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The Internet of Things Predictions for 2019

By Milica D. Djekic

It appears that this 4 industrial revolution would bring us so many new stuffs that could dramatically
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impact our lives and businesses. One of the best known outcomes of our modern time is the Internet of
Things (IoT). The IoT technologies are not anything being so genuine, but rather the transformation of a
digital landscape that has existed before. The tendencies through the history would suggest that new and
new solutions would seek from us more skills, knowledge and expertise. Even if you are the end user of
this cutting-edge technology, you would need to demonstrate the certain level of familiarity with those
advancements.

Right here, we would want to make a brief discussion how the IoT landscape would change in the coming
year and why it is important to remain up-to-dated with the new trends. In other words, if you understand
the changes in any field, you would get capable to take the quite huge advantage over such an area. The
IoT is so recent concept that would show the tendency to get better, bigger and more progressive, so for
those reasons – we would make our prognoses about how it would look like in the 2019. In this effort, we
would use the five indicators that would support us to deeply cope with this area’s tendency. The
indications are as follows!

The Better Security

It’s quite known that the main challenge with the current technologies is their security. The similar situation
is with the IoT advancements. Such a field would get bigger, but so many consumers would complain
that they would not feel safe enough relying on these solutions. The ongoing trends would suggest that
year by year the experts would work so hard in order to investigate and respond to security requirements
of their solutions. The better security may mean the stronger encryption, but would that be sufficient in
case of the IoT technologies? There is no unified answer to that question and if we talk about the IoT –
we should know that it’s about bunches of devices being connected to the global network which would
offer them an opportunity to communicate with each other using the internet connectivity. In other words,
any IoT device would deal with the web connectivity and get the IP address being assigned to so. It’s
well-known that the good cryptography would mean more reliable communications channel and such an
approach may resolve only the part of the entire problem. The rest of the response coping with the better
security would need the best practice getting applied to this sort of improvement. So, if you want to tackle
the challenge as security is you need to work so hard on your cyber defense procedures and policies as
well as education and training.

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