the Internet-of-Things (IoT)<\/a> main vision is to create an intelligent world where the physical, the digital and the virtual are converging to create smart environments that provide more intelligence to the energy, health, transport, cities, industry, buildings and many other areas of our daily life.<\/p>\nThe expectation is that of interconnecting millions of islands of smart networks enabling access to the information not only \u201canytime\u201d and \u201canywhere\u201d but also using \u201canything\u201d and \u201canyone\u201d ideally through any \u201cpath\u201d, \u201cnetwork\u201d and \u201cany service\u201d. This will be achieved by having the objects that we manipulate daily to be outfitted with sensing, identification and positioning devices and endowed with an IP address to become smart objects, capable of communicating with not only other smart objects but also with humans with the expectation of reaching areas that we could never reach without the advances made in the sensing, identification and positioning technologies.<\/p>\n
While being globally discoverable and queried, these smart objects can similarly discover and interact with external entities by querying humans, computers and other smart objects. The smart objects can also obtain intelligence by making or enabling context related decisions taking advantage of the available communication channels to provide information about themselves while also accessing information that has been aggregated by other smart objects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"