The Internet of Things (English: Internet of Things, abbreviated IoT) is a network of information bearers such as the Internet and traditional telecommunication networks that allows all common objects that can perform independent functions to be interconnected. The IoT is generally a wireless network, and since there can be one thousand to five thousand devices around each person, the IoT may have to contain 500 trillion to one thousand trillion objects. On the Internet of things, each person can apply the electronic label to connect the real objects on the Internet, and on the Internet of things all can find out their concrete position. Through the Internet of things can use the center computer to carry on the centralized management and control to the machine, the equipment, the personnel, also can carry on the remote control to the household equipment, the automobile, as well as searches the position, prevents the goods from being stolen and so on, similar to the automated control system, at the same time through the collection of these small things of the data, at last can be gathered into the big data, including the re-design of the road in order to reduce the automobile accident, the metropolitan renewal, the disaster prediction and the crime prevention and treatment, the epidemic disease
The Internet of Things (IoT) digitizes the real world and has a wide range of applications. The Internet of Things brings the dispersed information closer and unifies the digital information of things and things. The application areas of the Internet of Things mainly include the following: transportation and logistics, healthcare, intelligent environment (home, office, factory), personal and social fields, etc., which has a very broad market and application prospect.
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