When we rebuild bridges, we can use smart cement: cement
equipped with sensors to monitor stresses and cracks. This is cement that alerts us to fix problems before they cause a catastrophe. And these technologies aren’t limited to the bridge’s structure.
Transportation: What can you achieve when a smart car and a smart city grid start talking
to each other? We’re going to have traffic flow optimization, because instead of just having
stoplights on fixed timers, we’ll have smart stoplights that can respond to changes in traffic
flow. Traffic and street conditions will be communicated to drivers, rerouting them around
areas that are congested, snowed-in, or tied up in construction.
Today, more efficient use of resources has helped in increased productivity, especially in
the manufacturing segment. Machines have aided factory workers and supervisors with
precise shop floor data management, making the process of monitoring manufacturing
plants easier, more efficient, and eventually increasing productivity rates. We are not talking about mere plants here, IoT companies like Entrib Technologies are offering shop floor
management services that provide real-time machine updates and production feedback for
better plant performance.
Needless to say, as IoT is becoming more reality and less imagination, the space is not just
confined to large corporations; we also have a host of startup entrepreneurs, students,
hobbyists and community leaders pursuing IoT projects. Abhishek Latthe, The CEO of
SenseGiz , expects a lot of convergence that will help solves issues of multiple platforms,
inter-operability and the likes in the IoT space.
He firmly believes 2015 will be the coming of age for IoT in India, with both industrial and
consumer IoT products thriving. And yet, despite of all this, the bitter truth remains that
there is only one thing that can prevent the Internet Of Things from transforming the way
we live and work, that is a breakdown in the security. Once IoT seeps into our daily routine
and becomes an essential part of our functioning system, the key to our privacy would be
entangled somewhere in the very same network due to which the IoT works in the first
place. As the market expands, so will the hackers’ ability to invade our privacy and hack