Gartner has predicted that by 2020 the Internet of Things will grow to 26 billion objects. (This excludes smartphones, tablets and PCs, which will account for a separate 7.3 billion devices, Gartner adds.) With these kinds of staggering numbers, there is a disruption in the making — and we CIOs need to be ready for it.

What are the “things” that we should be prepared for? At one level, all sorts of familiar “dumb” devices — the toaster, light bulb, refrigerator, faucet — will be ‘smartened’ with real-time sensors responding to internal or external data, and will be able to communicate.

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