Can you believe that we’ve already reached half through our #IP Dictionary series? Time flies when you are learning new things!

Today’s subject has been a buzzword for a few years now, so I’m sure you’ve already heard of it. But nonetheless, we’re here to explain things as simply as possible.

We’ve previously covered how the Internet works and how devices talk to each other. Now it’s time to talk about the things we can build on top of the Internet — the Internet of Things.

The Internet of Things, also known as IoT, is a system of interconnected devices that are provided with unique identifiers and the ability to transfer data within a network without requiring human-to-human or human-to-computer interaction.

Simply put, this is the concept of connecting any device with an “on” and “off” switch to the Internet (and/or to each other). A complete IoT system integrates four distinct components: sensors/devices, connectivity, data processing and a user interface. The devices “talk” to the cloud through a network. Once the data gets to the cloud, the software processes it and then an action might be performed.

We’ve already used the “houses in a city” analogy in our previous posts, but here I’m going to mention it again. If the relationship between a device and its IP address is similar to that of a house and its address, that we can look at IoT as all those houses together, just like in a city. Pretty awesome, right?

I hope you found that easy enough. If you have any other terms you’d like us to explain, just leave us a comment below and we’ll have them explained for you!

Don’t forget to check out our blog for new posts. Here are our previous pills: Internet Governance, Internet Protocol, IP Utility, IPv4 Address Exhaustion, and IPv6 Address.

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