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Extreme IoT: Pushing the Boundaries
By Paul Golata, Mouser Electronics
Some people think I am crazy. Like Iggy Pop's rock song boldly states, I'm a
"Real Wild Child (Wild One)."
However, I am not crazy. I'm just definitely not comfortable with compromise.
Some may prefer to think of it as extreme, taking actions to very great lengths
to obtain my goals. I'm the type of person who likes to push my boundaries. I'm
driven by an inner character and fire to achieve something beyond the ordinary
or average.
Maybe you are like that too. A person who will not settle for the ordinary.
A few weeks back I went to bed at 1 a.m. I had been thinking for weeks about
competing in an ultramarathon run of 50km, but I was undecided and had not
yet signed up.
I awoke at 3:40 a.m. It was raining. I got dressed and headed off to the race
located a few hours away—motivated to take on this daunting feat and push
myself to my extremes. By 7:00 a.m., I was on my way to a first-place finish in
my category.
Running an ultramarathon is an example of extreme human performance. For
IoT, extreme is the requirement for the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT).
Extreme Performance Demanded
The Internet of Things (IoT) is a technology with the ability to sense, measure,
power, connect, and interpret analog signals from a wide variety of objects and
Extreme IoT involves pushing the
boundaries of what is possible with
a level of precision, robustness,
resilience, security, and accuracy
under a very wide range of
applications and conditions.
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