{"id":12960,"date":"2013-08-07T15:32:40","date_gmt":"2013-08-07T10:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/?p=12960"},"modified":"2013-08-07T15:36:36","modified_gmt":"2013-08-07T10:06:36","slug":"mits-wireless-automation-coming-to-kerala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/mits-wireless-automation-coming-to-kerala\/","title":{"rendered":"MIT\u2019s wireless automation coming to Kerala"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Based on the concept of &#8216;Internet of Things&#8217; by the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/mit-media-lab-workshop-in-trivandrum\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>MIT\u2019s Media Lab<\/strong><\/a>, automated homes, government and commercial buildings, could spring up in our state soon.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8216;Internet of Things<\/strong>&#8216; is a computer based wireless communication network controlling all home appliances such as centralized control of heating, lighting and ventilation, air-conditioning or security locks to ensure energy saving, convenience and security.<\/p>\n<p>The innovative concept could save energy and ensure security of the building. The concept can also be used in addressing disaster management through wireless communication-based alarm system to forewarn landslides, floods and other calamities. The cost of installing the early warning system of a disaster can be reduced as it can be integrated using <strong>Bluetooth technology<\/strong> of mobile phones with IC chips with the support of big players.<\/p>\n<p>Internet of Things technology will also help in seamless connection of various devices, including sensors, fire alarm, lighting fixtures, door locks, elevators and A\/C. The system can help save up energy up to <strong>60%<\/strong> in buildings. It also makes buildings more intelligent for situations like fire, evacuation and other safety measures.<\/p>\n<p><strong>IP500 Alliance<\/strong>, a German firm promoting the technology plans to open its office in India by providing the futuristic concept through their technology platform. The team will be meeting Industries Minister P K Kunhalikutty and other industry officials soon.<\/p>\n<p>World\u2019s top ranking university, <strong>Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)\u2019s<\/strong> Media Lab department conducted a 3-day Design and Innovation Workshop in Trivandrum last week as part of the TechTop 2013 Competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Based on the concept of &#8216;Internet of Things&#8217; by the MIT\u2019s Media Lab, automated homes, government and commercial buildings, could spring up in our state soon. &#8216;Internet of Things&#8216; is a computer based wireless communication network controlling all home appliances such as centralized control of heating, lighting and ventilation, air-conditioning or security locks to ensure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":12961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12960"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}