BCM206 | Week 11
Computers are everywhere, on everyone. There are computers in our pockets and on our fridges. They surround us everyday – evolution of the internet isn’t stopping any time soon. The term, the Internet of Things originated in 1999, with the work of two Massachusetts Institute of Technology [MIT] research labs, Kevin Ashton and Neil Gershenfeld argued for “the enfolding of things into the internet in an active role – either in terms of making the world comprehensible for things, or adding things to the internet” (Mattern & Florkemeier, 2010). The IoT was seen as a paradigmatic shift from the internet of single desktop and mobile computers, to a broadly defined large connectivity spread through material artefacts, therefore making them visible to humans. (Mitew, T 2014)
An object connected to the Internet of Things involved a network of simple capabilities and has a unique network ID. It has sensors, storage and processing, actuation, remote access and a semantic interface. An example of this is a Google Home or an Amazon Echo and even Tesla Cars. Data can be access anywhere, on nearly every object as the internet evolves. Thats where we’re heading so can any object become part of the internet of things? Only time will tell.
References:
– Mitew, T 2014, Do objects dream of the an internet of things?, https://moodle.uowplatform.edu.au/mod/resource/view.php?id=1661679
– Mitew, T, 2020, The internet of things: from networked objects to anticipatory spaces, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCktdyl8Lss&feature=emb_title
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