In this presentation, Krunal introduces the concept of IoT and associated trends. His interest area is in IoT applications in healthcare and energy management systems.

1. Name: Krunal Parmar
E-mail: parmarkrunal2007@gmail.com
Twitter Id: Bit_Krunal
University: Babaria Institute of Technology
Year/Semester: 3/6
Branch: Computer Science & Engineering

2. Introduction
 Internet of things is the network created by connecting
various things to the internet.
 These things are not limited to smartphones, tablets, laptops
etc. but even physical and living things such as cattle, coffee
maker, alarm clock and practically anything.
 Some of the modern world applications of IoT are:
 A Dutch startup, Sparked is using wireless sensors on cattle so
that when a cow is sick or pregnant it sends a message to the
farmer.
 We can monitor ourselves this way too. Corventis made a
wireless cardiac monitor that physicians can check for health
risks.
 These are just a few applications of IoT but a lot more is also

3.  The advent of IoT was possible due to various improvements
during the past 10 years such as:
 Reduction in cost of sensors, bandwidth, and processing.
 With Wi-Fi coverage now ubiquitous, wireless connectivity is
available for free or a very low cost.
 IoT generates big volumes of data so availability of big data
analytics is a key enabler.
 IP adresses are essential for identification of all devices on the
internet. The IPv6 allows 3.4x10 38 unique IP addresses.

4. Trends
 It is estimated that by 2020 there will be 20-30 billion things
connected to the internet.
 The wearable devices are expected to make a revenue of $20
billion by 2017 growing at over 60% CAGR.
 Connected homes in North America and Europe are expected
to make a revenue of over $12 billion by 2017.
 Cisco’s Planetary Skin will use billions of networked sensors
on land and in sea, air and space to detect and predict
changes to environment.
 There has been a shift in the recent research to integrate the
concepts of the Internet of Things and autonomous control.

5.  The initial outcomes towards this direction, consider objects as
the driving force for autonomous IoT.
 In the future the Internet of Things may be a non-
deterministic and open network in which auto-organized or
intelligent entities, virtual objects will be interoperable and
able to act independently (pursuing their own objectives or
shared ones) depending on the context, circumstances or
environments.
 The IoT system will likely be an example of event driven
architecture, bottom-up made and will consider any
subsidiary level.

6. Interest Areas
 The areas of IoT that pique my interest would be applications
of IoT to:
 Health care systems
 Building and home automation
 Transportation,
 Environmental monitoring
 Energy management.
 If given the internship I would be interested to work on health
care systems and energy management systems.