The Internet of Things hits Time Magazine
Time’s Best Inventions of 2008 list has “The Internet of Things” at #30!
In September, a group of high-tech companies that includes Cisco and Sun formed the IP for Smart Objects Alliance. Simply put, the organization intends to create a new kind of network that will allow sensor-enabled physical objects — appliances in your home, products in a factory, cars in a city — to talk to one another, the same way people communicate over the Internet.
I’m happy to see these ideas hitting a broader audience. When your relatives ask you what you’re interested in, you can send them this article.
Another example: if you happen to have a subscription to The Economist (still pretty high up on the mainstream scale), you can find a more in-depth special report from last year called When everything connects:
In coming years wireless will vanish entirely from view, as communications chips are embedded in a host of everyday objects. Such chips, and the networks that link them together, could yet prove to be the most potent wireless of them all.