I found this article to be very interesting. The idea of having sensors that can collect data and adjust machinery for conditions in real time is amazing and I can see where it will have applications in many different areas not just with roadways. This really illuminated for me where technology is headed and how it will benefit society. Personally, one of my concerns about self-driving cars is their ability to respond to changing road conditions like snow and ice but this smart machine to machine technology would completely mitigate that fear. 

To connect a physical thing to the internet, Dr. Barrett gives the following criteria:

1.       Assign a unique identity to the thing.

2.       Give the thing a means to communicate.

3.       Attach a sensor to gather data/information.

4.       There must be a thing to control it.

This connection to the physical thing allows us to connect with, monitor, search for, manage, control, and play with things. He predicts our smartphones will become like a Star Trek Tricorder, which will instantly give us information on the people and things immediately as we come in contact with them. Some other examples are medical monitors, knowing exactly where things and people are at a given time, city management, and electrical grids controlling when our appliances run.

The Internet of Things will also have negative effects. Eventually our privacy will be close to non-existant. There is a potential for technology to completely control us rather than the other way around. The internet will be subjected to the possibility of being used as a weapon of mass destruction.

But he believes that humans will adapt, it is already happening and it is changing our lives. As long as it still has the human wisdom component, it can be a benefit for the common good.

This video encompasses almost all that we have studied in this class. The most prominent would be big data, privacy, security, internet and mobile computing.

 

Like every article, I have found this opened my eyes that everything we are learning thus far can be connected to all career fields.  I did not know what IoT (Internet of Things) was before this class, but I read many other articles and its connected our world in many ways. Things like autonomous cars are part of IoT, when they become part of normal life the cars would be sending signals and information to each other to avoid accidents and give us the best flow of traffic.  We are surrounded by things like this everywhere, even our phones that send and save data in the “cloud” that is IoT.  

Wen Jiabao puts this world changing idea nicely “Internet + Internet of Things = Wisdom of the Earth.”

The article points out that the pitfall of the “internet of things” the vulnerability brought on by malicious hackers.  

WordPress is already using IoT, an example would be a bell goes off whenever there’s a new comment, sale or plugin update on your site. In the future WordPress would like to create more complex scenarios using new tools such as IFTTT-If this than that. An example, is your latest WordPress post with a specific tag to Linkedin, automatically post Instagram pictures on your blog or log all blog posts in calendar or spreadsheet. 

It is clear from this article that what we are learning in our text book about mobile devices is continuing to grow and develop. No idea seems to be outrageous, nothing is wrong with the light bulb now but it seems there is an opportunity for everything a little bit easier. For industries I understand the need to take tasks away from employees and give them to computers in order to stream line processes. 

 

 

Among the reason, two are compelling. First, in most cases, users would not be able to pull the plug even if they wanted to, given that most data collection devices will be out of their control, and beyond both their sight and awareness (plus no explicit opt-in or opt-out validation). Secondly, users default to passive cognitive biases regarding phenomenon that are relatively invisible or whose threats seem remote. People inchoately assume (they’re not consciously thinking about it) that threats to privacy won’t happen to them or if they do get it, they have nothing to hide—and everything to gain. Lastly is the (again, inchoate) assumption that a benign savior father (government, general good will?) will prevent anything really bad from happening. Together, these presumptions amount to passive consent. While the textbook Raises privacy concerns of IoT, this article reveals the psychological and sociological conditions that effectively enable private companies to snoop on you.  

http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2017/06/06/531747037/the-internet-of-things-is-becoming-more-difficult-to-escape

Stage 2: Make those devices rely on one another, coordinating their actions to carry out simple tasks without any human intervention.

Stage 3: Once connected things become ubiquitous, to understand them as a system to be programmed, a platform that can run software in much the same manner that a computer or smartphone can.
He explains that as soon as we reach this point, although it might sound a little intense and scary at first, this system will transform the world of everyday objects into a design­able environment. He also thinks this well allow us to deviate from excessive use of technology that has a tendency to consume our attention. "The Programmable World could actually let us put more of our gadgets away, automating activities we normally do by hand and putting intelligence from the cloud into everything we touch."

This article is relevant to the information were learning in class as well as includes real life application to it.  From our shopping habits to frequent locations and convenient needs, data and information systems are only becoming more useful with how digital our world is turning. The internet of things is basically being used to measure needs from a variety of demographics for businesses to be able to control the environment/society. In the future, companies will have products and things for the perfect customer experience because of all of the data that is being collected now. The goal is for everything to have optimal use and be efficient with what we are doing. 

Before this class, I had no idea what the Internet of Things was, and even though I noticed trends with everything being wi-fi compatible, I didn’t bother to think that this could be part of the very near future. There are a lot of large competitors that want to be the first major corporation to successfully incorporate IoT.  This article ties into what we are studying for two reasons. One, being the issue of security and privacy, which we have covered in the past. The other talking about  the Internet of things and learning just how all this new technology works with modern society.

Humans are social creatures. We are wired to connect, and now that connection is occurring wirelessly. The Internet of Things creates a connected life, full of convenience. While there are privacy and security risks, most of us will get on board because we will not believe it will happen to us. Some of us who resist connection will end up connecting as businesses penalize us for not connecting. Some of us who consider the risks too great will choose to disconnect entirely. Legislators will need to be brought into the connectivity discussion to reduce the risks.

 

This article helped me understand the topic of big data. The Internet of Things is going to create enormous amounts of data, and now I have an idea of where that data will be stored and how it will be analyzed. While some jobs will be lost from our connected devices, jobs to manage these devices and data will grow. 

In the Wiley text, IoT is defined as “a scenario which objects, animals, and people are provided with unique identifiers and the ability to automatically transfer data over a network without requiring human - to - human or human – to - computer interaction.”  One contradiction to the article is when the IoT technology originated.  The article states the technology started in 1999 with the RFID technology and the text dates IoT technology to the 1980’s.  But one consistent concept is the concern of privacy and data security.   

The article was stating that “the internet of things (IoT) promises a utopian, interconnected world where physical and digital converge to make our lives easier through increased productivity in industry, efficiency at home or by providing more touchpoints between consumers and brands.” But there is a real difficulty in achieving true benefits of IoT is the lack of interoperability among all the devices, and networks. To solve the problem a company called Chirp has emerged to enable increased interconnectivity between them through the universal language of sound.

Its data-over-sound technology encodes data into a series of audible or inaudible, near ultrasonic tones on a sending device before transmitting it over the air to a receiving device, or group of devices where it is decoded. Chirp is used to simplify the device onboarding process, removing the need for pairing or password entry, to extend existing network infrastructures by creating data-over-sound links between individual devices and a network, enabling legacy devices with audio capabilities to join the IoT ecosystem. Devices without native audio can be connected through a simple audio-capable companion device.

The article is somehow related to our lecture since it was talking about a technology that helps connect all the devices more efficiently and easily.