The internet of things

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Elise De Langhe
E-SKILLS | ARTEVELDE UNIVIERSITY COLLEGE
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1. Transporta................................................................................................................. 3
2. Health and exercise .................................................................................................. 3
3. Home ......................................................................................................................... 3
4. Business ..................................................................................................................... 3
5. Pollution and waste managementOT technologies are another great way to
monitor pollution and find new ways to reduce waste.................................................. 4
6. Shopping .................................................................................................................... 4
Human Beings .................................................................................................................... 5
Smarter Natural Disaster Management ......................................................................... 5
Smarter Urban Management ........................................................................................... 5
Smarter Healthcare .......................................................................................................... 5
The role of the government .................................................. Error! Bookmark not defined.
Regulations .............................................................................. Error! Bookmark not defined.
Bibliography ..................................................................................................................... 10
WHAT EFFECT WILL THE INTERNET OF THINGS HAVE
ON OUR DAILY LIVES?

1. TRANSPORTATION
Now is just the beginning of what LTE-enabled cars can offer drivers: real-time traffic information, real-time vehicle
diagnostics, and more. Soon drivers will be able to tap into every element of the streets they drive on to analyze
traffic patterns and make choices that reduce traffic jams. (Muhammed, 2016)

2. HEALTH AND EXERCISE

Tech junkies may fantasize about gyms of the future equipped with IOT devices, but the technology is already here
on the individual level.

Wearable tech, namely smartwatches and wristbands, have entered the market in droves, offering users all sorts of
personalized data about their health and fitness activities. Several steps above a pedometer smart watches can
track your calories burned, heart rate, and a ton of other health data.

And its not all about staying in shape IOT devices can help monitor overall wellness. There are already many
smartphone apps that can monitor glucose levels for diabetics and other health data. Meanwhile the 2nd generation
iWatch and Simband are rumored to include heart rate monitors and wellness trackers that doctors may be able to
use to optimize care for their patients. (Muhammed, 2016)

3. HOME
A smart house is one of the first things people think of when you bring up IOT, and we are already far down the
road to having them.

Security systems allow you to monitor your home from afar, while smartphone apps can help you optimize your
home heating, make sure you turned off the stove, and optimize your lighting. (Muhammed, 2016)

4. BUSINESS
IOT is also helping businesses optimize in a number of ways. Some stores are already using signals from shoppers
smartphones to track their behavior in-store, pairing it up with their online data to get the most in-depth customer
profile possible. Retailers with apps can then use the data to deliver coupons and special promotional material to
the customers phone at the perfect time and place.

And its not just about optimizing marketing tactics. IOT equipment sensors are already being used to monitor
machines and notify businesses of malfunctions or parts that need repair. A series of sensors, cameras, and lasers
can also be used to monitor the manufacturing process of materials to ensure quality. (Muhammed, 2016)
 5. POLLUTION AND WASTE MANAGEMENTOT TECHNOLOGIES ARE
ANOTHER GREAT WAY TO MONITOR POLLUTION AND FIND NEW
WAYS TO REDUCE WASTE .
Just consider AirQualityEgg.com, a device that monitors the air quality outside of your home or office, then
aggregates the data online to offer metropolitan and regional data. This analysis is then used to measure how urban
pollution policies are affecting specific areas. (Muhammed, 2016)

6. SHOPPING
The IoT has already begun to change the way we shop, with some retailers using Bluetooth signals from customers
smartphones to track their journey through a store. Customers who have the retailers app on their smartphone
can then be offered coupons and promotional material directly on their screens while theyre out shopping. (Wright,
2016)
 WHAT SHOULDNT BE CONNECTED AND WHY?

HUMAN BEINGS
Human beings, said Chi Onwurah MP, shadow Cabinet Office minister, smiling while referencing a story about a
student who asked her if she was in favour of putting tracking implants in children. I said no, she confirms, laughing.
There would be a huge privacy issues there.

Onwurah calls for common sense to prevail here, as does Franks. We shouldnt really be connecting anything to
do with our national security, he says. You have to be careful what you connect. Professor Stephen Hawkings
warning about robots and artificial intelligence should be adhered to here.

(Ambasna-Jones, 2015)

Why do we need Internet of things?

SMARTER NATURAL DISASTER MANAGEMENT

The ability to predict, with fine-grained accuracy, the onset of conditions that promote forest fires before they get
out of control or even begin, allow containment teams to respond more quickly and first responders to rapidly
manage targeted evacuations. This same concept applies equally to the smarter detection of and reaction to
mudslides, avalanches, earthquakes and other natural disasters. (OBrien, sd)

SMARTER URBAN MANAGEMENT

Cities and counties automating traffic management that effectively notices and governs the flow of traffic based on
ever-changing conditions; parking applications that intelligently guide cars to open spots, eliminating wasted time and
energy and dramatically cutting back on emissions; automating utility consumption, generation and distribution on a
grand scale, all with an eye to the mitigation of waste that far exceeds the capabilities of existing systems. (OBrien,
sd)

SMARTER HEALTHCARE
Wearable devices that detect a host of health problems, potentially before they even occur, and immediately
administer life-saving drugs or deploy emergency responders with detailed information placed instantly in their hands
or alert family members as-needed.

The ideas above barely skim the surface of the deep sea of possibilities afforded by the coming IoT age, and they all
share a common (and not accidental) adjective here: smarter. If smart is defined by the confluence of access to
information and the ability to utilize that information in meaningful and appropriate ways, then the promise of the
Internet of Things is, simply, a much smarter planet that keeps us safer, balances the personal good with the greater
good, and improves humankinds chances at providing a more sustainable legacy for future generations.

(OBrien, sd)
 WHY DO WE NEED INTERNET OF THINGS?

Innovation is the key of the real changes that are happening all around.

Looking at it from the words definition, its the process that is taking a good idea from your laptop to the hands of
few happy customers that are enjoying it.

So good, youre happy (I suppose youve done your home works in the right way, with good pricing structure, good
mark up and good margins, so youre happy, dont you?), customers are happy, market analysts are happy, since they
see something new to talk about, and so on.

IoT, Internet of Things, is the sort of innovation that were waiting since so long, even without understanding it
properly.

Ask to your friends, what exactly is IoT. Ok, sensors, billions of sensors, that are sharing huge amount of data.

MORE INFORMATION EQUALS MORE KNOWLEDGE

AND EMPOWERMENT?
We generate it from our own activity or research; we collect and capture tons more from external
sources. And, by now, all of us have been exposed to the conversation about Big Datathe
voluminous unstructured data that is collected from nontraditional sources such as blogs, social
media, email, sensors, photographs, video footage, and so on.

As the number of channels and customer touches expand, so does the amount of data coming from
them. Every day, there are more than a billion posts and 3.2 billion likes and comments on
Facebook, and 175 million tweets on Twitter. According to Stephanie Miller, VP of member relations
at the Direct Marketing Association, "data is big, getting bigger, and more complex (and expensive)
to manage."
 WILL IT IMPACT SUSTAINABILITY

How the Internet of Things is changing sustainability practices

By Joe Jones June 30, 2016News

We are on the cusp of a technological revolution. Like the World Wide Web before it, the Internet of Things hasnt
come crashing into our lives overnight with all the fanfare of a new iPhone launch.

Rather it is slowly and subtly embedding itself into our everyday lives behind the scenes, changing everything from
the way our goods are manufactured to the way we heat our homes.

What could prove one of the most important areas the Internet of Things is having a fundamental impact on is
sustainability practices, both commercially and in the private sphere. In this article I want to look at four areas the
IoT is changing our approach and attitude to sustainability.

We begin with that great and often unwieldy gift our interconnected world has bestowed upon us big data.

Sustainability Data

Its easy to see the IoT as merely geared towards enabling tangible and physical benefits to our everyday lives,
whether thats our heating coming on when we are nearing our homes after our daily commute or security systems
that we can view and interact with directly through our smartphones. But these practical conveniences mask the
truly revolutionary potential of an interconnected world where IoT devices are building up datasets of our world
that are at once microscopic in detail and macroscopic in scope.

The concept of big data has been around for a while but the exponential volume of terabytes and zetabytes that are
being created have shaped the way for a new era that is only beginning to be realised. This is what Michael Fertik of
reputation.com calls 'Big Analysis'.
In the manufacturing sector, for example, there is huge untapped potential for data collected throughout the supply
chain via IoT enabled devices to inform and direct sustainability policy. Mapping all this white noise, so it can be
meaningfully interpreted and acted upon, involves developing complex sustainability data topographies that span
entire organisations. The complexity involved in the way organisations approach sustainability practices and supply
chain management, has in many ways lead directly to the industry that I now work in, whilst the rapid growth of
sustainability data management software is testament to the huge commercial potential many businesses are seeing
in this area.

A Circular Economy

In 2014 Project Mainstream was launched at the Davos Economic Forum with the express purpose of bringing
businesses together to create the conditions in which a circular economy can develop and thrive. The projected
$1tn in annual savings that could be made by 2025 would be realised by replacing the prevailing take, make and
dispose economic model with one that puts reusability and recyclability at the fore.

The Internet of Things would undoubtedly form a crucial component of realising this vision, through the use of
passive and active tracking technology to allow companies to monitor the condition, usage and location of electronic
products throughout their lifecycle. Until now, each thing in the Internet of Things was silent. Now, it can speak
to its creators, says Joy Tan of Huawei.

By identifying when products or industrial machinery needs maintenance or servicing, their natural lifespans can be
increased and their energy efficiency maximised. The project estimates $52bn worth of savings by rescuing products
from landfill through recycling, reuse or remanufacturing.

Supply Chain Management

The Internet of Things impact on the manufacturing sector has been monumental, as Ive already alluded to. You
only need take a recent survey of 600 manufacturing companies to appreciate the pace and scale of change when it
comes to the IoT in industry. Amongst the respondents, 97 per cent believed the IoT the most significant technology
of the decade, with 83 per cent already using IoT technology or planning to in the next year.

The industry has been working on IoT-style technologies since I was first involved with automation in 1986, says
Jim Hilton of Zebra Technologies, who conducted the research. The trouble then was that it took a modem 25
minutes to get the data up to where it could be seen. The need for automation and data collection in manufacturing
is probably as old as the industrial revolution itself but it is only now that the IoT has enabled this to be realised on
such a large scale and to such exacting degrees.
The desire to drive down costs by driving up efficiency using IoT technologies is having a huge effect on the
sustainability practices across major manufacturing industries. From the ability to remotely monitor and automate
the energy efficiency of devices and equipment in the field to tacking the location and condition of assets, personnel
and inventory levels, the IoT has amounted to nothing short of a revolution in supply chain management.

Smart Cities and Smart Objects

Beyond the world of industry, the Internet of Things is slowly changing the cities and homes we live in. In the
consumer sphere, the steps towards mass commercialisation of IoT based technology have been tentative, with
wireless thermostats and fitness tracker watches being two of the most recent success stories. If we take the former
as an example, the modest improvement in our individual carbon footprint from saving a few quid off our heating bill
every month might not sound like much, but multiply this across half the households in Britain and the impact is
significant. The question therefore comes down to how affordable and desirable these technologies can be made to
the market.

Across the infrastructure of our cities as well, the IoT is slowly embedding itself, driving efficiency and sustainability
through smart heating and lighting systems in office buildings to smart water and energy provision, as well as transport
systems.

Many of these integrated systems are in their infancy and require huge investment but the drive towards sustainability
is inextricably links towards financial efficiency and motivating factors dont come much bigger than this.

(Jones, 2016)

CONCLUSION
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