IOT-Anywhere, Anytime, Anyplace

Businesses in most industries will no longer be able to remain competitive and demanding on the market without smartly connected machines, devices, systems, which are generally called the Internet of Things (IoT).

The IoT allowed people to deliver any type of the required data anywhere, anytime, anyplace. Whether wireless or wired connections, we manage to bring people to people, machines to people, and things to things.

Moreover, I was embraced by the fact that IoT is invading the industries that I believed have nothing in common. Let me demonstrate how IoT makes things easier in every sphere of life. 

IoT - Breaking the Familiar Business Patterns

The companies are embracing more and more devices, applications, and other tools to make our lives easier, services we get these days are possible with the use of hardware development and software development.

Hardware development, which includes all physical computer components such as monitor, mouse, cpu, data storage, circuit board, graphics card, and other essential elements is on the go with IoT. These units are not only interconnected but also contain sensors for monitoring and controlling activities. My AirPods and SmartWatch lose the signal if I step away from it for 5 meters; maybe because it has sensors that define the proximity of both devices? But IoT for hardware development isn’t limited to the computing industry. Companies that deal with agriculture (precipitation forecasting devices, wind turbines) have long ago realized a need for IoT solutions to become “smart”, thus, they needed to connect it to the Cloud. Here comes more: companies that manufacture smart Home devices, like cameras. As soon as I enter the territory of the house, the camera on the gates turns toward me as they are installed with sensors to recognize any kind of movement. 

Software Development,Collecting the data, integrating the devices, doing real-time analytics, and process data are all possible with software development. Starting from the airline industry to obvious media platforms require software to track, collect, store, process, and analyze the data. Crop monitoring applications are used to collect the data on the soil condition (affected by the number of precipitations), fertility, and other factors that are used by farmers to make the crop season rich. Health and fitness tracking applications are able to sense our heartbeat, pulse, body temperature to calculate the number of calories burned during a workout. 

Some key Industries Where IoT Could Be a Great value add.

IoT development has been widely and rapidly applied in healthcare, banking, and Some prominent business industries, there are still some unusual sectors where IoT made a breakthrough,I have come across Some key industries that are slowly incorporating IoT to connect to customers, improve efficiency, and facilitate daily operations

? Agriculture 

I could never imagine how IoT can change the way my parents do gardening. Smart farming is becoming more and more used not only by large food-producing corporations but among private farmers in small villages. The IoT platform on crop monitoring is able to calculate the number of fertilizers and best-appropriate time for their spraying by accurately collecting the data on the soil surface. The machinery used in farming is installed with numerous sensitive devices that analyze the field indicators, such as the level of moisture, vegetation, fertility, and inform the farmers (by notifying through e-mail or in the application) on the needed actions.

? Advertising 

Ads are everywhere - Facebook and Instagram feed, web pages, our phone applications. Sometimes, I don’t even notice how my buying behavior is changing under these marketing manipulations: I see the ads and skip it, but in the nearest future - here I am, ordering the thing that I didn’t think I would need and use. One of the examples of recent traps that I was caught in this industry is the introduction of smart water bottles. It analyzes my drinking habits, reminds me of the necessity to sip water, and calculates the amount of water consumed throughout the day. At the end of the day, I receive a list of recommendations and information on the importance of water, how it can change my overall health, and other well-being indicators. 

? Automobile 

The use of IoT in this industry is not limited to the manufacturing of smart or electric cars. Another area of IoT implementation refers to fuel-saving applications that analyze drivers’ behavior to help them smartly fueling their tanks. They also conduct the monitoring of car parts such as gears, breaks, oil level, battery, and overall engine condition. 

? Real Estate 

Real estate activities can be infiltrated by IoT . Sales can be boosted by showing the clients a high-definition 360 angle picture and videos in real-time, and the search for suitable accommodation is possible through analyzing clients’ needs and requirements which are uploaded in the applications. They search for the neighborhood, house/apartment size, surrounding area, and other facilities and select their next leaving place with out moving from their base location.

? Waste Management 

Garbage bins with sensors that define their usefulness and need to be taken by local services? Yes, that’s right. These sensors identify the time taken when the garbage bin is full and notifies the cleaning companies to clean them up. This practice is useful for logistics purposes as the applications help reduce the costs for fuel consumption of the sanitation department vehicles and properly manage the timing of cleaning the bins. These sensors would be a real necessity in communities where the people suffer with their neighborhood which turns into a rubbish dump after weekends. 

I have touched upon only few industries ,there are still so many industries and areas of services where IoT are still expected to come and surely linked to business potential and ease of doing. To catch the current Trend of" need to connect everything" that can and need to be connected, this technology allows this practice to be done at ease. I believe that a unified system of technologies that form the Internet of Things is automizing the environment around us in both developed and developing economies. Anyone can monitor their crop from home, be sure of the safety of flights, track their health indicators via smart watches, as well as breathing fresh air after trucks remove the garbage based on the signals received from the bins sensors.  

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