文档介绍：Artwork by Harry Campbell
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The of Things
More objects are ing embedded with sensors
and gaining the ability municate. The resulting
works promise to create new business
models, improve business processes, and reduce
costs and risks.
Michael Chui, Markus Löffler, and Roger Roberts
In anizations, information travels along familiar routes.
Proprietary information is lodged in databases and analyzed in
reports and then rises up the management chain. Information also
originates externally—gathered from public sources, harvested from
the , or purchased from information suppliers.
But the predictable pathways of information are changing: the
physical world itself is ing a type of information system.
In what’s called the of Things, sensors and actuators
embedded in physical objects—from roadways to pacemakers—are
linked through wired and works, often using the same
Protocol (IP) that connects the . works
churn out huge volumes of data that flow puters for analysis.
When objects can both sense the environment municate,
they e tools for plexity and responding
to it swiftly. What’s revolutionary in all this is that these physical
information systems are now beginning to be deployed, and some of
Michael Chui is a them even work largely without human intervention.
senior fellow with
the McKinsey Global
Institute, Ma