The Internet of Things, or IoT, refers to connecting the billions of devices around us with the internet so that they can share and use data.


Today, anything from something small as a pill to something big as an airplane can be turned as a part of the IoT. This is all thanks to the super-cheap computer chips available today in combination with the usage of wireless connectivity.


A new level of digital intelligence can be added to simple objects by adding sensors to them. These objects would otherwise be dumb. IoT helps in enabling them to communicate real-time data without involving a human being.

How is the internet of things helpful?

IoT is regarded as a significant frontier that can improve almost all activities in our lives.

IoT is helpful since it can turn almost any device into a smart one. Here’s how IoT is helpful 

  • IoT promotes efficient resource utilization.
  • It minimizes human efforts in many life aspects.
  • Enabling IoT reduces the cost of production and maximizes the returns
  • It makes analytics decisions faster and accurately
  • It boosts the real-time marketing of products
  • Provide a better client experience
  • It guarantees high-quality data and secured processing

Where can we actually use it?

You must be itching to know where this amazing tech can be implemented or used. Here are some of them…

Smart home

One of the best and the most practical applications of IoT, smart homes really take the convenience and home security to the next level. 


Despite IoT being applied to different levels for smart homes, the best one mixes entertainment with smart utility systems.


For instance, the insights on your everyday water usage can be given by your electricity meter. The set-top box that allows you to record shows from remote. Automatic illumination, connected surveillance, and advanced security systems all fit into the concept of smart homes. 


We can be sure that enhanced home security would be further enabled as IoT evolves and makes most of our devices smarter!

Smart City

The smart city includes a range of use cases. These include traffic management water distribution, waste management, urban security, and environmental monitoring. 


IoT can solve issues like traffic congestion, minimize noise and air pollution, and even make cities safer. 

Smart grids

Smart grids are a special one. 


A future smart grid will use information regarding electricity suppliers as well as consumers to improve the reliability, efficiency, and cost of electricity. All this is promised to be automated.


41,000 monthly Google searches highlight the concept’s popularity. Even you might have come across the term on your search box

Industrial internet

Here’s another special IoT application that is sought to have the highest overall potential according to market research such as Gartner or Cisco. 

However, its popularity currently doesn’t reach the masses as smart homes or wearables do. 


There’s a lot going for IoT in the industrial side of things. So keep an eye out for it and you will be sure to spot some technological marvels.

Self-driven Cars

We’ve seen a lot about self-driven cars. 


Google took a jab at it. Tesla has somehow made it work. And Uber too had its own version of self-driving cars which were later given a rest.

Since it’s human lives on the roads that we’re dealing with, we need to ensure the technology has all that it takes to ensure better safety for the passenger and those on the roads.


The cars make use of several sensors and embedded systems connected to the cloud, It also uses the internet, which keeps generating data and sends them to the cloud for informed decision making through Machine Learning. 


Currently, there are many complications like laws and policies that are stopping the full effect of self-driven vehicles. However, from what we’ve witnessed so far, we can rest assured that it is one of the best applications of IoT.

Connected Health (Digital health/Telehealth/Telemedicine)

Connected health is considered to be the sleeping giant of IoT applications.


Smart medical devices and connect health care system does have a lot of potential behind their concept. And not just for the benefit of the companies but also for the well-being of everyone in general. 

However, Connected Health has not reached the masses yet. Noticeable uses and large-scale successes are still to be seen

Smart retail

If you have yet to see the video of Amazon Go, you should see it right now. It is the eCommerce giant’s take on the concept store.


Perhaps this is the best use of technology in the way we go shopping.


The retail store allows you to go cashless by deducting money from your Amazon wallet. When you pick products from the shelves physically, it adds it to your virtual cart in real-time. It even modifies and changes itself if you are having a difficult time deciding what to buy.


One of the best features of the concept store is that it is cashier-less. You don’t have to stand in line or get in contact with someone. Instead, you can just step out after you pick up your products from shelves.


If this technology is effective enough to fetch more patronage, Its sure to become a norm in the coming years.

Smart supply chain

Supply chains have been gotten smarter in precious years. 


The solution of tracking goods as they hitting the road as well as allowing suppliers to exchange inventory data has been in the market for years now. 


While it is perfectly logical that it will get a new push with IoT, so far its popularity remains limited.

Smart farming

Smart farming is often overlooked in terms of business as it doesn’t really fit in popular categories like mobility, industrial, or health.


However, IoT can revolutionize the way farmers work. It can bring mobility to farming operations and the capability to monitor large amounts of livestock.


But not many people know about this idea and thus, it has not yet reached the large-scale attention it deserves.


Nevertheless, it is one of the IoT applications one would be foolish to underestimate.


Smart farming is predicted to become an essential part of the agricultural-product exporting countries.