Now, we’ve already got a word for autonomous computers hooked up to the Internet, and that’s “server”. So what the IoT revolution is really doing is putting servers into toasters.

From a single toaster evolved a world of more than eight billion connected ‘things’ – the Internet of Things. In 1990, the information and telecommunications industry was in its infancy.

so save your Internet Toasters and Twittering Toilets for another round. So what are we looking for here? Any device that communicates with something else and thereby performs a service that has ...