Over the past 3 years, my brother has grown into the domain for the Internet of Things. These are the high level landscape I have learned from him during our discussion:
Areas:
- Cloud storage
- Sensors
- Business Intelligence and Analytics
- Backbone: protocol and communication with sensors
- Security: Oct/Nov 2016 DDOS attack was done by IOT devices
Domain under the Smart city initiative:
- Living
- Transport
- Healthcare - passive monitoring of health status out of the hospital
Trend:
- Smart city will continue for the next 30 years
- The current wave is by first world country
- The next wave is by third world country
Analytics:
- Business intelligence - establishing and making visible what current is
- Data Analytics - identifying priorly unknown correlations
- Data Science - predicting what is N+1