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As you’re working on MyAppoly, you realize that your laptop isn’t the only thing around you that is connected to the Internet. Your smartphone, smart thermostat, and smart light bulb are just a few of the devices around you that are online. In fact, it’s projected that by the year 2020, 50 billion devices will be connected to the Internet. There’s a technical term for this phenomenon. It’s called the Internet of Things, or IoT.
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Trivedi, V. (2019). The Internet of Things. In: How to Speak Tech. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4324-4_14
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