The of Things More objects are ing embedded with sensors and gaining the ability municate. The resulting works promise to create new business models, improve business processes, and reduce costs and risks. In anizations, information travels along familiar routes. Proprietary information is lodged in databases and analyzed in reports and then rises up the management chain. Information also originates externally — gathered from public sources, harvested from the , or purchased from information suppliers. But the predictable pathways of information are changing: the physical world itself is ing a type of information system. In what ’s called the of Things, sensors and actuators embedded in physical objects — from roadways to pacemakers — are linked through wired and works, often using the same Protocol (IP) that connects the . works churn out huge volumes of data that flow puters for analysis. When objects can both sense the environment municate, they e tools for plexity and responding to it swiftly. What ’s revolutionary in all this is that these physical information systems are now beginning to be deployed, and some of them even work largely without human intervention. Pill-shaped microcameras already traverse the human digestive tract and send back thousands of images to pinpoint sources of illness. Precision farming equipment with wireless links to data collected from remot
