The Internet Of Things

The cloud giants are trying to sell more than just a place to stash the data your sensors have collected. They're offering full IoT platforms, which bundle together much of the functionality to coordinate the elements that make up IoT systems. In essence, an IoT platform serves as middleware that connects the IoT devices and edge gateways with the applications you use to deal with the IoT data. That said, every platform vendor seems to have a slightly different definition of what an IoT platform is, the better to distance themselves from the competition. Essentially, anything that's capable of gathering some information about the physical world and sending it back home can participate in the IoT ecosystem. Smart home appliances, RFID tags, and industrial sensors are a few examples.

This visualisation shows the total number of people employed in agriculture across select European, North American and Asian countries since the year 1800. Over this period – and in particular since 1950 – we see an overall decline in agricultural employment to comparably low levels of employment today. As countries develop, the share of the population working in agriculture is declining.

This mutation, in the gene for a protein called myostatin, is found naturally in Belgian Blue cattle. The Belgian-Blue mutation disrupts myostatin’s structure, and thus function. Two years ago, in collaboration with researchers at Texas A&M University, Dr Fahrenkrug edited the myostatin gene of a member of another breed of cattle to do likewise. Bruce Whitelaw at the Roslin Institute, in Scotland, has similarly edited resistance to African swine fever into pigs, by altering a gene that helps regulate immune responses to this illness to make it resemble the version found in warthogs. These wild African pigs have co-evolved with the virus and are thus less susceptible to it than are non-African domesticated animals. Randall Prather at the University of Missouri has similarly created pigs that cannot catch porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome, an illness that costs American farmers alone more than $600m a year.

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"The IoT integrates the interconnectedness of human culture -- our 'things' -- with the interconnectedness of our digital information system -- 'the internet.' That's the IoT," Ashton told ZDNet. The American Civil Liberties Union expressed concern regarding the ability of IoT to erode people's control over their own lives. Philip N. Howard, a professor and author, writes that the Internet of Things offers immense potential for empowering citizens, making government transparent, and broadening information access. Howard cautions, however, that privacy threats are enormous, as is the potential for social control and political manipulation.

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Particle Sensors/Detectors are electronic devices used to sense dust and other airborne particulates and supply signals to the inputs of control or display devices. Key specifications include transducer type, minimum detectable particle size, operating temperature range, sample volume, and response time. Particle detectors used in nuclear engineering are referred to as radiation detectors . More information about particle sensors may be found in our related guide All About Particle Sensors. Gas and Chemical Sensors/Detectors are fixed or portable electronic devices used to sense the presence and properties of various gases or chemicals and relay signals to the inputs of controllers or visual displays.

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Intranets and extranets can be securely superimposed onto the Internet, without any access by general Internet users and administrators, using secure Virtual Private Network technology. Network protocols that use aggressive retransmissions to compensate for packet loss tend to keep systems in a state of network congestion—even after the initial load is reduced to a level that would not normally induce network congestion. Thus, networks using these protocols can exhibit two stable states under the same level of load. The stable state with low throughput is known as congestive collapse.