The Internet of Things(IOT)

What Is IOT All About?

The internet is the most used technology which has lasted for a long time, it is very famous in many countries like Nigeria, USA, UK, Germany, it is mainly used for sharing or sending data from a person to another, the internet is a technology that connects a person to another.
This is a new technology that allows nonliving things to communicate with other nonliving things in a network, as human we possess five senses that enables us to interact with other people. They include:
•Our eyes for seeing.
•Our hands for feeling.
•Our nose for smelling or perceiving.
•Our tongue for tasting.
•Our ear for listening.
With these senses we can effectively interact with our environment, the IOT has the ability to allow object to also interact with their environment. Today there are over ten billion devices that can relate with another device, so that means there are more devices that can interact with each other than the total population of people of the world.

Cool Things That Can Be Done With Internet of Things/IOT

•Mobile phones are typical objects that have a lot of useful senses, for example you’re Samsung S6, it knows when it is picked up, when the lights is on, when you are answering a call and so many more.
•A garage door can sense when a car when it is about enter the garage, it can be possible through internet of things.
•Through internet of things you can create cool lighting effects
•Through internet of things you can relate with other gadgets, you can tell the other gadgets to turn either off or on
•Through internet of things, your device can sense how long you sleep every day, and can automatically set an alarm to wake you up.
Why Do We Need Internet of Things
• It aids in living a healthy live; the health gadget produced by apple can sense, collect data, this helps people to have quality health care at the right time.
• It aids in monitoring of natural disasters; it could be used to diagnose or monitor natural disasters in order to get accurate data about disasters that might happen which include earthquake, tsunami, tornado.
• It can aids in comforting people.