What is the IoT, and why is it important?
Internet of things is going viral nowadays both in the workplace and outside of it. IoT has a great impact on our daily lives, it completely transforms the way we used to lives. IoT is increasing the growing topic in between the several vertical of the industries, but still many people not completely aware or realizing of the things they do is just because of IoT. From Traffic signal to automatically brewed coffee ready on your table before reaching home, these become possible by the IoT. Before going further, let’s discuss the basics of IoT?
What is the Internet of Things (IoT)?
IoT is an ecosystem which connected millions of devices through the internet. Those “connected” things are used to gather information, send information back, or both. IoT allows people and business to be connected more around the world and do the needful things and a higher level of work.
In simple words, we would say “IoT means taking all the things in the world and connecting them to the internet”. IoT adds a level of digital intelligence to the devices that would be otherwise dumb, enabling them to communicate in real-time without the interaction of humans.
IoT is more important in the world as it fills the gap between devices and humans and provides a complete solution to every problem in the world. In the earlier we had computers that knew everything -using data they gathered without any help from us – we would be able to track and count everything, and greatly reduce waste, and cost. We would know when things needed replacing, repairing or recalling, and whether they were fresh or past their best. But now it’s time to empower computers with their own means of gathering information, so they can see, hear and smell the world for themselves, in all its random glory. This is precisely what IoT platforms do for us. It enables devices/objects to observe, identify and understand a situation or the surroundings without being dependent on human help.
Why does IoT is important?
IoT is more important in the world as it fills the gap between devices and humans and provides a complete solution to every problem in the world. In the earlier we had computers that knew everything -using data they gathered without any help from us – we would be able to track and count everything, and greatly reduce waste, and cost. We would know when things needed replacing, repairing or recalling, and whether they were fresh or past their best. But now it’s time to empower computers with their own means of gathering information, so they can see, hear and smell the world for themselves, in all its random glory. This is precisely what IoT platforms do for us. It enables devices/objects to observe, identify and understand a situation or the surroundings without being dependent on human help.
In the internet of things, all the things that are connected to the internet can be consider into three main categories:
Things that collect information and then send it.
Things that receive information and then act on it.
Things that do both.
All of three categories having their own benefits that feeds on each other.
How IoT works?
IoT aims to connect multiple devices at a time to the internet and thereby facilitating machine to machine and machine to human’s communications. IoT is not limited to a field but has an impact on many areas such as home automation, smart cities, transportations, retails and much more.
IoT works through the below main fundamentals components, which tell us how IoT works:
Sensors/devices: Sensors or devices helps to accumulate the data from the surrounding areas. All this information has their several degrees of complexity from a simple temperature monitoring sensor or a complex full video feed.
Connectivity: The collected data send to the cloud via a medium, sensors connected to the cloud through innumerable mediums of communication and transports such as cellular networks, satellite networks, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, wide-area networks (WAN), low power wide area network and many more.
Data Processing: Once the data is accumulated and it gets to the cloud, the software performs processing on the acquired data.
User Interface: Depending on the IoT application and complexity of the system, the user may also be able to perform an action that may backfire and affect the system.
Let’s Finish it: With this blog, we learned that how IoT works and an entire IoT system. IoT is high on demand in the industries but most important to develop the right IoT app which helps in your business and generate more revenue.
