Internet of Things (IoT) is the new buzz word!! This is an attempt to have the ability to transfer data over a network without requiring human-to-human or human-to-computer interaction. IoT has evolved from the convergence of wireless technologies, micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) and the Internet.
Network of computers, aka Internet, are almost wholly dependent on human beings for information. Nearly all of the roughly 50 petabytes (a petabyte is 1,024 terabytes) of data available on the Internet were first captured and created by human beings by typing, pressing a record button, taking a digital picture or scanning a bar code. Such manual mega effort is unstructured, mostly wasted. This resulted in social area like facebook, resulted in structured data. In order to use such massive data, aka big data, brought in analytics, pattern matching. Hadoop, similar technologies helped analyse such information.
Recently wearable flood the market, smart watch, iWatch etc are getting popularity. Such gears identify location, temperature, heart rate, blood pressure and similar information about individual. Imagine, a cardiac patient requires constant monitoring of pulse, analysis of pulse help determine the condition of the heart. Based on the threshold setup, such information can be transmitted to the doctor automatically along with several other parameters like body temperature, environment, blood pressure, exact location of the individual. Even, device can receive instruction to handle the emergency, alert ambulance.... essentially save a life in this emergency situation.
Second example, imagine a smart home having smart devices like fans or air conditioner based on sensors operate to to regulate temperature. Similarly, washing machine can fitted with sensors to connect to internet, take care of creating service requests and report exact fault. Even better, get automatic upgrade of its intelligence!! Your water filter can order cartridge refill automatically! Television is already hooked to internet, so it is more evolved of the device so far.
Diabetic patients know their the pain of taking insulin every day. How fixing a device in the digestive system to release insulin based on the setting of the doctor? Health psychology deals with a challenge of patient consuming the medication as prescribed by the doctor. Internet of Things can help increase the compliance!
Many other usages can be listed!! The list is huge.
Internet of Things are here to challenge human smartness for sure! In this battle of smartness and intelligence, lets see who wins.
Network of computers, aka Internet, are almost wholly dependent on human beings for information. Nearly all of the roughly 50 petabytes (a petabyte is 1,024 terabytes) of data available on the Internet were first captured and created by human beings by typing, pressing a record button, taking a digital picture or scanning a bar code. Such manual mega effort is unstructured, mostly wasted. This resulted in social area like facebook, resulted in structured data. In order to use such massive data, aka big data, brought in analytics, pattern matching. Hadoop, similar technologies helped analyse such information.
What to expect?
Recently wearable flood the market, smart watch, iWatch etc are getting popularity. Such gears identify location, temperature, heart rate, blood pressure and similar information about individual. Imagine, a cardiac patient requires constant monitoring of pulse, analysis of pulse help determine the condition of the heart. Based on the threshold setup, such information can be transmitted to the doctor automatically along with several other parameters like body temperature, environment, blood pressure, exact location of the individual. Even, device can receive instruction to handle the emergency, alert ambulance.... essentially save a life in this emergency situation.
Second example, imagine a smart home having smart devices like fans or air conditioner based on sensors operate to to regulate temperature. Similarly, washing machine can fitted with sensors to connect to internet, take care of creating service requests and report exact fault. Even better, get automatic upgrade of its intelligence!! Your water filter can order cartridge refill automatically! Television is already hooked to internet, so it is more evolved of the device so far.
Diabetic patients know their the pain of taking insulin every day. How fixing a device in the digestive system to release insulin based on the setting of the doctor? Health psychology deals with a challenge of patient consuming the medication as prescribed by the doctor. Internet of Things can help increase the compliance!
Many other usages can be listed!! The list is huge.
My view
Internet of Things are expanding the networking of devices, according to one study, 2 billion devices are expected to be interacting by 2016. This humongous blast of information generates several petabytes of information. Life style of human being is set to change towards greater automation. Such a change also has social challenges, relationship challenges, basic human challenges. You need to decide to what extent this is useful or barging in to your privacy!!! Only time will tell!!Internet of Things are here to challenge human smartness for sure! In this battle of smartness and intelligence, lets see who wins.
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