Interconnecting Smart Objects with IP

Preface

The digital revolution of the 21st century will be much, much larger than previous digital revolutions. During the 20th century, the world underwent two major digital revolutions: computers were developed and found their way into offices and homes, and the Internet interconnected the computers and fundamentally changed the way we interact with the digital world.

We now stand before the digital revolution of the 21st century: smart objects – the Internet of Things – that interconnect the digital world with the physical world. Industry predicts the number of smart objects to be counted in billions within the next ten years. Over the course of the forthcoming decade, we will see this fundamentally change the way we interact with both the ...