While 2016 has been dubbed the year of IoT, professor Barry Dwolatzky, director of the Joburg Centre for Software Engineering http://www.jcse.org.za/, believes that despite the hype surrounding the IoT, including big data, cloud and artificial intelligence (AI), this year the Internet of Everything (IoE) will take centre stage. The “Internet of Everything” is seen as a Cisco invention, which builds on the foundation of the “Internet of Things” by adding network intelligence that allows convergence, orchestration and visibility across previously disparate systems. However, the Internet of Everything does not describe a specific architecture, nor is it solely owned by Cisco. Cisco theorises that as the evolution of the Internet continues, the IoE will have four pillars – people, process, data, and things – and it builds on top of the IoT pillar – Things. The IoE further advances the power of the Internet to improve business and industry outcomes, and ultimately make people’s lives better […]