Before jumping into future of IoT, let us dig some past of it, as the knowledge of its past will make future interesting.
Past of IoT:
The terminology IoT is not very old, but the idea provided in it is. In fact, it was emerged five decades ago when embedded internet was in discussion and the searches were going on. Then Kevin Ashton used this word “internet of things” for the first time in last year of 20th century. He had been trying to introduce this idea for many years, but not much ears gave attention to his work and words. Since 2010, IoT started gaining attention and thanks to Google data collecting applications like Google Street View, other countries made internet of things their main focus.
For example, China announced that it will start working on internet of things with high preference in upcoming years. Then after a year, European countries arranged a huge internet conference on future of IoT. As China and USA are competitors of each other in almost every field of life, America proposed to buy a three billion dollars’ vicinity for IoT. You can estimate the bright future of IoT with respect to its past. Imagine things giving the information like web pages. How exciting it sounds and it is the most rapidly growing network.
Introduction of IoT:
There has been a much debate on the definition of IoT. You will find information sources debating on different words regarding its definition for example Google calls it an assumed development of internet in which physical objects join with each other to share data, some others deny it and say that internet of things is not assumed rather it is real. Later on, it seemed true as it is in practice and under the process of development in many countries.
So, internet of things means the physical things giving information like web pages for example sensors, cameras, boosters, electronic home appliances, cars and even lights connected with each other with or without wires, collecting and sharing data. This phenomenon makes the future of IoT very bright. It is highly in demand that your things operate according to your likes and dislikes by collecting and reading your data.
Mechanism of IoT:
To clarify the idea of how IoT works, let us discuss some examples of what and how you can do something using IoT. For example, if you want to operate your thermostat of different things, you can do it by using IoT application in your mobile. IoT works on the principal of machine learning using different sensors and integrated chips. Then it connects and processes them accordingly. Finally, it provides a user interface for easy use. This makes them a tiny computer as well. This is a future of IoT that your things can become computer and would operate according to your desires. You can consider another example that your water tank is running low and smart sensor in it can send you an alert by noticing that you are near water filling plant.
Appliances Using IoT:
The idea of internet of things is in practice now, and it is claimed that it will be the trillions of dollars’ market near 2026.
Voice Control:
Now there are many applications in the market which can operate on the basis of voice control. A famous example is Amazon Echo which is used worldwide for house hold purposes. This application is just the beginning of the future of IoT. There is a lot to come.
Watches:
According to a dissertation help firm, it is now a traditional approach and a long time ago story when people were used to wear watch for checking the time. Smart watches now a days are mini computers as they can make or reject calls, take pictures, observe the routine and give alerts about fitness and many more.
Cars:
Movement is essential for life, and if that movement does not disconnect you from your home and other important places, it’s like you are moving while remain stationary with respect to your connectivity of your IoT devices. What an impressive gift of IoT it is because these days, cars have an easy internet access to attain all above benefits. In future of IoT, the security of cars using smart locks will increase more effectively.
Battery Free Future of IoT:
As you read the use and need of internet connected devices. There are several companies which are considering to produce a large number of such devices. “With a huge number” means trillions of them. Now, connecting trillion devices with each other means connecting trillion batteries which is very versatile according to the stability and also very difficult to maintain. Even big companies using IoT devices are claiming the disturbance in efficiency of work because they require an effective connectivity and continuous monitoring whereas batteries have small life and need to replace. You can imagine this issue when talking about it world widely.
Now, an attention demanding issue is their connectivity. Obviously, you want to get rid of wires, so huge industries network which consists of thousands of nodes, will require a very dense network to achieve long range connectivity. To overcome both of these issues, for battery free and less power consuming digital devices in future of IoT, there are many researches going on around of which, the work of Everactive is mentionable. They have gathered more than ninety technical experts for this purpose, and they succeed in making ultra-low power devices and circuits.
Those circuits are not high in cost. Another device is steam trap monitor which is considered as an effective source to distribute energy at high level. It is a successful beginning of battery free future of IoT. Regarding its mechanism, energy gained from the steam will be provided back to water, the valves note the temperature of the water and allow water to flow accordingly. The steam would remain in the system. The use of ‘steam traps’ in industry has saved millions of dollars and also saved a huge amount of water used for the condensation process. This is just the beginning of future of IoT, and there is a lot more to come.
