?

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NEVER without safe environments

Please don’t make any misunderstandings when you’re telling the DEVIL in my article. Technology is there to serve us, not enslave us and lose control. Security measures should not be implemented without properly implementing them, without supervision by independent agencies, without continuous improvement measures.

How should measures be taken? In fact, i don’t think you need to admit that there is no simple answer, but a partially protected the structure is much better than an unprotected structure, and unfortunately it used to be very the idea of “Firewall u plug late friend” is no longer to be applied. we need to know that there’s no side to it.

Internet of Things CyberSecurity Measures

I’d like to suggest some steps:

List of services to connect to possible losses / seizures. losses and errors need to be sorted
What can be done to protect it? Examples and previously implemented security measures should be examined and examined. Lessons must be learned from mistakes
Budget must be determined correctly, excessive should not be large or excessively small.
Ordinary acceptance of work within the institution should not be transferred to Computing as usual, but a separate SECURITY department must be created. The SECURITY department can be contacted directly by the BOARD of Directors or Should report to the CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS. Computing department field the application must be in the business unit, not the checker.
The best company to do the job should be searched and selected. If there are problems with its discovery, a consultant company must be selected, selected consultant company must support security department / assist.
The system that is lifted is FREE must be tested and attacked by an institution. Consulting firm or departments for other institutions should not be assigned.
If there are glitches, they should be detected, should be re-tested and field implementation planned.
Application SECURITY must be constantly supervised by the department, different security experts should be tested and attacked by their companies. Known new and improved attacks can happen all the time
SECURITY department in-company must be kept active and alive.

Being connected is the reality of the new world and In parallel we need to know that security is not a luxury but a necessity. Most the critical point is the SECURITY unit/department. Each department of the institution safety guidelines that can be applied to the application of must be ensured that it is implemented. We need to make it a culture and make it into a part of it. Each connected device, object, smart, or get mindless should be applied.

In personal use, similar measures or It would be in our best interest to be a little less enthusiastic about addiction.

Safe But Simple to Increase Connected Device Security

Internet of Things Cybersecurity Measures; Safety is an inevitable phenomenon and must be implemented. Often, security is confused with complex and difficult-to-control structures, often causing future vulnerabilityes. Make your safety simple, feasible and active. It must provide a structure that can be improved against new attacks and be managed as a sustainable service. Continuous updating should be able to take additional measures against new threats.

Wishing you not to connect to the wrong places…

Gokhan Yanmaz

August / September 2019

IoT solutions for the energy sector

Okunma Süresi: 8 Dakika Yazar: Gokhan Yanmaz Güncelleme: February 29, 2020 08:46Leave a Comment Filed Under: Internet of Things Tagged With: IoT Energy, IoT Turkey

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IoT solutions for the energy sector; The future is here today …

You can read it from multiple reports and articles, IoT will be present in almost everywhere we work, we travel, we eat or live. Consulting companies such as McKinsey, Gartner, Comarch, Navigant Research, Capgemini; communication companies like Nokia, Ericsson, Huawei or industrial giants such as; Siemens, ABB, Schneider Electric share multiple information how IoT will change our world today and in a near future. IoT for energy sector is may be not that spread out for today, but there are significant ideas where and how IoT will create value add for energy market as well.

IoT solutions for the energy sector- Old fashioned data flow

Those who had created communication solutions for transmission system operators (TSO’s), distribution system operators (DSO’s) like myself, knows that collecting data from the field is necessary to remote monitor, managing and operating an energy system.

Collecting data from a transformer or distribution station or even from a remote control center station requires a certain level of engineering work to design the communication system; understand the nature of power line carrier (PLC) systems which are heavily used in high and medium voltage structures, knowing the distance of communication for legacy protocols (EIA232/485 etc.) or IP networks and of cause an important amount of hard wired systems will be necessary.

You need to deal with the limits of the station and in some cases even need to re-engineering that layout since the distances, electrical conditions etc; not fit to what you designed in the first place. I do recall, to move cabin multiple times in a station, due to distance limits, more important cabinet replacements, even insufficient space allocation in the station. Solution to place the communication equipment in field was not always an easy duty.

Once solved the interior you’re getting a new hurdle on the wide area side this time. In some countries the use of cellular networks is used like a swiss knife and have been applied to each and every solution. Unfortunately, in rural areas the coverage and signal strength of such systems isn’t always align with a communication solution for energy environment. Since 4G isn’t that deeply deployed in many countries; the good old (!) systems such as 2G or 3G are used as main structure. Hence some of the frequencies of such have been used for 4G allocations as well and limitations exists here as well. Finding a price effective right and truthful communication device (modem or routers etc.) isn’t also easy to deal with. The good old world of electrical engineering gets into a complex and confusing style of work requesting telecommunication skills and out of the box thinking.

IoT solutions for the energy sector – electrical energy and Communication Skills

Facing such issues, experts with both electrical energy and communication skills and knowledge will be helping those in needs. What is the best and affordable solution to select; which solution can deliver the necessary amount of data or even can be scalable for future needs of the utilities? At those days, I must admit in some cases it was an “Piece of Art” to find the best available in field.

New and emerging environments are present for us today….we require more and new signals, need free space and capacity on the controllers (programmable logical controller) or RTU (remote terminal unit), we adding new I/O’s (input/outputs) and so on…the legacy systems were heaven for electrical engineers in the past.

A “May-December Marriage” for electrical energy?

IoT isn’t really putting every data on the internet as the phrase tells, it uses existing communication infrastructures from carriers or operators and digitizing our old habits. Yes, indeed it is a digital transformation wand for us. Less adaptation and faster time to deploy the data is the main advantage against legacy systems who took hours and days to implement before getting a single bit of data out the location.

To give the energy company a fast and reliable communication solution you will use whatever you can find in the field (wired or wireless, old RF techs or future oriented cellular structure) and enabled by the carriers as well. Using IP technologies with emerging technological trends will be one of the most preferred solution today and tomorrow.

One of the value-add of IoT technology will be the immense reduction of cabling efforts inside the station and the cabinets.

The required signals will be acquired by small sized sensors or actuators, aggregated by a gateway or even data concentrator and send towards the remote-control center through wide are communication as we used to. Replacing the big and heavy communication cabinets with small size aggregation devices; smaller sized sensor to replace RTU or PLC’s with hard wire requests giving you an easier implementation opportunity and faster roll out of the system.

LPWA (low power wide area) solutions will be the best option for creating an alternative solution, optimize the structure and still supporting electrical energy-oriented communication stands such as mature IEC60870-5-10x or new breed IEC61850. A win-win for both energy system operators and communication system providers will be enabled.

LPWA is actually the common name of technologies we all heard about since the last few years; such as NB-IoT, LTE-M, LoRaWAN, Sigfox, Ingenu (former RPMA), Weightless, BLE, WiFi and so on.

Energy Station Offerings by IoT

At this point I like to focus on some IoT use cases covering transformer, distribution stations and metering solutions.

Value adds for Transformer and/or Distribution Stations

– Reduction or even replacement of all unnecessary wires

– Deployment of communication systems within few hours (from days and weeks)

– Scalable and easy enhancement of signals within the station (whenever and wherever you need capacity)

– Reduce spaces due to less used cabinets or similar housings

– Easy adaptation of the hybrid communication system

– Sensors working in unlicensed frequency bands (ISM) will reduce the usage of SIM cards (no need of swap all devices)

– All signals in a station can be delivered via ONE SYSTEM and ROUTER towards the control center or datacenter; wherever available, even can send to multiple control centers as well (if necessary)

– Thanks to alternative device usage, avoidance of any operator or vendor lock-in

Value adds for metering

– Compared to traditional modems (2/3/4G), less expensive IoT modules for communication

– Multiple communication environment delivery at the same time

– Easy reducing the amount of communication devices where mass quantity of meters is located

– Less or no more adaptation work for new communication devices, an almost real plug and play installation

Hybrid communication as the real magic wand

To reduce the bad image of cellular network for rural application and the utilities; telecom operators should look into hybrid solutions. Where in urban areas cellular will be more efficient, rural areas need a more focus structure to cover their needs.

Create a solution consisted of licensed and unlicensed networks or hybrid structures isn’t new to the telecom world. Years ago, where it was expensive to lay fibers in water, sea, over mountains or other hard terrains, radio relay solutions were used to overcome such issue of natural limitations. Delivery of complementary or even permanent structure, with radio solutions were seen in the early 90’s.

Today’s requests aren’t so different from those times. Hard wired and licensed wireless can be mixed by including also unlicensed systems. Some sectors discussing the mixture of NB-IoT with LoRaWAN to cover the best available areas, where one solution can do all the work. Licensed and unlicensed solution can create a good cost-effective infrastructure for the purpose necessary for the end users.

Go for out of the box

IoT is a new tool, enable us to do traditional things in a better and more efficient way. To enable such a tool, we need to think differently, doing traditionally things in different manners; in other words have to “think out of the box”.

Be open minded and looking for opportunities for deployment of new and disruptive solutions in all environments not only for energy, but for all possible applications in the market.

Try to image first before you deny the value of IoT…

Gökhan Yanmaz

Istanbul / December 2019

First published in August 2019 in Turkish and have been updated in December 2019

Internet of Things Applications

Okunma Süresi: 13 Dakika Yazar: Gokhan Yanmaz Güncelleme: February 13, 2020 09:10Leave a Comment Filed Under: Uncategorized

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Today

When I look back years ago, many of the foreign movies and TV shows we watched, tried get us use to serious technological developments we are familiar today. Most of our elders did comment at that time “no way”, “impossible”, “all fairy tales” etc. Today we are used to see a space travel, autonomous cars, robots, human like robots, systems which monitors all our moves, even our dreams.

All of those are familiar and we prepare ourselves to see some of the development of the near future. To get a view on the near and far future, I suggest you to read “the Future of Physics” by Prof. Dr. Michio Kaku.

The “Internet of Things” exactly do hit us with a similar effect. With the deployment of 4 G and new generation networks, things which were impossible to imagine, will become usual activities for our children and may be even for us.

What is delivered to us?

In one of my previous articles, I tried to summarize some of the enhancements we can expect very soon, saving time, efforts, money, resources and speed are some of the benefits to expect tomorrow. We can see that some of the mobile operators today uses more than just one IoT environment, some others believe in one single method. In this article, I like to speak about some of the use cases in a simple structure.

Use cases

The question of where to use is irrelevant, we should ask where we can’t use IoT. IoT is almost everywhere in business and daily life, in traffic, on the road as pedestrian, at the airport, at office, at daily routines, healthcare etc. as mentioned before almost everywhere.

Most of the applications ready today and used commercially are focused on Smart City solutions like public transportation, street lighting, waste collection, parking management and so on. But not limited to such, even personal or common usage like smart houses & buildings, personal or thing tracking, storage management, personal and building security solutions, agriculture solutions etc. all possible today with IoT applications.

Let us look into some of the use cases for today.

IoT and Public Transportation

For those who are using public transportation, you know how hard it is, waiting for the vehicle to come, those who are arriving are already overcrowded, others driving to the opposite direction or are empty and not useful for you. I taste this for many years during my university time. Even remember that two of the same buses arrived at the same time at the bus stop, first was overcrowded and the second was empty. Believe me people still tried to get into the first vessel instead of using the empty one!!!

Couldn’t we try something differently?

Public transportation solutions for the citizen

Here is a common scenario we can live through very soon….

Murat, wakes up every morning and tries to make his way to school. Looking at his watch and things how he can travel to school. Then he remembers that he just downloaded the last version of the municipalities public transportation planner. After planning his route, he sits relaxed and finishes his breakfast without any rush. The application gives him the time to leave home, where to change and how long it will take to get to school just in time. Even information about the waiting times (max. and average), suggestion for alternative routes and calculation of the best and alternative routes are present via the application.

Selcuk, wakes up nearly at the same time and prepares to go to his office, when suddenly his alarm buzzes. The routine connection he used every day will have a serious delay due to some events in traffic. The alert reminds him to leave in 15 min to get in time to his office.

Both scenarios are reality of today’s world. Vehicles can submit information about its status (crowd, speed, time spend etc.) and uses different calculation methods to get information about the potential future events. Sensors used at vehicles can give information about the status of the vessel itself and the traffic and other vehicles surrounding at the present time. Even today we are using navigation application to do similar activities. Municipalities can give today under normal traffic conditions about the travel time and arrival at certain bus stops. The only left and not supported features are calculation and inform about real time events and reaction to abnormal activities.

Activities and Services for the citizen can be as follows;

Plan travelling duration. Based on the expected arrival time, use which route and how (change of vessels), alternative routes etc.
Bus Stop Alert. Real time sense of the routes and expected arrival or departure times.
Route / Bus Capacity and crowd information. Sharing status of the bus crowd and availability (trend reposts etc.).
Alternative route. Using of possible alternative routes, including certain fault durations etc.
Questionnaire for routes and lines. What can be done differently, expectations, suggestions etc.
Digital Wallet application. Enhanced usage of a city card (eg. IstanbulKart) including certain municipal services etc.
Promotion and Campaigns for municipal services.

On the other hand, even the municipality does have several advantages by using similar information;

Capacity and crowd report of the vessels, based on hours, days, real time and predictions.
Route / Vessel status, travelled distance, status of maintenance, faults and failure of the vessels, consumption information and more.
Route and vessel analysis. Overloaded vessels, low capacity usage, demand for additional vessels or algorithms possible to change the routes even cancel some of the lines.
Feasibility report of collected fees vs. travel distance and expenditure / consumption analysis.
Travel duration, average, maximum, most crowded hours etc.

To gather most of this information, sensors must be used to collect the necessary data. Not only collection also reliable and fast communication infrastructure is required for a seamless service.

IoT will open up new opportunities for the municipalities and service providers.

IoT and Street Lighting Solution

Today’s trend topic for street lighting is LED replacement. Instead of using traditional bulbs with high pressure vapor, LED’s with new fittings, modules and components will be used almost in every municipality worldwide. Unquestioned, LED’s gave a certain saving in energy consumption (international studies shown min. 40%), but isn’t there more than just the replacement act of traditional bulbs with LED’s? Any value adds we can use as well?

There are a lot of value adds presented in Smart City projects we see in the field. One of the most accepted value add is the connected lighting solution. The new type LED’s are connected with each other in a network and sharing information with each other and the control center at the municipality or service provider data center (through a cloud or any fixed communication environment). All new components can be monitored 24 x 7 x 365, analyzed on many features, lifecycle information and more. Some of the new features are listed below:

Bulb status (broken, burning time, troubled components etc.)
Consumption information
Remote control of the LED components (not only bulb even the modules as well)
Dimming, shut down or lighten up etc.
Smart lighting pole or “Humble Lamp Pole” services:
- WiFi connectivity
- Camera control / CCTV systems
- Charging point for phones, vehicles etc.
- Public Announcement system (Alarm, Alerts etc.)
- White Desk information point
- Emergency Call Point / Push to Talk
- Tourist Information Services
- Sensors for flood, rain, heat, pollution and noise
Closed group support
- Special services (wired or wireless services)
- Communication point for field personals

As you can see, we are talking about more than just replacement of the bulb. There are many value-added services and support for many topics delivered via the lighting pole in field. Most of these services can be delivered through IoT. Also, using of small size solar panels to reduce the energy consumption and / or using energy storage devices to create more value of the pole points are possible today.

IoT and Waste Collection

Clean streets and a good scent are a city’s best advertising. Just close your eyes and imagine that waste in the streets haven’t be collected for days in your home town or the city you are visit is full of waste and smells very badly. What will you think about that city? Would you love to live here or visit this city again?

Multiple times common waste bins will be filled out even before the collection trucks are arriving or not filled at all. Every arrival cost money and effort. Underground collection points are more convenient, but due to underground space and location can be impossible in many place in the cities today. Another funny situation are the waste collection trucks during rush hours. How many times did you confront a waste truck, which is blocking your way and you must wait a whole street to pass it by?

IoT brings also a new opportunity for waste collection. Level sensors can indicate and collect data, whether the bin is about to get filled out or is still available for service, when a truck is necessary and how many other bins can be collected at the same time in the same services duration. The central application will calculate the best route and less fuel consumption to collect waste and keep the city clean from waste and bad scents.

Waste classification services also can help the citizen to decrease waste amount and create environmental awareness at home level.

Other opportunities and advantages are possible on the waste collection truck and its service information, fuel consumption, covered distance and more.

IoT and Smart Parking

I don’t remember how many times I passed the same road and spots to find desperately a parking area in the streets. When I finally found one, I must consider the security of the car, would a truck drive pass by and scratch my car etc. …. awful. Even private parking places and the fees asked for a few hours become a nightmare sometimes. Smart Parking solution can bring in new advantages to avoid such situations.

Some applications available today are unfortunately not real time based or couldn’t support any reservation or similar solutions for the drivers. Another interesting situation happens to multi-level parking garages, where the green light should show the free spots available, but we all know that in some cases this will not work at all.

New solutions, which are sensing the car from the bottom of the floor are more accurate and can give better information whether a car is in the spot or not. But this can’t help the driver to park between the lines accurately so that others can also park as well. This is more based on human behavior unfortunately.

A little scenario for this use case;

Deniz gets an urgent call for a meeting, right after arrived at the office. The meeting is in the morning rush hours and has limited park spaces, she remembered and suddenly takes her smart phone and open the new application she downloaded yesterday evening. Two municipality operated parking areas are available, but gets a limited amount of information. Almost done and about to close the application, a message appears “do you want to reserve any spot?”. Surprised and happy about this, she accepts the offer and entered her CityCard information, which she didn’t uploaded yesterday evening. After finishing the process, she got a message that the spot is secured for her.

You might believe that such a scenario is a dream, but in some cities today, you can check, reserve and even subscribe via such applications through on the smart phones or browsers. Some of those even do have a barcode or a quad code for such services, which can be integrated to a CityCard service. Ferry services today have been started to use quad code services. Megacities can benefit from such services and keep revenue and services quality high. Prepayment as well can be added to this service provision to create new funds for the municipality. In some cases, suggestion for alternative parking spots close to the preferred one, can be given as well and even launch a kind of campaign for new spots etc.

IoT will use its real-time information structure and supports reservation services as well. Municipalities can manage accurately the status of the parking spots, do analysis which are will be the most to use and where new pots should be created nearby. Feasibility and similar reports can be used for future planning.

IoT and Person / Thing Monitoring

Iot can also help serving people or some corporates for monitoring or tracking certain things. Here are some of the possible use cases related to the service which can be provided today.

Healthcare support.
- Years ago, BAN (Body Area Network) was one of the solutions considered as remote healthcare. Today healthcare services are thinking about under skin sensors. The easiest and most acceptable way will be to have a sensor touching the skin in a size of a plaster and collect information of the wellbeing of the person who carries it. Information will be send through the home internet or the smart phone towards the service provider to track the patient.
- Similar can be done in hospitals as well.
Elder monitoring.
- Support and track elder people who needs emergency services.
- Part of this also can be panic buttons in a size of a button, watch etc. close to the person’s body.
Kids monitoring.
- Similar as the elder monitoring. Today’s available application at holiday parks and resorts are used by parents.
Pet tracking.
- Similar as the Kids and Elder tracking, Pets tracking also possible.
- Recently a dog was found in France, which have been missed 11 years ago and did acknowledged through a sensor on its collar.
Location Information.
- Using all available and allowed communication environment for tracking.
- Perfect for navigation services.
Movement sensors.
- One of the most common application today. Most of the corporate cars do have a SIM card which is traced remote in case of an emergency.
- This can be done even without any SIM.
Performance analysis

There are more of use cases and applications available today, which can be found in the web or even during brainstorming sessions. IoT will deliver low cost, real time, fast and reliable data collection to all users around the globe. You don’t need be in the same city or country to track or monitor, as long as you have a legal communication connection available.

Thing can speak to you … fast, continuously and accurately

Prepare yourself and your things for the future.

Gökhan Yanmaz

Temmuz 2017 / İstanbul

Gokhan Yanmaz

About Gokhan Yanmaz

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