Abstract
It is not always easy to depict the benefits of RFID and the Internet of Things. Especially in research, it is sometimes challenging to find illustrative scenarios that grab the attention of the audience and convey a positive message of technology usage. Fortunately, researchers around the world are imaginative enough to come up with creative and sometimes – at least in the first impression – funny approaches. This humorous effect should not be underestimated in a world where new technologies raise a lot of fear, uncertainty and doubt. The “Internet of Drinks” is an obvious play on words related to the Internet of Things. This paper will describe some example scenarios that utilize Internet of Things technologies to produce, control and monitor beverages and will show some obvious and easy to understand demonstrators.
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Lewandowski, M., Schmidt, K., Kielhorn, C., Uckelmann, D. (2012). The Internet of Drinks. In: Uckelmann, D., Scholz-Reiter, B., Rügge, I., Hong, B., Rizzi, A. (eds) The Impact of Virtual, Remote, and Real Logistics Labs. ImViReLL 2012. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 282. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28816-6_16
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