What is IoT?
According to Gartner (https://www.gartner.com/en/information-technology/glossary/internet-of-things), IoT is a network of physical objects that contain embedded technology to communicate and sense or interact with their internal states or the external environment. In simple terms, IoT refers to the process of connecting all the world's devices to the internet.
IoT devices can range from everyday objects such as lightbulbs to healthcare assets such as medical gadgets, wearables, smart devices, and even traffic lights in smart cities.
Here are a few examples of IoT use cases:
- Virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR)
- Smart cities
- Industrial IoT
- Self-driving cars
- Smart thermostats
- Smart homes
- Smartwatches
A typical IoT system sends, receives, and analyzes data continuously in a feedback loop. Humans or AI and ML can do analysis in near real time or over a longer period of time. Gartner estimated that there would be 20...
