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”
US National Intelligence Council: ‘‘By 2025 Internet nodes may reside in everyday things – food packages, furniture, paper documents, and more”
Target applications: no limit:
logistics
industry/manufacturing (cf. German Industry 4.0 initiative)
health
domotics
ITS
social networking…
Intensive standardization and R&D activity
CERP-IoT: « The Internet of Things (IoT) is […] a dynamic global network infrastructure with self configuring capabilities based on standard and interoperable communication protocols where physical and virtual ‘things’ have identities, physical attributes, and virtual personalities and use intelligent interfaces, and are seamlessly integrated into the information network.