The internet of things is going to transform the way we perceive the objective world. The world is getting more and more connected with multiple devices available. This post is a reflection on my recent encounter with the the use cases of the Internet of Things (IoTs) in education and academia There a pressing need for us to invest on the human resources for developing the current IoT. If there is lot of potential in IoT, then the need to train our younger generations is also high.
The IoT mania is more hyped than reality. In reality, we are not trying to do something that is entirely new. But IoT is just another way of getting things done in a smarter, simplified and user friendly manner. The whole jargon blinds us of many things that we can/have fundamentally deal/dealt with. For instance, has anyone thought about the number of multimedia content that gets transferred across the internet and the cloud. Is there that theoretical "infinite" storage that is available to us to store this on the clouds? Here comes the savior in the form of Wavelet and Time-Frequency transforms. A fundamental theory that has developed more than a 50 years back, comes into action in a beautiful coincidence to solve a Big Data issue. Looking at the various layers of the communication stack in the current, IoT can back on a huge legacy network if it gets focused on the specific constraints. The IoT is going to make access to every possible sensed data at any place. In a nutshell, it becomes an all pervasive network.
The key drivers in IoT is surely the ability to handle data. Are we prepared for that ? Some key anticipations in the industry goes in the areas of low power, storage and integration of the hardware software peripherals. The answers to all these are open as of today. The 50 billion or the a trillion devices by 2020 .. how can one possibly give a network address to each of these.
If the technologists claim it to be the next biggest revolution after the industrial revolution in the early 18th century, then we better get ready. - the earlier the better. There are a variety of starter kits for students to pick up early. Specifically, there needs to be training in the following aspects : sensing, networking and actuation. An undergraduate IoT lab facility is strongly required.
Navigate to IoT Lab.
The IoT mania is more hyped than reality. In reality, we are not trying to do something that is entirely new. But IoT is just another way of getting things done in a smarter, simplified and user friendly manner. The whole jargon blinds us of many things that we can/have fundamentally deal/dealt with. For instance, has anyone thought about the number of multimedia content that gets transferred across the internet and the cloud. Is there that theoretical "infinite" storage that is available to us to store this on the clouds? Here comes the savior in the form of Wavelet and Time-Frequency transforms. A fundamental theory that has developed more than a 50 years back, comes into action in a beautiful coincidence to solve a Big Data issue. Looking at the various layers of the communication stack in the current, IoT can back on a huge legacy network if it gets focused on the specific constraints. The IoT is going to make access to every possible sensed data at any place. In a nutshell, it becomes an all pervasive network.
The key drivers in IoT is surely the ability to handle data. Are we prepared for that ? Some key anticipations in the industry goes in the areas of low power, storage and integration of the hardware software peripherals. The answers to all these are open as of today. The 50 billion or the a trillion devices by 2020 .. how can one possibly give a network address to each of these.
If the technologists claim it to be the next biggest revolution after the industrial revolution in the early 18th century, then we better get ready. - the earlier the better. There are a variety of starter kits for students to pick up early. Specifically, there needs to be training in the following aspects : sensing, networking and actuation. An undergraduate IoT lab facility is strongly required.
Navigate to IoT Lab.
