Internet of Things Applications

The saying “Everything old is new again” applies in spades to the Internet of Things (IoT), as the IoT is really just the evolution of automation systems we’ve been using for decades. But there is a key difference in today’s IoT applications, one that presents a significant challenge to service providers seeking to profit from IoT-related applications and services: the scale of their systems. IoT technology dates back at least to SCADA systems used in industrial automation applications for decades to control machines on the factory floor. It then expanded to point-of-sale technology used in retail stores as well as fleet tracking systems used in transportation. All of these systems involve relatively small computers that communicate among one another with no human intervention, while producing valuable information that humans ultimately consume. That’s exactly what today’s IoT technology involves, but on a much broader scale. Now the “compute” technology can be as simple as a sensor that does nothing more than track some variable – temperature, humidity, motion or what have you – and communicate it to some central computer. See more at: sevone.com