What is Internet of things?

What is Internet of things?

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The Internet of Things, Internet of things or IoT is a concept that refers to the digital interconnectedness of everyday objects with the Internet becoming so smart objects .

The term was coined in 1999 by Kevin Ashton, a researcher at MIT, while he and his companions performed studies in the field of the identification by radiofrecuenta and sensor technologies.

How works Internet of things?

The key is in the tools making objects smart objects, allowing them to connect to the Internet to expand the functions that are capable of performing.

In this way, a washing machine can leave our pristine clothes, but an smart washing machine also can activate by remote control when we're away from home, collect statistics on the use we give and provide us conclusions for that I will give even more efficient.

A smart washing machine can not give too much information. However, a network in which many users are using smart objects will help us generate big enough data and to optimize not only our behavior, but also the cities whole.

The problem, as it is usually the case with the new technologies is the price. And it is that a smart object will be worth much more money than the "dumb" version of the same.

Even so, many of you are wondering when this technology will arrive into our lives. But the truth is carrying with us a few years, but he is expected to go to more.

So they have an idea, it is expected that end of 2017, 8,400 million connected devices, which is a third of what is estimated to be in 2020, which will be 20.800 million.

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When will it be between us?

Unlike some more popular technologies among the masses, the Internet of things has not found its focus of explosion in the consumer market. Maybe the technology is still too green, or perhaps the industry have not seen the right opportunity to pounce on. We have still seen as Apple and Google have some discrete steps with technologies like Home Kit and Android @Home.

Either way, it is the private sector where the Internet of things is becoming increasingly popular.

 Mass production industry: machinery that is responsible for controlling the processes of manufacturing, robot assemblers, temperature sensors, control of production, everything is connected to the Internet in ever more companies allowing them to centralize control of the infrastructure.

 Control of urban infrastructure: control traffic lights, bridges, railway lines, urban cameras. More and more cities implement this type of infrastructure based on the Internet of things that allow you to monitor the proper functioning of its structures as well as more flexibly adapt their operation to new events.

 Environmental control: one of the areas that is having more success the Internet of things, since it allows access from virtually anywhere with info from atmospheric, meteorological sensors, and sismic.

 Health sector: more and more hospitals and clinics around the world rely on systems that allow health personnel actively monitor patients in ambulatory way and not invasive.

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There are also applications of the Internet of things for transportation, energy industry, and virtually all commercial sectors. As we have said, the steep slope is the consumer market, or what is the same, homes, a place that is probably a matter of time so that we will see the great explosion of the IoT.