VISION
- Small inexpensive computers and sensors
- in every device, appliance and piece of equipment
- in buildings, offices, classrooms, homes, cars, factories
- people carrying portable and wearable computers
- networked to each other and the Internet
- “A trillion devices connected to the Net!"
- sensing and reacting intelligently to the environment
- Information instantly accessible anywhere and anytime
- An emerging new paradigm for IT
- Enormous new global market
- transforming the way U.S. industry does business
- transforming the way people live and learn
- requiring the development of a measurement and standards
infrastructure ensuring that U.S. manufacturers are not at a
disadvantage