The "internet of things," or IoT, is a network of physical objects that contain sensors, software and other features allowing hardware to connect to the internet and exchange data with online systems ...

This seemingly sudden trend has been decades in the making, but is just now hitting a tipping point. The arrival of the “Internet of Things” (IoT) represents a transformative shift for the economy, ...

My first encounter with enterprise integration dates back to the early 2000s. Remember those days when Enterprise Service Buses (ESB) emerged as the antidote to the convoluted labyrinth of closely ...

Remember “50 billion connected devices by 2020”? That famous prediction, made by Ericsson and Cisco Systems executives, has lived on in thousands of PowerPoint presentations, maybe millions and ...

50 billion connected devices. $19 trillion opportunity. All by 2020. Forget the numbers you see quoted on every slide deck at a conference because these are meaningless when you analyse just how ...

BMW's plans to charge for Apple CarPlay access illustrates the promise—and the pitfalls—of the internet of things (IoT). Apple calls CarPlay “the ultimate co-pilot.” BMW calls it the “smart and fast ...

This article is published by AllBusiness.com, a partner of TIME. The Internet of Things (IoT) refers to a network of physical devices, vehicles, appliances, and other objects embedded with sensors, ...

It’s one of the vaguest terms in the tech industry. (Perhaps rivaled only by “the cloud.”) You may or may not know what it means. But hopefully you do know that it’s worth billions of dollars. We’re ...