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   <p class="highlighted inline mw-collapsible-content">There are many types of IoT smart devices, and more emerge every day.</p><p class="inline"> The IoT technology in the home can consist of entertainment systems, including televisions, gaming systems,</p><p class="highlighted inline mw-collapsible-content"> speakers, and headphones,</p><p class="inline"> as well as heating/cooling systems such as</p><p class="highlighted inline mw-collapsible-content"> the thermostat, ceiling fan,</p><p class="inline"> carbon monoxide detector, smoke alarm, and lights. Home security IoT systems include alarms, smart locks, garage door openers, baby monitors, cameras, and home assistants. Home IoT appliances can include refrigerators, coffee makers, the oven, and the vacuum cleaner. External IoT objects can include connected smart cars, buses, trains, and airplanes. They also include wearables like fitness trackers and smartwatches, and healthcare devices like heart and blood pressure monitors.</p><p class="highlighted inline mw-collapsible-content"> Even pets can be connected via IoT with a tracking collar.</p><p class="inline"> By combining these connected devices with automated systems and Artificial Intelligence (AI), it is possible to gather new information, analyse it in real-time, and create an immediate action to help with a particular task, improve processes, or gain new insights.</p>

   <p class="highlighted inline mw-collapsible-content">There are many types of IoT smart devices, and more emerge every day.</p><p class="inline"> The IoT technology in the home can consist of entertainment systems, including televisions, gaming systems,</p><p class="highlighted inline mw-collapsible-content"> speakers, and headphones,</p><p class="inline"> as well as heating/cooling systems such as</p><p class="highlighted inline mw-collapsible-content"> the thermostat, ceiling fan,</p><p class="inline"> carbon monoxide detector, smoke alarm, and lights. Home security IoT systems include alarms, smart locks, garage door openers, baby monitors, cameras, and home assistants. Home IoT appliances can include refrigerators, coffee makers, the oven, and the vacuum cleaner. External IoT objects can include connected smart cars, buses, trains, and airplanes. They also include wearables like fitness trackers and smartwatches, and healthcare devices like heart and blood pressure monitors.</p><p class="highlighted inline mw-collapsible-content"> Even pets can be connected via IoT with a tracking collar.</p><p class="inline"> By combining these connected devices with automated systems and Artificial Intelligence (AI), it is possible to gather new information, analyse it in real-time, and create an immediate action to help with a particular task, improve processes, or gain new insights.</p>

   <h2>Technology Brie</h2>

   <h2>Technology Brief</h2>

   <p>Internet of Things refers to the ever-growing network of physical objects that feature digital Internet connectivity. The IoT technology works via web-enabled  smart devices that transmit information gathered from their surroundings using embedded sensors, software, and processors. The IoT extends Internet connectivity beyond traditional devices like desktops, laptops, smartphones and tablets to a more diverse range of devices, everyday objects and industrial devices that communicate via the Internet.</p>

   <p>Internet of Things refers to the ever-growing network of physical objects that feature digital Internet connectivity. The IoT technology works via web-enabled  smart devices that transmit information gathered from their surroundings using embedded sensors, software, and processors. The IoT extends Internet connectivity beyond traditional devices like desktops, laptops, smartphones and tablets to a more diverse range of devices, everyday objects and industrial devices that communicate via the Internet.</p>

 

   <p class="highlighted inline mw-collapsible-content">First, sensors or devices collect data from their environment. Data is then sent to the cloud connected through a variety of methods including: cellular, satellite, WiFi, Bluetooth, Low-Power Wide-Area Networks (LPWAN), an IoT gateway, other edge devices, or by connecting directly to the internet via Local Area Networks (LANs) or Wide Area Networks (WANs).<ref>McClelland, C. (2017, November 20).<i>[https://medium.com/iotforall/iot-explained-how-does-an-iot-system-actually-work-e90e2c435fe7 IoT Explained — How Does an IoT System Actually Work?]</i> Retrieved from medium.com</ref></p><p class="inline">  Some IoT devices have internal systems that are capable of processing and analyzing data at their local level, such that data sent to the cloud is not simply raw data. In other words: data processing can occur closer to the point of contact, at the edge of the network. Edge computing and processing has become a major component in IoT. This saves data-driven decision-making time by allowing the IoT device to act upon its own analysis, rather then sending large data volumes to a data centre’s analytic system and waiting for that system to signal an alert or make a decision. The connectivity, networking and communication protocols used with these web-enabled devices depend largely on the specific IoT applications deployed.</p>

   <p class="highlighted inline mw-collapsible-content">First, sensors or devices collect data from their environment. Data is then sent to the cloud connected through a variety of methods including: cellular, satellite, WiFi, Bluetooth, Low-Power Wide-Area Networks (LPWAN), an IoT gateway, other edge devices, or by connecting directly to the internet via Local Area Networks (LANs) or Wide Area Networks (WANs).<ref>McClelland, C. (2017, November 20).<i>[https://medium.com/iotforall/iot-explained-how-does-an-iot-system-actually-work-e90e2c435fe7 IoT Explained — How Does an IoT System Actually Work?]</i> Retrieved from medium.com</ref></p><p class="inline">  Some IoT devices have internal systems that are capable of processing and analyzing data at their local level, such that data sent to the cloud is not simply raw data. In other words: data processing can occur closer to the point of contact, at the edge of the network. Edge computing and processing has become a major component in IoT. This saves data-driven decision-making time by allowing the IoT device to act upon its own analysis, rather then sending large data volumes to a data centre’s analytic system and waiting for that system to signal an alert or make a decision. The connectivity, networking and communication protocols used with these web-enabled devices depend largely on the specific IoT applications deployed.</p>

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