New IT direction - The Internet of Things
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Recently the hottest topic in IT for several years in a row had been cloud computing. Then in 2012, big data became the most important topic. For 2013, there’s likely to be a new top topic: The Internet of Things (IoT).
It is also called machine-to-machine (M2M), The Internet of Things is all about sensors that can connect lots of formerly-mundane objects to the Internet and automatically send their data to IT systems for analysis. The objects can be just everything – e.g. health care monitors to traffic lights to thermostats to trains.
