What I Like About Working With Physical Data

There's something satisfying about software that reacts to something happening outside the computer.

With a normal application, I might click a button and see something change on a screen.

With an IoT system, the chain can be:

Something changes physically
↓
Sensor notices it
↓
Device sends data
↓
Software processes it
↓
System responds

For example, a temperature changes.

A sensor notices.

The backend receives it.

An alert gets triggered.

Someone gets notified.

That's a completely different feeling from building another CRUD application.

You're writing software, but the software is interacting with the physical world.

That's probably one of the biggest reasons I find IoT interesting.

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