Ramblings from an Automation Mad Man (A Blog Series):
By Jerry E. Maldonado – VP of Automation, Customer Lifecycle Solutions
According to historians, it started On August 6th, 1991.
That’s when the World Wide Web became publicly available.
Tim Berners-Lee posted a short summary of the project on the alt.hypertext newsgroup and gave birth to a new technology that fundamentally change the world as we knew it. Simultaneously, discovering the World Wide Web conceived the birth of the IoT; when the first computers were tied together via the internet. So what is the IoT exactly? It is the connection of devices to a common communication bus, in this case the internet.
And when we talk about devices, we are talking about a lot more than just a couple of computers that first started the web in 1991.
In 1991, devices were pretty much limited to big bad clunky computers and the communication between these monsters were limited to say the least. Today, the list of device types is endless. Look around at what is connected to you and your home network. It isn’t just clunky computers anymore. You have tablets, phablets, phones, desktops, laptops, game consoles, hand held consoles, satellite and cable receivers, appliances, cars, and so forth. You see, the internet is all these things and more if it can sense, monitor, communicate, provide data, and perform a function.
At this very moment, you are connected to an IoT device or connected to something that is on its way into becoming one. You can’t avoid it. Is big brother watching you or is it just another IoT trying to sense or do something in the world? Just think that in the time it took you to read my ramblings, another IoT device was probably born and connected. Moving fast isn’t it?
Why the need for IoT?
Innovation.
Are we ready?
Not by a long shot.
This is the first of many in my blog series where I will be talking all things IoT and Automation. Follow the ramblings of an Automation Mad Man every Wednesday here on communities.ca.com