ENG233

End-of-Course Assessment - January Semester 2022

Internet of Things (IoT)

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INSTRUCTIONS TO STUDENTS:

1. This End-of-Course Assessment paper comprises FIVE (5) pages (including the cover
page).

2. You are to include the following particulars in your submission: Course Code, Title of the
ECA, SUSS PI No., Your Name, and Submission Date.

3. Late submission will be subjected to the marks deduction scheme. Please refer to the
Student Handbook for details.

IMPORTANT NOTE

ECA Submission Deadline: 01 May 2022, 12 noon

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ECA Submission Guidelines

Please follow the submission instructions stated below:

This ECA carries 70% of the course marks and is a compulsory component. It is to be done
individually and not collaboratively with other students.

Submission
You are to submit the ECA assignment in exactly the same manner as your tutor-marked assignments
(TMA), i.e. using Canvas. Submission in any other manner like hardcopy or any other means will
not be accepted. You are to ensure that the file to be submitted does not exceed 20MB in file size.

Electronic transmission is not immediate. It is possible that the network traffic may be particularly
heavy on the cut-off date and connections to the system cannot be guaranteed. Hence, you are
advised to submit your assignment the day before the cut-off date in order to make sure that the
submission is accepted and in good time.

Once you have submitted your ECA assignment, the status is displayed on the computer screen. You
will only receive a successful assignment submission message if you had applied for the e-mail
notification option.

ECA Marks Deduction Scheme

Please note the following:
a) Submission Cut-off Time – Unless otherwise advised, the cut-off time for ECA submission
will be at 12:00 noon on the day of the deadline. All submission timings will be based on the
time recorded by Canvas.
b) Start Time for Deduction – Students are given a grace period of 12hours. Hence calculation
of late submissions of ECAs will begin at 00:00 hrs the following day (this applies even if it
is a holiday or weekend) after the deadline.
c) How the Scheme Works – From 00:00 hrs the following day after the deadline, 10 marks
will be deducted for each 24-hour block. Submissions that are subject to more than 50 marks
deduction will be assigned zero mark. For examples on how the scheme works, please refer
to Section 5.2 Para 1.7.3 of the Student Handbook.

Any extra files, missing appendices or corrections received after the cut-off date will also not be
considered in the grading of your ECA assignment.

Plagiarism and Collusion

Plagiarism and collusion are forms of cheating and are not acceptable in any form of a student’s
work, including this ECA assignment. You can avoid plagiarism by giving appropriate references
when you use some other people’s ideas, words or pictures (including diagrams). Refer to the
American Psychological Association (APA) Manual if you need reminding about quoting and
referencing. You can avoid collusion by ensuring that your submission is based on your own
individual effort.

The electronic submission of your ECA assignment will be screened through a plagiarism detecting
software. For more information about plagiarism and cheating, you should refer to the Student
Handbook. SUSS takes a tough stance against plagiarism and collusion. Serious cases will normally
result in the student being referred to SUSS’s Student Disciplinary Group. For other cases,
significant marking penalties or expulsion from the course will be imposed.
Project and required specifications

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 1. Design and conceptualise an IoT solution to address the following case:

Case Workflow: Sustainability is one of the topmost agenda among government agencies as well
as private organisations. Manufacturing sector can contribute significantly to achieve
sustainability goals in the multiple focus areas in the entire value chain, such as supply chain,
production, waste management, energy efficiency and more.

A global Singaporean manufacturer has recently initiated sustainability efforts and looking to
identify the potential areas where AI and IoT (AIoT) and other emerging technologies could help
in achieving sustainability development goals (SDGs).

Challenge: The production team at the plant has identified the energy efficiency and management
as one of the key focus areas in the plant to help achieving sustainability goals in 2022. A typical
manufacturing plant has various industrial systems and infrastructure such as HVAC systems, air
compressors, furnaces, lighting system responsible for the most energy consumption.

Digitalisation team is looking to implement an Integrated and Intelligent AIoT based Energy
Management Solution (EMS) to identify areas of energy wastage, to help optimise the production
flow and reduce energy consumption by 30 %.

Solution Requirements: Digitalisation team is looking for a solution which should be able to:
1. Identify areas in the entire production system and facility responsible for energy wastage.
2. Recommend the optimised production flow to switch on/off a system to save the energy.
3. Able to interact with facility management systems (FMS) and building management system
(BMS) to improve the work environment for the production floor team.
4. Notify to the relevant stakeholders to respond to the situations and take decisions.
5. Minimise human intervention once the solution is deployed.
6. Minimise maintenance and operational cost of the solution.
7. Reduce CAPEX investment in the solution.
8. Assure end to end security of the solution.

Your project will be assessed based on your ability to design, fulfilment of specification and the
report.
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Question 1

Problem Definition:

(a) Define FOUR (4) business and operational challenges that the manufacturer might be
facing in the plant in absence of AIoT EMS. (Provide a table, and a description)
(8 marks)

(b) Verify the four problems in Question 1(a) and estimate their impact on potential
sustainability goals and business & operational losses. Prioritise the problems from high
to low in ranking. (Provide a table, and a description)
(10 marks)

Question 2

Workflow Design:

(a) Design and describe the logical operational workflow of the problems. How these
problems are interlinked with each other? (Provide a workflow diagram, and a
description)
(10 marks)

(b) Propose the sustainability goals that can be achieved in the integrated workflow and
map those with the areas of impact. (Update the workflow diagram and provide a
description)
(10 marks)

Question 3

IoT Solution Design:

(a) Design the overall FOUR (4) stages architectural diagram considering various systems
in the plant addressing the problems identified for the AIoT EMS proposed by you.
(Provide a diagram and a description)
(10 marks)

(b) Recommend the potential technologies in each stage of the AIoT EMS. (Provide a table,
and a description)

(i) Type of data to be captured and how.

(ii) Connectivity & communication protocols to transfer the data.
(iii) Computing infrastructure.
(iv) Data analytics layer and applications to analyse and visualise the data.
(12 marks)

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(c) Appraise FOUR (4) key security challenges and their risks. How would you address
the above security challenges in the proposed AIoT EMS. (Provide a table, and a
description)
(8 marks)

(d) Plan the integrated solution with sustainability goals tracking across the various plant
functions. (Provide a diagram, and a description)
(10 marks)

Question 4

Business Model Re-Design

(a) Discuss on how the CAPEX for the AIoT EMS can be minimised. (Provide a
description)
(5 marks)

(b) Discuss how the maintenance team can leverage on the data and intelligence to improve
their operations and plant (Provide a description)
(5 marks)

(c) Propose a Return of Investment matrix cost-based for the proposed AIoT EMS. Provide
a table, and a description. List TWO (2) criteria.
(6 marks)

(d) Propose a Return of Investment matrix value-based for the proposed AIoT EMS.
Provide a table, and a description. List TWO (2) criteria.
(6 marks)

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