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Kevin Ashton Kevin Ashton from MIT described modern IoT at a presentation to Procter & Gamble . He said : “ If we had computers that knew everything there was to know about things , using data they gathered without any help from us , we would be able to track and count everything and greatly reduce waste , loss and cost . We would know when things needed replacing , repairing or recalling and whether they were fresh or past their best .”
Toy time As industry began to experiment with more IoT , the trend bled into consumers ’ lives with connected toys , cameras , doorbells and appliances . The term IoT morphed from meaning ‘ anything connected to the internet ’ to ‘ anything ancillary connected to the internet ’. RFID and QR codes began to close the space between the connected world and ‘ meatspace ’.
IPV6 The upgrade of the internet to its current protocol , IPV6 , anticipated a huge demand for internet addresses . According to Steve Leibson at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View , California , “ We could assign an IPV6 address to every atom on the surface of the earth , and still have enough addresses left to do another 100-plus earths .” IoT , your future is safe .
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