Survey Results and Discussion

Figure 1: How well do you know about the Internet of Things?

This bar graph shows the result levels of students about the Internet of Things. There are five satisfaction levels consisting of 1,2,3,4 and 5.

In this graph, the majority of students (41.7%) gave a satisfaction level as '3'. 29.2% gave a satisfaction level as '4'. The next 16.7% gave a satisfaction level as '5'. 8.3% gave a satisfaction level as '1'and 4.2% which was the minority of students who completed the questionnaire.

From the graph, we can conclude the majority 41.7% of students who completed the questionnaire showed that they know about the Internet of Things. Although some gave a satisfaction level of '3' because some respondents did not know the meaning of the phrase “Internet of Things”.

Figure 2: What is your perspective of the Internet of Things?

This bar graph shows the result satisfaction of the respondent’s perspective of the Internet of Things. There are five satisfaction levels consisting of 1,2,3,4 and 5.

In this graph, most of the students (37.5%) gave a satisfaction level of '3'. There are two groups of students at 29.2% who gave a satisfaction level at '4' and ‘5’. 4.2% have satisfaction level at '2'and 0% gave a satisfaction level of '1'.

From the graph, we can see 37.5% of students who completed the questionnaire showed that the Internet of Things determined their satisfaction level as '3' because most people understand some information about the Internet of Things but they don’t know exactly what is it.

Figure 3: Do you have any Internet of Things devices in your household?

This pie chart shows the percentage of people who have Internet of Things devices in their household. There are two choices Yes and No.

Most students at KMUTT (81.8%) have an Internet of Things device in their household. 18.2% of students did not have an Internet of Things device in their household.

From the pie chart, we can summarize the data that most students have Internet of Things devices in their household because anyone interested in technology uses the Internet of Things in daily life because of convenience and benefits.

Figure 4: If you answered yes, how many times do you use the Internet of Things devices in a week?

This pie chart shows the percentage of people who use the Internet of Things devices in a week. There are three patterns consisting of 1-2 hours, 3-4 hours and 5 hours or more.

The majority of students at KMUTT (52.6%) used the Internet of Things 5 or more hours in a week. 31.6% used the Internet of Things 1-2 hours in a week. The minority of students 15.8% used the Internet of Things 3-4 hours

From the pie chart, we can summarize the data that the majority of students used the Internet of Things devices 5 hours or more in a week because the Internet of Things are important for most people in daily life.

Figure 5: Which part of your life do you think the Internet of Things can help to improve the most?

This pie chart shows the percentage of which way people think the Internet of Things can help to improve a person’s life. There are four parts that consists of Health and Fitness, Schedule, Basic needs and other.

The majority of students at KMUTT (50%) think the Internet of Things can help to improve basic needs. 27.3% of these can help to improve schedule. Then 13.6% believe it can help to improve health and fitness. 9.1% the minority of students who completed the questionnaire.

From the pie chart, we can summarize the data that the majority of students chose basic needs because the Internet of Things is the most important thing in daily life it provide easiness for us.

Figure 6: Do you think the Internet of Things can replace human jobs?

This pie chart shows the percentage of people who think that the Internet of Things can replace human jobs. There are two choices Yes and No.

The majority of students at KMUTT (60.9%) say that the Internet of Things can replace human jobs. The other 39.1% answered no. They think that the Internet of Things cannot replace human jobs.

From the pie chart, most students think that the Internet of Things can replace human jobs but in reality it cannot replace all jobs. For instance, creativity jobs that require of human thinking such as computer scientist, designer or engineer which are very important to our society cannot be replaced.

Figure 7: Which factor would most accelerate the Internet of Things?

This pie chart shows the percentage of factors would that accelerate the Internet of Things. There are five choices that consist of devices becoming inexpensive, people wanting more convenience in their life, easy to set-up, accelerate the economic growth, or other.

The majority of students at KMUTT (47.8%) think the factor that would most accelerate the Internet of Things is people want more convenience in their life. Followed by the Internet of Things devices become inexpensive (30.4%). 17.4% say that being easy to set-up. 4.3% the minority of students say that the Internet of Things accelerate the economic growth. No respondent answered the other choice in this figure.

From the pie chart, most respondents answered that the factor that would accelerate the Internet of Things is people want more convenience in their life. According to figure 5, most of the respondents answered that the Internet of Things can help them improve their basic needs. People want to simplify their life.

Figure 8: Do you think the Internet of Things is secure?

This pie chart shows the percentage of KMUTT students that think the Internet of Things is secure? There are two choices Yes and No.

The majority of students at KMUTT (52.2%) answer the Internet of Things is not secure. Then 47.8% answer the Internet of Things is secure.

From the pie chart, we can conclude that just over half are concerned about their security. They do not have trust in the system because they have heard news on the internet about hackers that can harm them in many ways. They believe everything that can go online can be hacked.

Figure 9: Do you believe the Internet of Things will continue and increase?

This pie chart shows the percentage of the KMUTT students who believe the Internet of Things will continue and increase. There are two choices Yes and No.

The majority of students at KMUTT over (95.7%) answer the Internet of Things will continue and increase. Only 4.1% don’t believe the Internet of Things will continue and increase in the future.

From the pie chart, we can summarize the data that the majority of students believe the Internet of Things will become more popular in the future. This trend has risen dramatically in the past three years. Many companies use the Internet of Things to serve customer needs. It has become cheaper, easily set-up and use.

Figure 10: Do you believe the growth of the Internet of Things will impact on your future life? Please give your reasons

This open ended question provides the answer of the KMUTT students whether they believe the growth of the Internet of Things will impact on their future life? There are many answers. However, most of them think that the Internet of Things can help people live their life easier especially in the future because technology nowadays is dramatically improving. It can support people’s lives to do any task under control and fast. They believed that it will impact on their future life for sure. The other perspective, a few people think that it will make people become lazy. They think that the Internet of Things will help with their basic tasks, and this reason will cause people become more lazy.