Internet Of Things And Its Applications: TP-Link Smart Wi-Fi, Sony Speaker, And More In Essay.

What is the Internet of Things?

Question:

Discuss about the about Internet of Things.

Internet of things can be said as the connection of devices to the internet using embedded sensor and software for communication and collection and exchange of data with one another (Al Ameen, Liu & Kwak, 2012). With the help of this new technology, people from all across the globe can get an endless array of opportunities and connections at various location like home, work and play (Gubbi et al., 2013).

Here are some names of IoT devices like TP-Link multicolor smart Wi-Fi, Google Daydream with virtual reality headset, Sony speaker with Google assistant, Portable Wi-Fi video camera, Doorbell cam, Gesture control technology, smart thermostats and wireless blood pressure monitor. There are many more IoT devices coming in action in near future (Harrington & Krapf, 2014).

In the following report IoT devices like smart bulbs, Google Daydream with virtual reality headset, Google speaker with Google assistant, Motorola Smart Nursery Camera, Doorbell cam, Gesture control technology, smart thermostats, and wireless blood pressure monitor   will be discussed (Riva, Wiederhold & Gaggioli, 2016).

LED smart bulbs are available in different sizes which have a wireless connectivity feature. These unique features allow homeowners to connect their mobile phones with bulbs.  Smart bulbs have internet connectivity option which gives us a lot of option like simple on/off command and it gives more advanced option like scheduling their operations. When the smartphone senses the presence of house owner the lights will automatically turn on.  These bulbs give us the option of automatic changing of colours according to the requirement (Al Ameen, Liu & Kwak, 2012).  In the near future, some bulbs are coming into action which will have the feature like it can sense the presence of someone when a doorbell ring is detected and some bulbs can act also as a Bluetooth speaker (Vandenberg, Stevenson & Levin, 2012).

Advantages

Smart bulbs are more flexible compared with smart switches. These bulbs need minimum time to install.  They offer a wide variety of colour choices.

Disadvantages

Smart bulbs lack the different shapes and sizes. Smart bulbs are costlier as they often require the use of a hub for their functioning which it is an additional cost to the user.

Daydream with virtual reality headset is designed and developed by Google which gives the user a Daydream View, with it the user can experience sports, live events and many more things in 360degree paranomic view. The ultimate aim of the developers is to provide VR experience to all mobile user and so that the customer can easily carry and use them (Tanabe et al., 2012).

IoT Devices: TP-Link Smart Wi-Fi, Google Daydream, Sony Speaker, and Motorola Smart Camera

Advantages 

Google Daydreamer with virtual reality headset is the most comfortable VR headset. It is inexpensive.  It has high quality content (Lin et al., 2014).  It works smoothly and has motion-tracking remote. It is very easy to setup.

Disadvantages

It works with specific mobile phones. It looks cheap from outside as it has a plastic frame. Some lights bleed from its edges.

Google announced that its assistant will be soon expanded to third party speaker maker. This Assistant power speaker will allow the user to play various songs based on the commands from different services like Google play music. This new device by Sony is not waterproof (Lin et al., 2014). As per some experts, Sony has the latest speaker that provides complete 360 audio experiences to user.  It has the power to completely fill the average room its sound.  It has some of the recent technologies like NFC, gesture control which allow various user to perform activities like playing music, skip track and adjust the volume (Al Ameen, Liu & Kwak, 2012).

Advantages

This new box by Sony supports all the latest connectivity technologies like Bluetooth, NFC and gesture control (Lin et al., 2014).  It gives 360-degree audio experience which has enough power to fill an average room with sound.  

Disadvantages

Sony speaker with Google assistant is not waterproof. It uses latest technology like Bluetooth and NFC which is distance depended (Vandenberg, Stevenson & Levin, 2012).

Motorola new smart camera provide us option of watching dear and near ones from anywhere on the compatible smart phone, tablets or computers.  It provides us with features like two-way communication, infrared night vision.  It gives a variety of option to user like video streaming and video analytics which provide active monitoring, expression detection (Vandenberg, Stevenson & Levin, 2012).  Through this user can get peace of mind. It provides pan, tilt, zoom and crystal-clear image to the user so that they can have a perfect view of their near and dear ones. It has two-way audio feature which allow the users to communicate from any location.  Through this latest technology the users can connect to each other and can keep an eye on necessary things on their smart phone, tablet and computers (Barley & Roach, 2013).

Advantages

It provides a path for two-way communication between users. It provides peace of mind to various users. Users can get a perfect view of their near and dear ones from any location. 

LED Smart Bulbs with Advanced Features

Disadvantages

The initial cost of these cameras is very high.  There is increase in expenditure like Wi-Fi and electricity.  

Video doorbells are nothing but most basic devices that are equipped with video cameras that allow user to communicate with anyone standing in front their gate. It mainly requires a Smartphone or laptops (Vandenberg, Stevenson & Levin, 2012). By the help of these gadgets user can communicate with the visitors. It gives the user certain feature like having a conversation with the delivery person while the owner is at office (Barley & Roach, 2013).  The installation process of this doorbells is quite easy, just a WIFI network is needed.  It offers endless security and convenience to different users.

Advantages

House owner can have a communication with any visitors. It gives endless feature like having a conversation with the delivery person while the owner is at office (Lin et al., 2014).

Disadvantages

It depends on Wi-Fi for its working. Some systems are more prone to signal   interference. Burglars have now learned how to disable the doorbell cam.  During the power- off doorbell cam will not work which will give the burglars an open access to different houses (Tanabe et al., 2012).

Gesture control technology is nothing but a new technology used in cars for enhancing the performance of the driver (Harrington & Krapf, 2014). Automaker from all across the globe are focusing to implement gesture control function in the car (Chang & Liu, 2015). Car producing firms like Hyundai is focusing to implement 3d gesture so that drivers can operate audio system of their car with simple wave (Migos et al., 2013). The ultimate goal of the designers is to provide comfort to the drivers by providing voice commands to certain functions like radio stations, calling and searching of address (Bolkhovsky, Scully & Chon, 2012).  

Advantages

This new technology provides voice command to the functioning of radio stations, mobile phone and searching of address (Harrington & Krapf, 2014). It minimizes the physical use of buttons, knobs, switches or icons on an electronic display (Suo et al., 2012).

Disadvantage  

It has limited the distance factor in controlling of various devices (Barley & Roach, 2013).  Line of sight of communication between transmitter and receiver must be directly aligned for proper communication. The data rate or speed of transmission is much lowered than the typical transmission (Svigals, 2016).

A thermostat generally works as per the requirement of a heating system.  It mainly senses the air temperature and starts the heating process as per the requirement (Saha, Kuzlu & Pipattanasomporn, 2013). If the heating system is a boiler with radiator then one room   thermostat will be enough to control the working of whole house (Scalisi, 2015). It provides a sense of safety so that owners do not have to worry about their house. It reduces the electricity bill largely.  It creates an opportunity for developing and selling various apps that can be used   with smart thermostats.

Google Daydream: The Most Comfortable VR Headset

Advantages

Gives customer from all nation a sense of safety as do not need to worry about their houses as they do not have to control everything. It reduces installation and production cost of various firms (Saha, Kuzlu & Pipattanasomporn, 2013). It creates a new platform where developer can develop new software’s and sell them (Ricci, 2014).

Disadvantages

If the thermostats are lacking proper use then they are not considered as energy saving. Sometimes users are unable to detect the working of a thermostat. Intelligent feature of thermostat is considered to be useful as expected (Gubbi et al., 2013).

Nokia BPM+ is a most   popular among the all blood pressure monitoring devices.  It has some key features like instant feedback upon Measurement, health management tools, online capabilities (Riva, Wiederhold & Gaggioli, 2016). If the user sees a red colour band then they can conclude that their health level must be optimized.  This smart blood pressure monitor can detect the blood pressure which gets automatically synchronized with app provided by doctor which is used for creating a chart (Chang & Liu, 2015). Due to this modern feature, monitors allow doctors to keep a regular eye on their patient health and get timely advise when needed (Jia et al., 2012).

Advantages

Nokia BPM+ is very compact device as it is highly travel friendly device. Due to its ease of use these devices can be fully implemented in our daily life.

Disadvantage

Products related to blood pressure like Nokia BPM+ have short term reliability which means that the product must be replaced every year. If the user gets stuck at any stage then customer support for it behind an email (Saha, Kuzlu & Pipattanasomporn, 2013).

                                                                              One floor of a multistore home

                                                                      Source: (Riva, Wiederhold & Gaggioli, 2016)

                                                                                       Table of IoT Devices

Product name	Description	Manufacture	Cost
Smart bulb	Simple on/off command using Wi-Fi or   Bluetooth	Philips	$65
Google Daydream with virtual reality headset	Provides 360 degree paranomic view	Google	$98.26
Sony speaker with Google assistant	NFC, gesture control technology for playing music, skip track and adjust the volume	Sony	$199
Motorola Smart Nursery Camera	Keeping an eye on near and dear ones	Motorola	$415.00
Doorbell cam	Keeping   an eye on house from distance	Godrej	$82.75
Smart thermostat	Used in heating system of   homes	Npower	£159
Smart blood pressure monitor	Instant feedback and report to doctor	Nokia BPM+	$129.95

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