A lot has been said about the next big movement … the Internet of Things (IoT). Simply, IoT is a massive network of connected devices and/or objects (which also includes people). The relationship will be people-to-people, people-to-devices, and devices-to-devices. These devices will have network connectivity, allowing them to send and receive data.
The IoT will lead to Smart Grids and Smart Cities and Information Architecture (IA) will enable a “smart architecture” for delivering content in the right context to the right device (or object)!
So where does IA come into this scenario?
IA is all about connecting people to content (information and knowledge) and it is this ability that is at the core of enabling a myriad of devices and/or objects to connect and to send and receive content. It delivers that “smart architecture”.
The larger amounts of data brought in through the internet need a viable and clear information architecture to deliver consistency to a varied amount of devices. IA offers a viable option in which content (information and knowledge) can be represented in a flexible object-oriented fashion. However, with any option used for representing content, it will have to be able to design the “base” structure for all human content, everywhere. This, of course, is impossible.
It’s impossible because we simply cannot comprehend the extent of all content that is or will be available. This fully flexible object-oriented structure will need to be built similarly to how the human genome project scientists map DNA. This will allow the structure to continue to evolve and grow, which will continue to enable the delivery of content to devices and objects as they become connected to the internet.
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