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COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN
PARLIAMENT, THE COUNCIL, THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL
COMMITTEE AND THE COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS
Internet of Things — An action plan for Europe


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COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN
PARLIAMENT, THE COUNCIL, THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL
COMMITTEE AND THE COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS
Internet of Things — An action plan for Europe
1. INTERNET OF THINGS: THE UMBRELLA FOR A NEW PARADIGM
The growth of the Internet is an ongoing process: only twenty-five years ago it was
connecting about a thousand hosts and has grown ever since to link billions people through
computers and mobile devices. One major next step in this development is to progressively
evolve from a network of interconnected computers to a network of interconnected objects,
from books to cars, from electrical appliances to food, and thus create an ‘Internet of things’1
(IoT). These objects will sometimes have their own Internet Protocol addresses, be embedded
in complex systems and use sensors to obtain information from their environment (. food
products that record the temperature along the supply chain) and/or use actuators to interact
with it (. air conditioning valves that react to the presence of peopl