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| Overview of the production phases of IoT spanning from 1982 to 2021 |
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| 1982 | From Carnegie Mellon University, four students have developed the ARPAnet-connected coke unit |
| 1989 | Sir Tim has introduced the World Wide Web |
| 1990 | John Romkey has launched a toaster attached to Internet |
| 1999 | Neil Gerstenfeld wrote about the basis of IoT in his book "When Things Start to think" |
| 1999 | For the first time, Kevin Ashton presented the idea of the "Internet of Things" |
| 2000 | LG has revealed the first Internet-enabled fridge the world has ever known |
| 2004 | The idea of IoT became more popular, and there have been major publications in IoT magazines and newspapers |
| 2005 | Nabaztag Internet-connected gadgets have emerged, which were a low-price robot, designed to link to Wi-Fi networks to collect weather reports and news, share price shifts, and be read by the user |
| 2008 | In Zurich, Switzerland, the first international conference of IoT was held |
| 2009 | Google has begun testing self-driving vehicles using sensor-enabled sensors on the vehicle deck, and Prius has been able to identify pedestrians, bicycles, road work, and perhaps other useful items |
| 2010 | China was selecting IoT as a main industry; Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao found IoT to be a major business area for China |
| 2011 | IPv6 public rolled out many organizations which have urged Internet service providers to plan for the upgrade from IPv4 to IPv6 |
| 2013 | Google unveiled smart glasses, displayed with the ability to present information hands-free and a natural language speech recognition module to link to the Internet using spoken instructions |
| 2015 | They created a Barbie with built-in Wi-Fi module and a toy house including interactive features such as a voice activated light and a toy oven with fireplace |
| 2016 | Apple launched home appliances package to provide designers with detailed tools to build smart home appliances’ applications |
| 2016 | Google launched Google Home, which enables third-party services to be incorporated to provide users with an interface area |
| 2017 | Microsoft introduced the Azure IoT edge that allows small appliances to use cloud services even though they are not wired to the cloud |
| 2018 | Government has begun to think about the safety of IoT devices and to urge manufacturers to follow design protection |
| 2019 | According to Cisco, some 50 billion devices would be linked |
| 2021 | BMW, Ford, and Volvo say that they are going to get fully autonomous vehicles |
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