1. Emergence of the Internet of
Things
Jeroen Hoebeke
Jeroen Hoebeke,
www.ibcn.intec.ugent.be
Internet Based Communication
Networks and Services (IBCN)
Department of Information Technology
(INTEC)
Ghent University - iMinds
5/12/2014 1
2. IoT is not new
Radio-frequency identification
• Equip objects with tags, read radio
tags, identify and inventory
• First use of IoT (1999)
Machine-to-machine (M2M)
• One device = one SIM card
• One-to-one device-server
communication over operator
managed network
Internet of Things (IoT)
• One device = one IP address
• Internet-based device access:
operator = transport network
• Direct interactions, flexible
applications
over
multiple
communication
technologies
6. IoT will be big: how big?
"Economic value-add (through the sale and
usage of IoT technology) is forecast to be
$1.9 trillion across sectors in 2020.
Happy to be here and talk to you about the Internet of Things, one of the research domains iMinds is very active in.
As IoT is a multifaceted domain, this presentation mainly aims to give you a high-level introduction to the IoT and the role it can play for you or your company.
Term first coined in late nineties in the context of RFID tags.
Tomorrow, if it depends on Cisco, we maybe no longer talk about the IoT, but about the IoE.
It is a no-brainer to see that there is more than just the things themselves.
It is also about the:
Data that needs to be turned into more useful information
People
Processes that need to deliver the right information to the right person/machine at the right time
All these components need to be networked, together forming the Internet of Everything
Cisco:
People = connecting people in more relevant, valuable ways
Process = delivering the right information to the right person (or machine) at the right time
Data = leveraging data into more useful information for decision making
Things = physical devices and objects connected to the Internet and each other for intelligent decision making
If you look at the potential size of the IoT, you see that Cisco estimates that by 2020 there will be 50 billion smart objects (compared to 8 billion human beings on our planet).
If you look at the value of the IoT, then Gartner estimates that the economical added value through the sales and usage of IoT technology will be almost 2 trillion $ in 2020.
Further, many big players are contributing to the IoT hype as well…
companies launch new business units
companies launch alliances to promote their technology
Hype, but huge potential even when partially realized