When was the last time you felt that someone or something was watching you? Maybe after watching a horror movie or when you were home alone? Worry not! This is going to happen to you every day and every moment in the near future. Welcome to the world of Internet of Things (IoT), where everything around you is always watching and understanding you to make your life better.
In this book, Enterprise Internet of Things Handbook, we are going to look at these Things and understand what they are and how they contribute to making the next biggest revelation in technology.
In this chapter, we are going to get started with our journey by defining what IoT is then go through the history of IoT and understand how and why it is going to be a game changer for humans.
After this, we are going to get into the basics of the IoT technology stack. We are going to look at the end-to-end architecture of a typical IoT solution and deep dive into every section of it.
In this chapter, we will cover:
- Introduction to Internet of Things
- History of IoT
- IoT enterprise market
- IoT technology stack
- Understand the building blocks of the IoT Stack
- Understand cloud computing
- Understand fog computing
- IoT and security
