Technology never fails to bring us fascinating developments and constantly promises to make our lives easier. In recent decades, there has been an explosion of technological creativity and innovation, with bold endeavors being undertaken in all corners of the Earth: by wireless electricity, 3D printing, gamification, autonomous vehicles, and Automatic Content Recognition, into mobile robots and - the topic of the post - The Internet of Things, or, as some call it, The Internet of Everything. Sounds grand?
Well, it is probably because it's.
What's the Web of Things?
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The point is to produce a situation where we don't have to control each piece of equipment individually, but instead have a top-level control on a complex series of integrated events, over an 'army' of connected devices which can communicate with each other and with us.
Internet of Everything combines several trends, such as cloud computing, the growth of connected devices, Big Data, the increasing use of video, and the rising importance of mobile apps compared to traditional computing applications. The Internet of Things is an evolutionary results of the tendency towards ubiquitous computing, a trend that supposed the need for embedding chips in everyday objects.
Kevin Ashton, co-founder and also executive director of the Auto-ID Center in MIT explains the potential of the Internet of Things:
"Today computers-and, hence, the Internet-are almost wholly dependent on human beings for information.
"The problem is that people have limited time, focus and accuracy-all of which means they aren't very proficient at catching data about matters in the real world... If we had computers which knew everything there was to know about things-using information they gathered with no help from us-we would have the ability to track and count every thing, and significantly decrease waste, loss, and price. We would know when things needed replacing, repairing or recalling, and whether they were fresh or past their best."
'Run your entire world onto a smartphone'
The possibility of the technology has inspired developers to create solutions geared both towards the consumer and the B2B market.
The struggle for hearts and minds of most consumers is based around home automation, together with firms such as SmartThings, Nest Labs and Ninja Blocks leading the way. Another important consumer-facing area is quantified self, which is playing a fantastic part in developing customers' awareness of the possibility of their IoT.
Past customer, B2B vertical uses of this IoT hold substantial promise in many of areas such as transport, manufacturing, health care, and retailstores.
Projects in development
SmartThings began as a Kickstarter project and has evolved into a slick company offering a range of nifty goods, such as physical gadgets for house automation as well as apps to restrain them. It is developed on a cloud-based applications platform that allows users to install programs in their own lives which make the world more reactive and more pleasurable. More importantly, SmartThings is building an open system and can be explicitly embracing the developer communities, paving the way to a broader and varied environment, perfect for unrestricted imagination. The apps in development cover such places as Convenience, Family, Fun & Social, Green Living, Health and Fitness, and Security and Safety.
Another promising endeavor, constructed to encourage open electronic systems, is Xively Cloud Services™ (formerly Cosm and before that Pachube). It hails itself that the'world's earliest Public Cloud on the Internet of Things' and aspires to offer a common ground through that any device connected to the Internet could actually communicate with almost any other device.
Like Cosm prior to it, Xively will provide a way for different devices to connect with one another, though now with commercial terms of service for industrial customers and freely available solutions for projects in development. The occurrence of platforms such as Xively appears to be critical to building a true Internet of Things instead of what we really have now.
Web or Intranet?
What's required now with this technology to actually take off is a frequent platform on which unrelated apparatus could join, ideally an open source you to maximize the capacity for future inventions and developer involvement. Devices on offer nowadays are also still very pricey and their range for inter-device communication is still quite restricted.
Later on, the development of the IoT market will inevitably bring more compatible and affordable consumer products that are going to be accessible to more individuals. However, for all that talk about the benefits of this IoT, there seems that no one raising any real concerns, such as: what if the machinesmanaged to communicate and relate to one another, will no longer want us and run off, or else, combine and turn against us? There has to be a sci-fi movie about this scenario somewhere. Either way, epic times lie ahead.
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