IoT- The Future lies in Connectivity

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The IoT (Internet of Things) is a paradigm, envisioned as a network between billions or trillions of machines to communicate with each other and rapidly becoming a pervasive part of our daily lives. Through the IoT, people can improve the way they are doing the businesses and living their lives. It will provide truly connected future. The exact meaning of IoT is a future driven by data, means data collected by a particular IoT device, analysed and fed back into the world. This will empower people and industries to consistently do and achieve more, and give more understanding about the environment, businesses and ourselves. Now we are on the way to build pure connected and data-driven world by keeping the IoT as a center with interoperability, security and privacy, and the potential for data-driven insights from IoT. Interoperability plays vital role Today, an IoT landscape is full of changing standards that make it difficult for the new entrants. Many businesses are getting stuck due to incompatibility and the lack of openness in IoT domain. Interoperability can address these technical challenges while enabling the companies to take the full advantage of IoT. Interoperability is necessary to implement the best technology that caters various business requirements. It improves the connectivity across different systems or devices so that we can count on various IoT devices. Security and Privacy: New Challenges As big data, the internet of things spread their wings, they bring new challenges to information security as well as user privacy. There are various types of IoT applications available, some of them are carrying sensitive infrastructures and strategic services like water distribution and electricity. Many applications are handling sensitive information about people, such as their bank details, location and health detail. Traditional security mechanism cannot be applied directly to IoT. For example, IoT devices do not have a screen or keyboard to enter the password. Additionally, Many interconnected devices create scalability issues; therefore, a flexible infrastructure is required to deal with security threats in such a dynamic environment. That's why IoT developers have to focus more on privacy and security while developing any IoT products. Data-driven insights from IoT IoT developers are working from a viewpoint of interoperability and security to offer the proper value of IoT to both enterprises and consumers. This value cannot be found in hardware, but it is necessary to work with the rich data. IoT can deal with the real-time data through scale and architecture developed by IoT developers. However, increasing volume of data remains a significant challenge for the developers in a broad sense. They need to find out the ways for reporting and making smart use of this data. Finally, the value should remain in line with IoT capabilities and for this, developers and business persons should think about data implementation and integration through drawing insights from data According to Gartner, in 2020, there will be 26 billion IoT devices available across the globe. So, it's not an issue about the devices, and neither it's a matter of connecting them. It’s all about overcome the gap to develop an IoT that can manage with these requirements for data, openness and security. Developing for IoT requires a complete set of skills, and developers must be able to understand each part of its architecture to combine the required levels of interoperability and security with a data-driven approach.