Factories of the Future

9Internet of Things

Davinder Singh

Department of Mechanical Engineering, Punjabi University, Patiala, Punjab, India

Abstract

Internet has changed drastically in the way people interact in the virtual world, in their careers or social relationships. With the increasing use of the Internet and its variety of applications, there is an increase in the number of interconnected and Internet-connected devices. Nowadays, the Internet is used in every type of organization, such as academic, research, business, personal use, etc. The Internet of Things (IoT) has attracted wide attention from researchers to address the potential of this technology in various industries recently as the current generation has become quite habitual of Internet use, and life without it seems to be impossible; everyday work and even household chores make use of the Internet. In IoT, every vital object in our daily life such as the wallet, watch, refrigerator, car, etc., will be connected with each other and with the internet. Anyone would be able to track his/her belongings from anywhere, anytime and any network. Those objects would send alerts to the users, in any event, to keep them safe. Hence, this revolution will change the way people think, live and work.

Keywords: Internet of Things (IoT), cloud computing, M2M, wireless sensor network (WSN), fog computing

9.1 Introduction

Recent years have witnessed the growing use of Internet as billions of people browse the web to access multimedia content and services, ...