CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -Vodafone launches new Economy of Things platform – a world in which devices, vehicles and machines can buy and sell for us.

Detailed explanation-2: -Google launches Android Things, a new IoT platform for developers.

Detailed explanation-3: -An IoT platform is a set of components that allows developers to spread out the applications, remotely collect data, secure connectivity, and execute sensor management. An IoT platform manages the connectivity of the devices and allows developers to build new mobile software applications.

Detailed explanation-4: -Back then, the idea was often called “embedded internet” or “pervasive computing”. But the actual term “Internet of Things” was coined by Kevin Ashton in 1999 during his work at Procter&Gamble.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Internet of Things, as a concept, wasn’t officially named until 1999, but one of the first examples of an IoT is from the early 1980s, and was a Coca Cola machine, located at the Carnegie Mellon University.