Internet of things reviewer 1 Flashcards

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is a system of interrelated computing devices, mechanical and digital machines, objects, animals or people that are provided with unique identifiers and the ability to transfer data over a network without requiring human-to-human or human-to- computer interaction.”

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Internet of things

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2
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The 2-Way Wrist Radio, worn as a wristwatch by ?

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Dick Tracy

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members of the police force, makes its first appearance and becomes one of the comic strip’s most recognizable icons.

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January 13, 1946

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4
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The bar code is conceived when 27 year- old

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Norman Joseph Woodland

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draws four lines in the sand on a Miami beach. Woodland, who later became an IBM engineer, received (with Bernard Silver) the first patent for a linear bar code in 1952. More than twenty years later, another IBMer, George Laurer, was one of those primarily responsible for refining the idea for use by supermarkets.

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1949

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receives the first patent for a passive, read-write RFID tag.

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Mario Cardullo

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Mario Cardullo receives the first patent for a passive, read-write RFID tag.

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January 23, 1973

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develops an aid to the blind, a five-pound wearable with a head- mounted camera that converted images into a tactile grid on a vest.

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CC Collins

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CC Collins develops an aid to the blind, a five-pound wearable with a head- mounted camera that converted images into a tactile grid on a vest.

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1977

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10
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Early 1980s

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Members of the Carnegie-Mellon Computer Science department install micro-switches in the Coke vending machine and connect them to the PDP-10 departmental computer so they could see on their computer terminals how many bottles were present in the machine and whether they were cold or not.

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11
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Steve Mann develops a wearable wireless webcam, considered the first example of lifelogging.

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1994

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