Types of IoT interaction

There are many possible interactions between devices and users in the world of the Internet of Things, and before we start this chapter I want to give you an overview of all the possible scenarios.

The one we have already seen in this book is machine-human interaction, where we use an IoT device to log data on a server, which is then used to display a graph that can be understood and used by the final user.

The second type of interaction is human-machine interaction, where the user is triggering a command to a remote device, for example, to activate a lamp remotely.

Finally, the last scenario is machine-to-machine interaction, where two or more devices are directly talking to each other, without the intervention of any human. ...

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