The term refers to a set of technologies that will connect the real and digital worlds by embedding sensors in everyday objects and establishing real-time communications between objects and machines.

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In the coming years sensors will pop up in more and more household objects tracking things like air quality, movement, vital signs and other stats.

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This becomes very, very important as sensors start being placed into more and more inanimate objects, such as lamps, sprinklers, running shoes, thermostats, toll booths, vending machines, shark-detecting buoys and just about everything else.

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As the ultrasonic sensors detect nearby objects, the arms exert more and more pressure on the skin.

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It relies on LTE cellular and sensors placed around the area rather than GPS to navigate, in part because the terrain and location of objects constantly changes in parking lots.

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Some Hyundai vehicles also contain ultrasonic sensors that help drivers to park by measuring the distance between a car and other objects.

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In each of these areas, the machines, objects, systems, and all sorts of other items and sensors are growing a brain and learning to talk.

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It maps its own environment and uses an array of sophisticated sensors to autonomously move about a busy space without interfering with people or other objects.

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