The document discusses the Internet of Things (IoT), highlighting its ability to connect a variety of devices beyond traditional electronics, including healthcare and livestock monitoring applications. It outlines trends predicting billions of connected devices and significant revenue growth in wearables and connected homes, alongside advancements that enable IoT development. The author expresses interest in pursuing IoT applications, particularly in healthcare and energy management systems, during an internship.

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.