Charles J. Lord, PE is an embedded systems consultant and trainer with over 40 years' experience in system design and development in medical, military, and industrial applications. For the last... More
As the Internet of Things continues to evolve or perhaps undergo revolutionary change, the challenges for implementers at all levels will continue to grow. To wrap up our week, we will peer into the possible future of the IoT and what major challenges engineers and system architects will still face.
One daunting challenge that is being faced now is the lack of an Internet of Things standard. As IoT can consist of many different applications as well as communications capabilities, there will eventually be a wide range of standards, perhaps under a single framework. We will look at the current...
As the Internet of Things has actually been defined and conceptualized for many areas of applications, there are many configurations that are driving the future of IoT. We will look at those drivers and their unique needs, from application level down to the physical layer.
The various configurations of the IoT call for a myriad collection of communications channels, each with their own limitations of available network topologies. In this lesson we will look at networking principles and the mix of topologies that make up each piece of the overall IoT.
We will look at the history of the Internet of Things (IoT) and how various end-users have conceived and defined the IoT. For each of these definitions, we will look at the system architecture as well as some of the technologies required.
