The complete title in itself suffices the need for a definition though for a Q&A round we may define it as:
Internet of things is basically a network of physical things like your bulbs or fans or any other
such items that can be accessed remotely to perform a function,seamlessly.
Well the possibilities for IoT have no limit.Start thinking from a smart home to a large farm where a farmer can manage all the machineries,cameras and sensors remotely!
What I adore from Smart Home point of view is :
Imagine you come home after work and think you adjust AC cooling your lights your water being ready for a perfect bath and more like your food being automatically ready in microwave!HEAVEN,eh?IoT .
From the worldwide IoT story we come to the size of a credit card to introduce with us the RASPBERRY Pi
Raspberry Pi
Okay So get ready as i introduce you with the credit card sized, very low cost,Single board Computer with USB and HDMI ports ,The Raspberry Pi!
Low cost:yes you heard it right! It starts from a rockbottom$20 pricetag.
Some specs which the raspberry pi offers you:
900Mhz quad core ARM v7
RAM 1gb
Storage is through a Micro SDHC slot
Consumes 3-4W of power
Graphics include a broadcom videocoreIV@250Mhz
OS;Windows 10 IoT core or some versions of linux
Okay so now we are very much familiar with what Raspberry Pi is .So let's explore what are the infinite possibilities with this device towards IoT.
The chip runs Windows 10 IoT core ,again the benefit of universal code comes here
Very low cost chip so we can expect smart lights and washing machines in around a year using this chip and become a part of your home's wifi network.
Its easy to start and requires very less investment and hence we can see a lot of projects all around the web
So this,my friends,was all about Raspberry Pi and IoT and a little mix of both!
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Okay friends!So this is the time currently as I am writing according to the college curriculum that the counselling and filling of choices in streams has started!
Listening somewhere :
Take a core branch like mechanical,Or
if u wanna have best placements guarantee go for CS or IT.
Forced to take another branch because of your exam ranks or under someones's pressure can never let you down!Read on and motivate!
Does it matter?
Off to your college thinking for your placements or the info which people told you?
Come on! this is the time for you to think!This time really matters! Your choice and interest matters!
See some of the best leads:
Sundar Pichai
A few details about the techie:
From Chennai
B.Tech in Metallurgical engineering at IIT Kharagpur
Did MS in Computer Science
Well the metallurigical grad is now the product chief at google and is responsible for Chrome OS and Gapps!
No Bounderies!huh? From metallurgy to a whole new dimension!
Satya Nadella
Satya Nadella the current CEO at Microsoft!
Some good facts:
Electrical engineering from Manipal Institute of Technology
From Andhra Pradesh
Did MS in CS and then MBA
So what you see above are just two famous names and a very short peek into their education life! Streams doesnt matter!What matters is interest.Go in the way which you will love to pursue,not for someone's sake or anything like that.
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Universal apps ! as the name suggests they are indeed universal! consider a developer who is coding a game for PC, Finished ,okay so he submits it to windows store gets some good reviews and finally decides to bring it to windows phone! The nightmare is coding the game again! So to ease the situation win10 starts with the idea of unifying things up!For general public this may not mean much but as a developer it means a lot.Code once and it can run on any form factor running windows 10 from small lumia phones to the gigantic surface hub ,hololens and xbox one.
(Image courtesy-gsmarena)
CONTINUUM:
Well to all the readers i would first tell you about this feature if you are not already aware of this great feature of the windows!
Read on to know how your windows phone can be used as a PC !
Okay so continuum is basically a feature that in collaboration with the universal apps(discussed above) gives phone the power of PC!since a phone and a PC running a universal windows app will have no distinction in their code and the moment the size and form factor changes the app adapts to it. So when you connect your phone to a PC it shows you a view of your phone similar to project my screen app. when you launch, suppose Microsoft word on your phone's start screen it will automatically open on PC with complete size as you would expect it to run on PC all powered by your windows phone!
Another way of it worth mentioning is on a convertible PC like the Surface Pro where you can connect the keyboard and remove it as and when you like!the OS prompts you and changes accordingly as a touch based or a mouse and keyboard based.Check the video for more.
CORTANA FOR PC
Cortana the famous personal digital assistant by microsoft debuted on windows phone early last year at //BUILD/ .From then Cortana has evolved a lot offering in 10 regions currently!See below:
On phones you can ask anything like ;calling someone;setting alarms/reminders which may be people or location based.Being On PC cortana made for improvements....
You can even ask her to locate your powerpoint presentations,or your documents and more.
MICROSOFT EDGE
Okay so the logo has changed!Finally Microsoft has evolved their long hated Internet Explorer and replaced with the Microsoft Edge browser codenamed as "Project Spartan".Microsoft Edge is a new browser which is claimed by microsoft to break all the records by setting new benchmark records.
Turn Browsing into doing:Microsoft!
Microsoft edge has a feature in which you can write and sketch on web and then share it.
Reading list feature included in the browser is also very nice
Also the most important is that Cortana is built into the browser itself!she can be very helpful on finding some restaurants,tickets and more.
Hop over to the video to see more!
Finally see this final video of the microsoft ignite conference by Joe Belfiore and see all this sum up yourself.
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