The Internet of Things (IoT) links a variety of diverse (edge) devices (see IoT device), central data platforms, connecting systems, services, people and information from the physical and virtual worlds. This has enabled the development of new business models in addition to new applications and services.
ISO/IEC DIS 22989 infrastructure of interconnected entities, people, systems and information resources together with services which process and react to information from the physical world and virtual world.
[SOURCE: ISO/IEC 20924:2018, 3.2.1, modified – ''…services which processes and reacts to…'' has been placed with ''…services which process and react to…'', and acronym has been moved to separate line.]