LIVING IN THE IT ERA 2nd SEMESTER

|FINALS
|SEBUA, NOELYN B. S.Y. 2023-2024

AI AND CURRENT TRENDS

Internet of Things (IoT)

• The Internet of things (IoT) is becoming an increasingly growing topic of conversation both in the
workplace and outside of it.
• Embedded with sensors that see, hear, and touch the world around them, they can turn physical
information into digital data. Collectively, these devices– and there are billions of them around the
world—make up the “internet of things”.

How IoT works?

• An IoT ecosystem consists of web-enabled smart devices that use embedded system, such as
processors, sensors and communication hardware, to collect, send and act on data they acquire
from their environments.
• IoT devices share the sensor data they collect by connecting to an IoT gateway or other edge
device where data is either sent to the cloud to be analyzed or analyzed locally.
• Sometimes, these devices do most of the work without human intervention, although people can
interact with the devices—for instance to set them up, give them instructions or access the data.
• The connectivity, networking and communication protocols used with these web-enabled devices
largely depend on the specific IoT applications deployed.
• IoT can also make use of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to aid in making data
collecting processes easier and more dynamic.

How does this impact you?

The new rule for future is going to be, “Anything that can be connected.”

IoT Through the Years

→ 1990: John Romkey – Creates the first IoT device
→ 1999: Kevin Ashton – Coins the term “internet of things”
→ 2000: LG – Introduces it’s first connected refrigerator with a $20,000 price tag
→ 2008: IoT Conference – The world’s first IoT conference is held in Zurich, Switzerland
→ 2010: Tony Fadell – He founds Nest, makes of smart thermostat
→ 2013: Oxford Dictionary – Adds the term “internet of the things”
→ 2014: Amazon – Introduces the Echo speaker, along with Alexa voice assistant
→ 2016: Miria botnet – The Miria botnet infects over 600, 000 IoT devices with malware
→ 2020: 20 billion – The number of internet-connected devices, by some estimates, exceeds 20
billion

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IoT benefits to organization
The internet of things offers several benefits to organizations. Some benefits are industry-specific, and
some are applicable across multiple industries. Some of the common benefits of IoT enable businesses
to:
• Monitor their overall business process;
• Improve the customer experience;
• Save time and money
• Enhance employee productivity
• Integrate and adapt business models;
• Make better business decisions; and
• Generate more revenue
IoT encourage companies to rethink the ways they approach their businesses and give them the tools to
improve their business strategies.

Advantages of IoT
✓ Ability to access information from anywhere at any time on any device;
✓ Improved communication between connected electronic devices;
✓ Transferring data packets over a connected network saving time and money; and
✓ Automating tasks helping to improve the quality of business’s services and reducing the need for
human intervention.

Disadvantages of IoT
✓ As the number of connected devices increases and more information is shared between devices,
the potential that a hacker could steal confidential information also increases.
✓ Enterprises may eventually have to deal with massive numbers—may be even millions—of IoT
devices, and collecting and managing the data from all of those devices will be challenging.
✓ If there’s a bug in the system, it’s likely that every connected device will become corrupted.
✓ Since there’s no international standard of compatibility for IoT, it’s difficult for devices from
different manufacturers to communicate with each other.

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Current Trends and Emerging Technologies
Current trends are improving and presenting new functions in fields like medicine, entertainment,
business, education, marketing, law enforcement, and more.

Current trends in Information Technology

Cloud Computing
• A network of resources a company can access, and this method of using a digital drive increases
the efficiency of organizations.
• Cloud storage and sharing is a popular trend many companies have adopted and even
implemented for employee interaction.

Mobile Computing and Application

• Mobile usage and the number of applications generated have both skyrorcketed in recent years.
• Experts project mobile traffic to increase even further, and mobile applications, consumer
capabilities, and payment options will be necessary for businesses.

Big Data Analytics

• Big data has a high return on investment that boosts the productivity or marketing campaigns, due
to its ability to enable highfunctioning processing.
• Data Mining is a way companies can predict growth opportunities and achieve future success.
• This practice in information technology can be observed for potential in data management
positions for optimal organizations.
Automation
• Automated processes can collect information from vendors, customers, and other
documentations.
• Automated processes that check invoices and other accounts-payable aspects expedite customer
interactions.
• Automation can even produce more job opportunities for IT professionals trained in supporting,
programming, and developing automated process.

Emerging Trends in Information Technology

• Artificial Intelligence and Smart Machines According to Encyclopedia, Artificial Intelligence (AI), is
the ability of a digital computer or computer-controlled robot to perform tasks commonly
associated with intelligent beings.
• The term is frequently applied to the project of developing systems endowed with intellectual
processes characteristics of humans, such as the ability to reason, discovering meaning, generalize,
or learn from the past experience.

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 • Navigation apps, streaming services, smartphone personal assistants, ride sharing apps, home
personal assistants, and smart home devices.
Virtual Reality
• VR, the use of computer modelling and simulation that enables a person to interact with an
artificial threedimensional (3-D) visual or other sensory environment.
• VR applications immerse the user in a computergenerated environment that simulates reality
through the use of interactive devices, which send and receive information and are worn as
goggles, headset, gloves, or body suit.
• A user wearing a helmet with stereoscopic screen views animated images of simulated
environment.

Augmented Reality
• Augmented reality features interactive scenarios that enhance the real world with images and
sounds that create an altered experience.
• It doesn’t mean that phones and tablets will be the only venue for AR. Research continues apace
on including AR functionality in contact lenses, and other wearable devices.
• The ultimate goal of augmented reality is to create a convenient and natural immersion, so there’s
a sense that phones and tablets will get replaced, though it isn’t clear what those replacements will
be.

Blockchain Data
• It allows you to input additional data without changing, replacing, or deleting anything. In the influx
of shared data systems like cloud storage and resources, protecting original data without losing
important information is crucial.
• Blockchain in simple terms is a system of recording information in a way that makes it difficult or
impossible to change, hack, or cheat the system.
• A blockchain is essentially a digital ledger of transactions that is duplicated and distributed across
the entire network of computer systems on the blockchain.

5G
• 5G enables a new kind of network that is designed to connect virtually everyone and everything
together including machines, objects, and devices.
• 5G wireless technology is meant to deliver higher multi-Gbps peak data speeds, ultra low latency,
more reliability, massive network capacity, increased availability and a more uniform user
experiences and connects new industries.
• 5G is used across three main types of connected services, including enhanced mobile broadband,
mission-critical communications, and massive IoT.

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 Electronic Information

Electronic Information Sources

• Information Communication Technologies (ICTS) has been widely adopted by faculty members
and students for education, study and research.
• It has changed the environment of information.

Electronic Information

• Electronic information is a broad term that encompasses abstracting and indexing services, full-
text materials such as newspapers and reference books, electronic journals and the offering of
electronic 'aggregators', delivery services and free resources on the Internet.

• Electronic information may be broadly defined as "The information stored in a medium, which
requires an electronic device to read/access its contents”.

• The proposed study examines the options for extending and improving access to information
resources, such as accessing Integrated Library Systems (ILS) from a CD-ROM/DVD network or
allowing Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC) terminals and also internet resources.

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 • The electronic media is considered to be the best media for information storage as it has many
advantages, such as: In this present study Electronic Information
o Huge storage capacity and Electronic Information resources are used
o Data Security synonymously. Further, accessing Electronic
o Space Saving Information is nothing but accessing the
o Easy to handle, search, retrieve, transfer, etc. information from the electronic resources
only.

Electronic Information Resources

• Electronic information resources are defined as being "any publicly available information", which
can be accessed via a personal computer.
Examples:
➢ bibliographic database
➢ Electronic journals
➢ Electronic books
➢ Resources that have been made freely available via the Internet and the like.

Advantages of Electronic Information Resources

• Electronic information can therefore provide a number of advantages over traditional print based
sources.
• These advantages include the fact that electronic information resources are often faster than
consulting print indexes, especially when searching retrospectively, and they are straighter forward
when wishing to use combinations of keywords.
• They open up the possibility of searching multiple files at one time, a feat accomplished more
easily than using printed equivalents.
• Electronic resources can be printed and searches saved to be repeated at a later date; they are
updated more often than printed tools.
• Once main advantage, especially to distance learners or those with limited time to access the
library is their availability from outside the library through online methods.

Impact of Electronic Information Resources on Library Services

1. Development in IT have helped libraries to provide accurate and timely information, apart from
compact storage and systems of information retrieval as and when required.
2. Resources sharing arrangement with other libraries via e-mail, fax, internet, intranet and such
other is yet another advantage of the IT revolution.

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 3. By virtue of IT revolution, in the information flow is multiplied with tremendous speed and vélocity
reaching globally with least amount of time and energy through internet, WWW and so on.
4. Now, with the help of CD-ROM databases and Internet, it is possible for a research scholar user to
do a comprehensive literature survey and review within few hours or few days by selecting
appropriate databases ones in field of research.
5. The libraries will continue to access, organize, preserve and disseminate information. The value of
library will not merely depend upon size of their collection, but on the strength of the ability to
enhance access to the world of information. The libraries will have to procure a variety of
databases both online and offline and access the range of digital information available via local,
regional, and international networks or local workstations

Concept of Electronic Information Resources

• Electronic information has gradually become a major resource in everyday life.
• The emergence of electronic information resources, simply referred to as electronic resources, has
tremendously transformed information handling and management in academic environments and
in university libraries in particular.

✓ The internet
Internet has provided a wider access global information resources such as online database,
e-journals, e-prints and other sources of digital information.

✓ Electronic Journals
With the advent of the Internet, researchers and academics have recognized the capabilities
of the information and communication technologies as efficient means to share results and
to get around barriers by full transfer of intellectual property rights from the author to the
publisher, it is also a means of improving the slow turn-over of traditional publishing.

✓ Online databases
The most effective way to provide access to electronic books/journals in University libraries
is through subscription to online databases which can be accessed through the internet.
Online databases are a collection of electronic information sources (e- journals/e-books)
by publishers from various fields and disciplines

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 ✓ CD-ROM databases
CD-ROM (Compact Disc, read-only-memory) is an adaptation of the CD that is designed to
store computer data in the form of text and graphics, as well as hi-fi stereo sound.

✓ Journal aggregation services

Many individual publishers are now making full-text electronic journals available. This is
leading to an increasingly confused environment for libraries with the different access
methods and licenses being offered by each publisher.

RELATED LITERATURE

Studies, inquiries, or investigations already conducted to which the present proposed study is relate or
has some bearing or similarity. They are usually unpublished materials such as manuscripts, theses,
dissertations, eBooks and articles.

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