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Friday, 6 June 2014

Why Apple Wants Everything You Own Connected to the Internet

Susan Posel

Karl Steinbuch, computer scientist from 1966 predicted : “In a few decades’ time, computers will be interwoven into almost every industrial product.”

In the near future, all devices will be connected to the internet through software that allows exchanges of data. This is called the Internet of Things (IoT).

Fifteen years ago, Kevin Ashton, former head of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Auto-ID Center, coined the phrase the “Internet of Things” while working on designs for RFID infrastructures that would facilitate standard protocol for connections and communications from computer to computer – the World Wide Web.

Although this ideal is still a ways off, the foundation for it is being laid right now.

Apple made an announcement at the 2014 Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) that their corporation is developing Homekit (HK), standardized security communications that various tech manufacturers can all use to ensure that their products allow devices, appliances, cars and other interconnected electronics can “speak” to each other.

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