Internet of Things (IoT) is the concept of connecting devices to the internet and to each other. First coined in 1999, the term refers to the giant network of connected things and people, all of which share data amongst each other. Today, IoT objects have come to include smartphones to automobiles and everything in between. The innumerable data points that billions of IoT devices capture each day are processed into actionable insights with the help of analytics. While the reciprocity between AI and IoT is relatively well known, there are other technologies at play that enable the Internet of Things.

• Sensors: These are device that generate electronic signals from physical conditions or events. IoT devices have built in sensors to see, hear and touch the world around them, and hence, turn the physical information into digital data. Sensors are used to gauge variables like images, temperature, motion, proximity, pressure and so on.
• Networks: IoT devices are essentially networked devices. The mechanism for communicating the electronic signal can be through a variety of wireless connections such as WiFi, cellular, Bluetooth, near field communication (NFC), and satellite.
• Standards: These are the commonly accepted prohibitions or prescriptions for process framework. IoT devices follow uniform technical and regulatory standards that ensure network security, data protection, interoperability among different devices, and so on.
• Augmented Intelligence: These are the cognitive tools that provide the ability to describe, predict, and exploit relationships in database. Meaningful analysis of big data charts out the way for for corrective future actions through technologies such as computer vision, natural language processing, speech recognition and so on.
• Augmented Behaviour: This is the carrying out of prescribed action. Augmented behaviour manifests in the form of machine-to-machine (M2M) interface and machine-to-human interface (M2H).

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