{"id":12231,"date":"2026-08-26T08:41:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T15:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/?p=12231"},"modified":"2026-08-26T08:41:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T15:41:18","slug":"the-internet-of-smart-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/2026\/08\/26\/the-internet-of-smart-things\/","title":{"rendered":"The Internet of (Smart) Things"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/files\/2020\/05\/IOT-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-258\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.499267935578331;width:1024px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/files\/2020\/05\/IOT-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/files\/2020\/05\/IOT-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/files\/2020\/05\/IOT-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/files\/2020\/05\/IOT.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Discussion:<\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;Within a couple of decades literally trillions of objects from lamp-posts to refrigerators will be connected to the Internet, and will be talking to one another. &nbsp;This is the&nbsp;<strong>Internet of Things (IoT)<\/strong>. &nbsp; AI will make these things \u2018smart\u2019. One example is that all the cars on a freeway will be silently talking to each other, apparently mitigating jams and&nbsp;accidents without the need of human involvement. &nbsp;People aren\u2019t things, but their mobile devices fit in that category, and these will help to mediate our presence&nbsp;in this massively connected world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>523 Inspiration:<\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; The immediate education potential is difficult to comprehend, yet&nbsp;equally difficult to dismiss\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discussion:&nbsp;&nbsp;Within a couple of decades literally trillions of objects from lamp-posts to refrigerators will be connected to the Internet, and will be talking to one&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/2026\/08\/26\/the-internet-of-smart-things\/\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Internet of (Smart) Things<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":258,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-w01-frontiers-poll","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12233,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12231\/revisions\/12233"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}