Communications of the ACM
What Is the Internet of Everything?
In the Internet of Everything, all people and objects are connected to a common Internet backbone.
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Professor Ravi Pendse is promoting the Internet of Everything at Wichita State University and the surrounding community, to advance the much-discussed scenario in which all people and objects are connected to a common Internet backbone.
He says that as the cost of sensors drops, such a concept is closer to becoming reality. Among Pendse's projects are moisture sensors that will be part of a smart sprinkler system that conserves water. With sensors costing one dollar or less and the Internet already in place, he says the system's startup cost is minimal. Countries around the world are facing water conservation issues, and the sprinkler system could serve as a prototype solution.
"This gives us another inexpensive way to perhaps look at our resources and leverage the infrastructure that is inevitably going to be there," Pendse says.
Some sensor networks already exist, and data analytics and improved connectivity through mobile devices will instigate further growth.
Pendse says city managers should investigate ways to use an Internet of Things to bring value to citizens, such as by affixing sensors to light poles to alert the public to peak pollution periods.
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