An IoT device needs three fundamental elements divided into macro-areas concerning (i) the microcontroller or processing unit, (ii) the sensors and/or the execution capability, and (iii) technology for the connection to Internet. The advent of the Open Hardware concept, the availability of increasingly powerful and less expensive microcontrollers, have started a process of maximum sensors capillarity and embedded technologies, enhancing in fact the “things” connected to the Internet. This evolution, if not technological revolution, is made possible by the enormous progress in the context of consumer electronics and wireless communication. In this new era, we have a set of electronic devices, often man-independent, equipped with various sensors capable of detecting the surrounding world and sharing what has been observed to make decisions. Nowadays we have achieved most of what he pointed out. Kevin Ashton, raised how the initial idea of the term was still not well understood, focusing on in what way almost all the information is generated by humans and specifying the enormous potential to have “objects” able to detect, through sensors, the surrounding world, for us. The origin of the term is attributed to Kevin Ashton, in 1999, in a presentation made for Procter & Gamble.

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