''Twenty (plus) years ago the concept of context awareness was introduced by researchers at Xerox PARC. What they envisioned was a day when devices would understand the context in which they were being used and adapt their applications to those contexts -- Nunchi is a radical departure from these early ideas. Nunchi is not focused on the context of a device’s use – Nunchi is focused on the distant interactions amongst people''

Nunchi delivers new levels of revenue to data consolidators (such as major search engines) who can use Nunchi to gather and disseminate marketing information.

http://www.edigital.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=95

''The original idea of the Auto-ID Center is based on RFID-tags and unique identification through the Electronic Product Code.

An alternative view, from the world of the Semantic Web[14] focuses instead on making all things (not just those electronic, smart, or RFID-enabled) addressable by the existing naming protocols, such as URI. The objects themselves do not converse, but they may now be referred to by other agents, such as powerful centralized servers acting for their human owners.

The next generation of Internet applications using Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) would be able to communicate with devices attached to virtually all human-made objects because of the extremely large address space of the IPv6 protocol. This system would therefore be able to identify any kind of object.[15]

A combination of these ideas can be found in the current GS1/EPCglobal EPC Information Services[16] (EPCIS) specifications. This system is being used to identify objects in industries ranging from Aerospace to Fast Moving Consumer Products and Transportation Logistics''

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_of_Things

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