InternetOfThings

Things are connected and are being connected to the internet at an amazing rate ThinkingOutLoud.DonaldNoyes.20140908

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• 20041000
  • Neil Gershenfeld at MIT has published such thoughts for some time. See the article in ScientificAmerican "The Internet of Things", October 2004
    • http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-internet-of-things/
• 20080000
  • In 2008, the number of things connected to the Internet exceeded the number of people on Earth.
  • Since then, that connected population has continued to grow exponentially, resulting in today's vast, global network of objects communicating and developing intelligence on their own, complex Internet of things. - And that is only the beginning. - from where:
    • http://www.industryweek.com/information-technology/internet-things-infographic
• Cisco’s Internet Business Solutions Group (IBSG):
  • More things are connecting to the Internet than people — over 12.5 billion devices in 2010 alone
• predicts connections:
  • 2015 - 25 billion devices
  • 2020 - 50 billion devices
    • http://share.cisco.com/internet-of-things.html

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