How smart are your smart devices?

Oluwafemi Smith
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Jul 30, 2022

As a kid from my primary school days, a few words would always ring a bell. Homework, classwork, dictation, smart, and Olodo [Olodo is slang that means a dull child]. Literary translation would mean a score of zeros. LOL].

I can't help but remember how some kids were considered smart, and when their report sheets came out, they read the same comment. It helped us understand clearly that being smart means you know everything, and this must have been borrowed into ICT [Information Communication Technology], as we later observed the introduction of certain devices that were called "smart devices" due to the things they did.

What are smart devices?

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Wikipedia terms "smart devices" as an electronic device, generally connected to other devices or networks via different wireless protocols such as Bluetooth, Zigbee, NFC, Wi-Fi, LiFi, 5G, etc., that can operate to some extent interactively and autonomously.

Smart devices are an addition to the IT [Information Technology] industry that is in high demand as more companies transform into digital spaces. These smart devices are seen under artificial intelligence and have been playing an essential role by way of inventing devices that are sensitive to voice recognition, heat, light, or programmable sound without physical assistance.

What is smart technology?

Smart technology requires the use of AI, big data, and machine learning to provide cognitive awareness to objects that were once considered inanimate.

This type of technology ensures that devices act in a unique way by using a form of process that bypasses our regular procedures.

How do smart devices communicate?

Most devices have been known to connect using either Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, or infra-red, as in the case of most of our remote devices, printers, computers, and the like. In the case of smart devices, the above list may not entirely suffice due to the cons. In Smart Homes [IoT], devices are better connected using either Zig-Bee or Z-wave.

Both the Zig-Bee and the Z-wave have low power and support communication over reasonably long distances between hundreds or even thousands of units, which makes them preferred for use.

Both increase the network's range and build a mesh topology, which enables any device to connect with any other device using the same protocol.

These can operate in low-frequency radio bands (915 MHz and 908 MHz, respectively), which won't interfere with Wi-Fi routers, which operate at 2.4GHz or 5GHz. Both Z-Wave and ZigBee require a single hub to connect all devices.

Smart devices communicate using either of the types of waves since they cover a longer distance, and there is no need for attenuation of signals, as both can serve from one point to the receivers.

How smart can smart devices be?

All smart devices are usually inanimate devices that have learned a set of instructions through machine learning to perform a task or behave in a certain manner when a fetch request is entered on the device.

Smart devices can only be as smart as the encoder is, although the height of AI would be Artificial Super Intelligence [ASI], which can independently perform all operations on their own without any human effort or borders.

With the use of combining smart devices, one can only create intelligent places and objects, such as automated processes and controls in smart homes [IoT] and buildings. They may be used in practically any sector, from smart manufacturing to healthcare, and they can boost productivity and optimize processes, from domestic use to production processes.

The idea of a smart device is to introduce an automated mode of executing a manual task that would have required a physical approach but is now eased through the use of artificial intelligence.

Smart devices can only function based on the information they are programmed to run, as they currently cannot function independently. [GIGO] Garbage In, Garbage Out.

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