Preventing bad things from happening—whether intentional or accidental—has become a shared responsibility for all of us. “If you see something, say something” has become a mantra many of us are familiar with.

The Internet of Things (IoT) has added to our overall safety, and here’s just a few examples of how.​

Building Safety And Security

Public buildings and private business locations have been using IoT for years. For example, cameras have been used to feed video to monitors, or to record anything that passes within their field of vision. Today, smart cameras are used to monitor and recognize people and things that enter, exit or move through buildings. The days of the “dumb” camera—feeding a continuous stream of images to a guard who is charged with viewing six or more screens and somehow, quickly, recognizing a potential threat—are numbered. Smart cameras—IoT devices that are built with embedded technology, like Intel Movidius technology, can recognize faces and objects.