24物联网专业英语教程(张强华)参考答案.doc

Unit 1
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Exercises
I. Answer the following questions according to the text.
1. The of Things refers to uniquely identifiable objects (things) and their virtual representations in an -like structure. The term of Things was first used by Kevin Ashton in 1999.
2. It stands for Radio-frequency identification. It is often seen as a prerequisite for the of Things.
3. Casagras is a work infrastructure, linking physical and virtual objects through the exploitation of data capture munication capabilities. This infrastructure includes existing and evolving work developments.
4. In the IoT, physical and virtual ‘things’ have identities, physical attributes, and virtual personalities.
5. The original idea of the Auto-ID Center is based on RFID-tags and unique identification through the Electronic Product Code.
6. The next generation of applications which use Protocol Version 6 would be able municate with devices attached to virtually all human-made objects because of the extremely large address space of IPv6.
7. In the future the of Things may be a nondeterministic and work in which anized or intelligent entities (Web services, ponents), virtual objects will be interoperable and able to act independently (pursuing their own objectives or shared ones) depending on the context, circumstances or environments.
8. Embedded intelligence can be more clearly defined as: leveraging the capacity to collect and analyze the digital traces left by people when interacting with widely deployed smart things to discover the knowledge about human life, environment interaction, as well as social connection/behavior.
9. In an of Things, the precise geographic location of a thing — and also the precise geographic dimensions of a thing — will be critical.
10. Currently, of Things frameworks seem to focus on real time data logging solutions like Pachube: offering some basis to work with many "things" and have them interact. Future developments might lead to specific softwa