UbiquitousIoT

Sample Prepaid Energy Meter source: Awoyemi Awoyokun I live in one of those estates where there are shared facilities like street lights, water treatment plant but not 24 hours electricity. I walked from my house to the gate and heard the Estate generator switched on though there was public supply as at when I left home. Upon enquiry, I found out that the credit on the prepaid electricity meter for the Estate Shared Service Meter was used up. As such, the maintenance officer on duty switched on generator to power streetlights and pump water. How could this have happened? Shouldn't the maintenance office have known that the credit was almost depleted? Shouldn't.....  I ranted for about 5 minutes. Before I came back to ask: how could IoT have prevented this from happening? These are the questions: Could IoT have been used know that the prepaid credit was almost exhausted? Could a system have analysed the average rate of electricity consumption, determined how many...