IoT Designs Evolving

Unique approaches to IoT hardware begin to take shape; companies adapt their strategies.

BY: ED SPERLING - Semiconductor Engineering

IoT hardware is beginning to take shape across a variety of vertical markets, and devices are looking far different from the initial concepts. They’re smarter, more targeted, and in most cases custom-built for specific applications.

The concept of connected things is hardly a new one. Students at Carnegie Mellon University added sensors into a vending machine in the early 1980s to remotely monitor the temperature of soda cans and send that information over Arpanet. That was followed by more sophisticated pricing of drinks, depending upon the outside temperature.

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