Internet of Things and the Role of Wireless Sensor Networks in IoT
Sunita Gupta, Sakar Gupta · Advances in environmental engineering and green technologies book series · 2020
Internet of things (IoT) is a network of connected devices that work together and exchange information. In IoT, things or devices means any object with its own IP address that is able to connect to a network and can send and receive using internet. Examples of IoT devices are computers, laptops, smart phones, and objects that are operational with chips to collect and correspond data over a network. The range of internet of things devices is huge. Consumers use smart phones to correspond with IoT devices.