Real-life Applications of integration of Augmented Reality and Internet of Things

This research aims to implement the integration of the Internet of Things and Augmented reality to perceive, and visualize the data virtually over the real-world objects conveniently. A step-by-step procedure is described how one can use IoT and AR together which is not much described in the literature. In IoT, using the sensors, the data can be sent to the cloud (using any microcontroller connected to Wi-Fi). Any cloud server can receive the incoming data from the Controller using the API call and can be stored in the database. For visualization of the data, the output data is fetched from the database in the form of numbers and texts. This data format is not much interactive and completely perceived by the user. To enhance the perception of this data to the user Augmented Reality (AR) is used to view the data over real-world objects. A mobile camera captures and records a video, and using Vuforia SDK any virtual content like 3D shapes, and environments can be superimposed in the video. Thus, the virtual content which contains the 3D model of the machine along with the sensor data can be displayed in the video of the real world. In this paper, the methodology of implementing this integration is proposed through various applications such as Temperature Monitoring in the machines in Manufacturing Industry, Soil Moisture monitoring in Irrigation, Health monitoring, Tire pressure Monitoring in Automobiles are also described.