The term “Internet of Things” was coined by Kevin Ashton of the Auto-ID Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) during the early days of its RFID development. In 1998, the vision was to connect things to object-specific data on the internet, which could then be accessed using a unique tag attached to the object. The result was EPCglobal® and a growing system of standards that has been committed to unique identification for more than 40 years.