By all accounts, the Internet of Things (IoT) represents a huge opportunity for cost savings and new revenue generation across a broad range of industries. Lopez Research provided a primer on IoT and described how IoT impacts the manufacturing industry in the first two briefs in the IoT series. This brief will highlight several examples of how IoT is being used to create smarter cites.In its most basic definition, the Internet of Things describes a system where items in the physical world, and sensors within or attached to these items, are connected to the Internet via wireless and wired network connections. The Internet of Things will connect inanimate objects as well as living things. IoT will connect everything from industrial equipment to everyday objects that range from medical devices to automobiles to utility meters.
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