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The Internet of things
The Andhra Pradesh Cabinet on March 3 approved the first-of-its-kind policy on Internet of Things (IoT) with the prime objective of turning the state into an IoT Hub by 2020 and achieve a sizeable share (at least 10 per cent) in its market in the country.
The Andhra Pradesh Cabinet on March 3 approved the first-of-its-kind policy on Internet of Things (IoT) with the prime objective of turning the state into an IoT Hub by 2020 and achieve a sizeable share (at least 10 per cent) in its market in the country. The State government will promote setting up of 10 IoT hubs with active participation of the private sector and create 50,000 direct employment in different IoT verticals.
"Our aim is to attract at least 100 IoT companies/ entities to set up their operations and development centres in AP. We want to create a world-class eco system through the proposed hubs for the growth of IoT entities," Minister for Information Technology Palle Raghunadha Reddy said. The Internet of Things essentially means machine-to-machine communication on internet platform.
"Things," in the IoT sense, can refer to a wide variety of devices such as heart monitoring implants, household appliances like refrigerator, coffee maker, biochip transponders on farm animals, electric clams in coastal waters, automobiles with built-in sensors, DNA analysis devices for environmental/food/pathogen monitoring or field operation devices that assist firefighters in search and rescueoperations.
These devices collect useful data with the help of various existing technologies and then autonomously flow the data between other devices.Current market examples include smart thermostat systems and washer/dryers that use Wi-Fi for remote monitoring. According to Gartner, Inc. (a technology research and advisory corporation), there will be nearly 26 billion devices on the Internet of Things by 2020.
When IoT is augmented with sensors and actuators, the technology becomes an instance of the more general class of cyber-physical systems, which also encompasses technologies such as smart grids, smart homes, intelligent transportation and smart cities. Each thing is uniquely identifiable through its embedded computing system.
British entrepreneur Kevin Ashton first coined the term in 1999 while working at Auto-ID Labs (originally called Auto-ID centers, referring to a global network of objects connected to radio-frequency identification, or RFID). Typically, IoT is expected to offer advanced connectivity of devices, systems, and services that goes beyond machine-to-machine (M2M) communications and covers a variety of protocols, domains, and applications.
The interconnection of these embedded devices (including smart objects), is expected to usher in automation in nearly all fields, while also enabling advanced applications like a Smart Grid, and expanding to the areas such as smart cities.
