Internet of Things (PDF) from Cisco.

The Internet of Things (IoT), sometimes referred to as the Internet of Objects, will change everything—including ourselves. This may seem like a bold statement, but consider the impact the Internet already has had on education, communication, business, science, government, and humanity. Clearly, the Internet is one of the most important and powerful creations in all of human history.

Now consider that IoT represents the next evolution of the Internet, taking a huge leap in its ability to gather, analyze, and distribute data that we can turn into information, knowledge,

and, ultimately, wisdom. In this context, IoT becomes immensely important.

Already, IoT projects are under way that promise to close the gap between poor and rich, improve distribution of the world’s resources to those who need them most, and help us understand our planet so we can be more proactive and less reactive. Even so, several barriers exist that threaten to slow IoT development, including the transition to IPv6, having a

common set of standards, and developing energy sources for millions—even billions—of minute sensors.

However, as businesses, governments, standards bodies, and academia work together to solve these challenges, IoT will continue to progress. The goal of this paper, therefore, is to

educate you in plain and simple terms so you can be well versed in IoT and understand its potential to change everything we know to be true today.

Good overview and report, just needs more Nimbus.

We have a series of “Internet of Things” projects and products (Tweet-a-watt, IoT printer, IoT camera, etc) – so we wanted to have a cute little friendly icon. Here’s what we came up with, *but* the cloud entity did not have a name so, we asked all of you here and on Google+ to post up suggestions, and the winner is… Nimbus! Thank you Anthony Clay for the suggestion!

We’re releasing Nimbus under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Here is a zip file with the artwork in a variety of formats, feel free to use Nimbus for your #IoT projects!