Some time ago I was explaining how the internet works to an older citizen when launching a recent e-business application.
I was able to explain that the Internet is a global web of computers, called the World Wide Web or www, which is the collection of millions of computers remotely, providing web pages that appear on computers.
Now, this alone will not give a user internet access. Before one can get content from an ISP, a set of end-to-end protocols (Internet Protocol) must be established at both ends. The personal computer or mobile device (recipient) and the www server (provider)
So I went on to say that when you plan to visit any publicly hosted website, in the web browser's address bar, you enter the protocol identifier, which is the hyperlink protocol called http: // followed by www and then the domain name which is the name of the website which ends with a.com, .biz, .org or any other. The structure of the website management is what is called Uniform Resource Locator. (URL). If this address is valid on a remote server hosted on the web, then the requested pages will load in seconds.
It is worth noting that setting up a connection for an internet access has to do mainly with protocols at various levels of end-to-end connection, so suffice it to say that there is a high probability that a site you are visiting may not appear due to breach of one or more internet protocols.
With the advent of the Internet in the 1990s to the early 2000s, there was a restriction on 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 gave rise to a more sophisticated mobile phone regime in a short period of time with the birth of the much-publicized WAP technology, the protocol was gradually phased out within the first 5 years, WAP was no longer the protocol of choice for emerging devices when bandwidth became the De facto for interactive streaming with the development of more reliable faster mobile internet protocols in the stream.
A little over a decade and a half, and we see an overwhelming digital culture where home appliances, lifestyle gadgets and consumer electronics are in close competition with traditional mobile devices on the internet. From Pens sunglasses, clothes, TVs, almost every other device is ready for the internet and gives birth to a new identity as Smart Devices.
The advent of smart devices and the redesign of our traditional elements is what has been described lately as the Internet of Things (IoT). Sounds like the internet of everything in kitchenware and where incandescent bulbs are now redesigned with a smarter light emitting diode or a more advanced organic LED is able to interact intelligently with other networked appliances wirelessly.
Gartner says a typical home could have more than 500 smart appliances by 2022, which could include closets and a sink. And these could be the most basic at home, and in a related report, Fortune Tech predicts that global mobile traffic will increase eightfold over the next four years, reaching 30.6 exabytes per month by 2020 due to its explosion. IoT and what is interesting is the fact that the average smartphone user today consumes about 1.4 GB of data every month and this is expected to increase to an average of 8.9 GB.
The IoT affects the average household and the behavior of the general consumer as a whole, and wherever you are or indirectly in the technological paradigm, there are many prospects and opportunities that can be maximized for the benefit of general society.
The consumer industry is leading a fundamental example of how users interact and personalize devices, transmitting small amounts of data from these devices to their built-in monitoring, control and detection functions.
The 51% of the global population in 2017 are residents of the Zettabyte era, where it is estimated that we reach data consumption of 1.2 Zettabyte or 1.2 billion Terabyte.
A bold statement by former CISCO CEO John Chambers states that there will be 50 billion devices on the Internet in 5 years.
This may not be an exaggerated estimate, given the fact that the Facebook app alone consumes 600 Terabytes of data from user interactions daily.
Google CEO Eric Schmidt has unveiled a stern statistic that states that we now create in two days as much information as we did from dawn until 2003.
Globally, 8.4 billion things will be connected to the Internet of Things in 2017, according to a Gartner report, and he goes on to say that 5 billion of these will be consumer devices alone.
The more connected things we have, the greater the rise of the data economy and how well information can be structured to improve lives and modernize culture.
The IoT is free from our reliance on manual processes and with a connectivity framework, knowledge sharing and access to information is so critical and simply a matter of time, data quality standards need to be enforced for more things to be connected to there is compliance with data quality.
A vital interest in the IoT dimension is the collection and storage of data from medical equipment linked to the secure exchange of patient's medical history and medical research between counselors and medical research.
In addition to motor vehicles and consumer appliances breaking the IoT, the culmination of the example will be in the near future where "things" like dialysis, respirators, stethoscopes, scales will become smarter in terms of collection and storage capabilities. their data in the cloud to the overall improvement of health research and the speed with which health services are provided.
