Summary article on new report from International Telecommunications Union Internet of Things. Key Points:

• next stage in the technological revolution where humans, electronic devices, inanimate objects and databases are linked by a radically transformed Internet.
• 875 million Internet users worldwide, a number that may simply double if humans remain the primary users of the future. But experts are counting on tens of billions of human and inanimate “users” in future decades.
• ITU’s vision - refrigerators that independently communicate with grocery stores, washing machines that communicate with clothing, implanted tags with medical equipment and vehicles with stationary or moving objects.