The Tactile Internet

5IoT, IoE and Tactile Internet

Wrya MONNET

Department of Computer Science and Engineering,

University of Kurdistan Hewlêr, Erbil, Iraq

Connecting the physical world with the virtual one is done through sensors, actuators and computing units in the vicinity of the physical environment. This computing unit is usually small and is embedded in the physical device to be connected to the virtual one. The embedded system connected to the things provides them with intelligence. The resulting system is an Internet of Things (IoT). This has a wide range of applications in monitoring and controlling remote devices, automatically or through simple human issued commands. In automatic control, the machine, with the help of the sensors and actuators on the remote side, will manage the system. In the case of monitoring and interaction, the human is a part of the system, through the use of senses, such as sight, hearing, sent or touch. In addition, there may also be analytical tools provided by the Internet to process data and assist human interaction and decision. In this case, the resulting system becomes an Internet of Everything (IoE). A more particular case of the IoE is when the human is controlling a remote side, using the Internet as a communication medium, in order to become the master of the remote slave end. Then, the IoE system becomes a tactile one, more specifically the Tactile Internet (TI). In this case, the returned signal is mainly a tactile one, in addition to video or audio ...