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- “Ed just
made toast” @Ed_toaster_314
The internet of things, a term long bandied around in
technical circles is rapidly becoming a mainstream concept. This isn’t a new
trend, connecting devices and sensors together with human beings is a basic
goal of the internet, but the omnipresence of wi-fi and mobile phone bandwidth
as well as the rapid strides in low power processor and better battery
development has changed the game. According to an Intel survey the number of
internet connected devices will increase from around seven billion now to over
two hundred billion by 2020. There will be over twenty connected devices for
every human being on earth and all of them will be sharing data about their
environments, their activities and you, their so called owners. By 2030 some projections
indicate there will be over fifty trillion connected devices, in effect; every
device/artefact/thingy/widget on earth, from your car and your sunglasses to
your front door and your shirt buttons will have the ability to sense their
environment, talk with each other and you.
