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Other than advantages, im going to talk a little bit about the disadvantage of internet slang. According to Mohankumar (2011), Internet slang is the pervasive unstoppable part of moderm life.Experts say that heavy use of Codes and Slangs in messaging may create problems in children to grasp basic grammatical concepts. Children using the short forms of words such as UR (actually means Your)  reduces the meaning of English and drops their ability to speak more phonetic. If a child frequently uses the slang “UR” he may learn to speak ” Uooor ” instead of “Your”. He may also unknowingly use these slang words in exams . Another problem is the gap in understanding the slang words between the parents and children. When the child uses a slang word in internet chatting or texting, the parent may not understand whether the word is innocent or malicious. This is an advantage for the online predators who wait for catching  the children to their sites.The parents  can do anything because they do not know the meaning of such slang words. This “language gap”, between the child and parent creates problems and many children may be influenced  by twisted people worming the websites .The best way to prevent such problems is to isolate the slang from children, schools etc and watch what they are doing.

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Thankyou for the information guys. Short forms, codes and symbols are very convenient in SMS text messaging. This reduces the time, key stroke and space but the recipient can know the matter in simple language. SMS language is known in different forms like Textese, Textese, txt, txto, texting, txt lingo, SMSish, txt talk etc. The SMS language is mainly used in Mobile phone communication (Short Message Service) but also popular in internet messaging like emails, instant messaging, chats etc Mohankumar (2011). Najiha also stated about short forms. and it is true that cyber language really helps people to save time. it saves time and it is easier to get message delivered

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Yes, that's true Najiha and Wan! In my opinion, Cyber language is also related to internet slangs. I believe that Cyber Language has its own advantages and drawbacks for teenagers nowadays. According to Seargeant (2014), the internet has revolutionised the way we live our lives in untold ways and makes people's life is easier. Based on some readings that I have made,cyber language has a connection with internet slang, which is also known as Internet shorthand, cyber-slang, netspeak, or chatspeak. This refers to various kinds of slang used by different people on the Internet around the globe. An example of Internet slang is " ROFL " that means "rolling on floor laughing". The drawbacks of cyber language is that people may not know the good and authentic language because most of cyber language is simple and used a lot of abbreviation to make it easier for posting online.

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Yes najiha, i strongly agree with your opinion. I think this kind of language will make teenagers lack of their formal language usage as they feel too comfortable with their way of communicating in the cyber world. Nowadays, people tend to forget to differentiate the reality and cyber world. According to Daneshdoust & Amin (2011), in term of education, "Learners will not be having enogh sself-control.Internet-base
learners are from different cultures, learning motivation, therefore
these differences result in different learning objectives which in
traditional method are considered carefully but because these
differences are not clearly defined in Internet-based learning some
of the learners are bored and become away from learning." It shows that it is one of the drawback of the cyber-language to teenagers especially students.

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Hi guys so today topic is Cyber Language

SO WHAT IS CYBER LANGUAGE ?cyber language or in other word "Chat Speak"is kind of a slang that people create for example BTW, OMG, LOL. Cyber language comes from

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In my opinion, this cyber language have it's own advantages and also some drawback. As for me, i would like to talk about the advantages. According to Daneshdoust & Amin (2011), there are 4 main advantages of cyber language for teenagers in term of their education, but i will only talk about 2 of it which are openess where they can improve the traditional education in term of time and space barriers. The second one is learning autonomy which the way of learning become easier because of it fulfill their style of writing or talking in the cyber world.
Thank you guys 😉

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I think one of the drawback of cyber language is the usage of internet slang tend to cause miscommunication among the teenagers and lower their language skills. I mean, since most of the internet slang mainly in the short forms and abbreviation due to the convenience and time saving reasons, some of the abbreviations might be unknown or self created by any individual, anonymously thus lead to, different misinterpretation among the internet users,whom majority of them are teenagers. As for instance,confusion might occur when the word” LOL”which has two meanings like “Laugh Out Loud” and “Lots Of Love” are being interpret differently among the writer and the reader. Since some of the teenagers aren't really familiar with this abbreviation,  this problem might happened occasionally. According to Kolowich(n.d.),word like "LOL" now become common, widespread, well understood, and stick around for more than five years, they're eligible for a spot in the big book, and being registered in the dictionary.

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Every year, hundreds of new words and phrases that come from internet slang are added to the dictionary.

Some of them are abbreviations, like FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out) and YOLO (You Only Live Once). Others are words that have been stretched into more parts of speech than originally intended -- like when "trend" became a verb ("It's trending worldwide"). Others still have emerged as we adapt our language to new technologies; think "crowdfunding," "selfie," "cyberbullying."

You might notice how many of these "new" words are actually just appropriated, meaning they are pre-existing words that are combined or given entirely new meanings. For example, "social network" became a word in the Oxford English Dictionary back in 1973, referring to the physical activity of networking in a social atmosphere. In the 1990s, people began using the term to refer to virtual engagement, and that became an official definition in 1998.

Why are so many new words and phrases emerging the internet, and so quickly? How does slang spread between cities and countries? Finally, what does it take for a slang word to become a word in the dictionary? Let's explore some of the answers to these questions.

Is the Internet to Blame?

The internet isn't the only technological phenomenon that's changed the way we talk. Radio, television, and telephones have introduced their fair share of new words and phrases into our lexicon over the last century.

For example, the phrase TTFN (Ta Ta For Now) comes from the "It's That Man Again" radio series in the 1940s. Similarly, the word "doh" that was made famous by Homer Simpson on The Simpsons became an official word in the Oxford English Dictionary, "used to comment on a foolish or stupid action, especially one's own." And don't forget "Give me the 4-1-1," the slang phrase for requesting information that refers the number for local directory assistance.

But as we spend more time online, we spend less time listening to the radio and watching TV -- and smartphones have blurred the line between phone and internet. At this point, the internet is likely the most prevalent influence on our day-to-day dialogue.

Think about how quickly internet trends come and go. The fast pace of change on the internet means we are adopting more words faster than ever before. "Language itself changes slowly, but the internet has sped up the process of those changes so you notice them more quickly," David Crystal, honorary professor of linguistics at the University of Bangor, told BBC News. You can imagine how much longer it took new words to spread through word-of-mouth than it does today with the internet. So, how exactly does it spread?

How Slang Spreads on the Internet

The question of how slang spreads has occupied linguists and anthropologists for decades. When it comes to the mechanics of new word distribution, it's been tough to measure with any precision -- that is, until the advent of public social media networks.

Social media networks like Twitter allow linguists a more accurate and easily searchable record of our exchanges. Jacob Eisenstein and his colleagues at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta conducted a study examining 30 million tweets sent from different locations in the U.S. from December 2009 to May 2011. The purpose of the study was to pinpoint the origin of popular slang words and track how they spread across the country.

The resulting map shows how these slang terms migrated across the country, as well as the direction of that influence:

Because of social media, words are moving around the world within weeks and months, whereas before, it could take a few years, says Julie Coleman, author of The Life of Slang. "It's not necessarily that language is changing more quickly, but technologies have developed and they allow the transmission of slang terms to pass from one group to another much more quickly."

Internet Slang Around the World

As you can imagine, it's not just the English-speaking countries who have seen changes in language thanks to the internet. "Computer slang is developing pretty fast in Ukraine," says Svitlana Pyrkalo, a producer at the BBC World Service Ukrainian Service. For example, the force-quit process of pressing "Control, Alt, Delete" is known as Дуля (dulya). A dulya is a Ukranian gesture using two fingers and a thumb, used in the same situations in which we'd give "the finger." "And you need three fingers to press the buttons," says Pyrkalo. "So it's like telling somebody, a computer in this case, to get lost."

Other countries have adopted their own versions of common internet acronyms like "OMG" and "LOL." In France, the acronym "mdr" stands for "mort de rire," meaning "dying of laughter." The Swedish write "asg" as an abbreviation of the term Asgarv, meaning intense laughter. For those in Thailand, the number "5" signifies the Thai letter "h," so putting three 5's together, 555, translates to "hahaha."

How New Words Make It Into the Dictionary

So, how do new words, like the acronym "LOL," make it all the way to the dictionary?

The secret of a new word's success is its longevity, says Fiona McPherson, Senior Editor in the New Words Group at the Oxford English Dictionary. To make it into the dictionary, the general population must use it and keep using it. A word must be in use for at least five years to be considered, McPherson says. So, love it or hate it, when words like "LOL" become common, widespread, well understood, and stick around for more than five years, they're eligible for a spot in the big book.

There are plenty of internet slang words that don't make it in, like "wurfing" (the act of surfing the internet while at work). But to say that word was rejected would be wrong -- that word, among many others, will be revisited if its usage grows. The dictionary is a living, breathing document, and there's always a chance a previously downvoted word will make it into the mainstream vocabulary in the future.

That's where even the word "slang" gets a little fuzzy. Is a word considered "slang" until it graduates into an official word in the dictionary? When exactly does a word become "real"?

The fact is, only when a word becomes "real" -- as in, widely used and understood -- is it then considered for a place in the dictionary. "The time the academy finishes their dictionary, it will already be well out of date," says linguist Stephen Pinker. "We see it in the constant appearance of slang and jargon. Language is not so much a creator and shaper of human nature so much as a window onto human nature."

As it turns out, dictionary editors look to uswhen they vote on whether a word should have a place in their dictionary. "Dictionaries are fantastic resources, but they are human and they are not timeless," Language Historian Anne Curzan reminds us. "If you ask dictionary editors, what they'll tell you is they're just trying to keep up with us as we change the language. They're watching what we say and what we write and trying to figure out what's going to stick and what's not going to stick."

There will certainly be changes in language that we don't like simply because many of us don't like change, but Curzan thinks we should be less quick to impose our likes and dislikes about words on other people. Language change isn't worrisome, she argues -- it's fun and fascinating. "I hope you can enjoy being part of the creativity that is continually remaking our language and keeping it robust."

So, no matter whether you think internet slang vitalizes or destroys language, there's no denying how revealing it is of the culture that invents and uses it -- and the ease with which we adapt our language to new technologies and concepts.

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Every year, hundreds of new words and phrases that come from internet slang are added to the dictionary. Some of them are abbreviations, like FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out) and YOLO (You Only Live Once). Others are words that have been stretched into more parts of speech than originally intended -- like when "trend" became a verb ("It's trending worldwide").

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Is there any opinion on cyber language everyone?

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Waaalaikumussalam, hello guys

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Waalaikumussalam, hello.

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Assalamualaikum and hi guys! I'm your moderator for today. Our topic for today's forum is cyber language in terms of advantages and drawbacks for teenager. I hope you will share any information about this topic, okay? I'm looking forward to know about cyber language! Thank you :)

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How smart cities & IoT will change our communities                     People continue to flock to cities for several reasons, such as employment opportunities, lifestyle, and more.As this migration continues, cities will need to become more efficient in order to keep up with the surging population. Thus, smart cities will start to become the norm in the major metropolitan areas of the world.

But what is a smart city?

Quite simply, smart cities use Internet of Things (IoT) devices such as connected sensors, lights, and meters to collect and analyze data. The cities then use this data to improve infrastructure, public utilities and services, and moreSmart City Projects & IoT Applications

The Amsterdam example is just one of many, particularly in Europe, which is leading the world in smart city development. The EU has been proactive in encouraging its member nations to develop smart cities, and the European Commission has allocated 365 million euros for this purpose.

And the efforts have already started to bear fruit. Paris debuted an electric car sharing program called Autolib in 2011, and has since grown the fleet of vehicles to 3,000. The connected vehicles can be tracked via GPS, and drivers can use the car's dashboard to reserve parking spaces in advance.

London announced earlier this year that it would begin tests on a smart parking project that would allow drivers to quickly locate parking spaces and remove the need for lengthy searches for an open spot. This, in turn, would alleviate urban traffic congestion. The U.K. capital also plans test electric car and bike-sharing programs.

Meanwhile, Copenhagen has started using sensors to monitor the city's bike traffic in real time, which provides valuable data on improving bike routes in the city. This is crucial, as more than 40% of the city's residents commute by bike each day.

North America has lagged behind even though it is the most urbanized region in the world, with more than 80% of its population in urban centers. Still, there are plenty of smart city projects up and running in these nations, specifically with regard to public safety and traffic.

New York City has tested gunshot detection technology in police precincts in Brooklyn and the Bronx, and the mayor wants to expand this testing around the city. Camden, New Jersey has implemented similar tech.

New York City also piloted a connected car program in 2015 with the goal of learning where drivers make frequent hard brakes or sharp turns because of traffic. Officials could then use this data to improve road conditions and alleviate traffic.

Finally, San Diego has started using cameras built into connected streetlights to monitor pedestrian traffic and reroute cars during peak hours to avoid pedestrian accidents and alleviate congestion.

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The new Internet of Things (IoT) applications are enabling Smart City initiatives worldwide. It provides the ability to remotely monitor, manage and control devices, and to create new insights and actionable information from massive streams of real-time data. The main features of a smart city include a high degree of information technology integration and a comprehensive application of information resources. The essential components of urban development for a smart city should include smart technology, smart industry, smart services, smart management and smart life. The Internet of Things is about installing sensors (RFID, IR, GPS, laser scanners, etcfor everything, and connecting them to the internet through specific protocols for information exchange and communications, in order to achieve intelligent recognition, location, tracking, monitoring and management. With the technical support from IoT, smart city need to have three features of being instrumented, interconnected and intelligent. Only then a Smart City can be formed by integrating all these intelligent features at its advanced stage of IOT development. The explosive growth of Smart City and Internet of Things applications creates many scientific and engineering challenges that call for ingenious research efforts from both academia and industry, especially for the development of efficient, scalable, and reliable Smart City based on IoT. NewNew protocols, architectures, and services are in dire needs to respond for these challenges. The goal of the special issue is to bring together scholars, professors, researchers, engineers and administrators resorting to the state-of-the-art technologies and ideas to significantly improve the field of Smart City based on IoT

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The IoT can realize the seamless integration of various manufacturing devices equipped with sensing, identification, processing, communication, actuation, and networking capabilities. Based on such a highly integrated smart cyberphysical space, it opens the door to create whole new business and market opportunities for manufacturing.[42] Network control and management of manufacturing equipment, asset and situation management, or manufacturing process control bring the IoT within the realm of industrial applications and smart manufacturing as well.[43] The IoT intelligent systems enable rapid manufacturing of new products, dynamic response to product demands, and real-time optimization of manufacturing production and supply chain networks, by networking machinery, sensors and control systems together.[38]

Digital control systems to automate process controls, operator tools and service information systems to optimize plant safety and security are within the purview of the IoT.[37] But it also extends itself to asset management via predictive maintenance, statistical evaluation, and measurements to maximize reliability.[44] Smart industrial management systems can also be integrated with the Smart Grid, thereby enabling real-time energy optimization. Measurements, automated controls, plant optimization, health and safety management, and other functions are provided by a large number of networked sensors.[38]

The term industrial Internet of things (IIoT) is often encountered in the manufacturing industries, referring to the industrial subset of the IoT. IIoT in manufacturing could generate so much business value that it will eventually lead to the fourth industrial revolution, so the so-called Industry 4.0. It is estimated that in the future, successful companies will be able to increase their revenue through Internet of things by creating new business models and improve productivity, exploit analytics for innovation, and transform workforce.[45] The potential of growth by implementing IIoT will generate $12 trillion of global GDP by 2030.[45]

Design architecture of cyber-physical systems-enabled manufacturing system[46]

While connectivity and data acquisition are imperative for IIoT, they should not be the purpose, rather the foundation and path to something bigger. Among all the technologies, predictive maintenance is probably a relatively "easier win" since it is applicable to existing assets and management systems. The objective of intelligent maintenance systems is to reduce unexpected downtime and increase productivity. And to realize that alone would generate around up to 30% over the total maintenance costs.[45] Industrial big data analytics will play a vital role in manufacturing asset predictive maintenance, although that is not the only capability of industrial big data.[47][48] Cyber-physical systems (CPS) is the core technology of industrial big data and it will be an interface between human and the cyber world. Cyber-physical systems can be designed by following the 5C (connection, conversion, cyber, cognition, configuration) architecture,[46] and it will transform the collected data into actionable information, and eventually interfere with the physical assets to optimize processes.

An IoT-enabled intelligent system of such cases was proposed in 2001 and later demonstrated in 2014 by the National Science Foundation Industry/University Collaborative Research Center for Intelligent Maintenance Systems (IMS) at the University of Cincinnati on a band saw machine in IMTS 2014 in Chicago.[49][50][51] Band saw machines are not necessarily expensive, but the band saw belt expenses are enormous since they degrade much faster. However, without sensing and intelligent analytics, it can be only determined by experience when the band saw belt will actually break. The developed prognostics system will be able to recognize and monitor the degradation of band saw belts even if the condition is changing, advising users when is the best time to replace band saw. This will significantly improve user experience and operator safety and ultimately save on costs.[51] Please see intelligent maintenance system for more reference.

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hello guys, so now it is my turn to share the information about the IoT.
So what is IoT ?

What kind of relation does the IoT have with smart cities? Okay.
First of all IoT is a devices that can connect with any computing devices,internet and people. The Internet of Things (IoT) is the network of physical devices, vehicles, home appliances, and other items embedded with ,electronics,software,sensors, actuators, and connectivity which enables these things to connect and exchange data,  creating opportunities for more direct integration of the physical world into computer-based systems, resulting in efficiency improvements, economic benefits, and reduced human exertions.

The number of IoT devices increased 31% year-over-year to 8.4 billion in 2017 and it is estimated that there will be 30 billion devices by 2020. The global market value of IoT is projected to reach $7.1 trillion by 2020.

IoT involves extending internet connectivity beyond standard devices, such as desktops, laptops, smartphones and tablets, to any range of traditionally dumb or non-internet-enabled physical devices and everyday objects.
Embedded with technology, these devices can communicate and interact over the internet, and they can be remotely monitored and controlled.
The definition of the Internet of things has evolved due to convergence of multiple technologies, real-time analytics, machine learning, commodity sensors, and embedded systems.[13] Traditional fields of embedded systems, wireless sensor networks, control systems, automation (including home and building automation), and others all contribute to enabling the Internet of things.[14]

The concept of a network of smart devices was discussed as early as 1982, with a modified Coke machine at Carnegie Mellon University becoming the first Internet-connected appliance,[15] able to report its inventory and whether newly loaded drinks were cold.[16] Mark Weiser's 1991 paper on ubiquitous computing, "The Computer of the 21st Century", as well as academic venues such as UbiComp and PerCom produced the contemporary vision of IoT.[17][18] In 1994, Reza Raji described the concept in IEEE Spectrum as "[moving] small packets of data to a large set of nodes, so as to integrate and automate everything from home appliances to entire factories".[19] Between 1993 and 1996, several companies proposed solutions like Microsoft's at Work or Novell's NEST. The field gained momentum when Bill Joy envisioned Device to Device (D2D) communication as part of his "Six Webs" framework, presented at the World Economic Forum at Davos in 1999.[20]

The term "Internet of things" was likely coined by Kevin Ashton of Procter & Gamble, later MIT's Auto-ID Center, in 1999,[21] though he prefers the phrase "Internet for things".[22] At that point, he viewed Radio-frequency identification (RFID) as essential to the Internet of things,[23] which would allow computers to manage all individual things.[24][25][26]

A research article mentioning the Internet of Things was submitted to the conference for Nordic Researchers in Logistics, Norway, in June 2002,[27] which was preceded by an article published in Finnish in January 2002.[28] The implementation described there was developed by Kary Främling and his team at Helsinki University of Technology and more closely matches the modern one, i.e. an information system infrastructure for implementing smart, connected objects.[29]

Defining the Internet of Things as "simply the point in time when more 'things or objects' were connected to the Internet than people", Cisco Systems estimated that IoT was "born" between 2008 and 2009, with the things/people ratio growing from 0.08 in 2003 to 1.84 in 2010

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Thank you for your information, Haris! It's nice to know more information about this.

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Not to forget, by spreading a vast number of sensors over a town or city, planners can get a better idea of what's really happening, in real time. As a result, smart cities projects are a key feature of the IoT. Cities already generate large amounts of data (from security cameras and environmental sensors) and already contain big infrastructure networks (like those controlling traffic lights). IoT projects aim to connect these up, and then add further intelligence into the system Ranger(2018). Furthermore, it is not a waste to invest on IoT technology, according to Evans(2018), in the next five years, respondents identified the cloud and Internet of Things (IoT) as the top two technologies for planned investments. More than half of respondents indicated their company was planning to make such investments. Lastly, if businesses can strategically combine and execute these elements in a way which best suits their business, they will be well-positioned to think more selectively about the technologies they require to create an IoT network which can deliver the most valuable, long-term return on investment, Ismail(2018)

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nice information wan! I've learnt something new about the benefits of smart cities for us! Thank you. I hope I can learn more things soon!

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Hi guys 😉 i would like to share with u guys a slide show as i think this will benefits us in better understanding on iot can help government in creating smart cities.
According to Maslan Abbas (2017) iot can affect 3 level of different people which are citizens, government and businesses.
In my opinion, the internet of things is actually good in making a smart cities nation in our country but we all should become a smart citizens first. As we all know, nowadays, there's so many things happening around us that involving the misuse of the internet, so in order for our country to achieve the "smart cities country", we should try to make change starting from ourself first. We are the main reasons why our country still not achieving out desire smart nations because we still lack of knowledge, awareness and also we are too rely on the government. Instead of rely on government only, why not we try to make change in our life first ?
I hope you guys learn something from this 🤩🤗
Thank you 😉

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Internet of Things - Preparing Yourself for a Smart Nation

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Invited Speaker at Majlis 2017 Budget Discourse hosted by Ministry of Finance, Malaysia.

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Meanwhile, don't forget to check out the official website of MyIoTa guys!By doing this you will keep yourself updated with latest events regarding the IoT-based program runs inside our beloved country Malaysia. Alright let's proceed with another knowledge sharing session.

Just a short summary on how the Internet of Everything save cost using Smart Cities. Just a thought, that smart city is able to collect data from sensor networks linked to the Internet of Everything, and the fact that using that information to power citizen services could cost a lot less than we ever expect(Teleena, 2018) is just soooo cool.I would not be much surprise of it turns out to be free. How? By making their data available application developers.                                                                                        And good new!                                      The Apps Are Coming to our Smart City (Deign, 2014)

Hexagon Geospatial has a technology platform that lets smart city administrators create a range of software applications based on geospatial data, such as a Mobile Alert app that allows citizens to report problems with street furniture and other community assets.

Smart Parking does what it says on the tin: offers systems that help drivers find a parking space. If it does not sound like a big deal then consider that 30 percent of congestion is due to drivers searching for somewhere to park.

In Europe, the Green eMotion project is working to make sure you can recharge your electric car as easily in any foreign city as you can at home. Its search service lets you find your nearest charging point… and check it is vacant and working.

Bismart has developed a host of smart city apps, ranging from Smart Destination, which uses Internet of Things data to improve visitor experiences, to its bigov Better City Indicators app for local governments.

Mov’Smart, from Mentis Services, helps drivers make their way more quickly through city streets by integrating real-time traffic data, road conditions, parking availability and payment, and local area info in a handy mobile app.

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IOT: MALAYSIA, ARE YOU READY?

Guys guys guys!

Do you know that our country actually already taken some moves in incorporate the IoT advancement here? All this time we had been looking another countries' development so why not looking at ours? Hihi.          According to InvestKL (2018) Malaysia has what it takes to become a regional leader in the Internet of Things (IoT) space, as plans and strategies are in place to help the country to move towards the goal.

For your information my friends, our country actually has an uplifting environment and a strong starting point to spur IoT within the domestic market and of course there always will be a some or single corporation behind it! Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC) has been one of the key players in expanding the IoT scene in our local community. From organizing hackathons to come up with smart solutions to providing resources for smart sensors placed around Cyberjaya, they’ve helped the local tech scene stride forward into the future (Iylia, 2017)            .                                                                  One of the program introduced by MDEC using  the concept of IoT:According Leckart (2012), Hackathon (also known as a hack day, hackfest or codefest) is a design sprint-like event in which computer programmers and others involved in software development, including graphic designers, interface designers, project managers, and others, often including subject-matter-experts, collaborate intensively on software projects.  The goal of a hackathon is to create usable softwares or hardware with the goal of creating a functioning product by the end of the event.                                                                                                                   Okay, let me brief the definition to you on what domestic market is all about since in order to grasp this topic.

Domestic market, a.k.a internal market or domestic trading, is the supply and demand of goods, services, and securities within a single country. In domestic trading, a firm faces only one set of competitive, economic, and market issues and essentially must deal with only one set of customers, although the company may have several segments in a market  Source: Wikipedia

So these are reasons why it is relevant to for our developing country to practice IoT:

High mobile penetration at 143.7 % and observation of multiple handset ownership

65.8 % of Malaysians are Internet users with 59 % being active users

Social media penetration in Malaysia is at 45%

Domestic ICT consumption is projected at

RM118.6 billion in 2015 and will register

RM117.6 billion by 2020 with a CAGR of 8.32 %

While there are reasons to say yes, there would always be reasons to say no when...

Several obstacles must be addressed while acknowledging the advantages of IoT technologies to unleash the full probable of IoT besides maximizing the use on existing strengths for IoT in order to continue to open

new markets and drive new applications and opportunities for

a wide range of industries.   One of the challenges is concerning on the companies security issues, especially when they are deploying a large scale system and many of the data sources like sensors are in the public eye or are available in big data centres. Companies need to ensure that the data is secure.                                                        According to Sim  Hon Wai, general manager of MDT Innovations Sdn Bhd,  Malaysian market is very small and a lot of the demand is government-driven, which makes it quite difficult.

“Also, another thing is that labour cost is still low. In the transition for IoT, we also need to talk about automation," he said "If companies don’t believe in automation, it would be difficult for Malaysians to adopt IoT.”                                                                               ( Goh Thean Eu, 2014)

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This pretty much sums up that any physical object could be transformed into an IoT device. I talked about privacy and security before. And now im going to explain a little bit more of it. According to Ranger(2018), with all those sensors collecting data on everything you do, the IoT is a potentially vast privacy headache. Take the smart home: it can tell when you wake up (when the smart coffee machine is activated) and how well you brush your teeth (thanks to your smart toothbrush), what radio station you listen to (thanks to your smart speaker), what type of food you eat (thanks to your smart oven or fridge), what your children think (thanks to their smart toys), and who visits you and passes by your house (thanks to your smart doorbell).                                     In addition, consumers dont really buy IoT, but they buy a part of a product that consists a part of IoT. Isn't that great? They literally dont trust much on IoT because of privacy. Besides, Customers don't buy the Internet of Things. Customers buy a solution to a specific problem where Internet of Things (IoT) components are part of that solution. This could be a well known problem where the customer is actively seeking a solution or it could be longstanding problem that a customer didn’t realize could be fixed. An IoT solution typical requires an ecosystem of partners that spans from sensors to applications, Lopez(n.d).                                   According to Elly(2018),IoT technology has made the concept of smart homes possible, and now the time for smart workplaces has arrived. Businesses that are accepting the change will see a higher growth graph than the ones who are still skeptical about this idea. Know where you stand and choose accordingly

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How to implement IoT to create a smart factory

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And to add some more, According to mandapalli,S. (n.d.), the iot means big data. It include in decision making, where it improve the efficiency of system and infrastructure, transform the daily life and increase the transparency. Government and organizations should make the data and intelligence available to the citizens and stakeholders. There's a few opportunities that can be found by using iot. One of them is technology advancements where iot can provide benefits to citizens. Second is better government services which means the government prioritize the citizens ahead of politics. It also transform government from analog to digital system. Next is better living systems and better environment which means the job creation and economic development is safer and secure. And also using optimal usage and natural resources with improved services to create the future for the next generation.

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Wowwww that's interesting adriana ! But I wouldlike to add some point on your topic.. it's true that government is saving cost when using iot but we also should know that for government to build the iot system is not that easy and it may takes time and also cost a large number of money... But it's worth it to work on as we all know that people nowadays love to make everything simple. "Federal agencies are still in the nascent stages of realizing the benefits and ROI yielded by the Internet of Things—not yet fully acknowledging the high-yield potential of digital transformation and the low-hanging fruit of IoT deliverables and devices. This is especially true when it comes to the emergence of sensor monitoring. By failing to fully grasp the enormous potential of IoT-enabled sensors, agencies risk missing the boat on the stream of tangible, measurable operational and strategic benefits that data-rich sensors yield.The need for agencies to pursue a sensor-driven IoT strategy is clear: A recent survey revealed only 26 percent of public service organizations are currently using sensor data to monitor and react to situations and anticipate issues. This suggests significant potential for innovation and growth. Moreover, end-results are compelling: Increased asset availability and productivity, reduced key asset downtime, and decreased mission costs. Specifically, asset maintenance using IoT can save up to 12 percent over scheduled repairs, reduce overall maintenance costs up to 30 percent and eliminate breakdowns up to 70 percent. Furthermore, operational efficiency programs, such as predictive maintenance projects, can reduce the cost of maintaining equipment by up to 25 percent. The ROI opportunities for budget-conscious agencies are enhanced by the act that sensors are becoming smaller, more sophisticated, and cheaper—as evidenced by the cost of internet-connected sensors falling more than 50 percent in the past decade."According to Singh, I. & Killer, J (n.d.). It's show that these internet of things can surely improve our live but it takes time and may cost government to spent on some amount of money to make it real. If there's anything that i miss out, please add some more below ! Thank you 😉

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welcome,Haris 😊 I'm looking forward for more information that all of you will share soon!

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Thankyou for adding more information Adriana. The government sure is saving costs using IoT

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Hi guys! I want to share another information regarding our topic, which is governments are saving costs using IoT, by creating smart cities. According to IIoT World, by making it easier for people to pay for their parking and reducing loss due to broken parking meters, San Francisco also increased parking-related revenue by about $1.9 million. From this, we can know and create a lot of opportunities to gain more benefits by creating smart cities. According to Beall (n.d.), smart city can reduce 17.2 percent of energy and $18 million in savings. This is totally depicts that smart city can help governments in saving costs using IoT. According to Meola (2016), the potential of smart cities is nearly limitless and the growth of these cities should accelerate in the coming years. As an example, Paris debuted an electric car sharing program called Autolib in 2011, and has since grown the fleet of vehicles to 3000 (Meola, 2016). The connected vehicles can be tracked via GPS when this application is implemented in Paris. This illustrates that electric car sharing program can reduce the tendency of air pollution to create green smart cities and help people and government to reduce costs. Isn't that interesting? For me, it's really captivates my knowledge about smart cities. Here’s the video about Autolib in Paris. Enjoy! I want to know more information about this topic if you can share it with me! Thank you!

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Hi everyone! I would like to continue and share some information on smart cities. As we know, smart cities aren’t just a dream of the future, it is also can be known as a new evolution of life. This is because smart cities can develop and enhance people’s life style vastly. In addition, IoT is expanding rapidly. For example, according to Gemalto (n.d.), secure wireless and technology of IoT is transforming traditional elements of city life into next generation intelligent lighting platforms with expanded capabilities. Another example from Gemalto (n.d.) is that streetlights can also detect free parking spaces and EV charging docks and alert drivers where to find an open spot via a mobile app. It is very useful and ecofriendly. According to Lexology (2017), smart cities relates to livability and sustainability. It can contribute a lot of benefits for people such as reducing costs. According to Sierra Wireless (n.d.), the Internet of Things (IoT) is making it possible to make cities greener, safer and more efficient and by connecting devices, vehicles and infrastructure everywhere in a city, governments and their partners can reduce energy and water consumption, keep people moving efficiently, and improve safety as well as quality of life. This indicates that governments can also saving costs using IoT by creating smart cities. You can also watch video that I have provided here too. Enjoy!

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Hello ! Wowwww nice sharing guys 😍😍
From all above, i can see understand what it means from iot... So here is what i understand about iot... Iot is basically a term used to describe something that using internet technology and in this case, government used it to create a smart cities. according to Bernard marr (2015), the internet of thing should and will improve everything that we have like law enforcement, waste management, energy use to make them efficient and improve the live of citizens.we will also be using our technology for everything involving the government-based business. In my opinion, the government could help citizens to be more internet-savvy user as they will explore many thing from internet and by using internet, they will be able to save time to make their business done rather than they need to walk to the premise to make a settlement for something they need to. This also help citizens to save cost as they only need internet data to that and in other way around, they will be an smart users that can help government to create smart cities. If there's anything you would like to add, please do so. Thank you 😊

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Thankyou Adriana. Im glad that people could gain some knowledge from here. In response to my post earlier, as mentioned by Burgess(2018), an argument has been raised that only because something can be connected to the internet doesn't mean it should be, but each device collects data for a specific purpose that may be useful to a buyer and impact the wider economy.                       It means that the specific purpose could be useful to a buyer and gives an opportunity for us to be more efficient in terms of services. According to Evans(n.d), "IoT offers us opportunity to be more efficient in how we do things, saving us time, money and often emissions in the process,".                                                                               In addition, does IoT could be trusted 100 percent? Besides,  everything that's connected to the internet can be hacked, IoT products are no exception to this unwritten rule. Insecure IoT systems led to toy manufacturer VTech losing videos and picturesof children using its connected devices Burgess(2018)

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Business Models and the Internet of Things

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wow Haris! that's very interesting! We can know that smart cities can give a lot of benefits for us, especially government. Nice information. If you have more information to be shared, please do so :) I'm eager to know more!

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Great informations from Najiha and Adriana. From the previous posts, i could see that The "Internet of things" (IoT) is becoming an increasingly growing topic of conversation both in the workplace and outside of it. Let me add more, According to Forbes(2014), this is the concept of basically connecting any device with an on and off switch to the Internet (and/or to each other). This includes everything from cellphones, coffee makers, washing machines, headphones, lamps, wearable devices and almost anything else you can think of.  This also applies to components of machines, for example a jet engine of an airplane or the drill of an oil rig. As I mentioned, if it has an on and off switch then chances are it can be a part of the IoT.  The analyst firm Gartner says that by 2020 there will be over 26 billion connected devices... That's a lot of connections (some even estimate this number to be much higher, over 100 billion).  The IoT is a giant network of connected "things" (which also includes people).  The relationship will be between people-people, people-things, and things-things. According to Elly(2018), with IoT technology, you don’t have to be physically present at the venue to handle work. If your business does not have to deal with physical inventory, then you can make maximum use of IoT technology because it allows your employees to connect and work remotely, and studies have proven that remote workers are happier and more productive, which will significantly improve your business functions.

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Nice info, Najiha! Thank you!😘😘😘 I'll share another information soon!

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Haha of course!✌(‘ω’✌) I just found out that:                                     Attaching sensors to buildings and other structures can detect the damage within the system and notify officials when repairs are needed (Rouse, n.d). According to Ismail (2017), government could save as much as $4.95 billion annually. If we were to change the value in Malaysia’s currency, it will be nearly RM20.15 billion(◑‿◐). The street lighting, and smart buildings, for example, could yield the savings even more than we ever expected it would be. It is estimated that smart street lights are able to decrease the repair and maintenance cost up to 30%.

Research conducted by Black and Veatch (2015),found that the primary drivers for smart city projects in The US is its operational efficiency and the cost reduction that weighed about 30%, aside from another top factors like environment sustainability (20%) and improved city management (15%). Smart buildings on the other hand, would reduce energy costs using sensors that can detect how occupants available in the room. The air-conditions’ temperature can be adjusted automatically using the sensors that detect the presence of human and thus automatically shut off when nobody is around. This technology helps save the electricity bills covered by government and reduced power wastage in advance(￣▽￣)ノ.

Never had I ever thought that sensors installation within the city could be used to save up electricity costs and maintenance demands ! All this time I thought it was only functioned in the mall to detect the shoplifters only (❁´ω`❁)~

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Hi Najiha! Hi everyone! by the way Najiha, your response about this topic is quite interesting 😊 From this, we can know that smart cities do help government in reducing costs for the country. It can elevate the effectiveness of mobility in the country. Nice responses! I'm looking forward for more responses from you guys! For my next post, I'll share you more information. Stay tuned!

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before that, hi everyone (ﾟ∀ﾟ )! Where are you guys? Hi Aina ! Holla Wan! Ahoy Ayish ! A-yo Zaty （★￣∀￣★）

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In response to Adriana’s post earlier, I think that this alternative of installing the IoT system to create a smart city by government is quite an effective saving in terms of city development costs. As mentioned by Horwit(n.d), Amsterdam in the Netherlands is also using smart city infrastructure and connected lighting to reduce costs and boosts and boost safety.

Smart City Project in Amsterdam:  Waste Bins Call for Collection

In Amsterdam, digitalization began with waste collection where the city equipped more 2,000 waste bins with sensors. As suggested by Kim and Mohammed (2017), the Internet of Things is about installing sensors (RFID, IR, GPS, laser, scanners, etc.) for everything and connecting them to the Internet through specific protocols for information exchange and communications, in order to achieve intelligent recognition, location, tracking, monitoring and management. Therefore, it is no doubt that Amsterdam is one step forward than others in implement this concept of smart city.

First, they register the current fill level before report the information to the central system through the cellular network. This process help the waste disposal companies to precisely know when the bins need to be emptied. With the installed sensors, the company now only collect the waste on demands, which reduce the time spent in emptying half-full bins, instead of using regular intervals.

As a result, the city has become cleaner as the collection teams are emptying loaded bins on schedule. Aside from that, less human workforce are needed and less staffs are being paid thus, decrease the risk of overstaffs and help in managing the recycling activities which contribute to environment savvy conditions. To summarize, Internet of Things is a concept that not only has the potential to impact how we live but also how we work or daily business (Morgan, 2014). Here's to know more on Amsterdam smart city projects!

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So, after reading the post that I have shared earlier, what is your thought about this topic? Is there any other opinion that you would like to share with us? If you do, please share it, I would like to know about it. Before I forgot, I want to add some information about our topic for today. According to Xavier (2017), smart city is a developed urban area that provides sustainable economic development and promotes a high quality of life for people in key areas like mobility, environment, people, living and government. On top of that, in the same article by Xavier (2017), he states that Cisco defines smart cities as those who adopt “scalable solutions that take advantage of information and communications (ICT) to increase efficiencies, reduce costs and enhance quality of life. This proves that government are saving costs by creating smart cities. According to Behmann (2018), smart cities seek to increase efficiency and improve the quality of life by creating systems that reduces costs and improve services through connectivity and automotion. Here, I would like to show a short video about smart city. Let me know about your opinion then, let's share!

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Assalamualaikum, I am Putri Aina Adriana and I will be your moderator for today’s forum. Our topic for this forum is Governments are saving costs with IoT, creating smart cities. As far as we know, IoT is an abbreviation form for Internet of Things. IoT is also known to be as the interconnection through the Internet of computing devices embedded in daily life objects, enabling them to send and receive data easily.

According to Rouse (n.d.), IoT is a system of interrelated computing devices, mechanical and digital machines, objects, animals or people that are provided with unique identifiers and the ability to transfer data over a network without requiring human-to-human or human-to-computer interaction. Hence, what is the relationship between IoT with our topic today? Well, let me tell you, IoT is not just for searching information or playing games online. It can help government to save costs by creating smart cities. According to Maxwell (2018), city-councils, who are often strapped for cash, can benefit massively from investing in smart city technologies – seeing both immediate and long-term cost-savings. This strategy of long-term smart city can help governments to gain and save costs easily. IoT can also enable and improve the enhanced city mobility management. For instance, the city leaders can sustain all infrastructure in their city via centralized systems and it totally reduces the costs. According to Ismail (2017), there is a report suggests that smart city technologies could save enterprises, governments and citizens globally over US$5 trillion annually by 2022. You also can watch the video on facts about IoT, here.

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With the IOT, government can save the cost in creating smart cities.