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Nearables (also nearable technology) is a term used to describe the idea of smart objects – everyday items with small, wireless computing devices attached to them. Those devices can be equipped with a variety of sensors and work as transmitters to broadcast digital data, usually using Bluetooth Smart protocol. Thanks to that, those objects are able to provide mobile devices in range with information about their location, state and immediate surroundings. The word ‘nearables’ is a reference to wearable technology - electronic devices worn as part of clothing or jewellery. The term ‘nearables’ was first introduced by Estimote Inc. in 2014 as part of a marketing campaign associated with a product launch of next generation of Bluetooth Smart beacons. Although 'Nearables' was term used as a marketing campaign, founder of (Novealthy ) Mano ten Napel was one of the early adopters who voiced the need to change the name from IoT to Nearables. In an article (Are Hearables Needed to Realize Wearables, Nearables? ) published on (Wired.com ) in September 2014 refers to IoT as Nearables and continues to use this term in all his published work including (Is Keeping Things Simple The Wearable Industry Way Forward? ) ten Napel strongly feels that the term Nearables is more self-explanatory than Internet of Things (IoT) and Internet of Everything (IoE) because it is a less tech centred word that will likely be more appealing to the targeted consumers. == History == Nearables are a further development of the Internet of Things (also referred to as Internet of Everything). It’s a vision of a wide, global network of interconnected devices, using the existing Internet infrastructure to provide advanced services beyond standard machine-to-machine communications. Although the term Internet of Things was coined by Kevin Ashton in 1999, the idea can be traced to late 1980s, when Mark Weiser introduced the idea of ubiquitous computing. In 1990s location-based services started emerging, thanks to wide adoption of mobile phones and development of location and proximity-based technologies, such as GPS and RFID. This, in turn, led to first attempts at wireless proximity marketing in 2000s with early version of Bluetooth, NFC and Wi-Fi standards as predominant technologies. However, it was not until 2013, when Apple Inc. announced the iBeacon protocol for Bluetooth Smart-enabled devices, that the idea of creating smart objects by attaching wireless beacons to them really started gaining traction. In August 2014 Estimote Inc. launched Estimote Stickers: a new generation of small Bluetooth Smart-based beacons. The term ‘nearables’ was inspired by wearable computers which were gaining increasing popularity throughout 2013 and 2014 thanks to products like Pebble smartwatch and Google Glass. Originally, the nearables were described as ''smart, connected objects that broadcast data about their location, motion and temperature''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nearables」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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