Rarely in a conversation about IoT does anyone point to Ashton as the father of it all. Ashton seems to be OK with that. He's worked at a few IoT star-ups, including one he founded.

Adding more devices to the mainstream does not secure the future of IoT if these connections are not also more resilient.

<p>Kevin Ashton, a British technology expert, founded the Auto-ID center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. That center did pioneering work with radio-frequency identification and other ...

However, the term Internet of Things, or IoT, wasn’t officially coined until 1999 by Kevin Ashton of Procter & Gamble, and it took over ten years for IoT to really take off.

Kevin Ashton was born in 1968 in Birmingham, to a single mother who moved to London and bought her son an Apple II. He liked to mess with programming, but it wasn't really his calling.

Some cities, including London and Shanghai, are becoming smarter. The e-book "Making Sense of IoT" by Kevin Ashton in collaboration with Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, says Shanghai ...

Kevin Ashton is best known as the man who came up with the concept of the Internet of Things (IoT). If you can't get enough or have heard enough of this buzz-phrase du jour, then praise or blame him.

Kevin Ashton, also known "father of IoT," was invited as the global keynote speaker of South Korea's biggest IT conference " Entrue World 2015" in Seoul, ...

Kevin Ashton is best known for coining the ‘Internet of Things’ term in 1999, however that’s just one part of a varied career that’s included building a number of tech startups, co ...