IBM touts M2M / Connected Device
Quote from IBM that talks about intelligent Deivices as it appeared in NYT
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In his speech, Mr. Palmisano points to the technology trends that are beginning to make his proposal possible and affordable. Items ranging from cars, appliances and packaged goods to roadways and utility wires, he says, are increasingly “instrumented” with transistors, sensors and radio frequency ID, or RFID, tags, “interconnected” over the Internet and “intelligent” because of advanced software that communicates with vast supercomputing data centers.
In energy, for example, computerized grids, thermostats and appliances can sense and communicate line failures or automatically turn off air-conditioners during peak load times to save money and fuel.