2- Internet of things (IoT)

Today, the IoT has introduced itself to the world. The pros and cons of this technology are being known by many people. This technology will be widely accepted by the society in the coming years. IoT will be so developed that most of the works and their working decisions would be done by the machines and artificial intelligence on the data collected and exchanged by devices itself. 

 

IoT can be defined as a connection of many systems together, like mobile, embedded systems and many more peripheral devices to the internet for performing some data exchange, decision making and many such intellectual activities. It follows the concept of acting as a decision making element which orders to perform some tasks on the information collected and exchanged with other devices. It is basically the most important part of the artificial intelligence(AI).

The main motto behind this concept is to work on the real-time data, to have the information exchange, making the work easier and simple enough to save the energy, time, money and finding a solution on some real-life problems.

IoT starts its work from the point where the components have reached the maximum limits of its efficiency and need some decisions to perform further intellectual tasks.

Now, the question arises like how the energy can be saved? How the solutions over the problems can be achieved?

We have to be clear that any work to be done has to consume some form of energy. Let's consider some examples.

1-You are travelling on a road at night and the street lights are kept on even when there are no travellers. This consumes more electricity which can be considered as a form of energy. If we install some sensors, put on some connections so that the sensed results would be analysed and the street light would be ON only when the vehicle passes, can save a tremendous amount of energy. The saved data can be used to check the frequencies of the traffic in that particular area at various times.

2-The data collected from sensors can be sent through the internet to the servers too for performing some tasks or to convey the message for a requirement of larger traffic police force to some higher traffic density prone areas.

3-Consider that you have a smart refrigerator. It has some special sensors that can sense the quantity of the items that are kept inside the refrigerator. Now, when the milk in the milk-can is about to finish, it sends the message of buying it to the connected devices and hence, it can save the energy of coming home, checking the quantity and then going out to buy it.

In this way, the IoT can help us and save the energy, time and in some cases, money too!

As we all know that when it comes to the technology, for any product may it be the most efficient or the best, has some disadvantages. The experts in this field will be striving hard to rule out or at least minimize the impact of the disadvantages.

It is now in our hands to make most out of this technology and make our life more stable and efficient enough to use our energies at the right amount on right things.