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Evolution of IOT:
Figure: IoT:
Number of devices worldwide from 2015 to 2025
Evolution of IoT Over
the Years:
With the rising adoption of the Internet of Things (IoT),
the modern world is becoming broader and faster in terms of connectivity. As we
know, IoT refers to the millions of physical devices that are connected to the
internet and provides a platform for every industry to foster innovation and
productivity. Although the technology is in its infant stage, the potential it
holds for businesses is massive and it represents the next evolution of the
connected world where it won’t be remiss to say that – “Interconnectedness is
the new normal.”
A Timeline of IoT’s
Evolution:
The evolution of IoT as it stands today began just a few
decades ago with the development of ARPANET, the first connected network and
the granddad of today’s ‘Internet’. The history of IoT starts from here and
follows a timeline of milestone moments which we will chronicle below:
● 1982 – A graduate student in Carnegie
Mellon University’s computer science department wants to know if his
department’s soda vending machine has cold soda bottles but doesn’t want to go
all the way there to check as the machine is quite a distance from his
classroom. So, with the help of two fellow students and a research engineer, he
develops a code that can let anyone on the university ARPANET monitor the
status of the vending machine; whether it has soda bottles and whether they are
cold or not. The evolution of IoT began here.
● 1989 – English computer scientist Tim
Berners Lee proposes the framework of the World Wide Web and lays the
foundation of the Internet.
● 1990 – MIT’s John Romkey invents a
toaster that can be turned on or off via the Internet. It was connected to a
computer as there was no Wi-Fi then, but this toaster is considered to be the
world’s first IoT device – the first ‘thing’ in the Internet of Things.
● 1993 – Quentin Stafford-Fraser and
Paul Jardetzky from the University of Cambridge build the Trojan Room Coffee
Pot in their computer laboratory where an image of its interior is uploaded to
the building’s server thrice every minute for people to check the level of
coffee when they want a cup.
● 1999 – Current Executive Director of
Auto-ID Labs at MIT, Kevin Ashton, coins the term Internet of Things (IoT) in a
presentation he makes at Proctor & Gamble about linking RFIDs in their
supply chain to the internet.
● 2003-2004 – The term IoT starts to be
used widely in mainstream publications like The Guardian and Scientific
American.
● 2005 – The United Nations
International Telecommunications Union acknowledges the impact of IoT in its
report.
● 2008 – The first IoT conference is
held in Zurich, bringing together researchers and practitioners from academia
and industry to take part in the sharing of knowledge. In the same year, the US
National Intelligence Council recognized IoT as one of the six disruptive civil
technologies. The Evolution of IoT gained popularity from this point onwards.
● 2011 – The Cisco Internet Business
Solutions Group (CIBSG) announces in their white paper that the true birth of
IoT was between 2008 and 2009 where the number of things connected to the
internet exceeded the number of people connected to it.
● 2012 and beyond – Companies like
Apple and Samsung make waves with their smartphones, there is a proliferation
of AI-powered personal assistants like Google Home and Amazon Alexa, we all
start to have devices that control individual things in our home, all working
in concert with our computers and phones to share data and interact. Today, all
our devices work in tandem over the internet
● The future seems ripe with a host of
endless possibilities which only go to show that the evolution of IoT and the
growth of IoT technologies has gone past the point of no return. Technology
today not only pushes past barricades we once thought insurmountable but also
moves us towards a world where equal access to the internet and its resulting
technological marvels will be available to everyone. IoT will continue to
evolve in many ways which will amaze and astound us, ultimately creating a
truly limitless potential for everyone.
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