The Internet of Things and Thanksgiving.
There is much to be thankful for this season.
For me, the turkey isn’t one of them. But historically, the people, the laughter, and those memory making moments captured on camera have always been.
And, then, there is the ‘Internet of things.’
‘IoT?’
I know what you’re thinking. Stay with me.
According to Gartner, the Internet of Things ought to be on every organization’s radar for 2017 and 2018. And not only are they preaching this gospel, they have outlined the following 10 technologies to support their plea.
Here is Gartner’s framework for the Internet of Things:
1. Security: Security technologies will be needed to encrypt communication and protect devices and platform from cyber attacks and physical tampering.
2. Analytics: As data volumes increase, IoT needs may diverge further from traditional analytics.
3. Device Management: Devices will require monitoring, firmware and software updates, diagnostics, crash analysis and reporting, physical management and security management.
4. Low-Power Short-Range Networks: Gartner predicts that low-power, short range networks will dominate wireless IoT connectivity throughout the next decade.
5. Low-Power, Wide -Area Networks: Wide-area IoT networks, industry observers hope will eventually be able to deliver date rates ranging from hundreds of bits per seconds to tens of kilobits per second with nationwide coverage.
6. Processors: Processors may determine how much power IoT devices consume and whether they’re cable of strong security and encryption
7. Operating Systems: Traditional operating systems are incapable of supporting most IoT applications.
8. Event Stream Processing: Distributed stream computing platforms have emerged to support IoT applications that generate large volumes of data that must be analyzed in real time.
9. Platforms: IoT platforms can provide various levels of service including low-level device control , data management and IoT application development.
10. Standards and Ecosystems: Standards and application programming interfaces will be essential for allowing IoT devices to inter-operate.
Now what does this framework have to do with Thanksgiving?
Here is where you get to make up any angle you choose.
I decided that the idea of the internet of things is synonymous with the knives, forks, spoons , goblets, plates, dishes and all that clanging and commotion that accompany you to the dinner table.
Didn’t I tell you to ‘stay with me?’
Consider again, the whole concept of the Internet of Things.
Isn’t it the idea that everyone and every device is reaching for more? More connectedness, efficiency, security and whatever else you can thing of.
Just more of the good stuff?
And aren’t they using various means to get to more?
Now take a look at your Thanksgiving table. Doesn’t each person have their idea of how to get to that turkey?
How will they get to it?
Now, then, turn and look at the faces.
I bet everyone is smiling.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Sources:
Forbes: A simple explanation of the ‘Internet of Things.’
StateTech Magazine: Technology solutions that drive government
