Riassunto analitico
“The most profound technologies are those that disappear. They weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they are indistinguishable from it”. - Mark Weiser
Every human, despite being an individual entity has always felt the need to communicate and interact with others since the beginning of time. Throughout his existence, he has used different storage supports and languages that have allowed him to encode and share information between present and future humans. For example, we could start from the dawn of civilization considering the cave paintings, which allowed the prehistoric man to represent moments of his life, codifying them in simple paintings (languages) usually reported on the walls (supports) inside a cave. Furthermore, it should be noted that the support used has proven to be quite reliable, given that the information has reached us thousands of years later. However, with the passing of time man has perfected the coding of information by processing languages and using supports increasingly advanced and shared. Overlooking the evolution that over the centuries has characterized languages and storage supports, it is enough to take a step back of no more than 100 years, in what can be identified as the period of the technological revolution. From the end of the nineteenth century technologies have faced unthinkable progress, man would never have imagined he could communicate, at any time and from anywhere, with a person thousands miles away, but first thanks to the telegraph, passing through the telephone, up to the internet, the distances were canceled, so what will be the next step?
Tim Barns Lee, founder of the World Wide Web and HTML, views the “progression of the Web from a network of information (Web 1.0) to a network of people (Web 2.0/Social Media) and now to a network of things (Web 3.0/IoT)” . The idea is that all 'things' can communicate with each other via the Internet, exchanging messages information and acting on these. Objects become intelligent, capable of interacting in autonomous way with the other devices connected to the network, and to perform certain actions in following receipt of specific input or reading data.
The Internet of Things is a system in which all objects connected to the network have a specific role, and their presence becomes necessary in order to reach the final goal. Thanks to the implementation of this type of systems, it is envisaged to change people's everyday way of life. Activities that each of us carries out every day, or actions, which we should do, but we forget, can be carried out by objects connected to the network. The autonomous communication between objects, which will take place without the human intermediation, will facilitate everyday life, simplifying problems that may arise in different contexts.
The application fields can be various, and the most quoted ones concern the Smart Home and Smart City contexts. In the first case, the network can be used to connect all the home appliances together. In the second one, the connection may concern all the devices useful for monitoring the traffic on the city roads. According to Cisco (a leading company in the IT sector) by 2020 there will be more than 50 billion devices connected to each other all over the world. An apparently very high number, which leads to move away from the simple context of a smart home or city to get closer to a global context. Until now, IoT aimed to connect individuals with each other, using their devices. In the future of the Internet of Things to these same individuals will be required a minimum action effort, as the devices themselves will manage increasingly complex information, providing consequently more complex services.
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Abstract
“The most profound technologies are those that disappear. They weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they are indistinguishable from it”. - Mark Weiser
Every human, despite being an individual entity has always felt the need to communicate and interact with others since the beginning of time. Throughout his existence, he has used different storage supports and languages that have allowed him to encode and share information between present and future humans. For example, we could start from the dawn of civilization considering the cave paintings, which allowed the prehistoric man to represent moments of his life, codifying them in simple paintings (languages) usually reported on the walls (supports) inside a cave. Furthermore, it should be noted that the support used has proven to be quite reliable, given that the information has reached us thousands of years later. However, with the passing of time man has perfected the coding of information by processing languages and using supports increasingly advanced and shared. Overlooking the evolution that over the centuries has characterized languages and storage supports, it is enough to take a step back of no more than 100 years, in what can be identified as the period of the technological revolution. From the end of the nineteenth century technologies have faced unthinkable progress, man would never have imagined he could communicate, at any time and from anywhere, with a person thousands miles away, but first thanks to the telegraph, passing through the telephone, up to the internet, the distances were canceled, so what will be the next step?
Tim Barns Lee, founder of the World Wide Web and HTML, views the “progression of the Web from a network of information (Web 1.0) to a network of people (Web 2.0/Social Media) and now to a network of things (Web 3.0/IoT)” . The idea is that all 'things' can communicate with each other via the Internet, exchanging messages information and acting on these. Objects become intelligent, capable of interacting in autonomous way with the other devices connected to the network, and to perform certain actions in following receipt of specific input or reading data.
The Internet of Things is a system in which all objects connected to the network have a specific role, and their presence becomes necessary in order to reach the final goal. Thanks to the implementation of this type of systems, it is envisaged to change people's everyday way of life. Activities that each of us carries out every day, or actions, which we should do, but we forget, can be carried out by objects connected to the network. The autonomous communication between objects, which will take place without the human intermediation, will facilitate everyday life, simplifying problems that may arise in different contexts.
The application fields can be various, and the most quoted ones concern the Smart Home and Smart City contexts. In the first case, the network can be used to connect all the home appliances together. In the second one, the connection may concern all the devices useful for monitoring the traffic on the city roads. According to Cisco (a leading company in the IT sector) by 2020 there will be more than 50 billion devices connected to each other all over the world. An apparently very high number, which leads to move away from the simple context of a smart home or city to get closer to a global context. Until now, IoT aimed to connect individuals with each other, using their devices. In the future of the Internet of Things to these same individuals will be required a minimum action effort, as the devices themselves will manage increasingly complex information, providing consequently more complex services.
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