Back in the 1920s, Nikola Tesla prophesized how instruments and wireless would change the world. About three decades later, Alan Turing, one the founding fathers of modern computing and artificial intelligence, brought about smart machine communications. Not long after came a Coke machine at CMU, until finally Kevin Ashton coined the term `internet of things` in a presentation to Proctor & Gamble in 1999. With the latest IDC survey forecasting a one-trillion dollar IoT market by 2022, the rest, as they say, is history. With vast, varying, and new data and communication streams, where does an IoT...
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