AMobile IoT-500 Rugged Tablet: A Handy, Flexible Little HMI For Visualizing, And Responding To, What The Internet Of Things Is Doing

AMOBILE Technology modestly calls their new IoT-500 a "5-inch RISC-based HMI," where HMI stands for Human Machine Interface. AMOBILE goes on to say that the IoT-500 provides great flexibility and compatibility "no matter what system you need to control or monitor." And that gets to what the IoT-500 is all about. It's a neat way for people to interact with the emerging Internet of Things.

The Internet of Things, or IoT, of course, is the hugely promising vision of a world where internet communication is no longer limited to people communicating with people or machines with machines, but where "things" communicate as well. These things — vehicles, doors, wash machines, fuel injectors, locks, cameras, or entire offices or homes — collect data via sensors, and then pass that data on for information, processing and action.

The AMOBILE IoT-500's role is to display data from all sorts of sensors, and, if need be, allow human feedback. Easy as that. And very important.