The evolving definition of IoT

IoT has never stopped evolving its definition since its debut in the 1990s.

According to Gartner (https://www.gartner.com/en/information-technology/glossary/internet-of-things), the concept of IoT is defined as follows:

“The Internet of Things (IoT) is the network of physical objects that contain embedded technology to communicate and sense or interact with their internal states or the external environment.”

However, as of today, this definition may seem a little cliché and out of date. Initially, the notion of IoT was specifically designed to support traditional machine-to-machine (M2M) communication within manufacturing plants, where it was constrained by wired copper twists, Ethernet cables, and power supply cords. It was typically deployed in a fixed scenario with no mobility, scalability, elasticity, power consumption, and cost efficiency.

Since 1999, when IoT was officially named by Kevin Ashton, MIT’s Executive...