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Microsoft StreamInsight is designed to provide timely reactions to continuously arriving data without writing the data to disk for analysis and querying. Many IoT applications need to analyze incoming data in near-real time—right after the data is acquired from the sources. Think of that smart grid application we mentioned that needs to react quickly to a surge in electricity demand to rebalance the power grid. 

Via Pierre Tran

Wireless is increasingly pulling in all kinds of applications, platforms, services and things (rfid) into networks. Many people communicate through mobiles, blackberries, digital organizers, palmtops.

Via Pierre Tran

Fantasme technologique, la réalité augmentée était accueillie y a deux ans comme l'avenir des usages mobiles. Pourtant, peu de solutions ont survécu à cet élan.

Via michel verstrepen

By Nick Hardiman

"The modern Internet is millions of networks containing billions of hosts. The hosts are computers — small personal computers, big enterprise-size computers, and embedded computers. Digital cameras, MP3 players, and car electronics contain computers, but they are not usually hosts on the Internet. With the rise of IPv6, that will change. New devices will be hosts on the Internet. The Internet of Things is coming.

"I recently spoke to Ron Vetter of the IEEE Computer Society. Here’s how he puts it: “The ‘Internet of Things’ has to do with the large number of devices (things) that are currently or will be shortly connected to the Internet. The proliferation of smart sensors will greatly increase the number of things connected as well as the kind of information and control that will be available. For example, think about what happens when we connect most of our home appliances, HVAC controls, entertainment devices, etc. to the Internet. The quantity of information will explode, as will concerns for privacy and security.”

"Vetter is referring to sensors of all shapes and sizes, from anemometers to watt meters (no, there are no sensors starting with Z), which will continuously produce oceans of data. Home automation will finally leave the land of geeks and enter the mainstream, when all of these “things” go online.

“Advances and standardization in computer networking and low cost hardware have contributed to moving machine-to-machine communication forward,” said Vetter.

"The Internet of Things will talk to us, but they will spend more time talking to each other. These M2M (Machine to Machine) communications will happen wirelessly. Many people rely on M2M communications by using a Bluetooth headset, making a payment with their mobile phone or - for the early adopters with money to burn - subscribing to a 4G network."
Via Jim Lerman