Thomas Watteyne (Mentor)
IoT Evangelist
Research Scientist & Innovator, Inria, France
Sr Networking Design Eng, Linear Tech, Silicon Valley
Founder & co-lead, UC Berkeley OpenWSN
Co-chair, IETF 6TiSCH
Location Paris, France
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The OSI layering only applies to the networking stack. Your sensor is what generates the data that is transmitted through the network, so technically speaking it's part of the application layer (layer 7).
I hope this helps!
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Ian,
I like that you stress the open nature of the IoT. One of the big challenges we are facing is that different incompatible solutions fragment the market. To overcome this, there is a huge effort in the standardization bodies to create products that interoperate.
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Of course, you want to add the capability for a device to interact with the physical world as well.
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Absolutely, we can imagine "things" which detect dangerous and unsafe situations and alert people about the upcoming danger.
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Richard,
I like the fact that your stress "securely". Security is a sine-qua-non condition for the IoT. It can never be said enough.
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Jesus,
You're defition is right, but remember that the IoT can span way beying the consumer market. That is, IoT solution are used in all kind of industrial and commercial applications as well.
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Juan Pablo,
I agree with your definition, although I would be even more bold and include technologies beyond WiFi (Bluetooth, IEEE802.15.4, LoRa, etc).
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I agree with your definition, but I would add the concept of a "thing". These tasks are carried out by a number of smart things.
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I agree with you that the core technology of the IoT has been developing for close to the decade already. It started with wild academic dreams (take a look at the "Smart Dust" project). What the IoT is bringing is the worldwide awareness that we are part of a revolution. Exciting!
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Helping people with their everyday lives is certainly an important aspect of the IoT. But remember that some IoT application are more "embedded" in applications such sa industrial process control monitoring, structure surveillance, etc. The IoT is more far reaching that the consumer market. Exciting!
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Hihi. But you're absolutely right about privacy. The IoT is, however, not different from any other communication technology in that aspect: we just need to make sure we get the security protocols/technqieus/best practice right so that privacy is not an issue.
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Tomasz,
I agree with your definition. Being technical is good, devil is always in the details!
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Ese,
I like very much Zach Shelby's definition of the IoT as the "fingers of the Internet". That is, the IoT extends the Internet by bringing it closer to the physical world around us, though smart/connected objects.
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Puji,
I agree with your definition that the IoT is about connecting objects, but it's more than satellite communication. Remember that satellite communication is extremely expensive (both in cost and energy). That's why other technology (IEEE802.15.4, Bluetooth, LoRa, etc) has been created.
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