西电物联网英语（第二版）（张强华）参考答案.doc

参考答案 PAGE PAGE 37 Unit 1 Text A Exercises I. Answer the following questions according to the text. 1. The Internet of Things refers to uniquely identifiable objects (things) and their virtual representations in an Internet-like structure. The term Internet of Things was first used by Kevin Ashton in 1999. 2. It stands for Radio-frequency identification. It is often seen as a prerequisite for the Internet of Things. 3. Casagras is a global network infrastructure, linking physical and virtual objects through the exploitation of data capture and communication capabilities. This infrastructure includes existing and evolving Internet and network developments. 4. In the IoT, physical and virtual ‘things’ have identities, physical attributes, and virtual personalities. 5. The original idea of the \o Auto-ID Labs Auto-ID Center is based on RFID-tags and unique identification through the \o Electronic Product Code Electronic Product Code. 6. The next generation of Internet applications which use \o IPv6 Internet Protocol Version 6 would be able to communicate with devices attached to virtually all human-made objects because of the extremely large address space of IPv6. 7. In the future the Internet of Things may be a nondeterministic and open network in which auto-organized or intelligent entities ( \o Web service Web services, \o Service-oriented architecture SOA components), virtual objects will be interoperable and able to act independently (pursuing their own objectives or shared ones) depending on the context, circumstances or environments. 8. Embedded intelligence can be more clearly defined as: leveraging the capacity to collect and analyze the digital traces left by people when interacting with widely deployed smart things to discover the knowledge about human life, environment interaction, as well as social connection/behavior. 9. In an Internet of Things, the precise geographic location of a thing — and also the precise geographic dimensions of a thing