The Internet of Things (IoT) is like the air: It is so ubiquitous that it tends to be overlooked. But the reality of the IoT, and the machine-to-machine (M2M) sensors that are its heart and soul, is that it is transforming much of what we do and how we do it.
The Lights of Christmas
It may not revolutionize how we live, but ioBridge points out that the use of the IoT to control the color of Christmas lights around the world shows the interconnectedness of people as well as the power of the IoT. This is the third year for the CheerLights project. The story says that participants can tweet a color to @CheerLights. The command is processed by ioBridge’s ThingSpeak and distributed via the CheerLights API.