CDM-CYBER-DEFENSE-eMAGAZINE-March-2019

The Internet of Things Engineering Insights
By Milica D. Djekic
The new millennium would bring a lot of challenges with itself. The main concern of nowadays
would be some security matters that should provide us an opportunity to proceed with our
progress and prosperity. It would appear that today’s world would develop at the quite fast pace,
but the security concerns would always seek from us to re-think our decisions and make a deep
insight before we make a decision to take any step further. The technology is good as long as it’s
in the hands of reasonable and responsible people and once it gets into hands of bad guys – it
can become our nightmare. The period of time that we live at this stage is quite well-known as
the 4 th industrial revolution.
That era has brought to us so many technological advancements that could impress anyone
believing the technology is some kind of unbelievable. The fact is the engineering systems would
rely on the strict laws of mathematics and physics and if we see our nature as something being
the miracle – we would perhaps experience the emerging technologies as something being so
sophisticated as well. One of the most known advancements of the industry 4.0 is the Internet of
Things (IoT) being something so new and so old at the same glance. So many experts would
agree that the IoT from its engineering perspective is nothing else, but the digital transformation
of technology we already know from before.
So, what is the trick with the IoT? The IoT is the application of the existing technological solutions
and the only new thing is that those improvements got the internet connectivity with themselves.
This would sound so simple. Basically, it is once it got resolved, but there is a long walk through
the discovery and development of such a solution. From a today’s point of view, it may appear
that the IoT is so easy, but the fact is that if you rule over some new technology, it could seem
there got no complications at all. The point is the way to obtain so was not that simple, in any
fashion.
The IoT engineering would demonstrate that those systems would mainly rely on digital,
mechatronics and embedded solutions and those advancements would deal with some sort of
the web access. From a technological perspective, it’s the challenge to make such a solution and
there would be a lot of attempts and failures that would get taken in order to meet so high
requirements. Any engineering project would start with so smart market’s research and the
members of the engineering team would conduct so careful expert’s investigation that would
suggest them the main directions they need to follow in order to design the new product. More
than two decades back, we would talk about the Internet of People (IoP) and everyone would see