are they cold yet?

"The Internet of Things (IoT), is a phrase that was first coined in the late 1990s. It is the art of making a seemingly stupid device smart and thus giving it the ability to transfer data over a network from machine to machine.

One of the first of these smart devices was a Coca-Cola vending machine in 1982. As the story goes, a group of thirsty, frustrated, and innovative computer science students at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania wanted to know the inventory level of their nearby Coca-Cola machine. They installed micro switches that relayed the inventory levels on the machines racks and also reported whether the newly loaded drinks were cold yet." 🥤🤖

~ from realbusiness.co.uk