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COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
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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
I NTERNET 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,
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from books to cars, from electrical appliances to food, and thus create an ‘ Internetof things ’ (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 people).
The scope of IoT applications is expected to gr eatly contribute to addressing today
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challenges: health monitoring systems will help meet the challenges of
an ageing society2;
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