Gartner predicts that the total number of connected consumer, business and industrial things to grow to 26 billion units by 2020, representing an almost 30-fold increase over the 900 million things in 2009. (Gartner also says the Internet of Things has reached its hype peak.)
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[ More: 10 Hot Internet of Things Startups ] A large number of new companies offer these sorts of platforms. They include Xively, Mnubo, Bug Labs and ThingWorx , and they have the capability to communicate with a range of things produced by a large number of manufacturers.
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See also: Capitalization of Internet. The term Internet, when used to refer to the specific global system of interconnected Internet Protocol (IP) networks, is a proper noun and may be written with an initial capital letter. In common use and the media, it is often not capitalized, viz. the internet.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet
Many people use the terms Internet and World Wide Web, or just the Web, interchangeably, but the two terms are not synonymous. The World Wide Web is the primary application that billions of people use on the Internet, and it has changed their lives immeasurably. However, the Internet provides many other services.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet
Sometimes called the Internet of everything, the term Internet of things was coined in 1999 by Kevin Ashton, a British technology pioneer who helped develop the concept. Proponents say the benefits to consumers are substantial, although critics raise concerns about privacy and security.
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Main articles: History of the Internet and History of the World Wide Web. Research into packet switching started in the early 1960s, and packet switched networks such as the ARPANET, CYCLADES, the Merit Network, NPL network, Tymnet, and Telenet, were developed in the late 1960s and 1970s using a variety of protocols.
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California-based OnFarm used ThingWorx's cloud-based Internet of Things platform to develop its Web-based farm information application. This collects data from a variety of connected things, such as soil moisture sensors, and integrates it with data from other sources, such as weather information providers.
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Most analysts agree that that the Internet of Things will be huge. Two-thirds of consumers expect to buy connected technology for their homes by 2019, according to Acquity Group (a part of Accenture); nearly half expect to buy wearable technology.
http://www.cio.com/article/2843814/developer/how-to-develop-applications-for-the-internet-of-things.html
This matters, as Internet of Things applications are relatively new. If the Internet of Things is to succeed as many people expect, then applications vendors such as OnFarm may be required to scale their offerings very rapidly in the coming years.
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This week, the Oxford English Dictionary added the phrase Internet of things to its hallowed pages, along with such neologisms as Bitcoin (a virtual currency), selfie (a self-portrait photo), twerk (a new dance move), and fauxhawk (a mohawk hairstyle achieved with gel and a comb).
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who developed the internet of things
Kevin Ashton developed the Internet of Things. Kevin Ashton  developed the internet of things.