What is IoT?
Internet of Things is the inter-networking of all physical day to day devices such as vehicles, mobile phones (also referred as "smart devices"), buildings and any other devices which embedded with electronics, sensors, actuators where software and network connectivity enables these objects to collect and share data between each other.
Heres' an example how your life will be simplified with connected devices.
- The power of connectivity is immense
- The age of connected everything is upon us
- Interconnecting every ‘thing’ will be paradigm changing
However there are many practical challenges
- Many communication protocols
- Many hardware platforms
- Many types of Firmware/OS families
- Many vendor controlled silos
……… Basically too many ‘many’s leading to poor inter-operability and high inertia
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