Chapter 6
Within the first few sentences of the chapter, this was immediately a topic that I had not really thought of before. It had never occurred to me that we would need to account for real-time movement for objects and such for some reason. I had to look up what the Internet of Things was and learned that it is an entire network of devices. While reading this chapter, it helped me understand how my Maps knows where my car is and the dot on the screen moves as I drive and it makes much more sense! The section on Smart Homes was also something that I did not think would have a GIS application but here we have it! As a public health major, I found the section on the COVID dashboard to be very applicable and would like to use this model/idea for an application idea. I think it would be interesting to use this dashboard for binge-drinking data to understand how location can play an important role in being a potential risk factor.