Connected Things with Context

Lately we see an explosion of connected devices - from light bulbs to cars. In the connected world every device is able to communicate back to the controller on a cloud infrastructure. Millions of signals are aggregated in real time basis and then analyzed for variabilities, anomalies, patterns eventually leading to some kind of intelligence.

The next version of this approach will be explosion of devices talking to each other (not having to go through the controller). This will bring the required context to the connected world. Imagine a world where cooking range can connect to a microwave; a water heater can connect with an alarm clock; a garage can communicate to the car; a coffee machine can exchange information with the refrigerator ; smartphones talk to thermostats. This is all possible through a Network Service Discovery (NSD) enabled by WiFi Peer to Peer (P2P) or some kind of Near field connection (NFC). This will reduce the dependency of Cloud and the need to send millions of data points over the network.

With this technology adoption we should be seeing devices communicating with each other with a context.