Internet of Things

Internet of Things

__NOTOC__In computing, the Internet of Things refers to a, usually wireless and self-configuring, network between objects, such as household appliances.

The idea is as simple as its application is difficult. If all cans, books, shoes or parts of cars are equipped with minuscule identifying devices, daily life on our planet will undergo a transformation. Things like running out of stock or wasted products will no longer exist as we will know exactly what is being consumed on the other side of the globe. Theft will be a thing of the past as we will know where a product is at all times. The same applies to parcels lost in the post.

If all objects of daily life, from yogurt to an airplane, are equipped with radio tags, they can be identified and managed by computers in the same way humans can. The next generation of Internet applications (IPv6 protocol) would be able to identify more objects than IPv4 which is currently in use. This system would therefore be able to instantaneously identify any kind of object.cite book
last = Waldner |first = Jean-Baptiste |authorlink = Jean-Baptiste Waldner
title = Nanocomputers and Swarm Intelligence
publisher = ISTE |place = London |date = 2008
pages = p227-p231
isbn = 1847040020]

The Internet of objects should encode 50 to 100,000 billion objects and follow the movement of those objects. Every human being is surrounded by 1,000 to 5,000 objects.cite book
last = Waldner |first = Jean-Baptiste |authorlink = Jean-Baptiste Waldner
title = Inventer l'Ordinateur du XXIeme Siècle
publisher = Hermes Science |place = London |date = 2007
pages = p254
isbn = 2746215160]

Universal addressability of dumb things

An alternative view, from the world of the Semantic Web Dan Brickley et al., c. 2001] focusses instead on making all "things" (not just those electronic, smart, or RFID-enabled) addressable by the existing naming protocols, such as URI. The objects "themselves" do not converse, but they may now be "referred to" by other agents, such as powerful centralised servers acting for their human owners.

Obviously these two approaches converge as more objects become progressively addressable and more intelligent. This is unlikely to happen in any situation short of spime, and the two views have significantly different implications in the interim. In particular, the universal addressability approach rapidly includes things that "cannot" have communication behaviours of their own, such as abstract data documents.

Proposed expanded definition

The « Internet of Things » will likely be :

A « non deterministic and fully open cyberspace » in which autonomous and intelligent entities or virtual objects will act in full interoperability and will be able to auto-organize themselves depending on the context, circumstances or environments.

This will give them the ability to « share » with any other player to make their own « objectives » converging.

It will be event driven, « bottom-up » made and will act at any subsidiary level and Each actor will be self-referenced.

It will also be considered as a « Complex system » due to the huge amount of different and various links, interactions, between various and different actors and due to its capacity to integrate new actors with no difficulty.

In this « Internet », the meaning of an event will not necessary be based on, either a deterministic or syntaxic model but will be based on the context of the event : this will also be a Semantic Web.

Consequently, it will not always need those usual « common systems of reference » or « common standards » that one can find in the IT industry and that will not be able to address billions of exceptions being generated in such a complex environment.

Actually, predicting any kind of possibility is no more than defining a "global finality" for everything that is just not possible in the current « top down » approaches.

In this Internet of Things, made of billions of parallel and simultaneous events, time will no more be used as a common linear dimension but will depend on each « system of reference » (each object, process, etc.). This Internet of Things will be accordingly based on massive parallel IT systems.

References

See also

*Ambient intelligence
*Ubiquitous computing
*Smart dust
* spime

External links

* cite web
url=http://www.itu.int/osg/spu/publications/internetofthings/
title=ITU Internet Reports 2005: The Internet of Things
* cite web
url=http://www.i-o-t.org
title= A web site for the LINKEDIN "Internet of Things" community - posts, informations…
* cite web
url=http://blog.siaige.com/post/2007/11/30/Governance-issues-regarding-the-Internet-of-things
title=Comments on Jacques ATTALI's chonicle regarding the governance of the EPCGlobal Network (a global approach for the internet of things)
* cite web
url=http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/kevin_kelly_on_the_next_5_000_days_of_the_web.html
title=Kevin Kelly at TED on "The next 5000 days of the internet"


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