The Internet of Things (IoT) employs radio tags to uniquely identify and create computerized inventories of all types of objects and persons. Considered by many to be the next evolution in Internet technology, the IoT connects virtual and physical worlds in highly unified and increasingly useful ways. The world is currently poised to experience widespread use of this potentially disruptive technology, which will facilitate human-to-human (H2H), human-tothing (H2T), and thing-to-thing (T2T), also referred to machine-to-machine (M2M) interactions. This paper provides an overview of the IoT, discusses its potential as a disruptive technology, and highlights the societal implications of the IoT.
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