Internet of Things or Thing on the Internet?
Terminology that loosely ring-fences a group of related technologies is often very helpful in engineering discussions – until the hype machine gets a hold of them. “Cloud” is a fairly obvious victim of this. Initially conceived to describe large-scale, highly-available, geo-redundant, and professionally-managed Internet-based services that are “up there and far away” without the user knowing of or caring about particular machines or even datacenter locations, it’s now come so far that a hard drive...