A Database Platform for the Internet of Things

March 1, 2016

We think of the Internet of Things (IOT) as new and dramatic. And indeed, no doubt its impact
will soon be dramatic, but it is not as new as many people suppose. In respect to consumerfacing
technology, we can trace the IOT back to the invention of ATMs in the late 1960s, nearly
50 year ago. True, we are pushing the definition of IOT here. The first ATMs were not connected,
and their connected use only became widespread in the 1980s – and even then, although it was
a connected device, it initially only qualified as an Intranet of Things.
Other such early applications included control systems in semi-automated factories. Sensors
were placed at key points on production lines and would monitor activity in order to optimize
the speed of the production line. These were the first real-time systems, and they were also
implemented in chemical plants and oil refineries. RFID tags also emerged sooner than one
might imagine, invented in 1973 and deployed in limited applications soon afterwards. They
too became part of the early IOT.

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