What is Internet of things?
Internet of things (IoT) is becoming a growing trends recently. It refers to the billions of every electronic devices connected to the internet and sharing data. This includes everything from smart phone, lamps, washing machine and any smart devices that you can think of. With the convenience of wireless networks, IoT is able to merge both the physical and digital worlds together.
To give a better understanding of how IoT works, the video below will help explain to you more about IoT.
How big is the internet of things?
IoT is big and will continue to grow bigger. Analyst Gartner calculates that 8.4 billion connected things were used in 2017 and 11 billion IoT devices in 2018. With this steady growth, it is expected to reach 20.4 billion by 2020. Out of that 8.4 billion devices, there will be more than half of the consumer products being smart speakers and smart TVs.
What are the benefit of the Internet of things?
IoT helps to makes our living environment much more convenient and comfortable. It is impossible to ignore the impact of IoT technologies can have in our homes. Smart speakers like Google home and Amazon’s Echo helps to make it easier to manage the lighting in our homes, play music to set the mood and also collecting informations online. Meanwhile, Nest Thermostat helps us adjust our house temperature to our liking before we reach home. It learns about your preferences and will adjusts the home temperature automatically. Besides that it will also help you use energy more efficiently and save electricity.
BMW connected all its cars to the IoT by 2021
BMW is stepping into the IoT and connected driving technology. First, BMW will be able to track how drivers use their cars by directly controlling the connections. Second, BMW enginners can better secure the car by consistently connected. Besides, the car will be power by SIM cards, just like smartphones and other mobile devices. This technology can even connect their cars to the driver’s home, allowing drivers to manage and monitor their home from the road. For instance, notifying of water leakages or smoke alarms setting off. With the power of IoT, BMW believes that this techology will be a big revolution by 2021.
To learn more on connected cars, see beyond smart cars: Smart car production.
In conclusion, IoT have helped advance the world into a higher level of comfort and convenience. It also changed how people interact with each other through their smart devices. After much advances in the age of technology, the future of connected smart home and cars has finally become a reality.
Now you have understood what is IoT. Got questions? I’d love to hear them! Let me know in the comments below.
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Thanks for this reading, it makes me know how deep the Internet of things influence our human being life. Also, the development of internet has spread into every aspect of living, such as BMW will connect all its car to IoT by 2021, mentioned in this article. That kind of technology devices connected with internet will be the future trend and make our life a huge progress. However, the convenience and benefits that IoT brings to us also relatively cause some problems. So I would like to ask what some disadvantages the IoT will bring about?
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Thanks for reading my post. IoT does give us advantages but also disadvantage. Two main issues about IoT is security and personal data collected, hackers are now more actively attracting IoT devices. It may bring danger to the real world because IoT is bringing between physical and digital world.
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Absolutely an interesting read on the blog, total agree with you on the internet of things. the improve of smart intelligent technology have improve and advanced beyond our very own imagination possible, where people can freely adjust music playlist, lights, to change the atmosphere to their liking with just touch of a button or even speak of a word. and with all of this convenience and comfort being provided more company will expand further into this industry due to increase in demands, therefore it is very much possible to reach 20billion connected devices by year 2020 or might even excess this amount. on the contrary as more devices being connected with thought the internet, users privacy and network on personal data might be exposed to more areas.
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Thanks for reading my post! There are advantages and disadvantages to the internet of things. Users privacy and personal data will be the two main problems. But how we stop them from exposure to more areas, this is the big issue for IoT builder to concern.
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In these day and age, we are all surrounded by the internet on a daily basis. Therefore, having all these extra new technologies around us can really benefit us. After reading this article, it has made me realized how much mankind has achieved. I’m very glad to see how modern day technology is continuing to grow, and how much convenience and comfort it’ll bring to us on a daily basis.
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Yes, this new technology really can benefit us and make our lives more comfort and convenience!
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Interesting post! I can see how IoT will benefit our lives, and I feel like this new technology has slowly changed our lifestyle.
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Thanks for the read, appreciate your time!
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Reading this article is really enlightening and it makes me really happy. In this age of technology, I’m really glad to see how quick mankind is with developing new technologies. When smartphones first came out, it was such a huge breakthrough and only a few people owned one because of how expensive they were. Now, almost everyone I know owns a smartphone. As new technology is discovered, older techs become cheaper and more obtainable for the norms. At the rate of recent development, I’m very excited to see what the future beholds.
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I’m glad that you like the post! IoT has bridging our smartphones and other digital devices and further changed our lives. The most important thing is that it makes our lives become easier and more convenient!
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