Questões de Inglês

T E X T

1      Can public health officials force
2  Americans to break their soda habit?
3      The answer may come soon from the
4  University of California, San Francisco, a
5  health sciences center that has more than
6  24,000 employees on its sprawling campus.
7  Last year, U.C.S.F. removed sugar-sweetened
8  beverages from every store, food truck and
9  vending machine on its campus. Even
10  popular fast-food chains on the campus, like
11  Subway and Panda Express, have stopped
12  selling Sprite, Coca-Cola and their sugary
13  brethren at the university’s request.
14      The institution is believed to be one of
15  the largest employers to remove sugary
16  drinks from the workplace. With sugary sodas
17  now a rare sight on campus, the university
18  found that it had the perfect conditions to
19  study what happens when people who were
20  drinking large amounts of sugar during their
21  workday suddenly stop.
22      Researchers there have enrolled 214 of
23  the school’s employees into a rigorous study,
24  collecting blood samples to see if there have
25  been any major metabolic changes in the
26  people who lowered their soda intake. While
27  they expect to publish complete results soon,
28  early indicators are promising.
29      Since the policy went into effect a
30  year ago, the university says it has recorded a
31  significant drop in soft drink consumption
32  among its employees, particularly service
33  workers, who were the biggest consumers. A
34  university survey of 2,500 employees found
35  that some service workers and support staff
36  members had been drinking up to a liter of
37 soda at work and at home each day, or almost
38  three cans. Six months after the policy went
39  into effect, these workers had reduced their
40  consumption by about a quarter.
41      “We’re a public health institution, and
42  there’s something not right about us making
43  money off of products that we know are
44  making people sick,” said Laura Schmidt, a
45  professor at the medical school who
46  spearheaded the beverage initiative. “How
47  dare we profit off of a product that our own
48  doctors say causes metabolic disease?”
49      The university’s experiment comes at a
50  time of growing battles over policies aimed
51  at curbing soda consumption. On Tuesday,
52  three cities in Northern California and one in
53  Colorado will be voting on whether to tax soft
54  drinks. The cities of Berkeley and Philadelphia
55  have already approved taxes on sugary
56  beverages. One recent study found that the
57  Berkeley tax was working: In low-income
58  areas, sugary drink consumption fell and
59  water consumption rose after the tax went
60  60into effect. Last month, the World Health 

61  Organization urged countries around the world
62  to impose a tax on sugary drinks, presenting
63  research that showed just a 20 percent
64  increase in soda prices would result in a
65  proportionate reduction in their consumption.
66      The beverage industry has been fighting
67  back, spending millions on ad campaigns
68  against the proposed taxes in California and
69  Colorado, which it calls a regressive “grocery
70  tax” that hurts the poor. In September, the
71  industry filed a lawsuit against Philadelphia,
72  calling its soda tax illegal.
73      As the fights over soda taxes play out,
74  many hospitals and health organizations have
75  taken matters into their own hands, banning
76  sugary drinks from their own workplaces.
77  Nationwide, at least 30 medical centers have
78  restricted the sale of soda and full-calorie
79  sports drinks, including the Cleveland Clinic in
80  Ohio and the University of Michigan Health
81  System.
82      U.C.S.F.’s policy may be the most far-

83reaching. It applies not only to its medical
84  center, but the entire university, including the
85  aforementioned 24,000 employees and its
86  8,500 visitors and patients each year. Visitors
87  to the campus now will find only bottled
88  water, diet drinks, unsweetened teas, and in
89  some cases 100 percent fruit juice with no
90  added sugar.
91      Michael Flanders, an assistant specialist
92  in the medical center’s division of hematology
93  and oncology, said he had been consuming
94  “tons” of added sugar daily from San
95  Pellegrino Limonatas and other sugary drinks.
96  But when the policy went into effect and the
97  drinks disappeared, sparkling water became
98  his drink of choice.
99      “It took my taste buds a couple months
100  to adjust, but I’ve come to genuinely enjoy
101  black coffee and unflavored fizzy water,” he
102  said. “Soda and sugary coffee drinks now
103  seem overwhelmingly sweet.”
104      But while the university says it hopes its
105  policy will become a model for other large
106  employers to follow, the beverage industry
107  argues that the strategy is flawed. It points
108  out that obesity rates have been climbing
109  even as America’s soda intake has declined in
110  recent years. And it says that focusing blame
111  on soda alone, rather than calories from all
112  foods, is misguided.
113      But Ms. Schmidt said it doesn’t make
114  sense for doctors to urge patients to cut back
115  on sweetened beverages while a university
116  medical center continues to sell those same
117  drinks.
118      Getting the university to stop selling
119  sugary drinks was surprisingly easy, Ms.
120  Schmidt and her colleagues say. The school’s
121  chancellor, after some initial reluctance,
122  decided that the goal was important, and
123  many faculty members supported the idea.
124  The university’s beverage supplier then
125  agreed to stock the campus stores and 

126  cafeterias with mostly water and zero-calorie
127  drinks. One exception was made for 100
128  percent fruit juices, which have natural but
129  not added sugars.
130      The policy was announced last July and
131  phased in over a four-month period as the
132  university handed out pamphlets and other
133  educational materials to students and staff
134  members.
135      “We educated everyone and explained
136  to people how harmful sugar sweetened
137  beverages can be to health,” said Leeane
138  Jensen, the director of well-being at the
139  university. “People got it right away, and they
140  were all in support of it.”
141      Robert W. Jones, who owns two Subway
142  franchises on the campus, said that when the
143  school asked him to stop selling soda, he
144  worried that it would upset his customers. Mr.
145  Jones said that his beverage sales declined by
146  about 10 percent in the first two months after
147  the soda was removed, but that he recovered
148  most of the business through sales of diet
149  drinks and bottled water.
150      Whether the policy will have any
151  measurable impact on health remains to be
152  seen. Elissa Epel, the associate director of the
153  university’s Nutrition and Obesity Research
154  Center, said she and her colleagues want to
155  find out if employees who manage to reduce
156  their overall sugary drink intake saw any
157  impact on things like weight loss, liver health,
158  insulin resistance and telomeres, the stretches
159  of DNA that are linked to longevity.
160      One employee who is enrolled in the
161  study, Kristine Obiniana, an analyst at the
162  medical center, said she had been consuming
163  as many as three sugary drinks per day. Ms.
164  Obiniana said that when the policy first went
165  into effect last year, she found herself
166  bringing ginger ale, Dr. Pepper and Capri Sun
167  juices to work. Eventually, she stopped
168  bringing soda to work and started drinking
169  water, tea and zero-calorie flavored drinks
170  instead. She has lost five pounds and hopes to
171  lose at least 20 more.

T E X T

1      Can public health officials force
2  Americans to break their soda habit?
3      The answer may come soon from the
4  University of California, San Francisco, a
5  health sciences center that has more than
6  24,000 employees on its sprawling campus.
7  Last year, U.C.S.F. removed sugar-sweetened
8  beverages from every store, food truck and
9  vending machine on its campus. Even
10  popular fast-food chains on the campus, like
11  Subway and Panda Express, have stopped
12  selling Sprite, Coca-Cola and their sugary
13  brethren at the university’s request.
14      The institution is believed to be one of
15  the largest employers to remove sugary
16  drinks from the workplace. With sugary sodas
17  now a rare sight on campus, the university
18  found that it had the perfect conditions to
19  study what happens when people who were
20  drinking large amounts of sugar during their
21  workday suddenly stop.
22      Researchers there have enrolled 214 of
23  the school’s employees into a rigorous study,
24  collecting blood samples to see if there have
25  been any major metabolic changes in the
26  people who lowered their soda intake. While
27  they expect to publish complete results soon,
28  early indicators are promising.
29      Since the policy went into effect a
30  year ago, the university says it has recorded a
31  significant drop in soft drink consumption
32  among its employees, particularly service
33  workers, who were the biggest consumers. A
34  university survey of 2,500 employees found
35  that some service workers and support staff
36  members had been drinking up to a liter of
37 soda at work and at home each day, or almost
38  three cans. Six months after the policy went
39  into effect, these workers had reduced their
40  consumption by about a quarter.
41      “We’re a public health institution, and
42  there’s something not right about us making
43  money off of products that we know are
44  making people sick,” said Laura Schmidt, a
45  professor at the medical school who
46  spearheaded the beverage initiative. “How
47  dare we profit off of a product that our own
48  doctors say causes metabolic disease?”
49      The university’s experiment comes at a
50  time of growing battles over policies aimed
51  at curbing soda consumption. On Tuesday,
52  three cities in Northern California and one in
53  Colorado will be voting on whether to tax soft
54  drinks. The cities of Berkeley and Philadelphia
55  have already approved taxes on sugary
56  beverages. One recent study found that the
57  Berkeley tax was working: In low-income
58  areas, sugary drink consumption fell and
59  water consumption rose after the tax went
60  60into effect. Last month, the World Health 

61  Organization urged countries around the world
62  to impose a tax on sugary drinks, presenting
63  research that showed just a 20 percent
64  increase in soda prices would result in a
65  proportionate reduction in their consumption.
66      The beverage industry has been fighting
67  back, spending millions on ad campaigns
68  against the proposed taxes in California and
69  Colorado, which it calls a regressive “grocery
70  tax” that hurts the poor. In September, the
71  industry filed a lawsuit against Philadelphia,
72  calling its soda tax illegal.
73      As the fights over soda taxes play out,
74  many hospitals and health organizations have
75  taken matters into their own hands, banning
76  sugary drinks from their own workplaces.
77  Nationwide, at least 30 medical centers have
78  restricted the sale of soda and full-calorie
79  sports drinks, including the Cleveland Clinic in
80  Ohio and the University of Michigan Health
81  System.
82      U.C.S.F.’s policy may be the most far-

83reaching. It applies not only to its medical
84  center, but the entire university, including the
85  aforementioned 24,000 employees and its
86  8,500 visitors and patients each year. Visitors
87  to the campus now will find only bottled
88  water, diet drinks, unsweetened teas, and in
89  some cases 100 percent fruit juice with no
90  added sugar.
91      Michael Flanders, an assistant specialist
92  in the medical center’s division of hematology
93  and oncology, said he had been consuming
94  “tons” of added sugar daily from San
95  Pellegrino Limonatas and other sugary drinks.
96  But when the policy went into effect and the
97  drinks disappeared, sparkling water became
98  his drink of choice.
99      “It took my taste buds a couple months
100  to adjust, but I’ve come to genuinely enjoy
101  black coffee and unflavored fizzy water,” he
102  said. “Soda and sugary coffee drinks now
103  seem overwhelmingly sweet.”
104      But while the university says it hopes its
105  policy will become a model for other large
106  employers to follow, the beverage industry
107  argues that the strategy is flawed. It points
108  out that obesity rates have been climbing
109  even as America’s soda intake has declined in
110  recent years. And it says that focusing blame
111  on soda alone, rather than calories from all
112  foods, is misguided.
113      But Ms. Schmidt said it doesn’t make
114  sense for doctors to urge patients to cut back
115  on sweetened beverages while a university
116  medical center continues to sell those same
117  drinks.
118      Getting the university to stop selling
119  sugary drinks was surprisingly easy, Ms.
120  Schmidt and her colleagues say. The school’s
121  chancellor, after some initial reluctance,
122  decided that the goal was important, and
123  many faculty members supported the idea.
124  The university’s beverage supplier then
125  agreed to stock the campus stores and 

126  cafeterias with mostly water and zero-calorie
127  drinks. One exception was made for 100
128  percent fruit juices, which have natural but
129  not added sugars.
130      The policy was announced last July and
131  phased in over a four-month period as the
132  university handed out pamphlets and other
133  educational materials to students and staff
134  members.
135      “We educated everyone and explained
136  to people how harmful sugar sweetened
137  beverages can be to health,” said Leeane
138  Jensen, the director of well-being at the
139  university. “People got it right away, and they
140  were all in support of it.”
141      Robert W. Jones, who owns two Subway
142  franchises on the campus, said that when the
143  school asked him to stop selling soda, he
144  worried that it would upset his customers. Mr.
145  Jones said that his beverage sales declined by
146  about 10 percent in the first two months after
147  the soda was removed, but that he recovered
148  most of the business through sales of diet
149  drinks and bottled water.
150      Whether the policy will have any
151  measurable impact on health remains to be
152  seen. Elissa Epel, the associate director of the
153  university’s Nutrition and Obesity Research
154  Center, said she and her colleagues want to
155  find out if employees who manage to reduce
156  their overall sugary drink intake saw any
157  impact on things like weight loss, liver health,
158  insulin resistance and telomeres, the stretches
159  of DNA that are linked to longevity.
160      One employee who is enrolled in the
161  study, Kristine Obiniana, an analyst at the
162  medical center, said she had been consuming
163  as many as three sugary drinks per day. Ms.
164  Obiniana said that when the policy first went
165  into effect last year, she found herself
166  bringing ginger ale, Dr. Pepper and Capri Sun
167  juices to work. Eventually, she stopped
168  bringing soda to work and started drinking
169  water, tea and zero-calorie flavored drinks
170  instead. She has lost five pounds and hopes to
171  lose at least 20 more.

T E X T

1      Can public health officials force
2  Americans to break their soda habit?
3      The answer may come soon from the
4  University of California, San Francisco, a
5  health sciences center that has more than
6  24,000 employees on its sprawling campus.
7  Last year, U.C.S.F. removed sugar-sweetened
8  beverages from every store, food truck and
9  vending machine on its campus. Even
10  popular fast-food chains on the campus, like
11  Subway and Panda Express, have stopped
12  selling Sprite, Coca-Cola and their sugary
13  brethren at the university’s request.
14      The institution is believed to be one of
15  the largest employers to remove sugary
16  drinks from the workplace. With sugary sodas
17  now a rare sight on campus, the university
18  found that it had the perfect conditions to
19  study what happens when people who were
20  drinking large amounts of sugar during their
21  workday suddenly stop.
22      Researchers there have enrolled 214 of
23  the school’s employees into a rigorous study,
24  collecting blood samples to see if there have
25  been any major metabolic changes in the
26  people who lowered their soda intake. While
27  they expect to publish complete results soon,
28  early indicators are promising.
29      Since the policy went into effect a
30  year ago, the university says it has recorded a
31  significant drop in soft drink consumption
32  among its employees, particularly service
33  workers, who were the biggest consumers. A
34  university survey of 2,500 employees found
35  that some service workers and support staff
36  members had been drinking up to a liter of
37 soda at work and at home each day, or almost
38  three cans. Six months after the policy went
39  into effect, these workers had reduced their
40  consumption by about a quarter.
41      “We’re a public health institution, and
42  there’s something not right about us making
43  money off of products that we know are
44  making people sick,” said Laura Schmidt, a
45  professor at the medical school who
46  spearheaded the beverage initiative. “How
47  dare we profit off of a product that our own
48  doctors say causes metabolic disease?”
49      The university’s experiment comes at a
50  time of growing battles over policies aimed
51  at curbing soda consumption. On Tuesday,
52  three cities in Northern California and one in
53  Colorado will be voting on whether to tax soft
54  drinks. The cities of Berkeley and Philadelphia
55  have already approved taxes on sugary
56  beverages. One recent study found that the
57  Berkeley tax was working: In low-income
58  areas, sugary drink consumption fell and
59  water consumption rose after the tax went
60  60into effect. Last month, the World Health 

61  Organization urged countries around the world
62  to impose a tax on sugary drinks, presenting
63  research that showed just a 20 percent
64  increase in soda prices would result in a
65  proportionate reduction in their consumption.
66      The beverage industry has been fighting
67  back, spending millions on ad campaigns
68  against the proposed taxes in California and
69  Colorado, which it calls a regressive “grocery
70  tax” that hurts the poor. In September, the
71  industry filed a lawsuit against Philadelphia,
72  calling its soda tax illegal.
73      As the fights over soda taxes play out,
74  many hospitals and health organizations have
75  taken matters into their own hands, banning
76  sugary drinks from their own workplaces.
77  Nationwide, at least 30 medical centers have
78  restricted the sale of soda and full-calorie
79  sports drinks, including the Cleveland Clinic in
80  Ohio and the University of Michigan Health
81  System.
82      U.C.S.F.’s policy may be the most far-

83reaching. It applies not only to its medical
84  center, but the entire university, including the
85  aforementioned 24,000 employees and its
86  8,500 visitors and patients each year. Visitors
87  to the campus now will find only bottled
88  water, diet drinks, unsweetened teas, and in
89  some cases 100 percent fruit juice with no
90  added sugar.
91      Michael Flanders, an assistant specialist
92  in the medical center’s division of hematology
93  and oncology, said he had been consuming
94  “tons” of added sugar daily from San
95  Pellegrino Limonatas and other sugary drinks.
96  But when the policy went into effect and the
97  drinks disappeared, sparkling water became
98  his drink of choice.
99      “It took my taste buds a couple months
100  to adjust, but I’ve come to genuinely enjoy
101  black coffee and unflavored fizzy water,” he
102  said. “Soda and sugary coffee drinks now
103  seem overwhelmingly sweet.”
104      But while the university says it hopes its
105  policy will become a model for other large
106  employers to follow, the beverage industry
107  argues that the strategy is flawed. It points
108  out that obesity rates have been climbing
109  even as America’s soda intake has declined in
110  recent years. And it says that focusing blame
111  on soda alone, rather than calories from all
112  foods, is misguided.
113      But Ms. Schmidt said it doesn’t make
114  sense for doctors to urge patients to cut back
115  on sweetened beverages while a university
116  medical center continues to sell those same
117  drinks.
118      Getting the university to stop selling
119  sugary drinks was surprisingly easy, Ms.
120  Schmidt and her colleagues say. The school’s
121  chancellor, after some initial reluctance,
122  decided that the goal was important, and
123  many faculty members supported the idea.
124  The university’s beverage supplier then
125  agreed to stock the campus stores and 

126  cafeterias with mostly water and zero-calorie
127  drinks. One exception was made for 100
128  percent fruit juices, which have natural but
129  not added sugars.
130      The policy was announced last July and
131  phased in over a four-month period as the
132  university handed out pamphlets and other
133  educational materials to students and staff
134  members.
135      “We educated everyone and explained
136  to people how harmful sugar sweetened
137  beverages can be to health,” said Leeane
138  Jensen, the director of well-being at the
139  university. “People got it right away, and they
140  were all in support of it.”
141      Robert W. Jones, who owns two Subway
142  franchises on the campus, said that when the
143  school asked him to stop selling soda, he
144  worried that it would upset his customers. Mr.
145  Jones said that his beverage sales declined by
146  about 10 percent in the first two months after
147  the soda was removed, but that he recovered
148  most of the business through sales of diet
149  drinks and bottled water.
150      Whether the policy will have any
151  measurable impact on health remains to be
152  seen. Elissa Epel, the associate director of the
153  university’s Nutrition and Obesity Research
154  Center, said she and her colleagues want to
155  find out if employees who manage to reduce
156  their overall sugary drink intake saw any
157  impact on things like weight loss, liver health,
158  insulin resistance and telomeres, the stretches
159  of DNA that are linked to longevity.
160      One employee who is enrolled in the
161  study, Kristine Obiniana, an analyst at the
162  medical center, said she had been consuming
163  as many as three sugary drinks per day. Ms.
164  Obiniana said that when the policy first went
165  into effect last year, she found herself
166  bringing ginger ale, Dr. Pepper and Capri Sun
167  juices to work. Eventually, she stopped
168  bringing soda to work and started drinking
169  water, tea and zero-calorie flavored drinks
170  instead. She has lost five pounds and hopes to
171  lose at least 20 more.

Leia o texto para responder à questão.

Domestic violence victims denied justice: state of Roraima fails to investigate, prosecute abusers

June 21, 2017

    The authorities in the Brazilian state of Roraima are failing to investigate or prosecute domestic violence cases, leaving women at further risk of abuse, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The serious problems in Roraima, the state with the highest rate of killings of women in Brazil, reflect nationwide failures to provide victims of domestic violence with access to justice and protection.

    Killings of women rose 139 percent from 2010 to 2015 in Roraima, reaching 11.4 homicides per 100,000 women that year, the latest for which there is data available. The national average is 4.4 killings per 100,000 women—already one of the highest in the world. Studies in Brazil and worldwide estimate that a large percentage of women who suffer violent deaths are killed by partners or former partners.

    Only a quarter of women who suffer violence in Brazil report it, according to a February 2017 survey that does not provide state-by-state data. Human Rights Watch found in Roraima that when women do call police they face considerable barriers to having their cases heard. Military police told Human Rights Watch that, for lack of personnel, they do not respond to all emergency calls from women who say they are experiencing domestic violence. Other women are turned away at police stations. Some civil police officers in Boa Vista, the state´s capital, decline to register domestic violence complaints or to request protection orders. Instead, they direct victims to the single “women’s police station” in the state – which specializes in crimes against women – even at times when that station is closed. Even when police receive their complaints, women must tell their story of abuse, including sexual abuse, in open reception areas, as there are no private rooms to take statements in any police station in the state.

    Not a single civil police officer in Roraima receives training in how to handle domestic violence cases. Some police officers, when receiving women seeking protection orders, take statements so carelessly that judges lack the basic information they need to decide whether to issue the order. Civil police are unable to keep up with the volume of complaints they do receive. In Boa Vista, the police have failed to do investigative work on a backlog of 8,400 domestic violence complaints.

(Human Rights Watch. www.hrw.org/news/2017/06/21/ brazil-domestic-violence-victims-denied-justice. Adaptado)

Leia o texto para responder à questão.

Domestic violence victims denied justice: state of Roraima fails to investigate, prosecute abusers

June 21, 2017

    The authorities in the Brazilian state of Roraima are failing to investigate or prosecute domestic violence cases, leaving women at further risk of abuse, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The serious problems in Roraima, the state with the highest rate of killings of women in Brazil, reflect nationwide failures to provide victims of domestic violence with access to justice and protection.

    Killings of women rose 139 percent from 2010 to 2015 in Roraima, reaching 11.4 homicides per 100,000 women that year, the latest for which there is data available. The national average is 4.4 killings per 100,000 women—already one of the highest in the world. Studies in Brazil and worldwide estimate that a large percentage of women who suffer violent deaths are killed by partners or former partners.

    Only a quarter of women who suffer violence in Brazil report it, according to a February 2017 survey that does not provide state-by-state data. Human Rights Watch found in Roraima that when women do call police they face considerable barriers to having their cases heard. Military police told Human Rights Watch that, for lack of personnel, they do not respond to all emergency calls from women who say they are experiencing domestic violence. Other women are turned away at police stations. Some civil police officers in Boa Vista, the state´s capital, decline to register domestic violence complaints or to request protection orders. Instead, they direct victims to the single “women’s police station” in the state – which specializes in crimes against women – even at times when that station is closed. Even when police receive their complaints, women must tell their story of abuse, including sexual abuse, in open reception areas, as there are no private rooms to take statements in any police station in the state.

    Not a single civil police officer in Roraima receives training in how to handle domestic violence cases. Some police officers, when receiving women seeking protection orders, take statements so carelessly that judges lack the basic information they need to decide whether to issue the order. Civil police are unable to keep up with the volume of complaints they do receive. In Boa Vista, the police have failed to do investigative work on a backlog of 8,400 domestic violence complaints.

(Human Rights Watch. www.hrw.org/news/2017/06/21/ brazil-domestic-violence-victims-denied-justice. Adaptado)

Leia o texto para responder à questão.

Explained: What is the Internet of Things (IoT)?

_{Bridget Botelho, Editorial Director}

     So what is the Internet of Things? Simply put, it’s machine-to-machine communication, but it’s much more than just connected devices. What is the Internet of Things, exactly? It is an ambiguous term, but it is fast becoming a tangible technology that can be applied in data centers to collect information on just about anything that Information Technology (IT) wants to control. The Internet of Things (IoT) is essentially a system of machines or objects outfitted with data-collecting technologies so that those objects can communicate with one another. The machine-to-machine (M2M) data that is generated has a wide range of uses, but is commonly seen as a way to determine the health and status of things – inanimate or living.
     IT administrators can use the IoT for anything in their physical environment that they want information about. In fact, they already do. In one case, IoT is being used to stymie deforestation in the Amazon rainforest. A Brazilian location-services company called Cargo Tracck places M2M sensors from security company Gemalto in trees in protected areas. When a tree is cut or moved, law enforcement receives a message with its GPS location, allowing authorities to track down the illegally removed tree.
     One analyst explained the IoT using the iPhone as an analogy. Disconnected third-party applications that are hosted in the cloud can be connected, and users can access all sorts of data from the device, according to Sam Lucero, senior principal analyst, M2M and Internet of Things, at IHS Electronics & Media in Tempe, Ariz.

How the Internet of Things works

     While some consider IoT to be M2M communication over a closed network, that model is really just an intranet of things, Lucero said. With an Intranet of Things, apps are mobilized for a specific purpose and don’t interact outside of that network. The true IoT is where different applications are mobilized for specific reasons and the data collected from the machines and objects being monitored are made available to third-party applications. The expectation is that true IoT will provide more value than what can be derived from secluded islands of information, Lucero said.

     For the IoT to work in data centers, platforms from competing vendors need to be able to communicate with one another. This requires standard APIs that all vendors and equipment can plug into, for both the systems interfaces as well as various devices, said Mike Sapien, a principal analyst with Ovum.

(http://internetofthingsagenda.techtarget.com/feature/Explained -What-is-the-Internet-of-Things. Adaptado)