THE “INTERNET OF THINGS”
Towards the turn of
list goes on. Giants of
the new century, the
men who’ve brought us
A
DAWNING
OF
A
NEW
AGE,
THE
AGE
OF
Internet ushered in an
the modern world from
THINGS
CONNECTEDNTO
THE
INTERNET
influx of technology
their life’s work.
By: Engr. Marlou Jasmin Madrio
that shaped the new
The Internet is the
world we now live in.
modern world, and
It is one of man’s greatest inventions brought
today’s humans would be incapacitated without
about by the cold war (at least something good
it. It’s a ubiquitous platform we take for granted
came of it). The internet has propelled us to
nowadays and is getting bigger as trillions of
new heights with the pinnacle of modern tech-
devices stand to get connected to the Internet
nology. It affords us to do our everyday tasks in
with what is known as the “Internet of Things”.
a manner we could have never dreamed of in
Everyday devices such as our refrigerators, cof-
our not so distant past. The 50’s brought us the
fee makers, washing machines, vending ma-
golden age of the vacuum tube and Hi-Fi was
chines, bicycles are now ever getting connected
never so good since then. The 60’s brought us
to the internet and is changing our paradigm as
advances in electronics semiconductors fueled
to how we make use of these everyday devices.
by the space race with its hot bed in MIT at Bos- Case in point, my thesis revolves around this
ton Massachusetts paving the way to the modern in the environment or area of application I am
microprocessors in the 70’s and throughout the
currently employed in, “Industrie 4.0 as ap-
80’s. The 90’s is what made all these advances
plied to Rail Transport Engineering”. It leverages
converge into the modern 21st century that we
on internet enabled technologies applied in an
now live in.
industrial scale and thus is known as “Industrial
The internet being one of the boon in the 90’s
Internet of Things”. Currently, my company
made life now as we know it. The age of ever
faster and more efficient means of communi-
cations. An age in mankind’s history with no
comparison as to the amount of information we
have access to at our finger tips. The modern
smartphone is at the heart of all this. These
supercomputers at the palm of our hands has
ushered in gigantic leaps in information technol-
ogy advancement.
We stand on the shoulder of giants, thank you
“Nikolai Copernicus, Antoine Lavoisier, Rene
Descartes, Giordano Bruno, Tycho Brahe, Jo-
hannes Kepler, Isaac Newton, Michael Faraday,
James Clerk Maxwell, Galileo Galilee, Charles
Babbage, Marie Curie, Heinrich Hertz, Gug-
lielmo Marconi, Nikolai Tesla, Orville and Wilbur
Wright, Albert Einstein, Konrad Zuse, Alan Tur-
ing, Paul Dirac, Richard Feynman, Walter Brat-
tain, William Shockley, Lee de Forrest, Jack
Kilby, Robert Noyce, Ed Roberts, Martin Cooper,
David Packard, Bill Hewlett, Robert Metcalfe,
Leonard Bosack, Sandy Lerner, Steve Wozniak,
Stuart Brand, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Paul Allen,
Steve Balmer, Tim Berners Lee, Vinod Koshala,
Marc Andreessen, James H. Clark, William Foss,
Linus Torvalds, Jerry Yang, David Filo, Larry
Industrial IOT demo kit donated on DBTC
Page, Sergei Brin, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk…..” the
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