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What Exactly Is The “Internet of Things”?
Monday, August 31, 2015 4:26
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Cool Infographics: Charts and graphs can communicate data; infographics turn data into information.
What Exactly Is The “Internet of Things”? is a good infographic primer of the coming storm we call the IoT. Designed in partnership by both Postscapes and Harbor Research.
Over the last several years, stories of the technologies making up an Internet of Things have started to slip into public consciousness. As this is occurring, we believe the whole story of Smart Systems and the Internet of Things is not being told. Many of the dispatches coming in from the “front lines” of technology innovation are but fragments of a much larger narrative.
From our perspective, this story is not just about people communicating with people or machines communicating with machines. Smart, connected systems are a technological and economic phenomenon of unprecedented scale, encompassing potentially billions if not trillions of nodes — an Internet of infinite interactions and values…
A couple suggestions for the infographic:
- Include the URL of the infographic landing page in the infographic itself (usually in the footer) so readers can find the original, full-size version
- The landing page include a Creative Common license statement, but that should be included in the infographic itself.
A high-resolution version is also available as a PDF download or broken aparts as a Slideshare presentaiton.
Source: http://www.coolinfographics.com/blog/2015/8/31/what-exactly-is-the-internet-of-things.html
