Internet of Things (IoT)
The Internet of Things is a system of interrelated computing devices, mechanical and digital machines, objects, animals or people that are provided with unique identifiers and the ability to transfer data over a network without requiring human-to-human or human-to-computer interaction. Wikipedia
History of IoT
Some sources say that the connected device’s technology dates as far back as 1832 when the electromagnetic telegraph was first built. Of course, it was not IoT proper. But it was the first case of devices connected via a network and a true quantum leap of the time. However, we are more interested in much more recent events.
The world heard the name “Internet of Things” for the first time in 1999 when Kevin Ashton, co-founder of Auto-ID Labs, used it to describe a network which could connect physical devices to the Internet. The new name described the innovational idea of connecting the RFID (Radio-frequency identification) technology to the Internet. RFID, which allows tracking physical objects with special tags attached to them, had been around for quite some time by 1999. However, the idea of exchanging the data stored in the tags via the Internet was first aired only then.
Since the turn of the century, the Internet of Things is getting bigger with each passing year. It has penetrated most of the areas of human life. For example, retail commerce, healthcare, banking and finance, education, home management, and many more. The research by Cisco Internet Business Solutions Group found that in 2008 there were more things connected to the Internet than people.
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