know about things – using data they gathered without any help from us – we would be able to track and count everything, and greatly reduce waste, loss and cost.” – Kevin Ashton
animals or people are provided with unique identifiers and the ability to transfer data over a network without requiring human-to- human or human-to-computer interaction.” – Margaret Rouse (TechTarget) “...is the network of physical objects that contain embedded technology to communicate and sense or interact with their internal states or the external environment.” – Gartner