

KUWAIT: In themidst of the accelerating pace of technological innovations and developments inhumanity service, new types of technological services have emerged which allowindividuals and institutions easy access to the service or goods, most notablythe concept of the Internet of things (IoT).
IoT means the newgeneration of the Internet, which allows the understanding of devices connectedto each other over the Internet. These devices include various artificialintelligence tools, other instruments sensors, and remote sensing viasatellite. IoT technology allows people to control devices without having to bein a specific place to deal with a particular device.
This definitiontranscends the traditional concept of connecting people with computers andsmartphones across a single global network and through the traditionalInternet. In Kuwait, the IoT Society was established in 2018, it is a publicorganization that seeks to strengthen the role of governmental and privateinstitutions in the field of Internet objects and to form partnerships tosupport creators, programmers, application owners and investors in this field.
Kuwait IoTSociety spokesperson, Hassan Al-Bahrani said yesterday that the associationseeks to keep pace with the vision of the country (New Kuwait 2035) through theuse of modern technology. It also aims to keep up with this intelligentapproach and adapt it in the life of society to move from the traditional erato its digital counterpart, he added.
Al-Bahrani notedthat the association is working on the preparation of studies to identifyprojects that could be addressed by IoT technology to take advantage of costreduction by saving time and effort. He pointed out that one of the benefitsoffered by IoT to humans is to provide electricity cost, reduce the voltage andtime required for operation, alarm and locks, especially that this technologyhas entered the industrial and service sectors of government agencies such as education,health and technical services institutions.
He stressed thatthe association is preparing a project on measuring the brain waves, monitoringthe performance of the devices implanted in the human body, measuring the levelof oxygen, monitoring the heartbeat and measuring the level of sugar and bloodpressure using the IoT technology. The spokesperson pointed out the importanceof IoT technology in smart homes, as the Internet connects all the devices ofthis house with a mechanism for monitoring and alarm, which contributes tosaving the time and energy of the electrical devices by running programmedorders.
IoT is a systemof interrelated computing devices, mechanical and digital machines, objects,animals or people that are provided with unique identifiers and the ability totransfer data over a network without requiring human-to-human orhuman-to-computer interaction. - KUNA