Cellular Trends: How Smartphones and the Internet of Things Will Change Your Life by Nick Vulich

Author:Nick Vulich [Vulich, Nick]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-03-14T00:00:00+00:00

The Internet of Things

Samsung’s website gives the best definition I’ve seen of the IoT, short for Internet of Things. They explain it as “shorthand for the way gadgets talk to each other.”

Boiled down to its essentials, the Internet of Things, is an amalgamation of switches and sensors connected by cellular technology. When a switch is activated, or a sensor is tripped, it sends a signal to a connected device to do something.

Eventually, just about everything will be connected. Did you go to the grocery store without your shopping list? No problem. Pull up your smartphone app, and check your refrigerator’s contents. Are you almost out of toilet paper? An app will alert you to bring another roll on your next trip to the restroom. Don’t want to get up to restart the dryer, with a smart dryer you can do it from your smartphone app. And, have you ever had that nagging feeling when you left home that you forgot to lock the doors, or close the windows? Don’t worry. Your app will lock the door, and let you know which windows, if any, were left open.

The Internet of Things offers unlimited possibilities, but at the same time, it presents infinite dangers.

Author Robert Siciliano, suggests the IoT will “make dumb objects smarter. Imagine house keys that don’t need to be taken out of one’s purse or pocket to open a door, or a gadget that can scan dairy products in your refrigerator for expiration dates, and the sensor will then remind you of these dates.” There will be other things that “make changes by sensing changes in the environment. Imagine a garage door that opens because a sensor in it knows that the homeowner is approaching from 100 feet away.”

But, he also foresees problems. “Imagine what a hacker can do: The whole town’s garage doors won’t open.” Or, “imagine a thing sensing a change in your body (via sensory technology and apps), and then responding by dispensing medication. But this also sounds frightening: Imagine what a malicious hacker can do with this technology.”

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