How IoT to making mobile app development more interesting
IoT has been around the technology world for more than three and half decades; however, until the smart mobility introduced, it was mostly in the concept phase. Smartphones offered IoT the desired portability and connectivity. Undoubtedly, smart apps also received a lot from IoT. The blend of smart mobile app development and IoT are making the mobility more interesting.
The world of computing is changing. Now people no more need to glue them to a computer to do their personal and professional tasks. Smartphones are powerful enough to replicate everything that a desktop or laptop does. Smartphones are portable, handheld computers which can be used for lots of things. Also, smartphones have made it easy to access the internet and provide everything right at our fingertips.
But a smartphone just cannot do anything on its own. Without the right apps, a smartphone is nothing more than a piece of hardware. So, smartphones run on apps and, these apps are created through applying the technology of mobile app development.
Android and iOS are two leading mobile OSs in the mobile market. They together have close to 5 million apps in their app stores, respectively known as Google Play and App Store. With this amount of apps, you can unsurprisingly find more than an app for anything you think your smartphone is capable of doing. So, a smartphone, together with a PC, can do almost everything your PC does. Moreover, you can do this at your convenient, like while traveling or relaxing into your bed.
Developers and businesses are still finding new ways these smartphones and apps can be used. But right here, we have another technology revolution on the way. It’s Internet of Things, simply known as IoT.
IoT is all about how devices, appliances, machines, gadgets and even vehicles can be controlled remotely, by using the internet. End users can connect these devices using PCs and with the use of smartphones and apps.
As I mentioned above, the concept of IoT isn’t as new as smartphones. It is here for more than decades, but in 1999, it was coined as IoT, by Kevin Ashton of Procter and Gamble. Though, things did not evolve so quickly due to the many limitations. Many pilot projects were implemented with limited scopes. Slow internet connectivity and heavy-to-handle devices were also two key limitations in adopting and applying the concept of IoT at a large scale.
It’s the mobility that offered developers a hope. IoT implementations seemed practical with the use of smartphones and apps due to their portability and excellent internet connectivity.
As mobile app developers have already spotted, IoT would turn out to be one of the key technologies in the future. They are blending the technology with mobile app by the approach of IoT mobile application development.
Every smartphone comes with a variety of integrated sensors which can easily be used to connect IoT devices. Apps exchange the data received from these devices.
IoT connected homes
A number of companies around the world have already entered the market with their range of IoT devices for home automation applications. Do you wish to switch on your air conditioner before you reach home? Do you want to control the TV-watch time for your kids so that they can focus more on their study? Do you want your smartphone to act as a key to lock the main door of your home? Do you want that curtains in your room automatically controlling sunlight? And above all, do you want to control and regulate these things in your own device?
The technology of IoT can make these things happen. With right IoT sensors, it’s not difficult to control and regulate a wide range of appliances, gadgets, machine and vehicles.
IoT connected cars
The automobile industry accepted IoT lovingly. Companies in this industry are applying IoT in creative ways. Car manufacturers know how powerful mobility is and, how the blend of IoT and apps can make driving more comfortable and safer.
Today, most of the car manufacturers have plans to apply IoT Technologies to their cars. This helps them add more value to their end-products. If the trend continues, we will have more than 250 million connected cars in the next five years. Without any doubt, the automobile is one of the key industries which will fully take the advantage of the IoT technology.
IoT connected travel
IoT is also helping the travel industry around the world. Businesses in the industry are taking IoT sensors quite seriously. The technology can be useful for them in many operations. Creative solutions, with the blend of mobile apps, QR code, and FNC tags can provide guests with the best of the means of communication and get information.
Everything else
Businesses from diverse industry verticals are showing interest in the IoT technology. We have already seen IoT connected and mobile app based wearable devices, various fitness gears and several other gadgets. Different businesses are using IoT mobility in marketing, sales, product development, manufacturing, services support and customers care.
Conclusion
The best thing about IoT is that it is being optimized to fit smartphones. Companies manufacturing appliances, machines, and variety accessories are now looking for applying smartphone based IoT to their products.
Author Bio. :- Sofia Coppol is the technical writer of Rapidsoft Technologies, a prominent mobile app development company which provides Android app development and iPhone app development services across the global. She loves to write on latest mobile trends, mobile technologies, startups and enterprises.
