Building the Internet of Things (IoT) requires many technologies acting in concert. Microcontrollers provide the intelligence needed in endpoint devices. RF modules are integral to endpoint connectivity in most applications. Then there is the network itself, with gateways, routers, switches, servers, and the backhaul framework ‒ all needing to handle the terabytes of traffic that endpoint devices will generate. Cloud computing and big-data systems will provide new services and applications for processing and utilizing that data, to turn it into valuable information. And developments in any part have an impact on all the others. To thrive at the confluence of technologies that is the IoT, you will not only need insights into how your specific discipline applies, you will need an understanding of the other parts as well as the sum of them all. This site is here to help.
IoT World is a community of professionals like you, who aim to bring intelligence to everyday devices and connect them together to profoundly alter the way we work, play, and live. The site will provide news, training, and analysis on a variety of disciplines, creating and populating a forum for discussions and information exchange. Some of this will come in the form of blogs from our stable of knowledgeable contributors, but much will also come from you and your peers in the form of commentary, questions, and answers shared on the site.
The editorial staff of IoT World is there to get things started, keep them rolling, and guide the discussions. But we won’t be simply handing out all the information you’ll need. We can’t. With something as broad-based as the IoT, there are no individual experts who can fill that role. But together, by sharing our individual knowledge and experience, we can become the primary source of the world’s expertise on weaving the Internet of Things.