What is Internet of Things and how is it changing the modern home?

Technology is bringing revolution in every aspect of our life. From home automation to monitoring house construction with drones, it is having a positive impact on building modern homes. In addition to that, Internet of Things (IoT) is bringing incredible features to the existing techniques to improvise the way of living. IoT is undoubtedly amongst the advanced things required to make a change in modern homes.

Decoding – Internet of Things

Let’s get to the bottom of facts in a more detailed manner. First of all, we would decipher what is Internet of Things. It is a system with interrelated computing devices having digital and mechanical machines, objects, animals or humans allotted with unique identifiers, and the system is capable of transferring data over a network without involving human-to-human or human-to-computer interaction.

          Internet of Things is a feasible home solution, where sometimes we need to organize things without physically or virtually getting involved. Moreover, a ‘thing’ in the IoT can refer to a person with a heart monitor implant or a pacemaker, an animal in your farm with a biochip transponder or an automobile with built-in sensors to alert the driver about the tire pressure, proximity to vehicles on the rear side while parking as well as any man-made object assigned with an IP address and equipped with the facility to transfer data over a network.

           IoT has emerged as a boon to modern homes by tearing down the obstacles between information technology and operational technology to make our life a smooth sail. Internet of Things will enable unstructured machine generated data to be analyzed in order to get insights for advanced services. Though, bit expensive for the Indian market, it will bring revolutionary changes in our life, including healthcare and home automation facilities in a streamlined fashion.

IoT – changing the modern homes

We know, it sounds interesting how things can send information to computers. Don’t we all know that satellites from the space can click and send pictures from Mars to the Earth? If it is possible, then why can’t an object mapped with an IP address do something on the same lines?

Home construction doesn’t necessarily requires facilities like Internet of things but later when it is on the furnishing stage, it becomes a vital thing to bring change in modern homes. In the future, you would no longer need to remember everything before leaving the house. The sensors installed at the door or indoors would inform the central controlling system that nobody is at home and all the electrical equipment that are shut at a certain time every day would shut, without interrupting the essential equipment like the refrigerator. And, IoT can also turn the heating or cooling system on just before your arrival time according to the weather outside.

               Apart from that, if you have kids or elderly people at home then also IoT can help you to a great extent. In case, you’ve left the elderly person who is a diabetic also, the pressure sensor will send data such as when the person left the bed, if the medicines are on stock or not, what is their heart rate in case the person has a pacemaker, etc. In case anything seems abnormal, the connected phone will call and alert the emergency contact as well.

               Modern homes will become technologically enabled to handle emergencies and a lot of devices would operate without direct human or computer intervention. The future is bringing whole new avenues for better homes and is allowing us to enjoy the modernization of dwellings and high-tech way of living.

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