What is IoT?
The term IoT refers to “Internet of Things” as even though it may sound as a vague concept due to the simplicity of the world “things”, it could not be better defined. Because IoT encloses a very complex and modern concept that refers to the Internet of everything and anything — ergo things. Technological advances in the last decade have proved that in this particular case, the word “things” is not a vague use of the english language but rather a precie decision (even though linguistic experts would have the hairs in their necks stand) — because we have demostrated over and over again that Internet can be present in everything and anything, from the obvious tech devices such as smartphones, computers and tablets, to unthinkable devices such as tools, baby cribs, flower pots and pet feeders.
Given the ever-increasing number of connected devices, the IoT continues its path of evolution, adding different layers to the data that is already being shared and processed, and giving rise to sophisticated algorithms that result in improved levels of automation. (https://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/us/security/definition/internet-of-things)
Why has IoT become more relevant as of lately?
The presence of Internet in our daily lives allows for an interobject communication in which information is constantly shared. And one of the most important discoveries that this technology has introduced to the business world is that information is power. More precisely, user data. The more detailed and specific the data a business owns of a user, the more precise it’s selling marketing could be and therefore a significant increase in sales and a more accurate marketing investment. This allows for budgets to be better distributed an used, less unsuccessfull campaigns and more faithful customers. All three points any business would like to ace.
For the common user, the people, a strong presence of IoT in everyday objects represents a better overall user experience, as well as a more secure and personalized interaction and knowledge of their usage. This includes for example, a more personalized news input, shopping suggestions, track of sports habits, automated appliances, automated grocery shopping, and much, much more. A seamless communication is possible between people, processes, and things.
What technologies have made IoT expand?
While the concept of IoT has been in existence for a long time, and has slowly been improving, a collection of recent advances in a number of different technologies has made it possible to apply these technologies to everyday objects at a significantly faster pace than ever before. Some technologies that has made this possible are:
- Lower cost sensor technology, that allows it to be sold at a lower price and therefore more accessible for manufacturers to buy and implement in their products. Sensor technology simplifies automatization and sensory activated actions, a big aspect of IoT.
- Connectivity that allows more efficient data transfer thanks to improvement in the internet hosting and protocols network.
- Cloud computing platforms. The increase in cloud based platform availability enables both the users and the businesses to access cloud stored information for better interconnectivity between devices as well as a larger storage infrastructure that allows for more access and less management.
- Machine learning and analytics, which increases the speed in which businesses can access and analyze data. Machine learning is a very popular field in full growth in the IT industry, that is improved every day and has no aparent limits as to how much it can tackle, pushing the boundaries with every advance.
- Conversational artificial intelligence (AI). Artificial intelligences are mimicking the human mind more and more every time, being able to learn habits and conversation, carrying out a more natural language processing and realistic dialogue. AIs have been implemented into IoT’s in affordable and attractive home goods. The massive use of these intelligences helps in the speed at which the AI’s can learn and improve daily.
What Is Industrial IoT?
In the provious paragraphs I have referred to the use of IoT mostly in the household and by businesses targetting the common user. But, since IoT can literally be applied to anything and everything, it also has a big presence and has been part of advances in the industrial field. This is known as Industrial IoT or IIoT for short, and refers to the application of IoT in an industrial setting. Its use is mainly in automatization, sensor control and synchronization with cloud based technologies. Wireless automation and control has allowed for machine to machine communication, creating faster communication and production, less space for error and a parallel data analysis that lets the production be changed or adapted during runtime. This reduces the place for errors and spoiled production as well as an improvement in costs and therefore overall revenue. Processes can be predicted and errors prevented way faster than without the technologies.
Technologies that are used in IIoT are sensors, machine connectivity, cloud based databases, wireless connections, automatizations, Artificial Intelligence and more.
“The IoT world is very rapidly changing and so you need to keep your landmarks in sight and stay open to integrate what is useful for you, change what can be optimized;” (Jens Beck, Director of IIoT, Analytics and Innovative Cloud Services at Canada-based Syntax)
What industries can benefit from IoT?
Even though everything and everyone can benefit from IoT, some industries can further benefit from the implementation of IoT. These are the businesses that would find a benefit in adopting sensor devices, machine interconnectivity, wireless connections, cloud based databases and Artificial Intelligences.
Some examples are:
Manufacturing: The manufacturing industry can defenitely benefit from the implementation of sensors and wireless connectivity between the machines. Sensors can measure production, send alerts to base in case of failure or inconsistencies, check equipment, measure amounts of produce. Wireless connections can trigger protocols in any case, be it once a process is done or in case of failure as far as security goes. This all can be done way faster than with traditional processes and therefore allows companies to reduce operating costs, get better runtime, assess and detect failures quicker and optimize resources.
Automotive: The automotive industry stands to realize significant advantages from the use of IoT applications. In addition to the benefits of applying IoT to production lines, sensors can detect impending equipment failure in vehicles already on the road and can alert the driver with details and recommendations. Thanks to aggregated information gathered by IoT-based applications, automotive manufacturers and suppliers can learn more about how to keep cars running and car owners informed.
Retail: As incredible as it sounds, even the retail industry can benefit from the implementation of IoT in stores. IoT applications allow retail companies to manage inventory, improve customer experience, optimize supply chain, and reduce operational costs. For example, smart shelves could be implemented with weight sensors that create alerts when stock is low, track sells, movement of items around the store during a normal business day and mucho more. Also sells can be matched with the buyer and send personalized newsletters according to the items bought and therefore improve the user experience as well as probably increase the overall sales.
These are just a few examples, yet implementations can be found in every and any business and industry.
How is IoT changing the world? Real examples of IoT implementation:
There is no better way to comprehend the real impact of IoT than to show real examples of improvement by the use of it in different industries and businesses:
- Amazon Echo and Google Home — Smart Home: AI voice assistants like the Amazon Echo and Google Home are some of the most popular connected devices in consumer IoT. Users can talk to voice assistants like Alexa for help performing a variety of functions including playing music, providing a weather report, getting sports scores, ordering an Uber, and more. This improves the comfort and overall experience of the users in their homes, and provides extremeley valuable information to the respective owners of the service, in that they can get to know their user, compare users with one another to further study their market and offer better targeted products and services.
- Fitbit Charge 3 — Wearables: The Fitbit Charge 3 tracks your steps, floors climbed, calories burned, and sleep quality. The device also syncs with computers and smartphones through wifi to transmit your fitness data in understandable charts to monitor your progress. This allows users to share the information over several platforms of their preference in order to use the information gathered for their benefit to further improve their overall health lifestyle. Fitbit on its part, can analyze tendencies to also improve their products considering the needs of their users.
- Barcelona — Smart Cities: The Spanish city is one of the foremost smart cities in the world after it implemented several IoT initiatives that have helped enhance smart parking and the environment. This has a huge impact on the environment since it allows the citizens to carry out a more conscious lifestyle and learn about the green practices that can be implemented in the city. Also traffic may be reduced, trash, resources better distributed and overall have a cleaner city, and at some point, world.
The examples and uses are endless, yet there is no doubt that the expansion is exponential.
“The World Economic Forum […] estimates that there will be 41 billion devices capturing data on how we live, work, move through our cities and operate and maintain the machines on which we depend.” (https://www.cmswire.com/cms/internet-of-things/7-big-problems-with-the-internet-of-things-024571.php)
These numbers seem astronomical and unmeaseurable, and this huge growth brings with it inevitable uneasiness that highlights some of the drawbacks of IoT.
Drawbacks of IoT
Unfortunately, as awesome and modern as IoT sounds, it is not all perfect as it seems. The speed at which the advances occur does not allow for everything to keep up, and therefore there are many drawbacks that come together with the wonderful advances.
One of the biggest issues, as with everything technological, is data breaches. Having easy access to data is wonderful if used correctly. Unfortunately, the users’ private data is more exposed than ever too given the amount of devices to which the user is entering information and the vulnerabilities of these devices. Statistics show some worrying figures: 12.7 million Americans were victims of identity theft. A credit card number is the type of information that was most compromised, followed by a debit card number.
Data breaches are extremely dangerous and can be very damaging to both the user and the company where the information is stolen from. Companies also fear them and can lose the trust of their clients for good if the cyber attack came via their website pages.
The riskiest devices are said to be: smart toys for kids, off-brand IoT gadgets and second-hand smart devices. Also, any other device which is left with the default login information (example: username: admin, password: admin) no matter the brand, is also considered a huge vulnerability to all kinds of cyber attacks.
You might think that it may be not that dangerous that one of your gadgets is hacked, but since IoT is based on the interconnectivity between a big amount of devices, if a kids toy is hacked and it is connected to your home wifi network, then every other device connected to that network becomes vulnerable to the attack, and what began as a simple car track hack, may end up in a major computer breach.
Another drawback is the dependence IoT has on the internet connection. The communication between devices is fast and easy, as long as there is an internet connection that serves that connection. If for some reason the power is out or telecommunications are down and your whole house is smart and internet dependant, then you will probably not be able to carry out simple tasks such as locking doors or shutting blinds. Also, something less drastic, but if the connection is for some reason slower than usual, then user satisfaction decreases fast, since the users are used to extremely fast connections and downloading times. Fortunately, downtimes don’t occur often, yet when they do, the impact is huge.
Finally, another big drawback is the power and knowledge the users are giving big companies. At first with email addresses and cellphones, the information the users were giving was mostly contacts and usually business communications. Nowadays, with the strong presence of IoT in the user’s daily lives, companies own enormous amounts of intricate and detailed information about their users, such as the extent of their relationships with others, their faces, location, schedules, fitness habits, sleeping schedules, food preferences and much, much more. Nowadays, information is power, and the owners of bit IoT providers are having way too much of it by users who are willingly handing out the information without reading the Terms and Conditions.
In conclusion, I believe IoT is incredibly useful and provides a lot of benefits and improvements for everyone involved. Better use of resources for businesses, lower overall costs of production and loss, improved user experience, better customer satisfaction and even positive environmental impact. Yet, as with everything technological, when used with bad intentions the drawbacks can be huge. I believe that as users we have to be aware of the consequences and what we are willingly providing businesses with, since we are being part of the change and there are not many studies that show the real impact all of this can have in our lives and futures.
IoT ni nini? Neno IoT linarejelea "Intaneti ya Vitu" kama ingawa inaweza kuonekana kama dhana isiyo wazi kwa sababu ya unyenyekevu wa ulimwengu wa "vitu", haiwezi kufafanuliwa vizuri. Kwa sababu IoT inajumuisha dhana ngumu sana na ya kisasa ambayo inahusu Mtandao wa kila kitu na chochote <unk> ergo vitu. Maendeleo ya kiteknolojia katika muongo uliopita yamethibitisha kwamba katika kesi hii maalum, neno <unk>things<unk> si matumizi yasiyoeleweka ya lugha ya Kiingereza bali ni uamuzi wa kipekee (hata ingawa wataalamu wa lugha wangekuwa na nywele kwenye shingo zao) <unk> kwa sababu tumeonyesha mara kwa mara kwamba mtandao unaweza kuwapo katika kila kitu na chochote, kutoka kwa vifaa vya wazi kama vile simu mahiri, kompyuta na vidonge, hadi vifaa visivyoweza kufikiriwa kama vifaa vya teknolojia, vitanda vya watoto, sufuria za maua na vyakula vya wanyama. Kwa kuzingatia idadi inayoongezeka ya vifaa vilivyounganishwa, IoT inaendelea na mwendo wake wa mageuzi, ikiongeza tabaka tofauti kwa data ambayo tayari inashirikiwa na kusindika, na kutoa algorithms za hali ya juu ambazo husababisha viwango bora vya automatisering. (https: www.trendmicro.com) Kwa nini teknolojia ya Internet ya Vitu (IoT) imekuwa muhimu zaidi hivi karibuni? Uwepo wa mtandao katika maisha yetu ya kila siku inaruhusu kwa ajili ya mawasiliano interobject katika ambayo habari ni daima pamoja. Moja ya uvumbuzi muhimu zaidi ambao teknolojia hii imewasilisha kwa ulimwengu wa biashara ni kwamba habari ni nguvu. Kwa usahihi zaidi, data ya mtumiaji. Kadiri data ya biashara ya watumiaji ilivyo na maelezo zaidi, ndivyo uuzaji wa uuzaji unavyoweza kuwa sahihi zaidi na kwa hivyo ongezeko kubwa la mauzo na uwekezaji sahihi zaidi wa uuzaji. Hii inaruhusu bajeti kusambazwa vizuri na kutumika, kampeni chini ya kushindwa na wateja zaidi waaminifu. Hizi ni pointi tatu ambazo biashara yoyote inataka kupata. Kwa watumiaji wa kawaida, uwepo mkubwa wa IoT katika vitu vya kila siku unawakilisha uzoefu bora wa jumla wa mtumiaji, na pia mwingiliano salama na wa kibinafsi na maarifa ya matumizi yao. Hii inajumuisha, kwa mfano, habari za kibinafsi zaidi, mapendekezo ya ununuzi, kufuatilia tabia za michezo, vifaa vya kiotomatiki, ununuzi wa vyakula vya kiotomatiki, na mengi zaidi. Mawasiliano ya bila mshono inawezekana kati ya watu, michakato, na vitu. Ni teknolojia gani ambayo imesababisha IoT kupanuka? Ingawa dhana ya IoT imekuwapo kwa muda mrefu, na imekuwa polepole kuboresha, mkusanyiko wa maendeleo ya hivi karibuni katika idadi ya teknolojia tofauti imefanya iwezekanavyo kutumia teknolojia hizi kwa vitu vya kila siku kwa kasi ya haraka kuliko hapo awali. Teknolojia ambazo zimefanya hili liwezekane ni: Teknolojia ya sensorer ya gharama ya chini, ambayo inaruhusu kuuzwa kwa bei ya chini na kwa hivyo inapatikana zaidi kwa watengenezaji kununua na kutekeleza katika bidhaa zao. Teknolojia ya sensorer inawezesha automatisering na hatua sensory kuanzishwa, kipengele kikubwa cha IoT. - Connectivity kwamba inaruhusu uhamisho wa data ufanisi zaidi shukrani kwa kuboresha katika mtandao wa mwenyeji na itifaki. - Cloud kompyuta majukwaa. Kuongezeka kwa upatikanaji wa jukwaa la wingu huwezesha watumiaji na biashara kupata habari zilizohifadhiwa kwenye wingu kwa muunganisho bora kati ya vifaa na pia miundombinu kubwa ya kuhifadhi ambayo inaruhusu ufikiaji zaidi na usimamizi mdogo. - Mafunzo ya mashine na uchambuzi, ambayo huongeza kasi ambayo biashara zinaweza kupata na kuchambua data. Kujifunza mashine ni uwanja maarufu sana katika ukuaji kamili katika sekta ya IT, ambayo ni kuboreshwa kila siku na haina mipaka ya wazi kama kwa kiasi gani inaweza kukabiliana, kushinikiza mipaka na kila maendeleo. - Mawasiliano ya akili bandia (AI). Akili bandia zinaiga akili ya binadamu zaidi na zaidi kila wakati, kuweza kujifunza tabia na mazungumzo, kufanya usindikaji wa lugha ya asili na mazungumzo ya kweli. AI zimetumiwa katika IoT katika bidhaa za nyumbani za bei nafuu na za kuvutia. Matumizi makubwa ya akili hizi husaidia katika kasi ambayo AI inaweza kujifunza na kuboresha kila siku. IoT ya Viwanda Ni Nini? Katika vifungu vifuatavyo nimetaja matumizi ya IoT hasa katika nyumba na na biashara zinazolenga mtumiaji wa kawaida. Lakini, kwa kuwa IoT inaweza kutumika kwa kila kitu, ina uwepo mkubwa na imekuwa sehemu ya maendeleo katika uwanja wa viwanda. Hii inajulikana kama IoT ya Viwanda (IIoT) kwa kifupi, na inahusu matumizi ya IoT katika mazingira ya viwanda. Matumizi yake ni hasa katika automatisering, udhibiti sensor na synchronization na teknolojia ya wingu. Uendeshaji wa wireless na udhibiti umeruhusu mawasiliano ya mashine kwa mashine, kuunda mawasiliano ya haraka na uzalishaji, nafasi kidogo ya makosa na uchambuzi wa data sambamba ambayo inaruhusu uzalishaji kubadilishwa au kubadilishwa wakati wa kukimbia. Hii hupunguza nafasi kwa ajili ya makosa na uzalishaji spoiled kama vile kuboresha katika gharama na hivyo mapato ya jumla. Utaratibu unaweza kutabiriwa na makosa kuzuiwa njia ya haraka zaidi kuliko bila teknolojia. Teknolojia zinazotumiwa katika IIoT ni sensorer, uunganisho wa mashine, hifadhidata za wingu, uhusiano wa wireless, automatisering, akili bandia na zaidi. "Kama vile ilivyo kwa ""Internet ya Vitu"" (IoT), ni muhimu kuzingatia mahitaji ya kila siku na kuamua ni nini kinachohitajika ili kuboresha huduma za IoT, kama vile teknolojia ya teknolojia ya teknolojia, teknolojia ya teknolojia, na teknolojia ya teknolojia ya teknolojia, kama ilivyo kwa ""Syntax.""" Ingawa kila kitu na kila mtu anaweza kufaidika na IoT, baadhi ya viwanda vinaweza kufaidika zaidi na utekelezaji wa IoT. Biashara hizi zitapata faida katika kupitisha vifaa vya sensor, uunganisho wa mashine, uhusiano wa wireless, hifadhidata za wingu na akili bandia. Baadhi ya mifano ni: Utengenezaji: Viwanda vya utengenezaji inaweza defenitely kufaidika na utekelezaji wa sensorer na wireless connectivity kati ya mashine. Sensors inaweza kupima uzalishaji, kutuma tahadhari kwa msingi katika kesi ya kushindwa au kutofautiana, kuangalia vifaa, kupima kiasi cha mazao. Kuunganisha wireless inaweza kuamsha itifaki katika kesi yoyote, iwe ni mara moja mchakato ni kufanyika au katika kesi ya kushindwa kama mbali kama usalama huenda. Hii inaweza kufanywa kwa kasi zaidi kuliko mchakato wa jadi na hivyo kuruhusu kampuni kupunguza gharama za uendeshaji, kupata wakati bora wa kukimbia, kutathmini na kugundua makosa kwa haraka na kuboresha rasilimali. Kwa mfano, sekta ya magari ina uwezo wa kupata faida kubwa kutokana na matumizi ya IoT. Kwa kuongezea faida za kutumia IoT kwenye mistari ya uzalishaji, sensorer zinaweza kugundua kutofaulu kwa vifaa katika magari tayari barabarani na inaweza kumwonya dereva na maelezo na mapendekezo. Kwa msaada wa habari zilizokusanywa na maombi ya IoT, watengenezaji wa magari na wauzaji wanaweza kujifunza zaidi juu ya jinsi ya kuweka magari ya gari na wamiliki wa magari. Kwa hivyo, kwa sababu ya hali ya hali ya juu, hata tasnia ya rejareja inaweza kufaidika na utekelezaji wa IoT katika maduka. Matumizi ya IoT huruhusu makampuni ya rejareja kusimamia hesabu, kuboresha uzoefu wa wateja, kuboresha mlolongo wa usambazaji, na kupunguza gharama za uendeshaji. Kwa mfano, rafu za smart zinaweza kutekelezwa na sensorer za uzito ambazo huunda tahadhari wakati hisa ni chini, kufuatilia mauzo, harakati za vitu karibu na duka wakati wa siku ya kawaida ya biashara na mengi zaidi. Pia, unaweza kulinganisha mauzo na mnunuzi na kutuma jarida la kibinafsi kulingana na vitu vilivyonunuliwa na hivyo kuboresha uzoefu wa mtumiaji na labda kuongeza mauzo ya jumla. Hizi ni mifano michache tu, lakini utekelezaji unaweza kupatikana katika kila biashara na sekta yoyote. Jinsi IoT inabadilisha ulimwengu Mifano halisi ya utekelezaji wa IoT: Hakuna njia bora ya kuelewa athari halisi ya IoT kuliko kuonyesha mifano halisi ya uboreshaji kwa matumizi yake katika viwanda na biashara tofauti: Amazon Echo na Google Home - Smart Home: Msaidizi wa sauti wa AI kama Amazon Echo na Google Home ni baadhi ya vifaa maarufu zaidi vilivyounganishwa katika IoT ya watumiaji. Kwa kutumia sauti, Alexa inaweza kusaidia katika kazi mbalimbali kama vile kucheza muziki, kutoa ripoti ya hali ya hewa, kupata alama za michezo, kuagiza Uber, na zaidi. Hii inaboresha faraja na uzoefu wa jumla wa watumiaji katika nyumba zao, na hutoa habari muhimu sana kwa wamiliki wa huduma, kwa kuwa wanaweza kupata kujua mtumiaji wao, kulinganisha watumiaji na kila mmoja ili kujifunza zaidi soko lao na kutoa bidhaa na huduma bora. Fitbit Charge 3 - Fitbit Charge 3 inafuatilia hatua zako, sakafu zilizopanda, kalori zilizochomwa, na ubora wa usingizi. Kifaa pia huunganisha na kompyuta na simu mahiri kupitia Wi-Fi ili kusambaza data yako ya mazoezi katika chati zinazoeleweka ili kufuatilia maendeleo yako. Hii inaruhusu watumiaji kushiriki habari kwenye majukwaa kadhaa ya upendeleo wao ili kutumia habari zilizokusanywa kwa faida yao ili kuboresha zaidi mtindo wao wa maisha wa afya. Fitbit kwa upande wake, inaweza kuchambua mwelekeo wa pia kuboresha bidhaa zao kwa kuzingatia mahitaji ya watumiaji wao. Barcelona ni moja ya miji ya kwanza ya akili ulimwenguni baada ya kutekeleza mipango kadhaa ya IoT ambayo imesaidia kuboresha maegesho ya akili na mazingira. Hii ina athari kubwa kwa mazingira kwani inaruhusu wananchi kutekeleza mtindo wa maisha wa ufahamu zaidi na kujifunza juu ya mazoea ya kijani ambayo yanaweza kutekelezwa jijini. Pia trafiki inaweza kupunguzwa, taka, rasilimali kusambazwa vizuri na kwa ujumla kuwa na mji safi, na katika hatua fulani, dunia. Mifano na matumizi ni ya kutokuwa na mwisho, lakini hakuna shaka kwamba upanuzi ni exponential. "Mkutano wa Kiuchumi wa Dunia unaonyesha kuwa ""mabilioni 41 ya vifaa vya kugundua data juu ya jinsi tunavyoishi, kufanya kazi, kusafiri kupitia miji yetu na kuendesha na kudumisha mashine ambazo tunategemea"" (https: www.cmswire.com cms02-b4b4b4b4b4b4b4b4b4b4b4b4b4b4b4b4b4b4b4b4b4b4b4b4b4b4b4b4b4b4b4b4b4b4b4b4b4b4b4b4b4b4b4b4b4b4b4b4b4b4b4b4b4b4b4b4b4b4b4b4b4b4b4b4b4b4b4b4b4b4b4b4b4b4b4b4b4b4b4b4b4b4b4b4b4b4b4b4b4b4b4b4b4b Kwa bahati mbaya, kama nzuri na ya kisasa kama IoT inaonekana, si wote kamilifu kama inaonekana. Kasi ambayo maendeleo yanatokea hairuhusu kila kitu kushikilia, na kwa hivyo kuna hasara nyingi ambazo huja pamoja na maendeleo mazuri. Moja ya masuala makubwa, kama ilivyo na kila kitu cha kiteknolojia, ni uvunjaji wa data. Kuwa na upatikanaji rahisi wa data ni jambo zuri sana ikiwa hutumiwa kwa usahihi. Kwa bahati mbaya, data binafsi ya watumiaji ni wazi zaidi kuliko hapo awali, ikizingatiwa idadi ya vifaa ambavyo mtumiaji anaingiza habari na udhaifu wa vifaa hivi. Takwimu zinaonyesha idadi ya watu milioni 12.7 waliotumiwa na watu wengine. Nambari ya kadi ya mkopo ni aina ya habari ambayo ilikuwa zaidi ya kuathiriwa, ikifuatiwa na nambari ya kadi ya mkopo. Uvunjaji wa data ni hatari sana na unaweza kuharibu sana kwa mtumiaji na kampuni ambapo habari imeibiwa. Kampuni pia huogopa na zinaweza kupoteza uaminifu wa wateja wao kwa wema ikiwa shambulio la mtandao lilikuja kupitia kurasa zao za wavuti. Vifaa vya hatari zaidi ni: vitu vya kuchezea vya akili kwa watoto, vifaa vya IoT vya bidhaa za nje na vifaa vya akili vya mkono wa pili. Pia, kifaa kingine chochote ambacho kimeachwa na habari ya kuingia kwa default (mfano: jina la mtumiaji: admin, nenosiri: admin) bila kujali chapa, pia inachukuliwa kuwa hatari kubwa kwa aina zote za mashambulizi ya mtandao. "Unaweza kufikiri kwamba inaweza kuwa si hatari kwamba moja ya vifaa yako ni hacked, lakini tangu IoT ni msingi juu ya interconnectivity kati ya kiasi kikubwa cha vifaa, kama watoto ""chezeo"" ni hacked na ni kushikamana na mtandao wako wa nyumbani WiFi, basi kila kifaa kingine kushikamana na mtandao inakuwa hatari kwa mashambulizi, na kile kilichoanza kama rahisi ""car track"" hack inaweza kuishia katika kubwa kompyuta uvunjaji." Hasara nyingine ni utegemezi IoT ina juu ya uhusiano wa mtandao. Mawasiliano kati ya vifaa ni ya haraka na rahisi, kwa muda mrefu kama kuna uhusiano wa mtandao kwamba hutumikia uhusiano huo. Ikiwa kwa sababu fulani umeme haupo au mawasiliano ya simu yamepungua na nyumba yako nzima ni smart na inategemea mtandao, basi labda huwezi kufanya kazi rahisi kama vile kufunga milango au kufunga blinds. Pia, kitu kidogo kali, lakini kama uhusiano ni kwa sababu fulani polepole kuliko kawaida, basi kuridhika kwa mtumiaji hupungua haraka, kwani watumiaji wamezoea uhusiano wa haraka sana na nyakati za kupakua. Kwa bahati nzuri, downtimes si kutokea mara nyingi, bado wakati wao kufanya, athari ni kubwa. Hatimaye, udhaifu mwingine mkubwa ni nguvu na maarifa watumiaji ni kutoa makampuni makubwa. Kwa mfano, kwa anwani za barua pepe na simu za mkononi, watumiaji walikuwa wakitoa mawasiliano na mawasiliano ya biashara. Leo, kwa kuwa IoT inapatikana sana katika maisha ya kila siku ya watumiaji, kampuni zina idadi kubwa ya habari ngumu na ya kina kuhusu watumiaji wao, kama vile kiwango cha mahusiano yao na wengine, nyuso zao, eneo, ratiba, tabia za mazoezi, ratiba za kulala, upendeleo wa chakula na mengi zaidi. """Sasa habari ni nguvu, na wamiliki wa watoa huduma za bit-IoT wana njia nyingi sana ya watumiaji ambao kwa hiari wanatoa habari bila kusoma Masharti na Masharti." Kwa kumalizia, ninaamini IoT ni muhimu sana na hutoa faida nyingi na maboresho kwa kila mtu anayehusika. Matumizi bora ya rasilimali kwa biashara, gharama za jumla za uzalishaji na hasara, uzoefu bora wa mtumiaji, kuridhika bora kwa wateja na hata athari nzuri kwa mazingira. Hata hivyo, kama ilivyo na kila kitu cha kiteknolojia, kinapotumiwa kwa makusudi mabaya, madhara yanaweza kuwa makubwa. """Ninaamini kwamba kama watumiaji tunapaswa kuwa na ufahamu wa matokeo na kile tunachotoa kwa hiari kwa biashara, kwani sisi ni sehemu ya mabadiliko na hakuna masomo mengi yanayoonyesha athari halisi ambayo yote haya yanaweza kuwa nayo katika maisha yetu na siku zijazo."