By now in 2019 Internet is an enormous global network which allows people to connect and communicate with each other by sending Email, instant messaging or by use websites to communicate or share data and it is the people who makes the internet, the data which we share basically is generated from client devices such as smart phone, personal Computers or Tablets and it the transmitted to servers and these servers then transmit that data for further use.
In that sense we can say that the entities are made up of three major actors
- The people
- The client devices that we use
- The servers
And now a whole new category of actor is getting added to the Internet they have been called as things, hence it is termed as Internet of Things (IoT).
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IoT device is any object that has sensor attached to it which can transmit the data from that sensor further up into the cloud where it can be analyzed and used to make decisions. These includes sensors
- Light Sensor
- Temperature Sensor
- Hall sensor
- Pressure sensor
- Flow rate sensors
- Waterquality sensor
- Chemicalsensor
- Gassensor
- IR sensors
- Energy monitor sensor
This is relatively new concept, in our modern technological world the internet is now widely available to public, so almost anyone can connect to the web with a variety of devices.The connectivity between these devices to the internet is basically the idea of the Internet of Things.
The number of IoT devices increased 31% year-over-year to 8.4 billion in the year 2017. Now 26.66 billion IoT devices in 2019 were active. According to analysis by Cisco by 2020 there will beover 50 Billion connected devices another study conducted by Morgan Stanley suggests there will be more than75 Billion connected devices. Samsung’s Co-CEO took the stage on Consumers Electronic Show CES2015 to declare that all Samsung’s products will be Internet of Things enabled by 2020. Samsung’s plans are of every Microwave oven, washing machine, fridge should to be Internet of Things enabled.
At the end of 2014 ARM announced new Operating System to boost the development of IoT devices called mbed OS, it is a free operating system for ARM’s Cortex-M ranged microcontrollers. One of the key points of mbed OS is that it supports the important IoT protocol and allows anybody to prototype and develop IoT devices. mbedOS includes all the functionality needed to create an IOT device and transmit that data to the cloud, it supports different stacks like IPv4, IPv6, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi.
Google also in 2015 announced their IoT based Operating system called as Android Things, Android Things code named as Brillo is an Androidbased embedded operating system platform by Google, announced at Google I/O 2015. It is aimed to be used with low-power and memory constrained IoT devices, which are usually built from different MCU platforms. As an IoT OS it is designed to work as low as 32–64 MB of RAM.Along with Brillo, Google also introduced the Weave protocol, which these devices will use to communicate with other devices and which it hopes will be adopted by other IoT operating systems.Every Android device can automatically recognize any Brillo OS or Weave API based device. Users can choose a device, set it up and use it immediately. Android Things also powers Google Assistant smart displays.
So there is going to be an increase in technological devices and software, this essentially means more data. In one sense more data is better, it contributes to our overall knowledge which helps us solve every day problems, to make any device Smart.
Please read my second part…
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