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IoT is the culmination of a centuries-long evolution. The origins of innovations like the wheel and simple machines are today forgotten, lost in the mists of prehistory. Humans have harnessed the power of water and wind early. Historians trace the origins of the waterwheel back to ancient Greece, over 3000 years ago; as for the windmill, they started appearing as we know them today around the 8th and 9th centuries in the Middle East and Western Asia. In 1712, Thomas Newcomen developed the first commercially successful steam engine. The 18th century was thus the century of mechanization. The 19th and 20th centuries saw two fundamental technology transitions: electrification and computerization. By the 1980s, computers started to take over both factories and offices.
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See this episode of the “The IoT Inc Business Show” podcast for more details. https://www.iot-inc.com/three-main-classes-internet-of-things-data-analytics-podcast/
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You can download the report, titled Open Digital Platforms for the Industrial World in Europe 2021, here: https://outreach.eclipse.foundation/pac-radar-research-iot-open-source
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Desbiens, F. (2023). What Is IoT?. In: Building Enterprise IoT Solutions with Eclipse IoT Technologies. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8882-5_1
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