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[Ranod_Lakshitha]

IoT

1. What is Internet of Things? 🤔

Internet of Things or IoT refers to a network of connected devices and the technology that facilitates communication between that devices and a cloud, as well as between the devices themselves.

2. How an IoT System Works? 🌐

The applications for IoT extend across a broad variety of use cases and verticals. However, IoT is an integrated system of 4 distinct components.

i) Devices/Sensors 📲

Devices or sensors collect data from their environment. This data could be as simple as a temperature reading or as complex as a full video feed.

ii) Connectivity 📶

This is the most important component of IoT. Data that collected from the devices, needs a way to get the cloud. This connectivity should have a low latency for efficient IoT system. Like 5G.

iii) Data Processing 🔄

Once the data gets to the cloud, software performs some kind of processing on it.

iv) User Interface 🙋‍♂️

The information is made useful to the end-user in some way. This could be via an alert to the user like an email, text or any notification.

3. Why is IoT Important? 🤔

The internet of things helps people live and work smarter, as well as gain complete control over their lives. In addition to offering smart devices to automate homes, IoT is essential to business. IoT can literary helpful anywhere, including in critical industries like healthcare, transport, education and etc.

4. IoT and Sri Lanka 🇱🇰

When comparing to other countries, IoT not in use pretty much in Sri Lanka. Lack of IoT devices, Poor low latency connectivity in rural areas and lack of knowledge about IoT cause to this.

5. Examples for IoT 🔍

Driverless vehicles, Smart homes, Smart cities and etc.

[Jinp]

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[Anonymous]

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