The Future Internet of Services and Things is becoming a reality with a plethora of software and hardware computing entities, such as services, sensors/actuators and other physical devices, bound to rapidly evolve.
They integrate several different types of hardware and software entities.
In this system, the agent concept is applied to both hardware and software entities.
Present-day control systems in a process plant are composed by a heterogeneous collection of hardware and software entities scattered over a set of heterogeneous platforms.
The safety function (in this model) has 6 components one for every components of the equivalent model and for other application the equivalent model could have more components (in fact, for real systems this number of components is the total number of devices, equipment and any other hardware or software entities).
Android TV is already more formidable in terms of available software than you see in this video, and I suspect support from developers won't be too hard to come by, especially once Google starts announcing more hardware partnerships with entities like TV makers.
But as Bezos points out, the Kindle store and the Kindle hardware are completely separate entities within Amazon.
For those of you not familiar with NOCs, here are some of the most important tools involved: Common Object Repository Stores information about managed resources and their properties and relationships allowing for a total view of the enterprise (software applications, hardware and databases, and entities such as accounts receivable, inventory and manufacturing processes).
Dobrov [3], p. 85] viewed a technological system as a 'three-dimensional technological entity' of hardware, software, and orgware, a viewpoint he regarded as necessary to understand modern 'advanced-systems-integrated organized technology' [3], p. 79].
