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What Is IoT

The Internet of Things (IoT) connects physical objects through sensors and software that allow them to exchange data over the internet. IoT devices range from ordinary household appliances to sophisticated industrial tools. They collect data through sensors and send it to the cloud using various connectivity methods. In the cloud, software processes the data and provides user interfaces like alerts. IoT has many potential benefits across industries like automotive, transportation, healthcare, and public sectors by enabling remote monitoring, predictive maintenance, asset tracking, and improved safety.

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What Is IoT

The Internet of Things (IoT) connects physical objects through sensors and software that allow them to exchange data over the internet. IoT devices range from ordinary household appliances to sophisticated industrial tools. They collect data through sensors and send it to the cloud using various connectivity methods. In the cloud, software processes the data and provides user interfaces like alerts. IoT has many potential benefits across industries like automotive, transportation, healthcare, and public sectors by enabling remote monitoring, predictive maintenance, asset tracking, and improved safety.

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What is IoT?

The Internet of Things (IoT) describes the network of physical objects


—“things”—that are embedded with sensors, software, and other
technologies for the purpose of connecting and exchanging data with
other devices and systems over the internet. These devices range from
ordinary household objects to sophisticated industrial tools.

1) Sensors/Devices

First, sensors or devices collect data from their environment. This could
be as simple as a temperature reading

I use “sensors/devices,” because multiple sensors can be bundled


together or sensors can be part of a device that does more than just
sense things. For example, your phone is a device that has multiple
sensors (camera, accelerometer, GPS, etc), but your phone is not just a
sensor.

However, whether it’s a standalone sensor or a full device, in this first


step data is being collected from the environment by something.

2) Connectivity

Next, that data is sent to the cloud (what’s the cloud?), but it needs a
way to get there!
The sensors/devices can be connected to the cloud through a variety of
methods including: cellular, satellite, WiFi, Bluetooth, low-power wide-
area networks (LPWAN), or connecting directly to the internet via
ethernet.

Choosing which connectivity option is best comes down to the specific


IoT application, but they all accomplish the same task: getting data to
the cloud.

3) Data Processing

Once the data gets to the cloud, software performs some kind of


processing on it.

This could be very simple, such as checking that the temperature


reading is within an acceptable range. Or it could also be very complex,
such as using computer vision on video to identify objects (such as
intruders in your house).

But what happens when the temperature is too high or if there is an


intruder in your house? That’s where the user comes in.

4) User Interface

Next, the information is made useful to the end-user in some way. This
could be via an alert to the user (email, text, notification, etc). For
example, a text alert when the temperature is too high in the
company’s cold storage.

IOT CHANGING THE WORLD


You may have heard on many occasions that this technology will
change the world forever. And if you’re old enough, you’ll have seen
that on some occasions in form of automation.
Today, the Internet of Things (IoT) is one of the most popular
technologies. With a promising future that looks closer than other
“trendy” technologies, such as robotics or nanotechnology, some
people dare, once again, to launch the same statement: IoT will change
the world.

Benefit from IoT?


Organizations best suited for IoT are those that would benefit from
using sensor devices in their business processes.

Automotive

The automotive industry stands to realize advantages from the use of


IoT applications. Applying IoT to production lines, sensors can detect
equipment failure in vehicles already on the road and can alert the
driver with details and recommends. Automotive manufacturers and
suppliers can learn more about how to keep cars running and car
owners informed.

Transportation and Logistics

Transportation and logistical systems benefit from a variety of IoT


applications. trucks, ships, and trains that carry inventory can be
rerouted based on weather conditions, vehicle availability, or driver
availability, thanks to IoT sensor data. The food and beverage, flower,
and pharmaceutical industries often carry temperature-sensitive
inventory that would benefit greatly from IoT monitoring applications
that send alerts when temperatures rise or fall to a level that threatens
the product.
Public Sector

The benefits of IoT in the public sector and other service-related


environments are similarly wide-ranging. For example, government-
owned utilities can use IoT-based applications to notify their users of
mass outages and even of smaller interruptions of water, power, or
sewer services. IoT applications can collect data concerning the scope
of an outage and deploy resources to help utilities recover from
outages with greater speed.

Healthcare

IoT asset monitoring provides multiple benefits to the healthcare


industry. Doctors, nurses, often need to know the exact location of
patient-assistance assets such as wheelchairs. When a hospital’s
wheelchairs are equipped with IoT sensors, they can be tracked from
the IoT asset-monitoring application so that anyone looking for one can
quickly find the nearest available wheelchair. Many hospital assets can
be tracked this way to ensure proper usage as well as financial
accounting for the physical assets in each department.

General Safety Across All Industries


In addition to tracking physical assets, IoT can be used to improve
worker safety. Employees in hazardous environments such as mines, oil
and gas fields, and chemical and power plants, for example, need to
know about the occurrence of a hazardous event that might affect
them. When they are connected to IoT sensor–based applications, they
can be notified of accidents or rescued from them as swiftly as possible.
IoT applications are also used for wearables that can monitor human
health and environmental conditions. Not only do these types of
applications help people better understand their own health, they also
permit physicians to monitor patients remotely.

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