- [Instructor] The term Internet of Things,
or IoT was first mentioned in 1999,
during a presentation on supply chain
management at MIT,
by British technology pioneer, Kevin Ashton.
Earlier forms of communication within IoT,
often involved machines of the same type
called machine-to-machine
or M2M communication.
For example,
the devices used
in supply chain management systems
to track inventory where all communication
is done locally.
Today, the Internet of Things has expanded
beyond machine-to-machine communication,
devices of all types can communicate
with each other from anywhere in the world.
This can include larger scale industrial
applications like SCADA systems,
commercial products,
like smartphones or local networks of sensors,
like traffic monitoring systems.
There are two common term definitions
used to represent the concepts
regarding IoT environments,
Internet of Everything and Industrial IoT.
Internet of Everything is used by Cisco
to refer to the intelligent connection
of people, processes, data and things.
That includes,
machine-to-machine communication,
machine-to-people,
and technology assistant,
people-to-people interaction.
Industrial IoT is another commonly definition
used in industrial processes
by high tech companies
where machine to machine communication,
and big data analysis is performed.