Author: Jennifer Read

EMS Companies and the Internet of Things: A Tight-Knit History

The idea of turning a basic object into an intelligent one was already being thrown around in the 1980s. Electronic manufacturing companies were on board, but the necessary technology was still missing. The term “Internet of Things” was first coined in the late 1990s by the MIT team who discovered how to link objects to the Internet through an RFID tag. As wireless internet later became a reality, the Internet of Things became more of a realistic possibility. In the last few years, this technology’s true potential was finally unleashed…

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