Internet of Things
In daily lives of people the demand for advanced ubiquitous mobile applications is continuously increasing with the continuous growth of mobile devices in its functionality and popularity. One of the most interoperable and open way of enabling applications to communicate with each other or to provide remote service access is utilization of web services. With physical limitations, busy individuals and families represent an attractive market for home networking and automation. To enable new forms of communication amongst people and themselves the devices that are intelligently linked together can be defined as IoTs. They are typically connecting everyday objects, such as, actuators and sensors to the internet, internet televisions and smart phones.
One of the indispensable parts of IoT is smart connectivity with context-aware computation and existing networks using resources of networks. The evolution toward ubiquitous communication and information is already apparent with the growing presence of 4G-LTE and Wi-Fi wireless Internet access. However, the criteria of computing has to evolve into embedding intelligence into the environment and connecting existing objects of everyday routine, moreover, it has to go beyond scenarios of traditional mobile computing that use smart portables and phones.
Context-aware computation and smart connectivity can be gained through three fundamental grounds in place, i.e., smart and autonomous behaviour must be aimed by the analytics tools in the Internet of Things, to convey and process the contextual information to where it is relevant the pervasive communication and software architectures must be present, and there must be a shared understanding of the users and their appliances. These three factors are demanded by the Internet of Things in order to disappear technology from the consciousness of the user.
To provide services for communications, applications, analytics, and information transfer the radical evolution of the recent Internet into a Network of interconnected objects interacts with the physical world, i.e., control/command/actuation and harvests information from the environment. Besides, harvesting and interacting, it also uses existing standards of the Internet. In transforming the current static Internet into an entire integrated Future Internet, the IoT is on the verge and has stepped out of its infancy fuelled by the prevalence of devices enabled by technology of open wireless, like, actuator nodes, embedded sensor, telephonic data services, Wi-Fi, radio frequency identification (RFID) and Bluetooth.
At a pace and unprecedented scale the interconnection between people is led by the revolution of the Internet. In order to create a smart environment, the interconnection between the objects is the next revolution. For mobile network operators alone spanning vertical segments, like, consumer electronics, utilities, automotive and health there will be around 1.3 trillion dollars revenue opportunities by year 2020, in accordance to the GSMA.