Internet of Things Applications

One of the interesting things about the Internet of Things (IoT): It’s not really about the things.

The IoT is a developing technological marvel. It is estimated that by the year 2020, 50 to 100 billion devices will be electronically connected in the globally emerging IoT. But at the center of the innovation that is unfolding across all geographic, industrial and technological borders is not so much those devices that are being linked together but the “connected person.” At the center is the human being who is making use of the applications and services that are enabled by the devices — the things — and their unprecedented integration provided in the IoT.

Indeed, technologists around the world have been working for years to gradually build the massive amounts of infrastructure and networking to expand more and more pervasive connectivity around the world, and the most profound impact of that effort has always been connecting more people in more ways and improving lives globally. Today, a vision is taking shape around the world of people being connected ubiquitously across smart cities, smart buildings, smart cars and, perhaps, even through sensors on or in their bodies, and the IoT is one of the foundational platforms on which this notion of the “connected person” is predicated.

See more at: wired.com