The Internet of Things (IoT) refers to the billions of physical devices around the world that are all connected to the Internet, and are all capable of data collection and **** enjoyment. The ultimate goal of IoT is to make everything part of the network.
Connecting all these different objects and adding sensors to them adds a level of digital intelligence to otherwise dumb devices, allowing them to communicate real-time data without involving humans. The IoT is making the fabric of the world around us smarter and more responsive, merging the digital and physical worlds.
There are many directions of development, and as far as the eye can see, all objects can become IoT-connected devices.
As an example
Intelligent agriculture
The current very hot Xinjiang cotton, if the traditional way of picking, in general, an acre of cotton field a year can bring about 1800 yuan of income, 1600 yuan of the cost of the cost of most of the labor costs, the actual per acre will be able to earn less than200 bucks.
But if the cotton field to achieve the Internet of Things intelligent agriculture, a cotton farmer in Xinjiang, from seeding, to fertilization, dosing, playing defoliant, and then harvesting, all with the help of intelligent machines to complete the words, not only to save trouble and save time, the annual profit will be higher than the full artificial profit 6.5 times. That is to say from 200 yuan / mu of profit rose to 1300 yuan / mu, a family of 1500 acres of farmland, in last year's profit can reach 200 million yuan.
If every inch of land has a complete intelligent agriculture concept to develop, the sensor operation of the data are collected centrally, and categorized and effectively utilized. Then in the future, agriculture will be the same as industry, and the information industry organic combination, to realize the operation of big data.
Such smart farms will create greater yields, save more costs, and truly realize the goal of feeding more people with limited land resources.
Another example
Intelligent medical
Can medical, in fact, is also the wireless human body local (district) network. The use of proximity wireless communication technology, will be worn or directly implanted in the human body. The body of the centralized control unit and multiple miniature sensor units (such as electrocardiogram sensors, blood pressure sensors, blood oxygen sensors, body temperature sensors and behavioral sensors, etc.) connected.
Wireless human body LANs are mainly aimed at health monitoring applications, which can collect and record human physiological parameters over a long period of time and continuously, and provide appropriate services to the body when needed.
Back in 2014, Google launched a contact lens capable of monitoring blood sugar with a view to providing simple monitoring of the human condition.
Today's smart bracelets, too, can always monitor a person's pulse, movement, and other physical changes.
What Grail, a company that works on early cancer detection, does is monitor the presence of cancerous lesions in the body by measuring genes in the blood. This is actually part of the Internet of Everything - some technological way of connecting our bodies to a monitoring system.
How big will the IoT be? The most conservative estimate is that there will be 50 billion devices (including us humans ourselves connected to the network), and a bolder estimate is that there can be trillions of devices connected to the network, though of course many of these will be RFID-enabled goods that will only be on the web for a short time.
The first two generations of the Internet were much smaller by comparison. The first generation of the Internet had about 1 billion computers connected to the network, and the second generation had about 5 billion devices (including computers, cell phones, and some wearables). That means it's about an order of magnitude larger from the first to the second generation, and it will be another order of magnitude larger from the second to the third.
The size of the economy created by so many devices is extremely significant, and at the most conservative estimate should be twice the size of today's telecom market, or more than $7 trillion.
These are just the tip of the iceberg in terms of the direction of IoT technology development and industry prospects.
IoT technology, equivalent to when scientists discovered electricity, electricity and IoT technology, are simple technologies, but what can be done, is endless.
And the key lies in how we IoT people use it, in how we humans imagine it.