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Kathleen Martin
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One of the problems with ubiquitous technologies is that we sometimes lose sight of how much they've changed our lives already and how much more change they can still deliver.
Technologists have been building devices to generate and transmit streams of information for decades, but the term "internet of things", or IoT, wasn't coined until 1999 by RFID pioneer Kevin Ashton at MIT. He argued that sensors and other devices would eventually replace humans as the main originators of the data flowing into the internet.
Ashton's insight was perhaps overshadowed by the concept of the internet connected smart fridge unveiled by LG in 2000. And if your yardstick for the success of IoT is that a frozen pizza can be quickly delivered to replace the one you've just eaten, you just might think that promise has yet to be fully realised.
But that perspective risks ignoring the many ways in which a broad array of sensors, edge components and consumer devices have proliferated in the last two decades. All of these can produce substantial, consistent streams of data, and additionally require the infrastructure and software smarts to make use of them.
Continue reading: https://www.theregister.com/2022/09/15/iot_is_not_just_for/
Technologists have been building devices to generate and transmit streams of information for decades, but the term "internet of things", or IoT, wasn't coined until 1999 by RFID pioneer Kevin Ashton at MIT. He argued that sensors and other devices would eventually replace humans as the main originators of the data flowing into the internet.
Ashton's insight was perhaps overshadowed by the concept of the internet connected smart fridge unveiled by LG in 2000. And if your yardstick for the success of IoT is that a frozen pizza can be quickly delivered to replace the one you've just eaten, you just might think that promise has yet to be fully realised.
But that perspective risks ignoring the many ways in which a broad array of sensors, edge components and consumer devices have proliferated in the last two decades. All of these can produce substantial, consistent streams of data, and additionally require the infrastructure and software smarts to make use of them.
Continue reading: https://www.theregister.com/2022/09/15/iot_is_not_just_for/
