Are you SmarCoT or IoT?
No need to explain the IoT acronym (Internet of Things) except that IoT doesn’t really describe a reality: do you really know about any “Thing” being directly connected to the Internet? In fact, there is probably some intermediate system linking this thing with the Cloud, like a smartphone, an Internet box, a PC, etc. Just take a look at this picture below, more representative of the real life, showing the Aggregation Layers at the middle of IoT Edge Devices and Remote Processing.
Thus, why not calling a spade a spade, and the “IoT Edge Device” a Smart Connected Thing, or SmarCoT…
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