The Internet of Things - A collection of Infographics

A recent topic in our Emerging Technologies course was the so-called Internet of Things.

I thought that an interesting approach would be to have a look at some infographics that have been created by different sources to illustrate this phenomenon. One of the strengths of an effective infographic is that it allows one to see relationships among concepts

Here are some that I liked...

From Cisco

From Wikipedia - One definition of the Internet of Things:

Ashton's original definition was: "Today computers—and, therefore, the Internet—are almost wholly dependent on human beings for information. Nearly all of the roughly 50 petabytes (a petabyte is 1,024 terabytes) of data available on the Internet were first captured and created by human beings—by typing, pressing a record button, taking a digital picture or scanning a bar code. Conventional diagrams of the Internet ... leave out the most numerous and important routers of all - people. The problem is, people have limited time, attention and accuracy—all of which means they are not very good at capturing data about things in the real world. And that's a big deal. We're physical, and so is our environment ... You can't eat bits, burn them to stay warm or put them in your gas tank. Ideas and information are important, but things matter much more. Yet today's information technology is so dependent on data originated by people that our computers know more about ideas than things. If we had computers that knew everything there was to know about things—using data they gathered without any help from us—we would be able to track and count everything, and greatly reduce waste, loss and cost. We would know when things needed replacing, repairing or recalling, and whether they were fresh or past their best. The Internet of Things has the potential to change the world, just as the Internet did. Maybe even more so."

Cisco InfoGraphic - The Internet of Things

CISCO: this interesting infographic shows the exponential application of Internet of  Things in everyday activities as set the alarm clock, put gas, make coffe and others. The graphic also contains its estimates of the growth of Internet-connected devices in the coming years, some interesting facts and the major challenges facing by the Internet of  Things.

Intel's version

From Intel

INTEL: this Internet of Things infographic makes a journey that begins with the birth of the Internet and the first personal computers and ends in the year 2020, in which it’s estimated that there are going to be 31 billion devices connected to the web. The chart shows how over the years has increased the diversity and number of devices connected to theInternet.

Beecham Research

BEECHAM RESEARCH: 

this diagram  represents the Internet of Things ecosystem in different industry sectors like energy, healthcare, science, transportation, retail and others.

Image Search

Internet of things Infographic Search

A lot of the fun of this is searching for things that catch your interest. Here's a link to a Google image search for Internet of Things Infographics.