{"id":541,"date":"2016-02-20T15:17:32","date_gmt":"2016-02-20T09:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.veeble.org\/blog\/?p=541"},"modified":"2023-08-16T12:57:36","modified_gmt":"2023-08-16T07:27:36","slug":"internet-of-things-applications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.veeble.com\/blog\/internet-of-things-applications\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet of things: What it is & its applications"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Imagine as you wake up and head for the bathroom, where you step onto the inbuilt scale in the bathroom floor and it monitors your health parameters like stress, heart rate, and weight and compares it against your goals. Then as you are brushing away to those perfect pearly whites, your brush checks the oral health and reminds you about the spot that you missed. All this data, gathered and systematically ordered in the wall mounted electronic hub in your home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now wake up for real, for this is no dream but the reality of the 21st century. The Internet of things has arrived and is here to stay. A total of around 10 billion devices were connected to the internet in 2015 and this number is projected to reach 34 billion devices by 2020. It is estimated that IoT devices will make up around 24 of the 34 billion, while conventional computing devices like computers, smartphones, tablets, etc, will comprise the rest 10 billion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is IOT?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Internet of Things (IoT) is exactly as it sounds. It is things\/devices or products, which have inbuilt electronics say sensors in them working in tandem with software, collecting and exchanging data by communicating with each other over a network (The internet). When we say things, they could be from as small as a button to as large as a building.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This image represents the environment of the Internet of Things. Source: businessinsider.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2981 The IoT devices would be present in multiple locations gathering data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2981 They would be coordinating with each other while connected together through a common network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2981 The gathered data would be sent back via the network to the Cloud or Data Storage or to a remote ( Computer, smartphone etc.) .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2981 This data would be crunched and analyzed using algorithms for that purpose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The integration of these devices with the internet points to the use of IP addresses as a means of unique identification. There is a problem here though in the form of the limited address space of IPv4 (4.3 billion distinctive addresses). Devices in the IoT will have to use IPv6 to accommodate the extremely large address space required. The IoT revolution will not made possible without the assistance of IPv6 and would be dependent to a large extent on the global adoption of this protocol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How was IOT conceptualised?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The idea of smart devices in a network was thought of as early as 1982. Carnegie Mellon University had the distinction of harbouring the first appliance to be connected with a network. It was a Coke machine with the ability to report its contents and tell if the drinks that were just loaded were cold or not.
However it wasn\u2019t until 1999 that IoT as a concept gained popularity. This was in-part due to the Auto-ID Center at MIT. Its founder Kevin Ashton saw RFID as a requirement for IoT. The thinking behind it was that if devices were equipped with identifiers, computers could inventory and manage them. This notion of devices with identifiers is one of the central features of Internet of Things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The horizons stretching before IoT<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The early analysis of the various possibilities of IoT are staggering. From a report in Business Insider (BI) on the Internet of Things, we gain few key insights :<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Around $6 Trillion expenditure will occur over IoT platform within 5 years from now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The investments in infrastructure of IoT will be in six key areas :<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Connectivity<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Security<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Data Storage<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. System Integration<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. Device Hardware<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  6. Application Development<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    The biggest adopters of the IoT platform will be<\/p>\n\n\n\n