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But the term Internet of Things was coined in 1999 by British technologist Kevin Ashton. At first, the technology lagged behind the vision.

The Internet of Things, or IoT, is the name given to a network of devices that can connect to the internet and exchange data, both with other IoT-enabled devices and centralized cloud servers ...

New safety standards have been applied to the Internet of Things (IoT), covering the tens of billions of devices in the ...

Enter the “Internet of Things.” The Internet of Things isn’t a new concept by any means, but over the last few years, IoT devices have become a regular part of most people’s daily lives.

In 1999, British technologist Kevin Ashton coined the term Internet of Things to define a network that not only connects people, but also the objects around them – like that Coke machine at CMU.

Furthermore, according to IDC, the number of devices with internet access—such as the computers, sensors, and cameras that make up the Internet of Things—continues to expand steadily.

The Internet of Things is currently being applied in a wide variety of uses throughout the home, businesses, hospitals, cars and entire cities. The most common places everyday consumers see ...

The Internet of Things will consist primarily of machines talking to one another, with computer-connected humans observing, analysing and acting upon the resulting 'big data' explosion. Here's how ...

Sens. Deb Fischer, R-Neb., Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., Cory Booker, D-N.J., and Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, introduced the DIGIT Act in March, which directs FCC to produce a report on the internet of things ...