Internet of Things (IoT)

Smart home: Now IoT devices become part of the larger concept of home automation, which can include lighting, heating and air conditioning, media and security systems and camera systems. Benefits include energy savings by automatically ensuring lights and electronics are turned off or by making the residents in the home aware of usage. Elder care: One key application or Voice control assist provide assistance for those with disabilities and elderly individuals. These systems use assistive technology to accommodate an owner's specific disabilities.

Medical and healthcare: The Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) is an application of the IoT for medical and health related purposes, data collection and analysis for research, and monitoring to use in future. Transportation: The IoT can assist in the integration of communications, control, and information processing across various transportation systems for more safety and reliability. Dynamic and automatic interaction between these components of a transport system enables inter- and intra-vehicular communication, smart traffic control, smart parking, electronic toll collection systems, logistics and fleet management, vehicle control, safety, and road assistance.

Manufacturing: The IoT can connect various manufacturing devices equipped with sensing, identification, processing, communication, actuation, and networking capabilities to form a Network control and management of manufacturing equipment, asset and situation management, or manufacturing process control allow IoT to be used for industrial applications and smart manufacturing. Agriculture: Collecting data on temperature, rainfall, humidity, wind speed, pest infestation, and soil content which can be used to automate farming techniques, take informed decisions to improve quality and quantity, minimize risk and waste, and reduce effort required to manage crops. Maritime: IoT devices are in use monitoring the environments and systems of boats and yachts.

To monitoring and controlling operations of sustainable urban and rural infrastructures like bridges, railway tracks and on- and offshore wind-farms is a key application of the IoT. The IoT infrastructure can be used for monitoring any events or changes in structural conditions that can compromise safety and increase risk. Construction industry benefited by cost saving, time reduction, better quality workday, paperless workflow and increase in productivity. Taking faster decisions and save money with Real-Time Data Analytics and scheduling repair and maintenance activities in an efficient manner, by coordinating tasks between different service providers and users of these facilities.

Enhance the capabilities of Army soldiers. Its working collaboration between industry, university, and Army researchers to advance the theoretical foundations of IoT technologies and their applications to Army operations.

Smart or active packaging in which a QR code or NFC tag is affixed on a product or its packaging. The tag itself is passive, however it contains a unique identifier which enables a user to access digital content about the product via a smartphone. The term "Internet of Packaging" has been coined to describe applications in which unique identifiers are used, to automate supply chains, and are scanned on large scale by consumers to access digital content. Authentication of the unique identifiers, and thereby of the product itself, is possible via a copy-sensitive digital watermark or copy detection pattern for scanning when scanning a QR code, while NFC tags can encrypt communication.