Chitra Lele - Internet of Things (IoT) A Quick Start Guide: A to Z of IoT Essentials

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I am extremely delighted and honoured to write the foreword for the young software engineer and academic author Chitra Leles latest book Internet of Things (IoT) A Quick Start Guide.

The Internet of Things (IoT), the convergence of the digital and physical worlds, has emerged as one of the fundamental digital trends today. While it took from the dawn of civilization to 2003 to create 5 exabytes of data, we now create the same volume of data in less than 2 days. In this regard, IoT is a big enabler of data origination and economic value creation. IoT today is an integral part of many technology-enabled solutions from fitness trackers to health care equipment to asset management platforms to smart homes and cities.

Basically, IoT is now embedded into the lives and the operations of consumers, enterprises, and governments. At the same time, IoT solutions will continue to grow in the coming years making profound impact all around. In 2021, the number of IoT devices was about 20 billion and by 2030, the number of IoT devices is expected to jump to 125 billion. McKinsey Global Institute predicts that the economic impact of IoT will be between $4 trillion and $11 trillion by 2025.

Overall, the technology landscape is increasingly moving towards ecosystemsa set of wireless and interdependent entities that work together to provide holistic and integrated products and services. Hence for IoT technologies to work together, one should have a solid understanding of not only the devices such as sensors and actuators, but also have a good knowledge of the complete ecosystem including software/interface, network, cloud, protocols, analytics, solution providers, privacy, and security.

In this backdrop, this book provides a holistic and a practical approach for an integrated, scalable, and holistic IoT ecosystem. This book is broken down into 6 logical chapters that are easy to read and digest. (future trends). Overall, this book provides valuable insights and strategies to integrate new experiences across diverse devices, software, data and platforms in the IoT ecosystem.

Chitras book is an earnest attempt to bridge the gaps in knowledge and to help the readers understand the deeper dynamics of IoT. The book believes in the concept of teach by example. All the tools needed to facilitate quick understanding of complex concepts are provided in this book.

Today, IoT provides consumers, businesses, and governments with new opportunities to innovate products and services and to enhance performance and create value. The future is connected and connectivity brings timely and controlled access to the data and insights thereby enabling the creation of improved processes, products, and business models. I strongly believe this book will help readers in designing, building, and operating holistic IoT solutions in a responsible and ethical manner. Great work Chitra and thank you very much for giving me an opportunity to write the foreword on such a wonderful topic! All the best!

Prashanth Southekal