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* Internet of Things (IoT) Examples (postscapes.com)
10 Cutting-Edge IoT Use Cases for 2023 (webbylab.com) Access Control Agriculture Connected Vehicles Consumer Electronics Education Industrial IoT Retail Optimization Smart Cities Smart Energy Management Smart Home
IoT Applications in 2024: 30+ Use Cases (/research.aimultiple.com) Architectural Structural health monitoring Companion robots Digital Twins Electronic road toll collection and traffic management Enterprise asset management Fall detection IoT devices in healthcare Layout optimization Medical fridges Motion detection Near field communication (NFC) payment Noise Monitoring Outdoor surveillance Patient surveillance/remote patient monitoring Platoon of self-driving trucks Remote control appliances Smart grid - energy consumption Smart lighting Smart locks Smart parking Smart product management Sociometric badges Supply chain control Ultraviolet radiation monitoring Water conservation Water/fuel Leakage management Water quality management
IoT Use Cases (/thingsboard.io/) Smart energy Smart farming Fleet tracking Smart metering Environment Monitoring Smart Office Water Metering Smart Retail Air Quality Monitoring Smart Irrigation Waste Management Tank Level Monitoring
Top 12 IoT applications and examples in business (.techtarget.com) Agricultural, commercial, industrial and retail management and operations Connected buildings and building security Digital payments Environmental monitoring Healthcare and consumer health and wellness Logistics and fleet management Predictive maintenance Self-driving and connected vehicles Smart cities Smart grids, including smart meters Supply chain management Traffic management

Government Use Case Examples

"While NIST does not validate or endorse any individual organization or its approach to using the AI RMF, below we provide documented use cases of the NIST AI RMF being put into action:"

NIST: Trustworthy & Responsible AI Resource Center

Famous Hacks

The internet’s first thing – John Romkey’s ‘smart’ toaster (blog.avast.com)
"Romkey says. So all we had to do was control power to the toaster using a big, clunky notebook computer and wire them together."
The Story of the Trojan Room Coffee Pot (cl.cam.ac.uk)
What is the Mirai Botnet? (cloudflare.com)
The Mirai malware exploits security holes in IoT devices, and has the potential to harness the collective power of millions of IoT devices into botnets, and launch attacks.

When looking for news, it is useful to see who reported an incident first.

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