What Exactly Is The Internet of Things #IoT?

What is the Internet of things?

Well, it’s been difficult to explain for most people. But the way I like to explain it, is to imagine that we’re really just talking about the world thats already around you.  We’re talking about it in a way where things can now interact with each other when they weren’t able to before.

You can imagine that the machines around us used to be infants. They are just learning to speak a language that we can all understand. Right now they speak a language that their parents understand, but thats about it. So now that they can speak to more than just the system that they were designed to work with, we’ve been able to allow them to connect to the “Internet”. Yes, the same internet that provides most of us with with the way that we communicate on a day-to-day basis. Whether that is Facebook or Email or iMessage or What’sApp you’ve communicated through it’s generally gonna end up being pushed over the Internet. Even if the message itself is not pushed over the Internet to be stored somewhere on the Internet so truthfully this Internet is what allows all of us to communicate and now these machines, sensors, lightbulbs garage doors, thermostats, door locks and others, all thinking “I’ll talk to the network as well”. Since they can talk to the network now we can talk, all at the same time, like having a group chat or having a conference call.

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