How to Explain IoT to Your Grandparents
Chances are, your grandparents haven’t heard of IoT (unless they are very ‘down with the kids’). So, where would you even start on how to explain IoT?
Here, I’ve outlined the best ways to explain IoT to your grandparents, and perhaps in the process, it will help you to FULLY understand it as well, from explaining what ‘IoT’ actually means, to realizing the full extent to which IoT can benefit our lives.
Well, it stands for the ‘Internet of Things’. Basically, it refers to the concept of connecting everything to the Internet in some way or another: from smartphones and tablets (normal), to cars and fridges (emerging). IoT is about how tools, services, applications can all be connected to the Internet to make them more useful, and there’s really no limit to what can be connected to the Internet and why.