Practical Internet of Things Security - Second Edition

The IoT of today

It is a cliché to declare how fast Moore's law is changing our technology-rich world and how connected our devices, social networks, even bodies, cars, and other objects are becoming.

A useful way to think of IoT technological progression is what happens when the network extends not to the last mile or last inch endpoint but to the last micron, where virtual and digital become physical. Whether the network extends to a motor servo controller, temperature sensor, accelerometer, light bulb, stepper motor, washing machine monitor, or pacemaker battery voltage monitor, the effect is the same: the information sources and sinks facilitate monitoring and control functions between our physical and virtual worlds. In the case of the ...