Fundamentals Around the Internet Of Things

USI-The SiP Company
2 min readJul 8, 2021

Internet Of Things or IOT is influencing or shaping our life, with the way of our lives. It’ll automatically modifies the normal life to the smart life/home when it has been thoroughly furnished in home.

Until few years ago, accessing to the internet was limited through the devices like laptop, tablet or smartphone. But now with Internet Of Things practically, it is applicable to all the household appliances. It can be connected to the internet and monitored remotely. It helps us, to get a better insight into working of things around us.

Delineation Of Internet of Things

Internet Of Things is a system of interrelated gadgets or devices, that can be connected to the Internet to transfer and receive the analytical data from one to the other.

Some of the IOT home appliances are air conditioner, security alarms, doorbell, thermostats, water heaters, and so on. This kind of devices can be interconnected to the user’s internet devices over the mobile application. So now, the user can get the detailed insights and data about the appliances around him/her. This technological process, can be remotely regulated at any places like during work, out of station, or in outer area of city.

Pace of IOT Revolution

The first pace of internet revolution begins with the raise of personal computers.

Then, the second pace came into existence with the advent of smartphones.

Eventually, the third pace, is the real revolution and we’re currently living with, because it showed up in all electronic devices and almost connected to the internet or it’ll be in the near future.

Components of IOT

In every special case, infrastructure is supplementary for manufacturing the device based on it, the design of the device will be established, Internet Of Things included the necessary components for manufacturing the IOT devices.

· To begin with Sensors, that has a capability of sensing and compute, connect the other devices.

· The next layer, which is the IOT Gateway or aggregation layer, which significantly aggregates the data from various sensors.

These above mentioned two layers form the definition engine and set the rules for data aggregation.

· The upcoming layer depends on the cloud, it’s called the processing engine or event processing layer. It has numerous algorithms and data processing elements that’ll be eventually displayed on the dashboard. This layer, generally, processes the data that obtained from the sensor layer

· The final one is, application layer or API Management layer. It acts as an interface between the third-party application and the entire infrastructure. This will be supported by device managers, identity and access managers, which are useful for the security of IOT structure.

Above mentioned points or elements are the key for generating the IOT devices.

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