The Internet of Every Thing
Posted: January 22, 2013 Filed under: Creative, Unusual, Amusing | Tags: Cisco, connected devices to the internet, electricity meters, infographic, internet, internet of things, technology, vending machines Leave a commentI read an interesting factoid: during 2013 the number of connected devices on the internet — vending machines, electricity meters, refrigerators, smartphones and, yes, the lowly computer — will exceed the number of people on Earth by a factor of 2. By 2015, Cisco reckons that the number of connected things will reach 25 billion, including farms that attach internet-enabled biosensors to livestock.
They produced an interesting infographic (http://tiny99.com/577397):
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