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<\/p>\nWe have heard our mothers worry about whether they turned the lights off before leaving the house, and even taking a detour from their daily routines to adjust the thermostat in order to save a few dollars on the monthly bills. Now, how many times have you heard someone say, \u201cThere\u2019s probably an app for that\u201d?<\/p>\n
Being able to remotely control things at home from anywhere spares us a huge piece of mind. How convenient is it these days that you can simply press a button to turn your home appliances on or off, or even adjust their settings, from the comfort of wherever you are on your smartphone? We are familiar with the term \u201cSmart Technology\u201d where the machines and tools seem to have evolved to suit our high-tech lives, and the recent leap in the development of cloud technology brought a boost to the business. Now we hear about \u201cSmart Gardens\u201d, \u201cSmart Kitchens\u201d, and gadgets that are \u201cSmart\u201d or that make other things smart all around us. Besides enjoying the convenience of this amazing technology, how often do we ponder on the potential future of the technology?<\/p>\n
How about taking it another step further to a wristwatch that monitors your vital signs and vitamin levels and alerts home system to adjust the conditions at home and plan your dinner automatically as you are returning home from work? The experts are predicting the possibilities of more things getting \u201cSmart\u201d ended up in our very near future, and when they say more things, they mean pretty much EVERYthing. And the eventual goal? Further automation of things, possibly almost everything.<\/p>\n
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Internet of Things, IoT abbreviated, is a big picture of any objects or organisms that are connected through the Internet, preferably via Wi-Fi. All of these \u201cThings\u201d are identifiable with its own unique IP (Internet Protocol) address, and the interconnected net of different devices can collect, monitor, and process the data to make certain decisions according to its settings, alarm for abnormalities, and some even repair or substitute parts on its own. It can be used to find more efficient and productive ways for all things involved to work at its best, and eventually with less of direct human involvement. It could be between different devices or systems of different machines, or even between an organism and professionals through simple connecting hardware. These embedded simpler form of computers also have evolved throughout near 20 years of development of the technology and they have gotten more sophisticated and much smaller so to fit in basically anything.<\/p>\n