Everything You Need to Know to Start Your IoT Project

During late 2008, early 2009 something odd and unexpected happened. Cisco reported that there were more devices connected to the internet than people, and while the concept of “Internet of Things” wasn’t entirely new any more, it only then became a reality which for the most part sneaked up on us, taking the average consumer by surprise first, only to become an integral part of our everyday lives in less than a decade.

It was only six or so years ago that we were doing the same as we used to since the invention of electricity — toggling switches like barbarians whenever we entered or left a room. Of course, some of us wanted to be fancy and opted to get a dimmer switch, and whenever we dimmed the lights, the amount of satisfaction produced by such a trivial action made us always feel a bit like magicians who finally perfected their skills of producing just the right amount of light at any time.

But how wrong we all were… Read the rest of this article on HackerNoon...