measurement result to an application platform. The simplest elementary actuator is a light switch. We have emphasized because as a potentially result of the light switch being switched on it is not sure that the effect will be that light bulb goes on: only an associated sensor will be able to determine whether it went on or not. Other examples of devices are smart meters, mobile POS devices. More sophisticated devices may have a unique identifier, embedded computing capabilities and local data storage utilities, as well as embedded communication capabilities over short and/or long distances to communicate with IoT backend. Simple devices may not have all these capabilities and they can for instance only disclose the measurement results via mechanical means. In this latter case the further disclosure of the measurement result towards IoT backend requires another kind of device, called IoT Gateway. Association. It is a physical/logical relationship between a device and a or a device and a group of things or a group of devices and a group of things from the perspective of a instance, an
measurement result to an application platform. The simplest elementary actuator is a light switch. We have emphasized potentially because as a result of the light switch being switched on it is not sure that the effect will be that light bulb goes on: only an associated sensor will be able to determine whether it went on or not. Other examples of devices are smart meters, mobile POS devices. More sophisticated devices may have a unique identifier, embedded computing capabilities and local data storage utilities, as well as embedded communication capabilities over short and/or long distances to communicate with IoT backend. Simple devices may not have all these capabilities and they can for instance only disclose the measurement results via mechanical means. In this latter case the further disclosure of the measurement result towards IoT backend requires another kind of device, called IoT Gateway. Association. It is a physical/logical relationship between a device and a or a device and a group of things or a group of devices and a group of things from the perspective of a instance, an
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