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[–] Vitruvia [S] 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
I guess so. But it probably has applicability as well. Like maybe a person can get to toy with some devices and try to interconnect some of his electronic devices at home or maybe students can get into projects that mess with that kind of stuff.
[–] Icy-Defiance 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
You're pretty much right. It's just things connecting to the internet without a user telling them what to do. To a techie, that's called automation, but a lot of people like having fancy terms for things they don't understand.
"The cloud" is another one. It's just servers doing server things, but everyone's like "so mysterious and futuristic".
I think it all comes from marketers needing buzzwords to convince managers to do things, but who knows.
[–] Atko 0 points 5 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago
I did a school project at IBM with IoT. IBM has a pretty neat platform which does most of the heavy lifting for you. I think they offer free 30-day trial accounts (look up Bluemix IoT Foundation). The protocol I used was MQTT. It may take some fiddling around as documentation seems to be written by a program rather than a human and there are several clients you can use, I used Paho.
[–] d_r0ck 0 points 6 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago
For those who don't know:
The Internet of Things (IoT) is a scenario in which objects, animals or people are provided with unique identifiers and the ability to transfer data over a network without requiring human-to-human or human-to-computer interaction.
[–] frankie_say_relax 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Thanks for the link! So would the digital-object-identifier system be somewhat analogous to this, except with IoT having a broader scope?