The Internet of everything (IoE) is a conceptual leap that reaches beyond IoT -- with its focus on things -- into an expanded realm of connectivity that incorporates people, process and data, along with things. The concept of IoE originated with Cisco, which stated that the "benefit of IoE is derived from the compound impact of connecting people, process, data and things, and the value this increased connectedness creates as 'everything' comes online." By comparison, IoT refers only to the networked connection of physical objects, but IoE expands this network to include people-to-people and people-to-machine connections. Cisco and other proponents believe that those who harness IoE will be able to capture new value by "connecting the unconnected."
