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Saturday, April 30, 2016

Internet of things

Some possibilities of IoT ..

The Internet of Things (IoT) is the network of physical objects—devices, vehicles, buildings and other items—embedded with electronics, software, sensors, and network connectivity that enables these objects to collect and exchange data.

Facebook is the social media of humans. Internet of Things is the social media of equipments/physical objects.

It is said that by 2020, 26 billion to 100 billion connected devices interacting over the Internet. That is a huge number of connected items, right from industry equipments, logistics and transportation utilities like trucks, cargo, IoT will also penetrate healthcare sector. Things to things (T-T), Things to people (T-P) and people to things (P-T) are the different connections possible.

A Forbes link ..

IBM IoT .. Click here ..

Another discussion link ..

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