ANDROID AS INTERNET OF THINGS

There are so many features of mobile devices that provide us a new way to see the things, for so many time is always talking about IoT, the main idea of this approach  is to have a relationship between devices and internet creating a small networks for a purpose.

Android as almost all the mobile OS provide us different type of connections and we are going to explore the possibilities of many of these.

As we know we have the Internet Connection on 3G/LTE that allows us to go out to internet then we can use it for connect the phone with all the services on cloud or main server.

Wifi, the wifi on these days is almost in every place that we frequently interact so, the main difference with mobile networks is we have a private network where we can manage, what means that? This means that our desktop, phone, smart tv, ETC is connected to the same network so we can access to them easily for example having only the IP address. This is one of the basics of the Internet of things.

Bluetooth Connection, The Bluetooth on last years is becoming better, faster, and low energy consumptive, and then we have that is still a good option to have in count is. The Bluetooth is an approach useful for 1 TO 1 devices with some distance between them with a multi-direction data exchange.

The bluetooth actually is used for connect with smartwatches, speakers... but the possibilities are open to everything, now is possible to adapt a Bluetooth antenna to almost all devices which provides an infrastructure to get external inputs, for example a simple usb port. So we can have more structured devices to interact as is a car, or Arduino device, or RaspberryPi so imagine what it can be possible to do with that.

NFC with the NFC technology we have a sometimes-useful trigger based on the proximity to tag, on past the NFC provided also the possibility to smartphones had the behavior of NFC card mode, what that means? It means the phone can be as the tag and be as trigger for other devices that receive the NFC tag as input. Recently this capability is keep for payment features as Google wallet.

I'm going to leave some interesting images ideas with other technologies as unity that can complement and let the creativity be free: