Forming the Industrial Internet Consortium to Coordinate the Internet of Things (IoT)

A number of Very Serious Companies, including General Electric Co., International Business Machines Corp., AT&T Inc. and Intel Corp. officially announced Thursday that they had formed the Industrial Internet Consortium. Their goal is to establish common technology standards and architectures, and hasten the day when sensors will be embedded in all sorts of objects and machines, collecting data and communicating across what is known, aspirationally, as the Internet of Things.
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