The development of IOT

IOT is a relatively hot topic for many tech companies, the founder of Huawei believes that the next major competition will occur in the IOT field. Amazon is a huge company which run successful businesses based on IOT and many people are fascinated by Amazon’s one-day prime delivery. One-day delivery cannot exist without the rapid IT development, and this is why we see Amazon as a tech company rather than a grocery firm. When the internet first appeared, people use it as a new platform for communication. Nowadays, we still use the internet to exchange information, but the contents become much more complicated. In addition, the speed of information exchange is becoming faster and faster, this allows more complicated information to be exchanged with shorter latency. IOT is built based on based on such network.

IOT is about moving goods with the help of rapid information exchange. Information exchange helps firms to monitor and control their goods transitions. When the technology is developing, firms are able to have better knowledge and control of their goods in transit. The most difficult thing to flow in IOT is not necessarily those “high tech” products, it is those which will decay rapidly with time. Although we can find imported fruits in our local stores, tons of fruits imported from other countries are thrown away because of the quality. Furthermore, when it comes to food delivery to home, consumers’ choices are much limited, and food is often delivered from consumers’ local stores to their doorsteps. Usually consumers choose the fresh food from what the local grocery stores have or will have in their storages, then when the consumers place their orders, the grocery stores pick up the ordered items from their storages and deliver the food to their consumers. This is very old fashioned in today’s standard.

I think that IOT in the agricultural industry is going to change the world and save lots of lives, because I think this will significantly reduce food wastes caused during transition and increase food supply.