The internet of things, or IoT, is a network of connected computing devices, mechanical and digital machinery, items that may exchange data across a network without requiring human-to-human or human-to-computer interaction. Connected to an IoT platform, which combines data from various devices and applies analytics to share the most useful information with apps created to address particular needs, are devices and objects with built-in sensors. These robust IoT platforms can precisely identify which information is helpful and which can be safely disregarded.