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But you might be surprised by the second-leading source of the expected surge in traffic. It won't come from people, but from machine-to-machine communications, or "M2M." Think of sensors in cars and in appliances, surveillance cameras, smart electric meters, and devices still to come, monitoring the world and reporting to each other and to centralized computers what they're detecting. The chart below, reprinted from the Cisco report, shows just how extreme the jump in machine-to-machine communications could be. It is expected to grow, on average, 86 percent a year, and by 2016 it is expected to reach 508 petabytes a month, or half a billion gigabytes.

web of things from japan for remote sensing

shopperception uses kinect sensors to spatial recognition capabilities to monitor the way shoppers interact with products on shelf -- how long they spend, which ones they touch, what are put back, and what are purchased

Uses Kinect's PrimeSense 3D sensors so you can virtually try on clothing in your home

"Shopper Sciences, a market research agency, used Affectiva's technology to track the emotions of shoppers over Black Friday last year. They asked in-store shoppers to wear the Affectiva sensor wristband and online shoppers to allow a webcam to watch their faces, in an effort to understand how different emotions might affect spending. They found that people online and in-store experienced similar levels of excitement and stress while shopping, but those who browsed online before heading into stores were less stressed and more confident - and spent an average of $400 more."

Japanese company Seraku aims to make your network a little more ubiquitous with a prototype design for an Android-powered mirror. It uses RF proximity sensors to detect where your hands are placed so that you don't have to smudge it all up in order to check those sports scores, 

All cool but who the heck is going to have 73 different apps on their phones to see if baby is breathing or if carbon monoxide levels in their house is about to kill their dog? By Zeus, will someone create an open universal IoT platform.

Sensors in Basketballs?