Many times, when people hear the term “Internet of Things (IoT),” they either have no clue what it is or immediately think of the new Amazon commercials about the dad turning on his sprinkler system to get rid of an unwanted guest or the mom accessing information about poison oak symptoms. Generally defined as connecting normal objects to the Internet to be able to send and receive data, IoT is a relatively new concept, but is becoming vastly more important to the lives of many consumers.
