Chapter 1 Introduction and Challenges for the Telecom Industry
1.1 Introduction
The concept of Internet of Things (IoT) is not very old. It was coined by Kevin Ashton back in 1999 (Ashton, 2009) and featured on Gartner’s “hype-cycle for emerging technologies” in 2011 (Fenn and LeHong, 2011). Looking back at history, the concepts of “pervasive computing” and “embedded internet” have been around for some time, and people tend to make analogies between those terms. Even though IoT has not been around for long, the disruptions it has caused to industries are enormous. Industries like health, energy and utilities, retail, transportation, manufacturing, and agriculture have been impacted by the arrival of IoT in a big ...
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