Having accurate data on mobile assets gives enterprises the ability to optimize their logistics, operations, and control costs. IoT technologies for Asset Tracking benefits include future-proof connectivity, energy efficiency, data and analytics, and comprehensive security.

The objective of IoT-based cold chain management processes is to establish digital processes to maintain product quality and ensure compliance with global regulations and industry standards for storing, handling, and distributing temperature-sensitive products.

In public health, contact tracing is the process of identifying persons who may have come into contact with an infected person and subsequent collection of further information about these contacts. IoT technologies for contact tracing focus on anonymously digitizing the process to streamline contact tracing efforts of public health agencies.

Hoteling (also hoteling or office hoteling) is a method of office management in which workers dynamically schedule their use of workspaces such as desks, cubicles, and offices. It is an alternative approach to the more traditional method of permanently assigned seating. Hoteling is reservation-based unassigned seating; employees reserve a workspace before they come to work in an office. An alternate method of handling unassigned seating is hot-desking, which does not involve reservations; with hot-desking, a worker chooses a workspace upon arrival, rather than reserving it in advance.

IoT-enabled dock management uses sensors and devices to monitor, manage, and automate the processes involved in managing truck yards and docks. These processes include loading and unloading, assigning docks, and monitoring truck movement to increase truck visibility, increase operational efficiency, and reduce detention costs.

Energy Load Control / Demand Response is often referred to as 'load' in the energy industry. Load management is the active control of electricity consumption. It is also known as 'demand-side management' or 'DSM.' Often, it refers to controlling electricity consumption based on financial signals from the electricity market. Load management is an essential part of a smart grid concept. IoT technologies for DSM takes existing building infrastructures and equips them with intelligent monitoring and control technologies to manage a building's energy load based on grid demands.

Ultraviolet technology is a non-chemical approach to disinfection. In this disinfection method, no chemicals are added to disinfect a space, making this process simple, inexpensive, and low maintenance. Ultraviolet purifiers utilize germicidal ultraviolet lamps designed and calculated to produce a specific dosage of ultraviolet exposure to surfaces or air. The design principle focuses on time and intensity to effectively disinfect a space – you must have a certain amount of both for a successful design.

A humidity sensor (or hygrometer) senses, measures, and reports moisture and air temperature; the ratio of moisture in the air to the highest amount of moisture at a particular air temperature represents relative humidity. IoT technologies for humidity sensing include sensor devices that detect humidity levels to ensure preset ranges are maintained to safeguard specific space's environmental conditions.

A Variable Air Volume (VAV) box is a part of an HVAC system in commercial buildings. A VAV box is integral to the ductwork connecting primary ductwork to secondary ductwork in commercial spaces. In many cases, a Variable Air Volume box is a sheet metal assembly with a damper and mechanics that control the air volume in a given space. This controllability level enables a higher degree of control to ensure occupant comfort without wasting energy to cool or heat unused/underused spaces.

Inventory management is a crucial piece of a business's profitability, but many small businesses struggle to maintain successful inventory management when it comes to the items they sell. Some businesses have too little inventory, unable to meet customers' expectations by supplying enough available products. On the other hand, too much inventory eats up a business's cash putting a strain on business operations. These common inventory challenges often drive customers away, result in over-inventory, or, worse yet, cause business disruption.

The device's primary function is to ensure that water leaks are detected before they become an environmental problem. Today's IoT-based leak detection devices continuously monitor water pressure and can provide ``instant notification`` to the property manager, building owner, or both, to take immediate action.

By integrating IoT-based technologies into energy-efficient LED lighting, buildings not only benefit from the energy-related cost savings of LEDs but can harness more in-depth data for a multitude of applications.

Today's Industrial IoT-based devices (IIoT) offer manufacturing businesses the ability to establish well-managed production uptime, cost-effectiveness, and waste reduction while maximizing productivity through predictive analytics and real-time monitoring.

A networked lighting control system consists of an intelligent network of individually addressable luminaires and control devices, allowing for the application of multiple control strategies, programmability, building (or enterprise-level) control, zoning, rezoning, measuring, and monitoring of light-levels throughout any given space.

An occupancy sensor is an indoor (or outdoor) motion-detecting device used to detect an object’s presence in a given space. Control triggers can include automatically controlling lights, temperature, ventilation systems, and much more. These IoT-based sensors can use infrared, ultrasonic, microwave, or other technologies to measure how people and objects use your company’s space in real-time.

Transforming your facilities into smart buildings offers many advantages. By installing anonymous People Counting sensors above building entrances and in key rooms, you can accurately measure footfall and occupancy. With this data, you can adapt the lighting, heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning systems (HVACS) to the number of people detected in each room. Doing so can drastically reduce your energy bill and carbon footprint, but healthy working conditions - and higher air quality - will also improve concentration and productivity. Increased comfort also improves your visitors’ and customers’ experience. All this can be enabled, in real-time, by data from people counting devices.

Today’s IoT devices provide you with greater control of your building’s physical environment, including touchless entry. Capable of communicating with various access control devices, surveillance cameras, and other security deterrents, it means that you can receive security alerts right when they happen or prevent access to a building if required. IoT-enabled physical security, such as smartphone managed locks, enable companies to treat their office entrance as an access point for not only security but to gather critical operational data.

IoT technologies for physical distancing focus on anonymously digitizing the process to streamline the complex analysis & collection of data to ensure individuals maintain within predefined distance requirements throughout a space.

Advanced physical temperature scanning systems provide a safer environment for your employees, patrons, and customers. As businesses open up after closures, governors and local governments now require parties to be temperature tested before entering a building. Establishments will be responsible for creating a safer, orderly environment. Today’s more advanced physical temperature scanning systems ensure the accuracy and data-logging capabilities required for regulatory compliance.

Refrigerator temperature monitoring systems offer automated, hassle-free, recording, and alarming solutions for commercial-grade refrigeration systems. Ideal for medical, laboratory, industrial, and commercial, regulatory compliance; these advanced monitoring devices give you peace of mind in protecting your most valuable assets.

The benefit of IoT-based technologies for scene control is their ability to make/create whatever scene sequence you may need for any given application. For example, maybe the room occupant wants the lights to turn red in a room for some chemical work in an industrial manufacturing process or for a scene to have all lights in a facility turn to full-on in an emergency. Flexibility and ease of use are at the core of IoT technologies for scene control.

Digital displays use technologies such as LCD, LED, projection, and e-paper to display digital images, videos, web pages, weather data, restaurant menus, or text. They can be found in public spaces, transportation systems, museums, stadiums, retail stores, hotels, restaurants, and corporate buildings, to name a few applications. These IoT-based smart displays also provide opportunities for wayfinding, exhibitions, marketing, and outdoor advertising.

All light contains energy. When light strikes an object, that energy is usually converted into heat; that’s why we feel warm when we sit in the sun. However, when the sun’s rays hit a semiconductor material, they release electrons that are captured, funneled into a stream of electric current, and put to use in powering your facility.

IoT-based technologies for temperature sensing allow us to “sense” or detect any physical change to that temperature, producing either an analog or digital output. Theses IoT-based devices can detect temperature states in solids, liquids, or gases and over a wide range of temperatures to ensure proper management of materials and spaces.

With businesses bombarded with many changes to adapt to their “new normal,” more and more companies are struggling to align the needs of employees working remotely, working flex-schedules, and spending time in the office with the right solution to engage and monitor employees. Today’s IoT technologies for attendance and “clocking” services help businesses quickly adapt to today’s ever-changing workforce needs.

There are several different reasons why, as a business owner, you would want to install video monitors throughout your facility. There are networked IoT devices available to solve a wide range of problems you encounter that require cameras, sensors, recording, and quick playback or video searching from safety to security.

From facilities to retail to municipalities and local utilities, there are many reasons you might want to monitor and manage water pressure. Today’s IoT-based devices can actively monitor utility supply lines, fire hydrants, sanitization stations, and many other water-based systems to ensure proper maintenance and functionality.

While the needs vary, water temperature monitoring is essential in areas with extreme temperature fluctuations, seasonality, or even more importantly, where high-temperature water is used to clean or prepare surfaces, such as in food manufacturing.

Wayfinding refers to information systems that guide people through a physical environment and enhance their understanding and experience of the space. Wayfinding is particularly important in complex built environments such as urban centers, healthcare, educational campuses, and transportation facilities. Today’s IoT-based devices provide the digital network required to apply these immersive experiences.