Term introduced by the Auto-ID Labs (K. Ashton, 1999): linking RFID-based supply chain and Internet
UN (2005): “A new era of ubiquity is coming where humans may become the minority as generators and receivers of traffic and changes brought about by the Internet will be dwarfed by those prompted by the networking of everyday objects”
ITU: ‘‘From anytime, anyplace connectivity for anyone, we will now have connectivity for anything”
EU: ‘‘Things having identities and virtual personalities operating in smart spaces using intelligent interfaces to connect and communicate within social, environmental, and user contexts”
EU: ‘‘Things having identities and virtual personalities operating in smart spaces using intelligent interfaces to connect and communicate within social, environmental, and user contexts”
