IOT (Internet of Things)

What is the Internet of Things?

What we understand from the term “Internet of things” aka “IOT”, very popular these days. If we split the sentence than we will get two words “Internet” and “things” i.e. things which use internet.

Now here the term ‘thing’ could be any physical devices such as vehicles, buildings, electronic products, etc. So, in short, we can say that all the devices which are embedded with software’s or sensors or connected to any wired or wireless networks and being able to collect and exchange data in between are called the Internet of Things.

The idea behind this technology is to track an individual’s behavior and data to create new kind of services. The data is gathered from connected homes and connected cities to connected cars and machines to devices.

History of the Internet of Things

• In the early 2000s, Kevin Ashton was started working on the Internet of Things (IoT) at MIT’s AutoID lab 
• While working on the Proctor & Gamble he discovered that this could improve its business by linking RFID information to the Internet
• In a 1999, Ashton wrote a journal on RFID (Radio-frequency identification) with the name of “Internet of things” and from then the world gets the concept of IoT
• The Internet of Things Consortium, a group dedicated to bringing companies together to accelerate the development of the IoT.
• IoT sometimes also called sometimes as the Internet of Everything (IoE)

Why do we need the Internet Of Things?

Current Situation: Let's say there is a patient at home on constant life support where his status has been checked to a health monitoring system. Let's say at a point there is certain irregularities with his heartbeat or some fluid being developed or so far. In today’s scenario, there will be someone monitoring patient’s health and if there will be any fluctuation then they call and request hospital for help and meanwhile once the ambulance arrives they take the patient to the hospital and run tests after analyzing the patient health via multiple tests. This leads to a delay in some emergencies cases.

After implementing IoT: After implementing IoT, patient will be connected to the health monitoring system on cloud which is also connected to the hospital where all the data regarding the patient health is being stored and based on the irregularities of patient health status system automatically dispatch the ambulance and meanwhile the ambulance brought back the patient to the hospital the prescription, medicines, operation theatre could be ready and doctors also have the patient history and present condition. This reduces the lots of effort and time involved in respect to this.

Benefits of IoT

• IoT helps to reduce cost through improved process efficiency, asset utilization, and productivity.
• Minimizing human effort.
• With improved tracking of devices/objects using sensors and connectivity, they can benefit from real-time insights and analytics, which would help them make smarter decisions.
• Development of AI through IOT such as Siri or Google Assistant.
• Saves time.
• Improved security.

IoT Features

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IOT Trends

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References

*Using Images Found Through Google Images

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrwbeOIlc68

https://www.slideshare.net/ChromeInfotech/internet-of-things-52334030

https://www.cleveroad.com/blog/ios-development-trends-of-2017--hot-top-that-will-shape-platforms-future