DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS
THE FUSE Smart cars, smart homes, smart devices… embedded intelligence has changed the way we live and redefined industry methodologies around the world. Connecting and empowering these devices puts skyrocketing stress on the IT teams that manage data centers. According to Wikipedia, ‘The Internet of things (IoT) is the inter-networking of physical devices, vehicles (also referred to as connected devices and smart devices), buildings, and other items embedded with electronics, software, sensors, actuators, and network connectivity which enable these objects to collect and exchange data.’ Things, in the IoT sense, can refer to a wide variety of devices such as heart monitoring implants, biochip transponders on farm animals, electric clams in coastal waters, automobiles with built-in sensors, DNA analysis devices for environmental/food/pathogen monitoring, or field operation devices that assist firefighters in search and rescue operations. The Internet originated to connect ...