Hackerspace LA Meetup – May 25, 2016

Internet of Things (IoT)

The Internet of Things is huge network of sensors and smart devices, combined with advanced analytics and cloud services to make sense of all the data promises to augment products and services across multiple industries. Expectations grow more spectacular every day: Forecasters predict up to 20 billion1 Internet of Things devices within a few years, generating 5 trillion, 2 gigabytes of data every year, and creating more than $300 billion in opportunities for tech vendors, telcos and IoT device makers by 2020.

In a nutshell, IoT is a network of physical objects that are connected to the internet allowing them to send, receive, and exchange data.

Online Resources

Internet of Things Brief History: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_of_Things

A Simple Explanation of ‘The Internet Of Things’: http://goo.gl/kwnqfn

Arduino IoT Platform: https://create.arduino.cc/

HackerspaceLA Curated List of Videos on IoT Topics: https://goo.gl/oJgYpo

Getting Started with the Internet of Things: Connecting Sensors and Micro-controllers to the Cloud (Make: Projects) 1st Edition: https://goo.gl/5gqf28 OR https://goo.gl/h8alyz