In the early 1990s, Mark Weiser, from whom the term ubiquitous computing originated, referred to a vision "When almost every object either contains a computer or can have a tab attached to it, obtaining information will be trivial",[1][2] Although Weiser did not specifically refer to an object as being smart, his early work did imply that smart physical objects are smart in the sense that they act as digital information sources.
The additional information provided by this concept enables far more general interaction schemes, and can greatly simplify the planner of an artificial intelligence agent.
[5] More recently in the early 2010s, smart objects are being proposed as a key enabler for the vision of the Internet of things.
[6] In 2018, one of the world's first smart houses was built in Klaukkala, Finland in the form of a five-floor apartment block, using the Kone Residential Flow solution created by KONE, allowing even a smartphone to act as a home key.
Poslad[2] considers the progression of: how The concept smart for a smart physical object simply means that it is active, digital, networked, can operate to some extent autonomously, is reconfigurable and has local control of the resources it needs such as energy, data storage, etc.
These improvements include: The Internet of things is the network of physical objects that contain embedded technology to communicate and sense or interact with their internal states or the external environment.
[13] The phrase "Internet of things" reflects the growing number of smart, connected products and highlights the new opportunities they can represent.
What makes smart, connected products fundamentally different is not the Internet, but the changing nature of the 'things'.