April 2018
Intermediate to advanced
332 pages
8h 5m
English
Content preview from Enterprise Internet of Things Handbook
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History
In the last section, we have seen what IoT is and we have looked at a few examples as well. In this section, we are going to take a look at the history of IoT.
Even before Kevin Ashton coined the term Internet of Things in 1999, this technology existed in other forms and shapes, pretty much doing the same thing.
Read more about Kevin Ashton's thoughts on the term Internet of Thing at: http://www.rfidjournal.com/articles/view?4986.
To put things into perspective, the first TCP/IP communication was made in 1974 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_protocol_suite), which stemmed from the success of ARPANET (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET) in 1969.
Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) one of the first connected devices, were launched ...