Smart Use Cases of IoT
Pethuru Raj, Anupama C. Raman · The Internet of Things · 2017
By the year 2020, we are expected to have 7.6 billion people and approximately about 50–75 billion connected objects. What does this figure indicate? The number of connected devices will soon surpass the number of human beings who are present on earth. This figure itself throws light on the plethora of opportunities that IoT and its allied technologies offer to mankind. The key objective of using the IoT technology is for the transformation of objects into smart objects, which can make our lives easy. When we see around us, we have immense number of objects which belong to various diverse domains. So how do we categorize them into broad groups in order to quantify the benefits which are offered by them? That is what we have attempted to do in this chapter for the ease of highlighting the underlying technologies and the business benefits offered by them. The three broad categories, which we have considered in this chapter, are the following: Industrial use cases Consumer use cases Governance use cases Under industrial use cases, we have mainly focused on two broad use cases: Smart energy Smart transportation systems Under consumer use cases, we have mainly focused on the following: Smart homes Smart buildings Smart education systems Under governance use cases, we have mainly considered smart cities. Some other use cases like smart airports and smart healthcare systems are dealt with as separate chapters.