The IPSO (Internet Protocol for Smart Objects) Alliance is the primary advocate for IP-based smart objects for use in energy, consumer, healthcare and industrial applications. Founded as a nonprofit ...

Thus far, we have discussed the use of the IP architecture as the means by which smart objects are connected. We have discussed how the IP architecture is built, how IP works with message routing, and ...

Connected devices already outnumber the world's population by 1.5 to 1. By 2020, the Internet of Things (IoT) is expected to connect 50 billion smart objects to the network. The IoT consists of things ...

If a smart object is set up to be recognized by the app—which currently happens using small codes you attach to the object, but would eventually just require you to point your phone or tablet at the ...

Smart manufacturing, Industry 4.0 and the industrial internet of things (IIoT) are discussed constantly in the manufacturing world. As you might expect, some of it's hype, but a lot of it is more real ...

South Korean tech powerhouse Samsung may be working on a Smart Tag object tracker if feelers from the European Union Patent Office (EUIPO) are to be countenanced. The craze for smart object trackers ...

The dream of the smart home is that every object in our houses can communicate with every other one. But as great as that sounds on paper, it’s not very practical. For one thing, it means replacing ...