From the course: Digital Transformation Tips
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Linking elements together via the Internet of Things
From the course: Digital Transformation Tips
Linking elements together via the Internet of Things
- [Narrator] In today's interconnected world, even the purely technical part of digital transformation goes further than just computers. These days, more and more devices are connected and interconnected than ever. Welcome to the Internet of Things. So what is the Internet of Things? Well simply put, it's the network of any and all devices that can connect via the internet. Now this probably got started back in the 1980s with an experiment at Carnegie Mellon Labs. One of the computer whizzes there figured out how to connect a soft drink machine so that you could tell via the internet, if A, there were any drinks, and B, if they were cold. The Internet of Things was named by Kevin Ashton, the executive director of Auto-ID labs at MIT during a speech in 1999. As time has passed, there have been an increasing number of ways to interact with data via different connected devices. There's a big consumer-based side to the…
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