THE INTERNET OF THINGS

THE INTERNET
OF THINGS:
AN OVERVIEW


THE FIRST QUESTION that we should attempt to answer is, of course, what is
the Internet of Things? Although the concepts we call on throughout this book are
relatively straightforward, people have many different visions of what the phrase
means, and many of the implications are hard to grasp. So we will take this question
slowly in this chapter and look at it from a number of different angles.

What does the phrase “Internet of Things” mean? And how does it relate to the earlier
buzzword “ubiquitous computing”? For those who are interested in the history of
technological progress, where does the Internet of Things sit in the broad sweep
of things, and why are we talking about it now? For those who understand best
through metaphors, we look at the idea of enchanted objects, an image which has
described technology for millennia but which is especially potent when describing
the Internet of Things. For the more practical readers who understand by seeing
examples of real things, we sketch out some of the exciting projects that give a good
flavour of this exciting field. Let’s start with this last approach, with a short piece of
“design fiction”.


See also::

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