Not long ago, I was explaining how the Internet works to an elderly person in an e-commerce application launch that was recently done.
I was able to explain that the Internet is a global network of computers, which is called the world network, or www, and this is the collection of millions of computers remotely, which provides web pages that are displayed on computers.
Now this alone will not allow a user to access the Internet. Before one can receive content from an Internet service provider, an end-to-end set of protocols (internet protocol) must be set at both ends. The personal computer or mobile device (recipient) and the www server (provider)
So, I went on to say that when you intend to visit any publicly hosted website, in the address bar of the internet browser application, it declares the protocol identifier, which is the hypertext transfer protocol which is called http: // followed by www then the domain name which is the name of the website ending in a.com, .biz, .org or any other. The structure of the website address is what is called the Uniform Resource Locator. (URL). If this address is valid for a remote server hosted online, the requested pages will load in seconds.
It is worth noting that establishing a connection for an Internet access has to do mainly with protocols at various levels of the connection from one end to the other, so it is sufficient to say that there is a high probability that a website that you are visiting cannot be displayed due to a violation. in one or more Internet protocols.
With the emergence of the Internet in the 1990s through the early 2000s, there were limitations of Internet access for the end user only through personal computers and laptops, but this monopoly was broken with the development of the Wireless Access Protocol (WAP) which was adapted by mobile service providers in early 2000.
This is the development that spawned a more sophisticated regimen of phones in a short time with the birth of the highly publicized WAP technology, the protocol was phased out in the first 5 years, WAP was no longer the protocol of choice for emerging devices. when bandwidth became the de facto method for interactive transmission with the development of faster and more reliable mobile Internet protocols.
Just over a decade and a half ago, we see an overwhelming digital culture in which home appliances, lifestyle gadgets, and consumable electronics closely compete with traditional mobile devices in the internet space. From sunglasses, clothing, televisions, almost all other home appliances and devices are Internet ready, creating a new identity as smart devices.
The appearance of smart devices and the redesign of our traditional elements is what is being labeled in recent times as the Internet of Things (IoT). Sounds like the Internet of everything for cookware and where incandescent bulbs are now redesigned with a smarter light-emitting diode or a more advanced organic LED that can intelligently interact with other networked devices wirelessly.
Gartner says that a typical home could contain more than 500 smart devices by 2022, which can include cabinets and sinks. And these could be the most basic homes and in a related report, Fortune Tech, forecasts that global mobile traffic will multiply eightfold in the next four years, reaching 30.6 exabytes per month by 2020 due to the explosion of IoT and what is interesting. It is the fact that the average smartphone user today consumes around 1.4 GB of data per month and is expected to increase to an average of 8.9 GB.
IoT affects the average home and consumer behavior in general, and wherever it is found, whether indirectly in the technology paradigm, there are many perspectives and opportunities that can be maximized for the benefits of society at large.
The consumer industry drives a fundamental paradigm in the way users interact and personalize devices by transmitting small amounts of data from these devices into the monitoring, control and detection capabilities built into them.
51% of the world population in 2017 are occupants of the Zettabyte era where it is estimated that we are reaching a data consumption of 1.2 Zettabyte or 1.2 trillion Terabyte.
A bold statement from former CISCO CEO John Chambers claims that there will be 50 billion devices online within 5 years.
This may not be an exaggerated estimate, considering the fact that the Facebook app alone consumes a daily rate of 600 Terabytes of data from user interactions.
Google CEO Eric Schmidt has released an excellent statistic that states that we now create as much information in two days as we did from the dawn of man to 2003.
Globally, 8.4 billion things will be interconnected to the Internet of Things in 2017 according to the Gartner Report and it goes on to state that 5 billion of which will be just consumer appliances.
The more connected things we have, the greater the rise of the data economy and how well information can be structured for the betterment of life and the modernization of culture.
IoT is shedding our reliance on manual procedures and with a connectivity framework, knowledge sharing and access to information is so crucial and it is only a matter of time, information data quality standards will need to be applied. so more things are connected to have data quality compliance.
A vital interest in the IoT dimension is the collection and storage of data using connected medical equipment to securely share patient medical history and medical research between consultants and medical research.
Beyond motor vehicles and consumer appliances making waves in IoT, the peak of the paradigm will occur in the near future where “things” like hemodialysis, ventilators, stethoscopes, scales will become intelligent in their collection and storage capabilities. data in the cloud in the total improvement of health research and speed in the provision of health services.
