17.8 Internet of Things and Dashboards
In the late 1960s, the Internet began as the ARPANET, which initially connected four universities and grew to 10 nodes by the end of 1970.53 In the last 50 years, that has grown to billions of computers, smartphones, tablets and an enormous range of other device types connected to the Internet worldwide. Any device connected to the Internet is a “thing” in the Internet of Things (IoT).
Each device has a unique Internet protocol address (IP address) that identifies it. The explosion of connected devices exhausted the approximately 4.3 billion available IPv4 (Internet Protocol version 4) addresses54 and led to the development of IPv6, which supports approximately ...
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