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The Internet of Things (IoT)

Within 2022 everything about your day, your lifestyle, your health, your finances, your work, your commute, even your parking spot will be different.

Everything about the world you live in will be different: energy, healthcare, farming, manufacturing, logistics, mass transit, environment, security, shopping, and even clothing.

This is the impact of connecting ordinary objects to the Internet, or the Internet of Things (IoT).

IoT Use Cases:

The IoT will touch nearly every segment in industrial, enterprise, health, and consumer products. It is important to understand the impact, as well as why these disparate industries will be forced to change in the way they build products and provide services. the sectors of industry and how IoT will affect them:

Industrial and Manufacturing:

1. Preventative maintenance on new and pre-existing factory machinery.
2. Throughput increase through real-time demand.
3. Energy savings.
4. Safety systems such as thermal sensing, pressure sensing, and gas leaks.
5. Factory floor expert systems.

Consumer:

1. Smart home gadgetry: Smart irrigation, smart garage doors, smart locks, smart lights, smart thermostats, and smart security.
2. Wearables: Health and movement trackers, smart clothing/wearables.
3. Pets: Pet location systems, smart dog doors.

Retail:

1. Targeted advertising, such as locating known or potential customers by proximity and providing sales information.
2. Beaconing, such as proximity sensing customers, traffic patterns, and inter-arrival times as marketing analytics.
3. Asset tracking, such as inventory control, loss control, and supply chain optimizations.
4. Cold storage monitoring, such as analyze cold storage of perishable inventory.  Apply predictive analytics to food supply.
5. Insurance tracking of assets.
6. Insurance risk measurement of drivers.
7. Digital signage within retail, hospitality, or citywide.
8. Beaconing systems within entertainment venues, conferences, concerts, amusement parks, and museums.

Healthcare:

1. In-home patient care.
2. Learning models of predictive and preventative healthcare.
3. Dementia and elderly care and tracking.
4. Hospital equipment and supply asset tracking.
5. Pharmaceutical tracking and security.
6. Remote field medicine.
7. Drug research.
8. Patient fall indicators.

Transportation and Logistics:

1. Fleet tracking and location awareness.
2. Railcar identification and tracking.
3. Asset and package tracking within fleets.
4. Preventative maintenance of vehicles on the road.

Agricultural and Environmental:

1. Smart irrigation and fertilization techniques to improve yield.
2. Smart lighting in nesting or poultry farming to improve yield.
3. Livestock health and asset tracking.
4. Preventative maintenance on remote farming equipment via manufacturer.
5. Drones-based land surveys.
6. Farm-to-market supply chain efficiencies with asset tracking.
7. Robotic farming.
8. Volcanic and fault line monitoring for predictive disasters.

Energy:

1. Oil rig analysis of thousands of sensors and data points for efficiency gains.
2. Remote solar panel monitoring and maintenance.
3. Hazardous analysis of nuclear facilities.
4. Smart electric meters in a citywide deployment to monitor energy usage and demand.
5. Real-time blade adjustments as a function of weather on remote wind turbines.
   

Smart City:

1. Pollution control and regulatory analysis through environmental sensing.
2. Microclimate weather predictions using citywide sensor networks.
3. Efficiency gains and improved costs through waste management service on demand.
4. Improved traffic flow and fuel economy through smart traffic light control and patterning.
5. Energy efficiency of city lighting on demand.
6. Smart snow plowing based on real-time road demand, weather conditions, and nearby plows.
7. Smart irrigation of parks and public spaces, depending on weather and current usage.
8. Smart cameras to watch for crime and real-time automated AMBER Alerts.
9. Smart parking lots to automatically find best space parking on demand.
10. Bridge, street, and infrastructure wear and usage monitors to improve longevity and service.

Government and Military:

1. Terror threat analysis through IoT device pattern analysis and beacons.
2. Swarm sensors through drones.
3. Sensor bombs deployed on the battlefield to form sensor networks to monitor threats.
4. Government asset tracking systems.
5. Real-time military personal tracking and location services.
6. Synthetic sensors to monitor hostile environments.
7. Water level monitoring to measure dam and flood containment.

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