IT Trends

Department of Information and Communications Technology

Centre for Foundation Studies , IIUM
Learning Outcome
At the end of this chapter, you should be able to define:

• Industrial Revolution 4.0 and its impact to the society

• Big Data – the characteristics and applications

• Internet of Things (IoT) and the applications

• Cloud Computing - the components and examples of usage.

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Industrial Revolution
• Industrial Revolution (IR) began in the 18th
century in Britain.

• Industrial Revolution transformed economies

that had been based on agriculture and
handicrafts into economies based on large-scale
industry, mechanized manufacturing, and the
factory system.

• Four stages of Industrial Revolution which IR 1.0,

2.0, 3.0 and 4.0

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Industrial Revolution Stages

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Industrial Revolution 4.0
• IR 4.0 is to introduce the wide usage of cloud technology, artificial
intelligence (AI) and internet of things (IoT) by using machine
learning and cyber physical systems (CPS).

• CPS is one of the latest technology use in IR 4.0 by presenting the

way of communication between humans and the engineering
system.

• There are 9 pillars - virtual/augmented reality, additive

manufacturing, IoT, big data, cloud computing, advanced simulation,
autonomous robot, universal integration and cyber security

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Impacts of IR 4.0

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Big Data
a collection of tremendously huge, fast and
complex data sets that are difficult to
handle using traditional data processing
applications

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Characteristic of Big Data (5V’s)

Volume
the incredible Variety Velocity
amounts of type of data that is the rate at which
information structured, data are processed
generated from unstructured, or and generated at a
different sources semi-structured very fast speed

Veracity Value
the amount of
the degree of
useful, accurate,
trustworthiness of
and trustworthy
the data
data
 Manufacturing and
Natural Resources

Communications,
Healthcare Providers Media and
Entertainment

Banking and Big Data Education

Securities
Application
Internet of Things (IoT)

An environment where electronic devices or

objects that are equipped with sensors,
programs, and other technologies
connected with other devices and systems
through the Internet in order for them to
interact with each other in real time.

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 Smart Home

Smart Car Smart Cities

IoT
Application

Smart
Wearable
Farming

Smart Retails
Cloud Computing
a virtual server environment that provides
access to services and resources through
the Internet connection including
software, databases, servers, networking,
storage and intelligence.

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Cloud Computing Components
Cloud
Clients Internet
Provider
• the user • provides • the
who access connection company
data, between the offering the
programs clients and computing
and storage, providers. services
which can with certain
be accessed amount of
anywhere fees.
and anytime

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