WHAT IS THE INTERNET OF THINGS (IoT)?
The Internet of Things (IoT) is an easy key driver of the digital transformation that will enable everyday objects and physical systems within homes, commercial buildings, and critical infrastructures to communicate with each other.
In doing so, it allows people and systems to share huge amount of data which process unlimited options in the way of we live. Today most of IoT devices consist of five main diverse applications: Home, Transport, Health, Buildings and Cities.
- Home consumers are now allowed to control each facility like lighting, heating, security over the internet.
- Transport mobility gives us a chance to monitor fleet management, traffic routing or supply chain.
- Using a combination of our health care devices, informs us about unpredictable diseases. Buildings are now informing us about parking lots, emergency events or energy distributions.
- Cities are getting independence and providing us information about new signage or self-maintenance.
The compound of all of these IoT components presents us the new perspectives where life will be more and more associated to the Internet.
HOW DID THE INTERNET OF THINGS EVOLVE OVER TIME?
When thinking of the IoT, consider the idea, “Any device can connect to the Internet“. According to this idea we can assume that the Internet itself is a significant component which was invented in 1969. While the primary purpose of Internet was to transfer digital information, many other scientists were interested in case to adopt M2M technologies with the Internet.
One of the first examples of an Internet of Things is from the early 1980s. It and was a Coca Cola machine, located at the Carnegie Melon University. Local programmers would connect by Internet to the refrigerated appliance, and check to see if there was a drink available, and if it was cold. This first concept gives us an official of IoT concept representation which was submitted as sensors and actuators embedded in physical objects that linked to the network.
Today the concept of IoT is related with cloud technologies. Cloud has played a main role in making modern IoT possible. That is because the cloud provides a low-cost computation infrastructure which allows manipulating and understanding the process in physical hardware.
Due to this new concept, devices are getting cheaper and more obtainable for all users.