The Internet of Things, a concept that was first documented by Kevin Ashton, a British visionary in 1999 – a term that describes a futuristic sense of everything being connected by a constant flow of data, connecting devices, systems and going ‘beyond machine to machine communications’. This means that it refers to a wider connectivity that you would expect, with everyday objects beings able to collect, send and receive data to a network where everything is collected. Since 1999, there have been vast developments in technology, allowing everyone to become more connected to the internet as a network through more and more devices, such as mobile phones, tablets and computers.
