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Why IoT is gaining momentum?





Internet of Things(IoT) is one of the most amazing things that is getting explored rapidly. What is this IoT? and why is it  being used so much in the media? First time I came across this, I just thought of it as one another abbreviation that needs to be added to my tiny memory. It did rhyme somewhat with the trending Theory of Everything , but, didn't actually have any relation as such. 

So, as the name suggests it does provide a way to connect various things with the Internet. The idea was to get the "Real" world get connected with "Virtual" World in an intuitive way. Basically, a way to get more lazier! Imagine to control your household appliances with a press of a button..or being able to "talk" to them and instruct them, or whatsapp them to do so and so work! How cool would that be?! It is as interesting as it sounds and throws out a new world of amazing ideas. Now that you have started to get a picture of what this stuff can do you have started a sequence of thoughts about what all can you do with this. Keep thinking and something innovative might strike your creative head and who knows could make you billionaire!

Why is it really gaining momentum is a question that has popped in the heads of many techfreaks like me. So, the first thing is we know everything around is very rapidly getting absorbed into the internet world and making it more accessible to the people through apps. Be it on android ,ios, windows these apps have made life more easier,comfortable and we get more free time to explore our hobbies. Secondly, the flexibility! By flexibility I mean to say is the flexibility in the way we can access the "physical" objects.Imagine a situation wherein you forget to switch of the lights,fans in your house and your off for a short vacation.Now, being practical we wouldn't go back to our house half-way through the journey just to switch off the lights and fans..We are not that environmentally crazy people.Though the wastage of electricity is a valid point but we would not have much of an option as such. IoT whereas a powerful way through which we can solve this problem. So,if your lights,fans and other appliances are somehow connected to the wi-fi at your home, then all you have to do is go to your app -> just turn off the respective devices.Voila! You just won an award for saving electricity!
Thirdly it is user friendly and environmentally sound. User friendly is a huge factor for customer satisfaction and also the app usage. More user friendly the application is more frequently the app is at work.Since, the appliances do not actually much of a hardware(important-assuming it is first installation at the house), it is cheap,effective,efficient,user friendly, eco friendly, cool, awesome...and few other positive adjectives IoT is the new thing out in the world in its nascent stage ready to turn your lives around.

 So, this was my take on the IoT ,trying to explain it in a simple way filtering out all the technical details as much as possible. Yes, there are lot more things to talk about,I shall talk about it more in my later posts as and when I come across cool stuff regarding IoT.Till then ciao!
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