“Late in 2009, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao called in a speech for the development in China of the “Internet of Things” — the use of wireless sensor networks to manage a range of processes in industry and government. Wen’s speech was followed by an announcement from China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) making the Internet of Things a priority and establishing a working group on wireless sensor networks.

Regardless of obstacles, the government in China aims to push national industry to make a breakthrough in wireless sensor networking, a key technology in the Internet of Things. And the wireless sensor network will be first deployed in infrastructures, environmental detection, public security, industrial control, and healthcare.”

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