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Friday, April 13, 2018

The Internet of Things

The Internet of Things

           Here’s a riddle. How many things can be interconnected to the internet? The answer is infinity, and the IoT (the internet of things) is going to provide that infinite network. It will be a network of sensors including RFID (radio frequency identification) tags, barcodes, passive tags, active and GPS enabled active tags that are both intelligent and can communicate with one another. This essay will review two current definitions of IoT as well as examine two IoT applications and investigate some of their advantages and disadvantages.

         The definitions of the phrase the internet of things usually combine the ideas of smart sensors with growth and human interaction. For example, Wired.com one of the most popular cutting-edge computer content publishers writes, “the internet of things revolves around increased machine to machine communication; it’s built on cloud computing and networks of data gathering sensors,” it’s mobile, virtual and instantaneous connection; and they say it’s going to make everything in our lives from streetlights to seaports smart.

          So What Is the Internet of Things? Simply put, this is the concept of basically connecting any device with an on and off switch to the Internet (and to each other). This includes everything from cell phones, coffee makers, washing machines, headphones, lamps, wearable devices and almost anything else you can think of. Here is my definition, the IoT is a phrase used to describe how things containing RFIDs (radio frequency induction devices) connect to the internet digitally and provide information and control applications.


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