The term Internet of Things" has come to describe a number of technologies and research disciplines that enable the Internet to reach out into the real world of physical objects. Technologies like RFID, short-range wireless communications, real-time localization and sensor networks are now becoming increasingly common, bringing the Internet of Things into commercial use. [Source: Internet of Things conference, Zurich 2008]
Internet of things (IoT) is addressed in the ICT work programme 2011/12 (P.17) under the following challenges/ objectives:
> Challenge 1:Pervasive and Trusted Network and Service Infrastructures
Objective ICT-2011.1.3 Internet-connected objects
Objective ICT-2011.1.2 Cloud Computing, Internet of Services and Advanced Software Engineering
b) Internet of Services
