"different from one device to the next but there are basic characteristics shared by most. IoT creates opportunities for more direct integration of the physical world into computer-based systems, resulting in efficiency improvements, economic benefits, and reduced human exertions. The number of IoT devices increased 31% year-over-year to 8.4 billion in the year 2017 and it is estimated that there will be 30 billion devices by 2020. The global market value of IoT is projected to reach $7.1 trillion by 2020. Ambient intelligence and autonomous control are not part of the original concept of the Internet of things. Ambient intelligence"
"€150,000) but it may also be vouchers for support services or free access and support to use testing facilities. Most of the open calls issued during this Horizon 2020 belong to one (or more) of the following domains: Future Internet and Next Generation Internet, Smartisation, Industry 4.0 (ICT for Industry), Internet of Things (IoT), Robotics, Big Data, Photonics, Innovation throughout value chains, and the nexus between creativity and technology. Open calls in the field of smartization and industry are linked to the creation of a pan-european network of Digital Innovation Hubs under the European Union initiatives Smart Anything Everywhere (SAE)"
"in 2014 as part of a marketing campaign associated with a product launch of next generation of Bluetooth Smart beacons. Nearables are a further development of the Internet of Things (also referred to as Internet of Everything). It’s a vision of a wide, global network of interconnected devices, using the existing Internet infrastructure to provide advanced services beyond standard machine-to-machine communications. Although the term Internet of Things was coined by Kevin Ashton in 1999, the idea can be traced to late 1980s, when Mark Weiser introduced the idea of ubiquitous computing. In 1990s location-based services started emerging, thanks to wide"
"this quality, the U.S. court systems consider machine-generated data as highly reliable. Machine-generated data is the lifeblood of the Internet of Things (IoT). In 2009, Gartner published that data will grow by 650% over the following five years. Most of the growth in data is the byproduct of machine-generated data. IDC estimated that in 2020, there will be 26 times more connected things than people. Wikibon issued a forecast of $514 billion to be spent on the Industrial Internet in 2020. Given the fairly static yet voluminous nature of machine-generated data, data owners rely on highly scalable tools to process"
"Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States. The 2015 CES was reportedly the largest in its history, with 3,600 exhibitors and 170,000 professional/industry attendees. The Internet of Things, impacting all other industries, has been recognized as the buzzword of the CES edition 2015. The interoperability between the connected objects, with changing and multiple alliances, and if some of the products are meeting real needs or are only gadgets, are the main issues detected. Wearables, involving health trackers, as the smartwatch, are getting more specialized and design is getting better, fitting better to the mass market. Robots and home"
"network of physical objects that contain embedded technology to communicate and sense or interact with their internal states or the external environment. The phrase ""Internet of things"" reflects the growing number of smart, connected products and highlights the new opportunities they can represent. The Internet, whether involving people or things, is a mechanism for transmitting information. What makes smart, connected products fundamentally different is not the Internet, but the changing nature of the 'things'. Once a product is smart and connected to the cloud, the products and services will become part of an interconnected management solution. Companies can evolve from"
"smart, connected objects. Defining the Internet of things as ""simply the point in time when more 'things or objects' were connected to the Internet than people"", Cisco Systems estimated that IoT was ""born"" between 2008 and 2009, with the things/people ratio growing from 0.08 in 2003 to 1.84 in 2010. The extensive set of applications for IoT devices is often divided into consumer, commercial, industrial, and infrastructure spaces. A growing portion of IoT devices are created for consumer use, including connected vehicles, home automation, wearable technology, connected health, and appliances with remote monitoring capabilities. IoT devices are a part of"
"to the Global Mobile Suppliers Association (GSA), 338 telecoms operators in 101 countries have committed to commercial LTE network deployments or are engaged in trials, technology testing or studies. LTE networks are already fully deployed in key markets such as the U.S. and South Korea. Analysts forecast the number of LTE subscribers worldwide to reach 1B subscribers by 2016. In addition to connecting the consumer device market, LTE has the potential to push forward the vision of the Internet of Things (IoT). As of 2013, the internet had about 10-15 billion devices connected to it. Industry experts predict some 25"
"questions about how it will adapt to the digital revolution of the 21st century. Many of the industrial machines produced by the Mittelstand are quickly being connected to the Internet of Things (IoT), from manufacturing equipment that can warn owners when material is low to cars that are connected to digital entertainment systems. Strides have recently been made by firms such as Trumpf, which in October 2015 unveiled a digital platform called Axoom that can connect machines built by Trumpf and others to collect data that can be used to help firms improve their operating efficiency. Germany’s National Academy of"
"worth €1.5 trillion in revenue by 2015 with the automotive, industrial, communications and healthcare sectors featuring prominently as users Although the vision for the 'Internet of Things' was first formulated in 1999, the technology roadmap is still far from being seamless. The vision of having all objects linked to the internet might be only achievable when technology allows for global adoption. In this regard, Embedded Intelligence is key for these emerging technologies to enable globalisation. Embedded intelligence Embedded intelligence is characterized as the ability of a product, process or service to reflect on its own operational performance, usage load, or"
"to increase to 160.5 million by 2017. Web communities have grown in popularity with 6 of the current top 20 websites by traffic being community based sites. The amount of traffic to such websites is expected to increase as by the end of 2015 it is estimated 42% of the worlds population will have internet access compared to 17.6% in 2006 according to the European Travel Commission with current chairman of Google Eric Schmidt stating his belief that by 2020 the entire world will have internet access. Web communities can be an easy and useful tool to access information. However,"
"day"" ""At maturity, connected devices and Internet of things market could range from a few tens of billions to several trillion units.In 2007, as an early pionner, JB Waldner strongly believed that the Internet of Things was poised to deeply transform the supply chain and the logistics industry. Waldner has a predominant interest in human–computer interaction (HCI) and considers that the evolution of computing machines and of the solutions they bring will rely fundamentally on the progress of these interfaces. Waldner has authored several books and articles. Books: Jean-Baptiste Waldner Jean-Baptiste Waldner (born 30 March 1959) is a French engineer,"
"Sentroller A Sentroller, used in the Internet of Things is a sensor, controller or actuator or combination of these three. The current Internet is an Internet of people, based on people communicating with people, using (smart) phones, tablets, laptops and computers. But this is changing: equipment and devices connected to the Internet (e.g. set-top boxes, cameras, cars) are starting to shift the balance away from people towards things. The future is clearly moving into a direction where the number of things connected to the Internet will overwhelm the number of connected people. Predictions range up to a factor of 100"
"more general interaction schemes, and can greatly simplify the planner of an artificial intelligence agent. In contrast to smart virtual objects used in virtual worlds, Lev Manovich focuses on physical space filled with electronic and visual information. Here, ""smart objects"" are described as ""objects connected to the Net; objects that can sense their users and display smart behaviour"". More recently in the early 2010s, smart objects are being proposed as a key enabler for the vision of the Internet of things. The combination of the Internet and emerging technologies such as near field communications, real-time localization, and embedded sensors enables"
"the internet usage when in addition to 625,000 villages (each with minimum 100mbps), 2,500,000 government institutions and 5,000,000 households will also be connected to the BharatNet broadband by 2020, by adding several hundred million more broadband users to the current figures of 276.5 million wireless and wireline broadband connections out of total of 422.2 million internet users in 31 March 2017. ""BharatNet Phase-I"", connecting 100,000 village councils covering 300,000 villages, was on track for completion by December 2017. ""BharatNet Phase-II"", will be completed by 31 March 2019, to connect the remaining 150,000 village councils covering 325,000 villages. It is both"
"systems, or analytics. According to Lonergan, the term IoT was coined before smart phones, tablets, and devices as we know them today existed, and there is a long list of terms with varying degrees of overlap and technological convergence: Internet of things, Internet of everything (IoE), Internet of Goods (Supply Chain), industrial Internet, pervasive computing, pervasive sensing, ubiquitous computing, cyber-physical systems (CPS), wireless sensor networks (WSN), smart objects, digital twin, cyberobjects or avatars, cooperating objects, machine to machine (M2M), ambient intelligence (AmI), Operational technology (OT), and information technology (IT). Regarding IIoT, an industrial sub-field of IoT, the Industrial Internet Consortium's"
"estimated that 40% of all visits to their internet shopping site in December 2012 was from a mobile device. Bank of America predicts $67.1 billion in purchases will be made from mobile devices by European and U.S. shoppers in 2015. m-Commerce made up 11.6 per cent of total e-commerce spending in 2014, and is forecast to increase to 45 per cent by 2020, according to BI Intelligence. ComScore reported in February 2017 that mobile commerce had grown 45% in year to December 2016. The Global Mobile Commerce Forum, which came to include over 100 organisations, had its fully minuted launch"
"to 1 or more: the Internet of People will transform into the Internet of Things. “The Internet of Things"" connects many “things,” communicating with other things, rather than directly with people. Many of the new things connected to the Internet will be Sentrollers. Sentrollers are either actuators, sensors, controllers, or combinations of these three things. One simple example is a home thermostat. A thermostat is a sentroller as it senses the temperature in the home, checks whether the home or room in which the thermostat is monitoring temperature is at the desired temperature, and if not, turns on the heater"
"The sentrollers are the end nodes that will become the majority population of this Internet of Things. Sentroller A Sentroller, used in the Internet of Things is a sensor, controller or actuator or combination of these three. The current Internet is an Internet of people, based on people communicating with people, using (smart) phones, tablets, laptops and computers. But this is changing: equipment and devices connected to the Internet (e.g. set-top boxes, cameras, cars) are starting to shift the balance away from people towards things. The future is clearly moving into a direction where the number of things connected to"
"technology website TechCrunch on August 6, 2013. Networked Society The Networked Society is a term used to describe a future ecosystem, envisioned by the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) company Ericsson, in which widespread internet connectivity drives change for individuals and communities. Connectivity means a device can digitally communicate with and transfer data to other systems, through a real-time communication network (typically the internet). It is expected that people living in the Networked Society will be able to use connectivity to improve their lives and businesses. New services in e-health, for example, will be driven by connectivity, mobility and cloud"
"Things (IIoT) is redefining the business landscape. Due to the characteristics of IIoT, there is a great deal of opportunities for IIoT over a wide spread of industries like healthcare, logistics, agriculture, manufacturing, energy (oil and gas) production, aviation and automotive. As IIoT adoption can impact these big industry sectors, representing 62% of the gross domestic product (GDP) among G20 nations, IIoT can have significant implications for the global economy. Accenture has recently estimated that the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) industry is expected to continue growing exponentially and could add US$14.2 trillion to the global economy by 2030. These"
"nearly 2.5-fold, from 4.9 billion in 2015 to 12.2 billion in 2020. By 2020, M2M connections should represent nearly half – 46 percent – of total connected devices. Programmatic Commerce Programmatic Commerce is a term used to describe the phenomenon where consumers and businesses allow purchase decisions to be made on their behalf by connected devices based on pre-programmed parameters and learned preferences. This has been driven by the rise of the Internet of Things and smart devices. The term Programmatic Commerce was coined by ecommerce consultancy Salmon in 2015. The concept was first publicly introduced at the Salmon Commerce"
"report on the deployment of smart metering found: The Smart Grid Forum had identified that smart technology would give energy consumers greater control of their energy use, bills, greater security of supply and enable the use of less carbon. It had further indicated that integration of smart grids with regular technology would potentially save up to £ 12 billion by 2050 and deliver 9,000 additional jobs and create a £5 billion export market. To complete the transition to Smart Grids, United Kingdom plans to roll out 53 million smart meters to 26 million households from 2015 to 2020. Initiated by"
"As of 2015, however, the skill gap in Indian industry threatened progress, with 65 to 70 per cent of the market relying on imports. India's electronics market one of the largest in the world in terms of consumption, is predicted to grow to approximately US$400 billion by 2020 from $69.6 billion in 2012, largely led by up-surge in demand, growing at a projected compound annual growth rate of close to 25% over the period. In 213-14, 65℅ of demand for electronic products was met through imports. According to a Frost & Sullivan-IESA data analysis, five high priority product categories together"
"With the adoption of the ""Internet of Things"" a number of internet connected bell systems, known as smart doorbells have appeared on the market. Popular systems are the ""Skybell"", Ring doorbell, Nest Labs doorbell, the Google ""Hello"", and many others. These consist of a single unit which is located in place of the traditional push-button and in addition to the physical button, contain an HD camera, PIR sensor and WiFi electronics. The device is connected to the home wi-fi network, and notifications of a button-press or detected movement are pushed to a paired smartphone or other electronic device such as"
"2013 to 50.7% in 2020. Moreover, the telecom segment is also expected to rise at a CAGR of 26.8 percent during 2013-20. The information technology and office automation segment are estimated to grow at a CAGR of 18.2% in the same period. The consumer electronics segment also is expected to grow at a CAGR of 18.8% over the seven years. The automotive electronics segment is expected to grow at 30.5% CAGR from 2013 to 2020. The EDSM industry will also grow on the back of these high consumption-led industries. Currently, almost all the semiconductor demand is met by imports from"
"things looking at the convergence of data from IoT devices into Web applications to create innovative use-cases. In order to program and control the flow of information in the Internet of things, a predicted architectural direction is being called BPM Everywhere which is a blending of traditional process management with process mining and special capabilities to automate the control of large numbers of coordinated devices. The Internet of things requires huge scalability in the network space to handle the surge of devices. IETF 6LoWPAN would be used to connect devices to IP networks. With billions of devices being added to"
"Five billion people are expected to go from no to full connectivity within the next twenty years. However, there are still significant gaps among countries and regions, for example between urban and rural areas. Limited broadband speed and lack of connectivity hamper access to knowledge, participation in society and economic development. The internet has transformed how people access information and knowledge, how they interact, and the direction of public management and business. Digital connectivity holds promise for gains in health, education, communication, leisure and well-being. Artificial intelligence advances, 3D printers, holographic recreation, instant transcription, voice-recognition and gesture-recognition software are only"
"In April 2015, the Company started testing a network for the Internet of Things, or Low-Power Wide Area Network (LPWAN), in the regions of Geneva and Zurich. The pilot project serves as an addition to the existing M2M mobile network solutions, and it has been estimated that by the year 2023 over 3 billion connections will be running via the IoT. Hansueli Loosli, former CEO and Chairman of Coop (Chairman of the Board) Roland Abt, former CFO of Georg Fischer Valérie Berset Bircher, Head of Labor Affairs for the Federal Department of Economic Affairs, Education and Research Alain Carrupt, former"
"internet-connected appliance, able to report its inventory and whether newly loaded drinks were cold. As early as in 1994, greater industrial applications were envisioned, as Reza Raji described the concept in IEEE Spectrum as ""[moving] small packets of data to a large set of nodes, so as to integrate and automate everything from home appliances to entire factories"". The concept of the internet of things first became popular in 1999, through the Auto-ID Center at MIT and related market-analysis publications. Radio-frequency identification (RFID) was seen by Kevin Ashton (one of the founders of the original Auto-ID Center) as a prerequisite"
"of Things Security Foundation (IoTSF) was launched on 23 September 2015 with a mission to secure the Internet of things by promoting knowledge and best practice. Its founding board is made from technology providers and telecommunications companies. In addition, large IT companies are continuously developing innovative solutions to ensure the security for IoT devices. In 2017, Mozilla launched Project Things, which allows to route IoT devices through a safe Web of Things gateway. As per the estimates from KBV Research, the overall IoT security market would grow at 27.9% rate during 2016–2022 as a result of growing infrastructural concerns and"
"in 2014, 2.32 billion in 2017 (now) and 2.87 billion are predicted in 2020. Many users in Europe and the United States are already users of the fixed internet when they first try the same experience on a mobile phone. Meanwhile, in other parts of the world, such as India, their first usage of the internet is on a mobile phone. Growth is fastest in parts of the world where the personal computer (PC) is not the first user experience of the internet. India, South Africa, Indonesia and Saudi Arabia are seeing the fastest growth in mobile internet usage. To"
"2012"". Global Internet usage Global Internet usage refers to the number of people who use the Internet worldwide, which can be displayed using tables, charts, maps and articles which contain more detailed information on a wide range of usage measures. As of June 2018, 55.1% of the world's population has internet access. In 2015, the International Telecommunication Union estimated about 3.2 billion people, or almost half of the world's population, would be online by the end of the year. Of them, about 2 billion would be from developing countries, including 89 million from least developed countries. The Web Index is"