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Norvik Dairy fits sensors to its refrigerated delivery trucks. The sensors send temperature and location readings automatically over a network to a central system, which alerts managers if a load warms above a safe level. Which description best fits this technology?

This is the Internet of Things. Physical devices, here truck sensors, gather temperature and location data and transmit it automatically over a network to a central system, enabling real-time monitoring and alerts without human data entry. It is not blockchain, virtual reality or robotic process automation.

  1. AInternet of Things, because physical devices collect and transmit data without human inputCorrect
  2. BBlockchain, because the readings are stored in linked blocks
  3. CVirtual reality, because managers see the trucks in a simulated environment
  4. DRobotic process automation, because software mimics a clerk's keystrokes

Explanation

The Internet of Things connects physical objects with sensors to a network so they exchange data automatically. Here the trucks send readings with no human entry. Blockchain is a ledger approach and nothing in the case requires it. RPA automates clerical software tasks, not physical sensing.

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