Environmental monitoring
Environmental monitoring applications of the IoT typically use sensors
to assist in environmental protection by monitoring air or water
quality, atmospheric or soil conditions, and can even include areas like
monitoring the movements of wildlife and their habitats. Development of
resource-constrained devices connected to the Internet also means that
other applications like earthquake or tsunami early-warning systems can
also be used by emergency services to provide more effective aid. IoT
devices in this application typically span a large geographic area and
can also be mobile. It has been argued that the standardization IoT
brings to wireless sensing will revolutionize this area.