One day, our coffee machines are going to be smart enough to recognize us and suggest the flavor of coffee we like (say 50% coffee +40% milk+10% chocolate+1 sugar cubicle), this entire process of identifying the person to running through the algorithms and pushing the offer out will happen within a span of 1 or 2 seconds before we press the button on the coffee vending machine. That day is going to be soon and will be brought to you by Internet of Things Gartner, Inc. forecasts that 4.9 billion connected things will be in use in 2015, up 30 percent from 2014, and will reach 50 billion by 2020. These devices would go beyond PCs, smartphones, tablets and range from alarm clocks to air coolers to washing machines to cars, basically, almost every machine and in short, IoT is going to create a virtual planet of machines- both human and non-human that "breathe" data.
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