The Intelligence of Things

At its root, the Internet of Things is about being about to uniquely identify devices.  Over the last year I’ve been talking more about the Intelligence of Things.  The Intelligence of Things is spawned by devices and objects being uniquely identifiable and addressable, but more it is able machine-to-machine communication performing tasks on my behalf based upon pre-established parameters or other guiding principles.  Here’s an interesting video from Ericsson that builds of this concept.

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In The Short View in yesterday’s FT James Mackintosh writes

A recent survey conducted on behalf of the Conference Board