Before I go ahead with saying what I want to get across in today’s post I feel that I should go over a couple of key concepts first. The Internet (spelled with a capital I) is what we refer to as the world wide web, which is the general connection that connects devices across the world. However, the internet (spelled with a lowercase i) is a generic term which refers to a simple connection of devices. The point that I am trying to get across here is that quite simply put, I want you to think of the term Internet as a connection of devices instead of just the tool you use in order to check your Facebook page.

Computers are everywhere, whether you realize it or not. They’re in your car, your alarm clock and even in extremely obscure things like toilets. Yep, those self-flushing public toilets believe it or not have a microprocessor in there that performs processes in order to determine when to flush and what not. Now, imagine if all of these obscure devices are capable of somehow communicating with one another in a way that benefits your day-to-day life.

This, my friends, is where the term Internet of Things comes from, which is really a term that I highly dislike. It is essentially a fancy term coined by journalists to describe a network of connected devices. So from here on out I am just going to refer to the Internet of Things as connected devices.

Such a cooperation of our day-to-day devices really has a lot of potential regardless of what people are calling it. Imagine a day where your refrigerator automatically places an order for drones to make a delivery of groceries simply because it sensed that you were out of items x, y and z. Or a day where a watch you wear sends vital updates to your doctor whom then, can just send you a new prescription to your front door. It is definitely going to be interesting to see just how such connections are going to have an impact on our day-to-day lives.

I personally believe that the biggest changes are going to occur on the level of industry. I’m talking scenarios where sensors in the soil of fields are able to deploy drones to go and water crops without any human interaction. It will most definitely be exciting to see what the future holds as far as the connection of devices and automation goes.