There are three main steps to properly creating the Internet of Things; a problem that businesses seem to still collectively struggle understanding. This is the first of three articles in which we lay out this process, covering the first step – actually connecting a given thing to a network. The next two steps are using these connections for internal business applications, and then the process of interconnecting all of these applications for external use. Our definition of the IoT has remained pretty consistent through the years – ‘connecting a previously unconnected thing to the internet, and then deriving value from this new connection.’ However, in the time we have been writing about the market, it has greatly fallen short of…