Could someone please explain in simple terms what the Internet of Things or IoT is? The Wikipedia page is a bit vague.
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When your smart refrigerator tricks you into buying stuff that the parent company(and majority shareholders of said parent company) has stakeholder interest in?
Vertical Integration.
It’s when you tell your oven to start cooking via your phone and in return it spies on you and uploads the data to manufacturer who shares it with big data companies who sell it to their customers who, if you cook little, give you ads for restaurants, and if you cook a lot, give you ads for organic produce when you surf the Web.
Answer: Internet-connected devices that do not have a Windows or Mac operating system. (They just have…a thermostat operating system with WiFi. It’s cheaper.)
They are notoriously insecure, and Russian hackers regularly prowl the Internet searching for vulnerable IoT devices.
“Things” refers to physical objects. So rather than think of the internet as an external source you access for information or to do things outside your home, the “Internet of Things” just means like linking up your lights and maybe music and speakers or being able to turn on your AC when you’re on your way home, or even just remotely starting your car and getting it to warm up in the morning.
Sadly, douches have sorta hijacked the notion and what could have been just simple and pretty cool is now this whole thing that a certain type of fella really wants to tell you about at parties with a drink in one hand while the other isn’t quite gesturing, it’s just making odd shapes in the air and doesn’t seem to ever stop shaking.
Non-computer “things” that connect to the internet. So what’s interesting about this?
* You can pull information out of something previously dumb. A washing machine can tell you when the laundry’s done, and it can send diagnostics or telemetry back to its manufacturer so they know how to improve them.
* You suddenly have a lot more devices on the internet. Some of the hype around 5G is enabling everything to connect by letting more devices share a tower.
* You suddenly have software updates and security issues for all these devices.
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