We all are familiar with the internet and how it enables us to collect information, check on our friends and learn about things and issues, communicate across it in different ways and to stay on top of the latest on markets, news, countries, organisations, communities, our families and friends and our workplaces.
The Internet of Things is the future of internet. The concept – as can be seen from many sources – relates to the idea that everything in the world can be unified and connected using the same electronic platform, the internet. The Internet of Things will therefore consist of sensors on anything from the infamous Dutch cows to many other physical items in our environment; the actual network provided by the internet; the communications flows created by the participants in this network, be they inanimate objects sending signals from their sensors or individual human beings and organisations of them, such as companies, schools, the government and so on; and finally, the technologies needed to make it all happen, be it software applications, connectivity technologies, like Bluetooth, or the actual communication protocols, amongst many others, and the physical hardware.
Whzan provides the elements for building the Internet of Things.
The future is in the Internet of Things
As predicted by many commentators in the press and various internet publications since early 2000, by 2020, it is expected that there will be ten times as many connected smart devices on the planet as there are people. Creating an Internet of Things where, for a few cents and in a couple of clicks, these devices can be linked, data captured from them, securely stored, shared with communities, compared and analysed to make decisions, raise alerts and control things. This will transform the way we live. Innovative agile enterprises will use this new internet environment to create extraordinary value delivering a level of service and product function that is currently unimaginable. We will see completely new business models and level of cost of delivering old and new services that we have never seen before.
The Whzan Telehealth Service is already an example of this.
How does Whzan fit into the world of Internet of Things?
Whzan is an open set of standards and tools designed to deliver this vision and to be continuously improved and enhanced by its community of users so that it always delivers the most powerful, economic and agile way to build the Internet of Things.
All in one, Whzan provides the user with:
- The tools to build applications and services
- The systems to create dynamic pictorial representations of systems and devices
- The connectivity methods to set up multiple connections between the physical world and the Internet
- The infrastructure to send and collect data, analyse and use this data for any number of purposes
- Automated alerts and alarms sent by SMS, voice over phone, browser alerts and email
- Unlimited expanding space for storing any data, application, model, analysis, picture or results from the exchanges in the Internet of Things as accessed with Whzan
What has telehealth and energy management got to do with it?
Whzan provides the users with an unbounded resource to innovate:
- New systems
- New business models
- New technologies
- New services
- New things that none of us have even dreamt of
The team behind Whzan wants to provide you food for thought, show the potential of new ideas and the models in different sectors of our daily home and work life. In particular, the Whzan Telehealth Solution is a prime example of how the whole provision of telehealth can be changed with a major impact on the cost of delivery, the methods of delivery and thereby increasing the reach of telehealth to new patient groups, previously excluded for economic and practical reasons.
The Whzan team, however, believes that there is an infinite array of areas where Whzan can be used by you, the user, to participate in the Internet of Things.
Let’s innovate and join the Internet of Things!
