About the Internet of Things

Are you concerned about IoT security ?

The concept of the Internet of Things (IoT) is to associate with chips all kinds of objects which are connected to a network. These objects include sensors and electronic systems become intelligent: a GPS integrated footwear, transport cards or contactless mobile wallet allowing remote payments in a store, while indicating its users the promotions of the day are some examples of these communicating objects.

Each object is associated with a label and equipped with digital codes including its URL or IP address. The most commonly used technology for numeric labels is Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) which enables objects to connect to a network through waves.

Through their electronic interfaces, various objects can thus access to the web and start surfing, without any human intervention. The expansion of the Internet allows the exchange of data over a network between an object and a human or a computer, and sometimes communicating with another object or another device. For example, printers with ink cartridges that are getting almost over will order new ones directly on the vendor’s site without the action of any human being.

Indeed, all manufactured items may be concerned: you probably already own a washing machine which handles water and electricity consumption by itself. Already some fridge prototypes can connect to the Internet, providing such content as recipes or links to online shopping selling sites. Places also can be connected: one can imagine an equipped forest which can send a tweet to alert firefighters of a fire starting or road that can alert a web network about some traffic problems.

Internet of Things can be used indeed for many things. Technology consulting firm Gartner indicates that the market for IoT devices which amounts to 6.4 billion connected items used worldwide this year, is up by 30 percent from last year. The same Gartner forecasts that this number will reach nearly 21 billion connected devices by 2020. Interconnection should encourage the emergence of augmented reality, which is the juxtaposition of digital information on the real environment that surrounds us. These objects will become an endless source of information on you, your family and your habits. This is also a wealth of information that marketers and advertisers are really eager to use.

The economic potential of emerging market of Internet of Things is tremendous. But cyber security threats are also increasing, although they are already real and diversified with nomadism due to our smart phones for instance.

Then in the Web 4.0, the one of Internet ofThings, cybercrime can intervene directly on products, by getting control over systems, including the diversion of RFID chips. One can thus imagine air conditioning systems in a hospital being taken over or set all traffic lights to green in a big city imposed again some threats.

Are you interested to know about VPN and the Internet of Things ?

To avoid becoming a target for marketers, be careful about the content you publish on the Web. Use the services of a VPN when you surf on the Internet, regardless of the place you are: all your Internet activities are anonymous and protected by a complex military coding type, using open VPN and PPTP VPN.

Le VPN offers secure Internet connection of all your WiFi enabled devices. A VPN router is the optimized VPN security solution for all your IoT and smart devices connected to your home of office Wi-Fi. Le VPN also offers encryption on smart devices which are not compatible with a manual VPN installation by connecting them to a VPN router.

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