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What Is Internet of Things - IoT

IoT (Internet of Things)

When we order food online, we can track delivery person, it is because our device and device of delivery person is connected through GPS. We can get the information that how much time it will take for delivery and how far the delivery person is there from our location. Similarly, if we book a cab online through any app, we can check how much time it will take to come to our location after booking is done. These are some of the examples of “IoT” i.e., “internet of things”.

IoT is a process in which devices are connected together through internet, by this data is exchanged and we get real time information. This process ultimately helps saving a lot of time, energy and resources.

IoT is basically a network of physical objects (things) that are implanted with sensors, software, and other technologies for the purpose of connecting and exchanging data with other devices and systems over the internet. These devices range from normal household to any complex Industrial tool.

Today there are more than 29 billion IoT connected devices are present and experts are expecting this number to grow to 40 billion by 2025.

5 Major Applications of IoT

IoT in Health Care

IoT in health care sector plays are significant role for smooth functioning of the medical system. It is used to collect data to help doctors to understand conditions and life style of patients. It allows doctors to potentially examine, diagnose and treat larger number of patients as well as to expand health care to the region where physical access is limited.

In medical industry, IOMT is used i.e., “internet of medical thing”. It is the network of Internet connected medical devices used within medical and health care industry. Some examples are sensors in pharmaceutical shipments that measure temperature, shock, humidity, end to end visibility solution that track personalized medicine for a cancer patient. Some devices consist of sensor that are used for tracking real time location of medical equipment like wheel chairs, nebulizers, oxygen pumps and other monitoring equipment.

IoT in Business and Industry

IoT can be used in factories for production work, in machines, for quality control purposes. We can use IoT to monitor the service of product and can even improve after sales environment. Also, IoT will have a big impact on supply chain and logistics where we can use it to monitor how things are moving along the supply chains. We can do remote monitoring to have optimum stock in each machine, remotely change pricing. IoT in business is really a great innovation, a small device with powerful algorithms behind them can completely transform modern industries. It helps in reducing expenses, increasing working efficiency and eliminating risk.

IoT in Everyday Life

Let’s consider air conditioner, we just to our room switch it on, set the temperature and within few minutes room is cooled. But what if it could be better, we are 5 minutes away from our home, our AC receives a message and it is connected to a cloud which has a dashboard containing all the relevant information like our location, outside temperature and the temperature which we like in our room and AC is already turned on before we reach home. Now, all this is possible, just because of internet of things(IoT) .

In our everyday life, internet of things plays a significant role to connect our wearable technology, our smart phones, home and appliances, home light, personal computer, music, vehicles, online shopping, In-flight Services, etc.

IoT in Agriculture

There are many problems that is faced by the farmers due to manual practice in agriculture such as Inaccuracy in agricultural practices, labor and training cost and irregularity due to physical monitoring. But, with the help of IoT we can solve these problems by precision farming, smart irrigation, smart green house.

IoT helps in detecting various parameters at each level of the soil like, moisture content, temperature and weather conditions. IoT can help in finding out the correct depth to sow the crops and the right time to water them.

Smart green house, it is a farming technique where we can increase yielding by controlling natural parameters. We can create artificial sunlight, artificial precipitation inside the green house and along with that we can also the whole process 24-7 through PC, laptop or even smart phone.

IoT in crisis and disaster management

In crisis situation, time is incredibly important as officials work to stabilize the situation and IoT makes it possible. Because of its ability to facilitate fast communication via social media and direct messaging, keeping interaction as reliable as possible. The connected devices, especially those with internet access, are able to keep citizens of a disaster-stricken area informed on disaster’s movement.

We cannot avoid disaster but with the help of IoT we can reduce its impact by developing a suitable warning system, disaster preparedness and management of disaster through the application on IoT.

Geographic Information System (GIS) provides a tool for effective and efficient storage and manipulation of remotely sensed data and other spatial and non-spatial data types for both scientific management and policy oriented information. This can be used to facilitate measurement, mapping, monitoring and modeling of variety of data types related to natural phenomenon.