1982
Arguably the year of birth of IoT: The Internet Coke Machine at Carnegie Mellon University.
The Internet of Things is growing, and it feels unstoppable. Smart home appliances, energy meters, and wearable gizmos are the public face of IoT, and you can add to the list industrial control and factory equipment, warehouse pallets and packaging, delivery vans, and so on – all things that generate real-time data, which …
These days many people do focus on analytics, AI and big data because that's the current hype, but the beauty of (serious) IoT is that it usually delivers specific events and data best utilized when acted upon immediately. Actually, IoT should more be seen as an OLTP game than an analytics game.