Not long ago I was explaining how the internet works to a senior citizen at the launch of a recently made eCommerce app.

I was able to explain that the Internet is a global network of computers, which is called the world wide web, or www, and this is the collection of millions of computers remotely, providing web pages that are displayed on the computers.

Now this alone will not get a user to access the Internet. Before one can receive content from an Internet service provider, a suite of end-to-end protocols (internet protocol) must be set at both ends. The personal computer or mobile device (recipient) and www Server (provider)

So, I went on to say that when you intend to visit any publicly hosted website, in the Internet browser application’s address bar, you declare the protocol identifier, which is the hypertext transfer protocol which is called http: // followed by www then the domain name which is the name of the website ending with a.com,.biz,.org or whatever. The structure of the address of the website is what is called Uniform Resource Locator. (URL). If this address is valid for a remote server hosted online, the requested pages will load in seconds.

It’s worth noting that establishing a connection to access the Internet mostly has to do with protocols at various levels of the end-to-end connection, so suffice it to say that there’s a high chance that a website you’re visiting won’t be able to. show up due to a violation. in one or several Internet Protocols.

With the rise of the Internet in the 1990s until the early 2000s, there were limitations to end-user Internet access only via personal computers and laptops, but this monopoly was broken with the development of the Wireless Access Protocol (WAP) that was adapted by mobile service providers in the early 2000s.

This is the development that gave rise to a more sophisticated mobile phone regime in a short time with the birth of the highly publicized WAP technology, the protocol was phased out over the first 5 years, WAP was no longer the protocol of choice for mobile devices. emerging. when bandwidth became the de facto for interactive streaming with the development of faster and more reliable mobile internet protocols in streaming.

Just over a decade and a half, and we see an overwhelming digital culture where home appliances, lifestyle gadgets, and consumable electronics compete closely with traditional mobile devices in the internet space. From pens, sunglasses, clothing, televisions, almost all other home appliances and gadgets are internet ready giving birth to a new identity as smart devices.

The irruption of smart devices and the redesign of our traditional elements is what is being labeled in recent times as the Internet of Things (internet of things). Sounds like the internet of everything, right down to kitchen utensils and where incandescent light bulbs are now redesigned with a smarter light-emitting diode or more advanced organic LED that can intelligently interact with other networked devices wirelessly.

Gartner says that a typical home could contain more than 500 smart devices by 2022, which can include cabinets and sinks. And these could be the most basic households, and in a related report, Fortune Tech forecasts that global mobile traffic will grow eightfold over the next four years, reaching 30.6 exabytes per month by 2020 due to the explosion of IoT and the What is interesting is the fact that the average smartphone user currently consumes around 1.4 GB of data each month and this is expected to increase to an average of 8.9 GB.

IoT affects the average home and general consumer behavior in general and wherever it is indirectly in the technology paradigm, there are many prospects and opportunities that can be maximized for the benefits of society at large.

The consumer industry is driving a fundamental paradigm in the way users interact with and personalize devices by streaming small amounts of data from these devices into the monitoring, control, and sensing capabilities built into them.

51% of the world population in 2017 are occupants of the Zettabyte era where it is estimated that we are reaching a data consumption of 1.2 Zettabyte or 1.2 trillion Terabyte.

A bold statement from former CISCO CEO John Chambers claims that there will be 50 billion devices online within 5 years.

This may not be an inflated estimate, considering the fact that the Facebook app alone consumes a daily rate of 600 terabytes of data from user interactions.

Google CEO Eric Schmidt has revealed an excellent statistic that states that we created as much information in two days now as we did from the dawn of man until 2003.

Globally, 8.4 billion things will be interconnected to the Internet of Things in 2017 according to the Gartner report and goes on to state that 5 billion of which will be consumer devices alone.

The more connected things we have, the greater the rise of the data economy and how well information can be structured for the improvement of life and the modernization of culture.

IoT is getting rid of our reliance on manual procedures and with a connectivity framework, knowledge sharing and access to information are so crucial and it is only a matter of time, information data quality standards will need to be applied so that more things connect to have Data Quality Compliance.

A vital interest in the IoT dimension is the collection and storage of data by connecting medical equipment to securely share patient medical history and medical research among drug consultants and researchers.

Beyond motor vehicles and home appliances making waves in IoT, the peak of the paradigm will occur in the near future where “things” like hemodialysis, ventilators, stethoscopes, scales will become intelligent in their data collection and storage capabilities. in the cloud in the overall improvement of health research and the speed of health service delivery.