Technology

A conversation with students studying information technology

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The other day I walked over to the Mohammed Sathak College of Engineering located just next to SIPCOT IT park in the Southern part of Chennai. My hope / wish was to have a chat with a couple of students and learn about how they learn.

When I walked in to the college, which has a really beautiful entrance area with plants, flowers and palm trees, I was greeted very kindly by a security officer as well as a receptionist. The receptionist said that the principal would be available in an hour. As it was lunch time, I went to the cafeteria to have a little rice and a cup of coffee and have a chat with cafeteria workers, a professor and a college bus driver who was there to eat before driving on. Afterwards, I took a little stroll around the campus to see the sports facilities.

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Internet of Things. What’s That?

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An overview of the Internet of Things and why it’s awesome.

What’s Internet of Things all about?

Let’s see whatGooglehas to say about this.

TheInternet of Thingsis the extension of Internet connectivity into physical devices and everyday objects.

Blah, blah …

In layman’s terms, theInternet of Thingsrepresents a bunch of devices with a connection to the internet, where the types of devices can be one of these:sensors,actuators,microcontrollers,single-board computers(or let’s just call them “minicomputers”).

Sensors and actuators have the job to interact with the world. Sensors deliver information to the microcontroller which in turn can forward it to a place where it can be analyzed. The data can be sent either directly to aweb servicesomewhere on the internet or indirectly – through agatewaywhich is usually a minicomputer.

Fundamentally, the idea of IoT is…

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