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A brief primer on Internet of Things
From the course: Digital Technologies Case Studies: AI, IOT, Robotics, Blockchain
A brief primer on Internet of Things
- The internet of things, IoT, refers to a system of objects, as well as even people and animals, who carry unique identifiers and can transfer data over the internet without any human-to-human or human-to-computer interaction. We can think of the IoT as an internet-based network, where the connected things are nodes of the network. A sensor embedded in an aircraft engine is an IoT node. So is an internet-connected doorbell, or a camera, a smartphone, or a driverless car. Even a bird, a cow, or a whale, when tethered with an internet-connected sensor, becomes a node in the IoT network. This would be true also of any person who gets a pacemaker or a chip implanted in his or her body, which can then transfer data over the internet. IoT sensors are spreading like wildfire, and have already been put to use in a wide range of applications, from homes to hospitals, to factories, to farm machinery, and even entire cities.…
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