CONFERENCE ROOM TRACKER IOT BASED APPLICATION FOR SMART OFFICES

Abstract

In this paper, we present a way to determine if given room, place or any other area of application is occupied or
unoccupied. The work done here has focused on conference rooms availability. The modern-era workplaces are
made with having a focus on data collection, and it’s automation. The data collected data is then used in
multiple ways to monitor workplace and employees. Data based smart intelligence is opening new, faster, and
smarter ways of possibilities with smart and predictive analytics.
Conference room tracker optimises the availability of the conference room using IoT technologies. The sensor
delivers the room activity to the cloud. A conference room tracker provides the facility to know when a room is
unoccupied regardless of what the online scheduler shows so that one has not to cancel the meeting due to
wrong information regarding usage of the conference room.
A conference room tracker includes a plurality of handheld computers in communication with a cloud
computing network or a remote server that has accessible information about the room activities. This
application is not only limited to office; we can also set it up at home for building smart homes as IoT is
subjected to build smart cities, intelligent shopping system, smart traffic system, smart grid and so forth.
The hand-held computer or single board computer (Raspberry Pi) allows the sensors to connect through it and
receives the information about the room activity and send it to the IoT cloud. The IoT cloud demonstrates a
new type of emerging distributed system compromising of a set of smart appliances interconnected with a
remotely connected Cloud computing framework, platform, or software through the Internet and able to give
IoT as services