Internet of Things

See also: internet of things and Internet of things

English

Alternative forms

• internet of things, Internet of things

Proper noun

the Internet of Things

1. An Internet-like structure connecting everyday physical objects equipped with RFID or similar tags.

   Synonyms: IoT, Internet of Everything

   • 2010, Rolf H. Weber, Romana Weber, Internet of Things: Legal Perspectives‎^[1], Springer, →ISBN:

     The Internet of Things as an emerging global Internet-based information architecture facilitating the exchange of goods and services is gradually developing. While the technology of the Internet of Things is still being discussed […]

   • 2018, Shoshana Zuboff, chapter 7, in The Age of Surveillance Capitalism:

     Finally, I want to underscore that although it may be possible to image something like the “internet of things” without surveillance capitalism, it is impossible to image surveillance capitalism without something like the “internet of things.”

Derived terms

• IoTization

Translations

Internet-like structure connecting everyday physical objects

• Arabic: إِنْتَرْنَت الْأَشْيَاء m (ʔintarnat al-ʔašyāʔ)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 物聯網／物联网 (wùliánwǎng)

• Dutch: internet der dingen n
• Finnish: esineiden internet (fi)
• French: Internet des objets (fr) m
• Galician: Internet das cousas (gl) f
• German: Internet der Dinge n
• Greek: διαδίκτυο των πραγμάτων (el) (diadíktyo ton pragmáton)
• Italian: Internet delle cose m
• Japanese: モノのインターネット (mono no intānetto)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tingenes internett n

• Persian: اینترنت اشیا (internet-e ašiyâ)
• Portuguese: Internet das coisas f
• Spanish: Internet de las cosas m or f
• Swedish: sakernas internet (sv) n
• Turkish: nesnelerin İnternet'i
• Welsh: rhyngrwyd pethau f, rhyngrwyd y pethau f

Further reading

• Internet of things on Wikipedia.Wikipedia