WEEK 7 (FYP1)

Activity : Literature Review

History of Internet-Of-Things.

Kevin Ashton, co-founder of the Auto-ID Centre at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), first mentioned the IoT in a presentation he made to Procter & Gamble in 1999. Wanting to bring radio frequency (RFID) to the attentions of P&G's seniors management, Ashton called his presentations "Internet-Of-Things" to incorporate the cool new trend of 1999.

The first internet appliance, for example, was a Coke machine at Carnegie Mellon University in the early 1980s. Using the web, programmers could check the status of the machine and determine whether there would be a cold drink awaiting them, should they decide to make the trip to the machine. IoT evolved from M2M communication, machines connecting to each other via a network without human interaction. M2M refers to connecting a device to the cloud, managing it and collecting data.

Present Project

Many articles have been reviewed before doing the same based project which is IoT. It discover that researchers tend to have their own point of view and their own ideas about IoT. There's variation type of project, ideas and types of language but most of them try to deliver new application to the consumers. The idea is to give consumers easy way and some awareness about their electricity usage at their home. The main component used in this project is the Node MCU ESP8266 module and ACS712 Current Sensor.

Picture 1 : ACS712 Current Censor

Picture 2 : NodeMCU ESP8266 V3