Augmented Reality Enabled IoT Services for Environmental Monitoring Utilising Serious Gaming Concept

The paper describes an approach to integration of physical and digital worlds through aggregation of Internet of Things (IoT) service with the Augmented Reality (AR) platform, AR Genie. The solution is generally applicable, but concretely in this paper the IoT service is provided by ekoNET platform which provides the environmental data through AR based applications. The ekoNET solution is developed for a real-time monitoring of air quality and other atmospheric condition parameters such as temperature, air pressure and humidity. AR Genie is Software as a Service (SaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) solution offering features and functionalities for creation and deployment of AR applications using simple and intuitive drag and drop interface requiring no programming knowledge. By extending the AR Genie platform with the ekoNET IoT service we were able to demonstrate usage of a real-time environmental data within AR mobile applications as well as to enable a new, more engaging way of IoT data visualization utilizing serious gaming and AR technologies.