Tech companies have come up with what they say should be the government’s definition of the Internet of Things (IoT) and policy recommendations for IoT that includes finding more spectrum for 5G.
That was offered up in a proposed national strategy to “promote investment, development, and widespread utilization of the internet of things (IoT).”
The working definition, and one that should undergird future policymaking, they say is: “‘[T]hings’ (devices) connected through a network to the cloud (datacenter) from which data can be shared and analyzed to create value (solve problems or enable new capabilities). The IoT enables us to connect ‘things’ like phones, appliances, machinery, and cars to the internet, share and analyze the data generated by these ‘things,’ and extract meaningful insights; those insights create new opportunities, help solve problems, and implement solutions in the physical world.”
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