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/ White Paper What the Internet of Things (IoT) Needs to Become a Reality Table of Contents 2 Introduction Abstract 3 Making Things Smart We’re entering a new era of computing technology that many are calling the Internet of Things (IoT). Machine to machine, machine to 4 Application Categories infrastructure, machine to environment, the Internet of Everything, the Internet of Intelligent Things, intelligent systems—call it what you 5 IoT Use Cases want, but it’s happening, and its potential is huge.  8 Building Blocks of We see the IoT as billions of smart, connected “things” (a sort of the IoT “universal global neural network” in the cloud) that will encompass every aspect of our lives, and its foundation is the intelligence that 15 When Does the IoT embedded processing provides. The IoT is comprised of smart Become a Reality? machines interacting and communicating with other machines, objects, environments and infrastructures. As a result, huge volumes of data are being generated, and that data is being processed into useful actions that can “command and control” things to make our lives much easier and safer—and to reduce our impact on the environment. The creativity of this new era is boundless, with amazing potential to improve our lives. What does the IoT