The Internet of Things, or IoT, alludes to billions of physical gadgets around the globe that are presently connected to the web, gathering and sharing information. In other words, it is the system of physical gadgets, vehicles, home applications with implanted programming sensors, hardware, and so on which empowers these items to interface and trade information. Simply, it is the network of any gadget to the web or different gadgets.
How the Internet of Things works?
The Internet has changed the way we work & communicate by connecting us (humans) through World Wide Web, IoT aims to take this connectivity to next level by connecting various devices to the internet – facilitating human-machine, machine-machine interactions also.
Let’s have a look on how IoT works-
- Sensors & Sensor technology– The sensors will sniff a wide variety of information ranging from Location, Weather/Environment conditions, Grid parameters, Movement on assembly lines to Health essentials of a patient and so forth.
- Iot Gateways – IoT gateways are the gateways to internet for all the devices that we want to interact with. Gateways help to connect the internal network of sensor nodes with the external Internet. By collecting the data from sensor nodes & transmitting it to the internet infrastructure.
- Cloud/server infrastructure & Big Data– The data transmitted through gateway is stored & then processed securely within the cloud infrastructure using Big Data analytics engine. This processed data is then used to perform intelligent actions that make all our devices ‘Smart Devices’.
- End-user Mobile apps– The intuitive mobile apps will help end users to control & monitor their devices through remote locations. These apps push the important information on your devices in hand & help to send commands to your Smart Devices.
- IP addresses– IP addresses are the backbone to the entire IoT ecosystem. Internet is concerned about IP addresses only.