Assignment#1: Submitted By: Naeem Raza (059) BS-IT (B) Semester 8
Assignment#1: Submitted By: Naeem Raza (059) BS-IT (B) Semester 8
Assignment#1: Submitted By: Naeem Raza (059) BS-IT (B) Semester 8
IoT
BS-IT (B)
Semester 8th
4. Home Assistant
Home Assistant is a program that can give you the ability to track, control and automate your
devices like lights and Air conditioners or Fans or other devices. You can operate these devices
remotely and smartly; you have all control on these devices like usage of electricity and time.
5. Device Hub
Hubs were used for connecting different network devices in a Local Area Network (LAN) long
back, but network switches had replaced hubs. These days it is very difficult to spot a Network
Hub functioning in a live Local Area Network (LAN). Hubs function as the central connection
point for Local Area Network (LAN). In Ethernet networks, hubs were designed to work
using twisted pair cables and use RJ45 jack to connect different network devices. Network
devices (Servers, Workstations, Printers, Scanners etc) are attached to the hub by individual
network cables. Hubs were available in different shapes and different numbers of ports.
When a hub receives a packet of data (an Ethernet frame) at one of its ports from a network
device, it transmits (repeats) the packet to all of its ports to all of the other network devices. If
two network devices on the same network try to send packets at the same time, a collision is
said to occur. Hubs are considered to operate at Physical Layer (Layer 1) of OSI model.