Connecting Everything - Internet of Things

Connecting Everything WHAT THE INTERNET OF THINGS MEANS FOR YOU AT HOME AND IN BUSINESS The INTERNET OF THINGS is a concept in which everyday physical objects are connected to the Internet and able to communicate and share data with both humans and other devices. OPULAR PRODUCTS THAT ARE CON CTING OUR LIVES IN THE HOME O SmartThings nest. 72 thinkeco 74 MOTION The Nest Thermostat ThinkEco's Modlet Smart lowers heating and cooling ! bills 20% by learning Plug plugs directly into i your outlets. You then plug i SmartThings I connects everyday objects to the Internet to make temperature patterns, your appliance into the smart plug, which helps reduce your energy bills. sensing the weather and by automatically changing ! the temperature when them smarter. necessary. Doors, windows, botanicalls)" appliances, your I dog, you name it; it's all turned into an app for your smartphone. 31 SMART FRIDGE Created in the 1990's, the smart WI-FI LIGHT BULBS I fridge is one of the oldest devices within the Internet Botanicalls are i flowers that of Things. A connected fridge knows when the milk is low. A fridge connected to the Internet would know you were at the I send a text to i I Smart light bulbs allow I you to control light bulbs i when they need i i with a smartphone and I their owners program them to turn i on and off automatically, I saving power and money. to be watered. grocery store and would send you a list of groceries. POPULAR PRODUCTS THAT ARE CONNECTING OUR LIVES IN BUSINESS LOGISTICS/ SHIPPING/ TRACKING SMART CARS Cars are already connected to the Internet, but soon cars Cellular devices attached to will be driving themselves. trucks, containers and even individual products or pallets that! allow them to be geolocated and tracked across the country. Insurance companies are already beginning to ioffer discounts if drivers will connect their cars to the Internet so driving behaviors can be tracked. CELL PHONE No longer just a phone with no wires attached Business and consumers use cellular devices to assist with routine tasks like: making payments parental monitoring securely logging identifying where consumers sale are in a store to offer micro-focused into websites coupons and sales boarding planes kindie Cell phones (with regular phone numbers) connect not just devices capable of voice communication. eReader's like Amazon's Kindle and ubiquitous tablets connect to the Internet through the cell phone network, but they use the cell phone network's data channels, not their voice channels. amazon kindle 2020 50B It is predicted there will be 25 billion Internet-connected devices by 2015 2015 25B 50 billion devices by 2020 CHALLENGES THAT STILL NEED TO RESOLVED: Identity, security and privacy safeguards need to be improved on many of these devices to prevent misuse. With all these cell-phone networked devices, how do you tell a voice-capable device from one that is not? Sources PacificEast http://newsroom.intel.com/docs/DOC-2297 http://www.businessinsider.com/what-you-need-to-know-about-t he-internet-of-things-2013-3?op=1 www.pacificeast.com http://www.businessinsider.com/10-smart-products-saving-the-w orld-2013-3#nest-the-self-learning-thermostat-1