IoT Timeline

  • 1997 - Paul Staffo article "Sensors: the Next wave of Infotech Innovation"
  • 1998 - Project "inTouch" at MIT
  • 1999 - Book "When things start to think" by Neil Gershenfeld
  • 1999 - AUTO-ID labs opens (MIT)
  • 2002 - Ambient Orb (MIT spin off)
  • 2005 - "Nazbaztag" little wifi rabbit
  • 2006 - European IoT Conference
  • 2008 - White Space spectrum
  • 2008 - Internet of things was born