Are there any well known real life(practical)applications of ardunio?

How much time have you spent looking threads on this forum. People have described their Arduino project, sometime in detail.

MY personal applications are 1, an anemometer that runs 24/7. My irrigation system storage tank control is by Arduino and has run for 4 years. I did several for my previous electronic assembly business, a coils winder, a drying oven, a solder paste refrigerated storage chamber using a Peltier device.

Many people have extensive remote weather stations.