The global Internet of Things market was valued at $190 billion in 2018 and is projected to reach $1,102.6 billion by 2026. Therefore, a career in this sector is lucrative, says Mubeen Jukaku
The Internet of things (IoT) is an ecosystem of connected physical devices/objects that are accessible through the Internet. IoT is a system of interrelated devices, digital products, objects, people or animals that are provided with unique identifiers (UIDs) and the ability to transfer data over a network without requiring any human interaction. The idea of this article is to provide an overview about IoT building blocks and call out how electronics HW and embedded software play an integral role in IoT.
The IoT architecture is a structure of numerous elements. In simple words, IoT architecture has five major components.
IoT device: It can be wireless sensors, software, actuators and computer devices. They are fixed to a specific object that runs through internet.
IoT Gateway: It is a device or a software program that serves as a connection point between cloud and multiple IoT devices.
Network: This is the bridging element that connects an array of IoT gateways to the Cloud platform by traditional TCP/IP network.
Cloud: It is a platform which takes massive volumes of data generated. They receive them via IoT gateways which in turn has tons of devices behind them.
Applications: The synthesised data for the end user to derive meaningful insights. The application typically provides a User Interface (UI) to the end user.
Knowing the growing need of IoT based skills in the market, the Electronics Sector Skills Council of India and Entrepreneurship, skill the youth of the country specifically in the electronics domain. If you are looking forward to making your career in this domain, you can simply take training from the registered training partners of ESSCI that are available pan India.
The council has prepared two job-oriented courses (QP’s) in which the candidates can take training and get the job easily in the IoT domain. They are:
IoT Hardware Analyst: This QP primarily takes a complete hardware perspective. For engineers coming from Electronics/Electrical background, this is an ideal QP if you want to have your career in the hardware aspect of IoT. The QP is designed as a pack of skills that includes circuit design, hardware realisation in terms of PCB, optimisation, verification and validation, and system thinking aspects.
Embedded Full-Stack IoT Analyst: This QP primarily takes the software perspective. With a primary focus on embedded software design, this QP focuses on skill-building. This QP also gives very good focus to inculcate engineering best practices.
According to Fortune Business Insights, the global IoT market was valued at $190 billion in 2018 and is projected to reach $1,102.6 billion by 2026, growing at a CAGR of 24.7 per cent in the forecast period.
The future of IoT is virtually unlimited due to advances in technology and consumers desire to integrate devices such as smartphones with household machines. Also, there is so much data travelling from device to device. Security is another key concern will need to be addressed to keep up with demands.