Foundations of Information Systems (ICT100) Report: Internet of Things

This report provides a comprehensive overview of the Internet of Things (IoT), a crucial technology in the modern era, examining its operational mechanisms, including the use of sensors, connectivity, data processing, and user interfaces. The report details the importance of IoT for automation and efficiency across various sectors, including environmental and energy management. It explores the strengths of IoT, such as automation, control, and monitoring, while also addressing weaknesses like compatibility issues. The report further discusses the impact of IoT on businesses, highlighting applications for new revenue streams, cost reduction, and improved productivity. Ethical considerations, including security, privacy, and bandwidth concerns, are also examined. The report concludes that IoT is a rapidly evolving technology with significant potential and challenges, and includes references to relevant research papers.

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Content Covered
Introduction
How IOT Works
Why IOT is required
Strength and Weakness of IOT
Use of IOT for business
Ethical Issues
Conclusion
References

Introduction
Internet of Things is a set of centralised systems which do not need human-to-
human or human-to-system interaction for communicating with any other system.
They have one central system which controls all the sub systems and help them to
send or receive data to each other using internet without any human interaction.
IoT is one of the latest technology which plays a crucial role in modern era. It
reduces the work pressure for humans in each and every sector like home, driving,
production, service sector and other.

How does IoT work:-
IoT is a huge and trending sector of IT which also uses concepts of Artificial
Intelligence. It has use in each and every sector of businesses and also helps in daily
routine of life (Zhang and Galletta, 2015). Along with this it has many advantages
and disadvantages which are discussed below:-
IoT is a group of machines and system, which generates a machine-to-machine
communication as per the commands received from central system. For example, in
a production house of ice-cream, a hub of machinery has been installed which uses
IoT, and a command for producing ice-cream get instructed to central machine.

Cont.…..
To perform all these functions IoT have a set of operations which machine have
to follow, are:-
Sensors use to detect the temperature and other factors,
 Connectivity between different systems,
 After that inserted data get processed for further understandings and working,
And at last it perform a user interface, by which a user come to know about the
status of work and conditions for which system was installed

Why IoT is Required:-
According to time, fast working machines along with ability of automation is a
requirement. IoT is the best solution for this problem, it has ability to work
automatically as well as faster. This eases the work of human and this also can
perform multiple tasks at a time. Some of basic importance of IoT are:-
Environmental Monitoring
Infrastructure Management
Energy Management

Strength and weaknesses of IoT :-
IoT is all about communication between devices using internet, this have many
strengths but also have some weaknesses which are as follow:-
Strengths :-
Automation and control – IoT automates the inter connected devices via internet
which has a great control over working and performance.
Monitoring – Monitoring is one the biggest strength of IoT (Romney and
Steinbart, 2015.). It can also be used to monitor things like future weather forecast
or quality of air present in home.

Cont.…
Weaknesses
Compatibility – There are no standards fix for compatibility of tagging and
monitoring devices (Pearlson, Saunders and Galletta, 2016.). It will be very easy
to agree for standards like Bluetooth, USB, etc. which make it easier for any one
to connect their personal device with IoT device and interrupt working of device.

Use of IoT for business
IoT has a huge impact on businesses and in upcoming 3-4 years all the biggest
of organizations of world will make investments in IoT for improving their
profitability ( Use of IoT for business, 2018 ). Some of these uses of IoT in
business are:-
New revenue
Reduce maintenance cost
Productivity and efficiency

Ethical Issues
IoT is a latest concept in the sector of information techniques. It provides a
system of systems which interacts with each other using internet and do not need
any interference of human (Paré and et. al., 2015). This has many benefits but
some ethical issues a business can face due to it are:-
Security
Privacy
Bandwidth

Conclusion
From the above report it is concluded that, IoT is a latest technology in IT which
uses some concepts of AI. IoT is a integrated system of machines which do not
need any human-to-human or human-to-system interaction, they use internet to
communicate with each other, according to command given to them. Nowadays,
each and every sector uses IoT either it is business or it is home or it is concerned
about driving, IoT is everywhere. As IoT has many advantages but also has many
disadvantages which are not negligible, for this organizations can make some
measures to increase security of system

References
Gretzel, U. and et. al., 2015. Conceptual foundations for understanding smart
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Laudon, K. C. and Laudon, J. P., 2015. Management information systems (Vol.
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Mai, B. and et. al, 2017. Neuroscience foundations for human decision making
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