Every time any network emerges it improves our life
certainly. In ancient times, human network emerged and people started living
together, creating lifestyles, cities, states, countries and all. After that
internet revolution comes which changes our living standards by enabling us to
communicate information with anyone in the world. Now internet has been
embedded so deep in our life that it is now hard to imagine our daily routine
without it.
Now in the recent years new networking era comes which again
is going to make us connected to nonliving things more interactively. This era
of smart gadgets created new possibilities to getting more control in our
hands. It is called Internet of Things (IOT).
IOT is the connected network of electronic gadgets,
buildings, vehicles etc. The objects are embedded with sensors, intelligence
software, and Internet, enabling 24/7 communication and successful completion
of tasks, without our input.
The physical devices can be single temperature sensor
fitted in propulsion system of rocket to heartrate monitor, and from smart
video doorbell to a car with built in sensors. That means the device having
network connection and own IP address is in IOT.
This capability has become possible due to huge growth in
electronic technology. As size of transistors reduced, electronic gadgets
become more complex and intelligent.
Now the question is, how it will help us in daily life? Think about the cars
connected to a common network and they can exchange data to each other like
co-ordinates, speed so that if any accidents can be avoided using real time
algorithms will be beneficial. Also, if we think about the smartphone
communicating with car will select best route for travel as per our schedule in
smartphone’s calendar app. A smart watch tracking our sleep connected to coffee
making machine which will start to make coffee when we wake up. Like this there
are tremendous amount of possibilities are created which will be making us
capable to uplift our living standards and making things easy.
But the data produced by all this ‘things’ will be huge and
sometimes sensitive also, so we need a very good and capable technology to
store, handle and manage this data. Technologies like Cloud storage, big data
are emerging which will help us to achieve this objective.
Now what is an important downside of this? ‘Security’. If
security gets compromised at any small point then any one can hack in your
personal private network and can harm in very bad manner. Also there is risk of
privacy. Also, this network can become very complex that our current systems
cant handle them.
To conquer this many technological firms are doing research
in this fields, to create possibilities of IOT in their own way. But this is a
truly a revolutionary era and we should welcome this as it will help us to make
possible our major initiatives like smart cities.
We will explore other aspects about the devices and things
later in further posts.
Thank you and have a nice time!
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