THE HISTORY OF IOT:
A COMPREHENSIVE
TIMELINE OF MAJOR EVENTS
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The students
of Carnegie Mellon University
invent the
ARPANET-connected
coke machine
John Romkey introduces
a toaster connected
to the Internet
Steve Mann creates
a wearable Internet-connected camera
The introduction of
IPv6
THIS EXPERIMENT
HAD INSPIRED
A LOT OF INVENTORS
all over the world
to create their own
connected appliances
One of the
FIRSTCAMERASONWWW
Industrial IoT
standards consortium
GOVERNMENTAL SYSTEM OF SATELLITES
WAS COMPLEMENTED BY THE PRIVATELY HELD ONES
providing the future IoT systems
with basic communications
The Internet has more"things"
than people connected
The number of tech startups and technological corporations
is consistentlygrowing
Cryptocurrencies
focus on IoT
The IoT market value is
EXPECTED TO REACH $8.9 TRILLION BY 2020
The toaster is considered to be the FIRSTIOTDEVICE.
Itwas connected to the computervia aTCP/IPprotocol
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05
LG announces
Internet Digital DIOS -
world's first
Internet-enabled
refrigerator
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Tim Berners-Lee
proposes the
World
Wide
Web
The XCoffee
is created
at the Computer
Laboratory of the
University of Cambridge
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First International
Symposium on
Wearable Computers
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08
Kevin Ashton
introduces the term
"Internet of
Things"
The term
"Internet of Things"
first appears
in book titles
The 1st
International
Conference
on the Internet of
Things
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10
China picks IoT
as a key industry
to tackle
financial problems
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13
Google creates
advanced smart glasses
Google Glass
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15
The Global
Standards
Initiative
on the Internet of
Things
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17
Governments
start to think
about
IoT security
A rabbit-shaped
ambient device
Nabaztag is
manufactured
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09
Google starts testing
self-driving cars
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11
Gartner adds IoT
to the Hype Cycle
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14
The number of
devices exceeds
the number of
people
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WHAT
ELSE
TO
COME
First IoT
malware
VISIBILITY
TIMETechnology Trigger
Trough of Disillusionment
Slope of Enlightenment
Plateau of Productivity
Peak of Inflated Expectations
The IoT security spending
WILL REACH $3.1 BILLION BY 2021
THE AI AND BLOCKCHAIN TECHNOLOGIES
will become even more popular
The amount of IoT devices
WILL REACH 36 BILLION BY 2021
The hackers will continue to
USE IOT DEVICES TO PERFORM DDOS ATTACKS
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