Tuesday, May 4, 2010
"The Internet of Things"
After watching Kevin Kelly's video on the next 5,000 days of the web I am very interested in how exactly it will become the "Internet of Things" The personalization aspect of the web that he talked about is obviously already happening with functions like iGoogle, and other various applications. However, I don't fully understand what he meant by being able to control individualized, real-world objects. (He gave the example of the plane seat) Can someone break it down a little more?
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A good place to start is the article on RFID tags on Wikipedia:
ReplyDeletehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio-frequency_identification
These tags can be implanted in anything and will animate the web of things, through either active transmission of information or passive transmission (ie, they need to be 'read' by a machine).