Internet of Things

The Internet as we know it for the last many years is a vast network comprising servers, personal computers, and smartphones that exchange data and communicate with each other. It is largely being used by human users interacting with compuing devices for exchanging emails, chats, sighting pictures, listening to music, watching videos and movies, reading the news, shops, making travel reservations, conducting banking, and many other transactions.

Now, imagine not only human users but also non-computing devices accessing the network and interacting with humans and computing devices. Further imagine that non-computing and computing devices are interacting with each other, communicating, exchanging data, analysing the data and taking actions, all without human intervention.

That is the future of the Internet and is known as the Internet of Things or IoT.

The "things" in IoT can be computers, smartphones, appliances, vehicles, machines, and many other electronic devices. They can also things other than computing devices which have some electronic components added to them to give them the ability to join the Internet of Things.