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50 billion devices will be connected to the web in next 10 years

But this is just the beginning of the Internet of Things and even though the latest data on the topic from the Consumer Electronics Association in conjunction with Parks Associates suggests that only one-in-10 US households are currently familiar with the concept, we’ll soon have progressed to the Internet of Everything, where ambient intelligence is all around us.

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