1. The Shape of the Future When everything is connected
The Internet of Things in rural Scotland: Some case studies

2. Power, distance and costs -no longer barriers
Low cost and low power radio tech is enabling remote sensing and driving a proliferation of affordable sensors
This image demonstrates one of the most disruptive wireless technologies that emerged onto the global market around 2014.
Low power wide area networks enable sensors to run of batteries for several years and to send their data to a gateway that might be up to 15 km away. This is an example of machine to machine communcations.
This sensor is looking at water level along the west highland way and one of the assets at the SRUC Hill & Mountain Research Centre near Crianlarich
We expect this sensor to keep transmitting data for several years. We can monitor it’s battery life and we can receive data every 15 mins.
The Scottish Government has supported a national programme called Scotland IoT to support the build of the radio infrascturctue and stimulate use cases.
This area could become part of a future smart park tourism test bed joining onto the West Highland Way and Trossacks National park

3. Digital Tourism
Replicade based near Stirling used to be a company that delivered asset tracking for tools for engineers. Had an opportunity to work with Historic Environment Scotland to measure footfall at remote sites.
Introduced to a newly emerging machine vision technology and the Low Power Wide Area Network technology they put a new product together to trial
2018 they had to spin out a new co called Wilderness to meet the demand of their new low power footfall trackers that work on the LoRaWAN network

4. The Internet of Boats Cyber security Phase 1-Testing use case &
transfer of know-how
Phase 2 Understand trends and patterns,
provide customer access portal
Phase 3 New boats built with IoT
Capability
New project in work up.
Boat builder based in the Islands of Scotland that nees to do boat MOTs every year
Exploring adopting a retro fit model to monitor engine condition, consumables and location
Islands location, wants to be first example of IoT use in it’s market
Using the 2 and 3G mobile phone network in first instance to get data when boats come in range of shore
lowering operating costs – predictive analytics
increasing productivity – data gathering
Enabling ‘just in time’ maintenance efficiency
Customer communication
Cyber security

5. Water safety POC Highland Council
POC project CENSIS demonstrated feasibility of how to connect retrofit sensors onto a low power wireless network
Now in delivery phase within the supply chain as a large procurement for Scottish company (350k procurement call by highland council won by Scottish company)
Why? 18 hours a month to check taps and no-one wants to do it bc rather focus on maintenance
Maintenance van making trips to schools to check water temperature and water quality risk
Labour intensive and sometimes weather challenged with missing data
By retrofitting one of the lowest cost sensors around (temperature sensor) data received every 15 mins from the sensor via internet
Always get data regardless of weather or availability of maintenance personnel
Maintenance personnel sent only where needed
Other maintenance jobs brought up the priority list due to having more time

6. Stimulating IoT in Scotland through 2019
Transport – 26th June Edinburgh
Cities – 20th August Dundee
Food drink – 5th September Glasgow
Tourism – 10th September Balloch
Health – 2nd October Inverness
Guides and equipment:
Getting started in IoT best practice
IoT cyber security best practice
IoT to go; a starter-kit anyone can use
Aimed at end users and challenge holders, this year as part of a Scottish Government project and the Scotland IoT initiative, CENSIS will deliver a series of workshops designed to stimulate ideas. A physical demonstrator will be designed and build for each of 5 sectors to show use, transfer knowledge in aspects of IoT best practice with practical hardware

7. @CENSIS censis.org.uk