What is Internet Of Things (IoT) ?

Internet of Things , the name by itself suggests that it is nothing but a group of objects connected by means of internet. The term is commonly referred to as IoT. It's internetworking of physical devices which includes household appliances, vehicles and so on. The devices collect and transmit the data over the internet as needed.

IoT makes one to sense the status and control the objects remotely. A simple example would be like, Let's say you want to switch off all the lights and fans when you exit from home, you just need to program in such a way. All the lights and fans will get switched off when you exit !

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IoT makes our work more simpler. Another example is like, let's assume that the road which you usually travel has very high traffic. You might be able to get instruction in advance to get an alternative route to reach the destination much faster.

It provides tremendous opportunities which we can't even imagine since all the devices are connected by means of Internet. There are multiple companies working on IoT concept and Google is one major investor working on it. There are multiple other appliance companies which are working with Google in implementing IoTs.

Google is primary focusing on Home Automation, Driverless cars and so on. Most of the Google's IoT inventions are available only in United States and is expected to be available across the world soon.

Though IoT is a buzz word in recent times and named couple of years back, the IoT development was there since decades. IoT is also closely associated with machine learning, artificial intelligence, big data and many others. Internet of Things is one of the biggest transformations we have in recent times and for sure it will rule in future.