Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- About the Author
- Making My Book Social
- Acknowledgements
- Before We Begin
- About This Book
- Part I What's In Your Area Network?
- Part II The Wireless Sensor Network
- 5 Introducing Low Power and Wireless Sensor Technologies
- 6 Enabling the Internet of Things
- 7 Bluetooth low energy
- 8 Control Your World with ZigBee
- 9 Green, Smart, and Wireless
- 10 The Power of Less
- Part III The Classic Personal Area Network
- Part IV Forthcoming Technologies and Conclusions
- Glossary
- References and Bibliography
- Index
- References
6 - Enabling the Internet of Things
from Part II - The Wireless Sensor Network
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 September 2013
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- About the Author
- Making My Book Social
- Acknowledgements
- Before We Begin
- About This Book
- Part I What's In Your Area Network?
- Part II The Wireless Sensor Network
- 5 Introducing Low Power and Wireless Sensor Technologies
- 6 Enabling the Internet of Things
- 7 Bluetooth low energy
- 8 Control Your World with ZigBee
- 9 Green, Smart, and Wireless
- 10 The Power of Less
- Part III The Classic Personal Area Network
- Part IV Forthcoming Technologies and Conclusions
- Glossary
- References and Bibliography
- Index
- References
Summary
We briefly touched upon the Internet of Things (IoT) earlier, in Chapter 4, “Introducing the Lawnmower Man Effect.” The Lawnmower Man Effect (LME) is a supposition used to classify the ability afforded to a new generation of consumers who seek to have a permanent connection to access anything, anytime, anywhere. In short, it represents the consumer's ability to traverse digital systems across the globe, all captained from their personal area networking space utilizing pervasive Wide Area Networking (WAN) technologies. Let's take a moment to form a better understanding of the Internet of Things. Firstly, the IoT needs to be distinguished from the Internet. The Internet, of course, represents a globally connected number of networks, irrespective of a wired or wireless interconnection. IoT, on the other hand, specifically draws your attention to the ability of a device to be tracked or identified within an IP structure – similarly, we (humans, consumers, and so on) are nowadays capable of being tracked and we can all be identified, as we intimated earlier in Chapter 4, perhaps via our IP address. The IoT is often misconstrued, invariably carte blanche, to accommodate anything that resembles Internet capability, and this is certainly not the case. More specifically, the IoT is solely used to characterize the ability to track and identify objects or things within the Internet or similar IP structure. However, from this perspective, we have now empowered these objects to collate new information, in turn extending the initial IoT concept. The IoT refers to the interconnection of distinguishable smart/intelligent objects or “things” and their virtual manifestation within the Internet or similar IP structure. The IoT also recognizes the empowerment of these objects or things to gather new information and, in turn, portray a representation of their “world.” After all, the Internet is wholly reliant on information that has been/is typically derived from human input.
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