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Q. What is Internet of Things (IoT)?
A. Things connected to the internet.
Taken literally, the term Internet of Things covers any technology that links a physical object (other than a computer) to the Internet. Making the object smarter - you are able to track and manage it.
The future isn't really smart phones – but smart homes, smart clothes, smart shoes, integrating technology into day to day to day life to make it more intelligent and better designed. For example Navigate Paris is a location-enabled jacket that will lead you through the streets of Paris.
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Think of a thing, lets say your fridge
Give unique identity and ability to communicate / connect with things
Give it sensors - monitor things with algorithms - search for things - something about the fridge or environment around it - e.g. how much food is inside?
Control it from anywhere in the world with electronics embedded in it or on it....for example lock it
And your fridge = smart fridge
Interesting Research
- By 2020, an estimated 50 billion devices around the globe will be connected to the Internet.
- Auto industry group GMSA estimates that 50 percent of all cars sold in 2015 will be internet-connected, and 100 percent by 2025
