Internet of Things (IOT)

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Internet of Things (IOT) is a global infrastructure for the information society, enabling advanced services by interconnecting (physical and virtual) things based on existing and evolving interoperable information and communication technologies.

NOTE 1Through the exploitation of identification, data capture, processing and communicationcapabilities, the IoT makes full use of things to offer services to all kinds of applications, whilst ensuring that security and privacy requirements are fulfilled.

NOTE 2From a broader perspective, the IoT can be perceived as a vision with technological and societalimplications.

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