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Building blocks for the Internet of Things

Basic building blocks for the Internet of Things are introduced by Nirvana Meratnia.

In this video the Internet of Things technology, and its basic building blocks will be introduced.

There is an increasing demand for an end-to-end quality assurance of goods and products and their on-time delivery. Solutions to guarantee goods’ quality and their on-time delivery should be cost-effective. Simultaneously, the fact that regulations are increasing and becoming more and more complex makes compliance with them more difficult than ever.

To ensure the quality of goods and having a complete insight into transport and storage conditions, solutions are needed which literally function as the eyes, the ears, the nose, and the touch of the consumers and the businesses. Translating these senses into technological solutions technically means requiring the following three functionalities– check, track, and trace.

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