When did you hear first of IoT? In what context was that? First time I heard about IoT was when I heard about ABINC (Brazilian IoT Association). Back in 2016. Did you think it was something big then or just another technology? The more I read about IoT (2016), I realized that I had worked…

When did you hear first of IoT? In what context was that I think it was in 2009/2010 when we were preparing a national project to address new technologies. We created a consortium of public research institutesxand private tech companies joined in a IoT CC – Competence Centre. Based on that we started the international…

In the mid-90s. I was giving talks on the “enterprise-responsive building” as a faculty member of the Institute of Facilities Management. By 2000, I was evaluating proposals for the “Green Registrar” services, scheduling classes into rooms that would minimize energy use during early morning, late afternoon (consolidation) and then looking into university classroom schedules interacting…

I first came across IoT around 2003/2004 when I was working on emerging tech as part of the new initiatives / foresight programme i was managing at the UN/ITU. I believed it was going to be a key element of our future technological and social landscape and I pushed for it to be the subject…

When did you hear first of IoT? In what context was that? IoT was the European term that came up during the first decade of the new millennium for what the US was calling calm technology or ubiquitous technology at that point. I recall Rob doing a lot to make that term stick. When Claire…

When did you hear first of IoT? In what context was that? This was in 2012, when Cisco merged the “Emerging Technology” business unit along with other adjacent technologies and formed the IOT Business Unit. I joined that business unit and began talking about it to customers and our internal Teams. At that time, people…

The first time, I heard about IoT was around the year 2000. In the context of digital communication, to me it only meant considering networks for communication rather than point to point interfaces. So it caught little attention. As mentioned above it only meant another communication path. Background information: Since 1974 I work in the…

When did you hear first of IoT? In what context was that? 2011, a ‘visionary’ consultant came to our university (Politecnico di Milano) and suggested us to launch a new line of research on IoT. I’m a management engineer, and we start to discuss with our colleagues of the informatics&electronics department to figure out what…

When did you hear first of IoT? In what context was that? I first learned about IoT in 2004 while considering to draft a communication on RFID at European Commission’s DG CNECT. The phrase caught my mind during discussions with academia (ETH Zürich, Auto-ID Center) and industry (SAP, ie “sense and respond », EPCglobal). A…

When did you hear first of IoT? In what context was that? « On January 28, 2009, I walked into the office of Dominique Guenaux, founder of the Orfidée company, for one of the many “networking” meetings that keep executives and freelance consultants on the lookout for new contacts and opportunities. Dominique showed me, neatly…