From Cisco Live:
Building the “Internet of Things”
“We will end up with manufactured objects whose informational support system is so extensive and so rich that objects – real objects, physical objects – are regarded as material instantiations of the immaterial system. In other words, the actual becomes the new virtual, we have objects that begin and end as data, and we see them as hard copies of a data support system.”
Bruce Sterling, Speech at LIFT France, 2006
Over the past half-decade, key technologies have emerged and dovetailed enabling practical and profitable deployment of sensor networks and ‘wrangling’ of the information they generate and consume – opening the door to “the internet of things.” This free-roaming panel discussion brings together inventors and enablers from every layer of the ‘concept stack’: from IPv6 and micro-OS to HPC computing, database, solution platform and global meta-network – to identify the kit-of-parts, map the state of the art, and hypothesize about what’s next.
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