Context awareness refers to the behavior of application programs that use information about their context, i.e. their environment, to adjust their behavior accordingly. The basis on which these systems work is information provided by a wide variety of sources or sensors. This information is used to draw conclusions about the context. The discovered context is used by the application to … [Read more...]
Ways to Convert Any Light Switch Into A Smart Switch
Again, we are talking about the regular rocker/piano switches which are commonly used everywhere. Previously we published an important article - How to Interface a Piano/Rocker Switch (SPST) With ESP32 Arduino. These days, concealed conduit wiring with modular components are standard. There has been standardisation across the globe for compatibility. I have written before that these came into … [Read more...]
What is Computational Social Science?
Computational Social Science is an interdisciplinary field that develops and tests theories of human behaviour using computer-aided methods, primarily in the social sciences, psychology and economics. These methods are applied to large data sets on human behaviour, including from social media or digitized archives, such as those containing administrative data. This is often equated with the use of … [Read more...]
Prospect of IoT in 2021
The Internet of Things is on an unbridled growth path: despite the Corona pandemic, investment in IoT projects has increased. By far the most important IoT application is quality control. The Internet of Things (IoT) continues to gain in importance and maturity which is shown by the results of the current studies. The number of companies that have implemented IoT projects has risen slightly to 51 … [Read more...]
How IoT Digitizes the World
The Internet of Things is revolutionizing our world. Whether smart production, modern medicine, smart cities or agriculture 4.0 – the Internet of Things is a central building block in digitalization. But which technologies should be used? What about security? The IT and electronics world driven by the USA and China, many people immediately think of the numerous connected consumer gadgets when it … [Read more...]
Arduino GSM Shield : Getting Started With DIY IoT
Compared to Wi-Fi Shield, Arduino GSM Shield is Practical as It Opens the Door Towards Real IoT. We Need to Control Things Over Internet. You can live without Wi-Fi. The basic theory is very important to know - what is Ethernet, what is Wi-Fi, Wi-Fi vs Ethernet, GSM, GPRS, TCP etc. Arduino GSM Shield : Why We Prefer it Over Wi-Fi Shield Wi-Fi is for creation of Wireless … [Read more...]
iBeacon and Nearables : Basics
iBeacon uses smartphone's precise location for navigation within the confined spaces, based on Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE). Nearables describes the idea of smart objects. None of these are real examples of Internet of Things (IoT) but these are very basic smart objects. iBeacon and Nearables are two different words with specific meaning, we included together because the first basically falls in the … [Read more...]
IEEE Standards Related to Internet of Things (IoT)
IEEE Standards Association has a number of standards Which Are Related to IoT. Here are IEEE Standards Related to Internet of Things (IoT). We have described the Protocols related to Internet of Things (IoT) before. So, it is quite normal, the standards of the Protocols also get included in the list. IEEE Standards Related to Internet of Things (IoT) There is an existent official list of … [Read more...]
Cloud Computing and IoT : Predictions That Came True in 2014
Here is a Selection of the Predictions Which Came True in 2014 from the virtual containers to hybrid cloud up to the new role of IoT and SDDC. New year is not only the time to think about the next 12 months and speculate what will we see. The opportunity to look back to the forecasts on cloud computing since the end of 2013 to the end of 2014, which now running out, is not what quite bad. Here is … [Read more...]
Ambient Intelligence : Basics
Ambient Intelligence is pushing the technology towards the limit it had at the end of the twentieth century. It has direct relationship with Internet of Things (IoT). This concept seems to take the place of non-literal translation of concepts born in North America under the initial term like ubiquitous computing and pervasive systems. In this approach, the concept of information system leaned … [Read more...]
Glucometer, Smart Objects and Internet of Things
Glucometer can be an easiest example of potential Smart Object and also it can explain why not all can be part of Internet of Things. Hostgator Shared Server also uses OpenStack cloud software as backend, but Hostgator Shared Server is not a PaaS. The basic difference lies in layers, service delivery for the later. Everything has definitions and standards. Hardware obviously need to follow some … [Read more...]