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• Internet of Things - a system of devices connected to the internet with the ability to collect and exchange data from users or environment with no human intervention
• IoT- could be any device embedded with electronics software and sensor like a smart refrigerator, a smart air conditioner, lights in household, connected security systems or even a person with a heart monitor or an automobile
• Why IOT

  • we are lazy
  • we want to automate everything
  • we want to control everything remotely
  • we want to see data in real-time
• Sensors - are fitted everywhere across every devices collecting real-time data consistently
• unique id -which makes the communication possible among them
• Cloud - store this huge sum of data
• Big data - large and complex that becomes difficult to analyze using traditional data processing techniques
• analytics - deals with the extraction of meaningful information from big data
• 1990 - john romkey create first iot device - toaster
• 1999- kevin ashton coins iot describing the eyes and ears of computer
• 2000- lg introduces first connected refrigerator
• 2008 - world first iot conference held zurich switzerland
• 2010 - tony fadell founds nest - smart thermostat
• 2013 - oxford dictionart adds internet of things
• 2014 - amazon introduces the echo speaker along with alexa voice assistant
• 2016- mirai botnet infects over 600000 devices with malware
• 2020 - the number of internet connected devices exceeds 20 billion
• Application

  • building and home automation
  • environment monitoring
  • medical and healthcare system
  • smart transportation
  • smart manufacturing
  • energy source management
• Hacking - is a term used to describe actions taken by someone to gain unauthorized access to computer
• Malware - is one of the more common ways to infiltrate or damage your computer. Malicious software that infects your computer such as computer viruses, trojan horses, spyware and adware
• Pharming - a common type of online fraud - point you to a malicious and illegitimate website by redirecting the legitimate url
• Phishing - is used most often by cyber criminals because its easy to execute and can produce the results they are looking for
• Ransomware - a type of malware that restrict access to your computer or your files and displays a message that demands payment in order for the restriction removed
• Lock - screen ransomware - displays an image that prevents you from accessing your computer
• Encryption ransomware - encrypts files on your systems hard drive and sometimes on shared network drives
• digital age - also known as information age - is a period when computer and internet were introduced
• Industrial revolution - brought the rapid shift from traditional to computerization
• ICT - group of interrelated technologies
• social change - referst to a transformation of culture and social organization structures over time