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The following behavioural aspects of car drivers can be

monitored remotely:

ƒ Speed

ƒ Braking attitude

ƒ Sharp use of brakes

ƒ Smooth or harsh accelerations

ƒ Sharp turns

ƒ Frequent U-turns

You will first need to visit the IoT Context Mapping

Service in the IBM Bluemix console.

The following credentials and authentication fields will be

displayed after creating the service:

ƒ Tenant ID

ƒ User name

ƒ Password

It should be noted that we have to select the free plan in

every panel to avoid the charges of cloud services provided by

IBM Bluemix.

After getting the tenant information and authentication

tokens, the next step is to create remote devices with

information about their unique identities. Every sensor

based device has a unique ID, which is set in the IBM

Watson IoT platform so that live monitoring from remote

places can be done. The Watson platform provides options

to enter different devices with the help of ‘vehicles’ and

gateways. By using this approach, real-time signals are

transmitted to satellites and then to the end user for taking

further action and decisions.

Figure 5: Editing Node-RED editor

Figure 9: Credentials and tenant information

Figure 10: Creating remote devices with the related information

By: Dr Gaurav Kumar

The author is the MD of Magma Research and Consultancy Pvt

Ltd, Ambala. He is associated with various academic and research

institutes, where he delivers lectures and conducts technical

workshops on the latest technologies and tools. He can be

contacted at [email protected].

Figure 6: Message display panel

Figure 7: Creating a context mapping app for driver behaviour analysis

Figure 8: Selecting the driver behaviour service in IoT

After setting all the parameters with respect to devices

and gateways, click on Deploy and wait for the ‘successfully

deployed’ notification.

Twilio for live messaging

If there is a need for live messaging to a mobile phone,

Twilio can be used. Using the Twilio APIs, messages can be

delivered to smartphones and other points. Twilio provides

APIs and authentication tokens, which can also be mapped

in IBM Bluemix for live monitoring of weather or other IoT

based applications.