January 03, 2017

Internet of Things


  Many of us have dreamed of smart homes where our appliances do our bidding automatically. The alarm sounds and the coffee pot starts brewing the moment you want to start your day. Lights come on as you walk through the house. Some unseen computing device responds to your voice commands to read your schedule and messages to you while you get ready, then turns on the TV news. Your car drives you to work via the least congested route, freeing you up to get caught up on your reading or prep for your morning meeting while in transit. We have read and seen such things in science fiction for decades, but they are now either already possible or on the brink of coming into reality. And this entire new technology is forming the basis of what people are calling the Internet of Things.

           The Internet of Things (IoT) is a system of interrelated computing devices, mechanical and digital machines, objects, animals or people that are provided with unique identifiers and the ability to transfer data over a network without requiring human-to-human or human-to-computer interaction. A thing, in the Internet of Things, can be a person with a heart monitor implant, a farm animal with a biochip transponder, an automobile that has built-in sensors to alert the driver when tire pressure is low or any other natural or man-made object that can be assigned an IP address and provided with the ability to transfer data over a network. 


          Kevin Ashton, cofounder and executive director of the Auto-ID Center at MIT, first mentioned the Internet of Things in a presentation he made to Procter & Gamble in 1999. It has evolved from the convergence of radio frequency identification (RFID), micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS), nanotechnology and the internet. The convergence has helped to bridge the gap between operational technology (OT) and information technology (IT), allowing unstructured machine-generated data to be analyzed for insights that will drive improvements. Thus IoT connects the physical world with the internet’s cyber world. 


         Practical applications of IoT technology can be found in many industries today, including precision agriculture, building management, healthcare, energy and transportation. So it is believed IoT industry will drive the next economic growth.  

- Sooryanarayana P S.
  Dept. of CS.

Department of Computer Science

Vivekananda college, Puttur D.K

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