are you ready for the Internet of things':IoT, a brave new world where more objects than people talk to each other via the Web, will provide co-ops unprecedented details about system conditions

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Vinton Gray "Vint" Cerf, Google's "chief Internet evangelist" and proclaimed "Father of the Internet," recendy made this prediction to Smithsonian magazine: "In coming decades, virtually any [home] appliance is going to be online. Appliances will talkto each other and to the power generation system. In essence, our appliances will pay attention to our preferences."Cerf's remarks focused on just one aspect of what's been termed the "Internet of Things" (IoT). As defined by Cisco Internet Business Solutions Group (cisco.com), a leading telecommunications infrastructure developer, IoT simply refers to a point in timewhen there are more things tied to the Internet than people using it. Think of it as moving away from an Internet ofdocuments and graphics linked through electronic pages toward one of interconnected objects.