and communications company switching and routing equipment. One difference between these “purpose-built” embedded
systems that are already in use and the IoT concept described in this paper is the ubiquity of the technology and
the scale of such endeavors. As the cost of IoT technology decreases, the number of possible use cases that integrate embedded components increases to the point where IoT technology can be economically incorporated into more large appliances and vehicles, and, ultimately, into smaller, lower-cost items, such as wearable objects.