A New "Smart" Refrigerator Has Been Designed with Sensors That

question 40

Multiple Choice

A new "smart" refrigerator has been designed with sensors that send information to the manufacturer about the refrigerator's use and performance. One advantage of the system is that it will detect any possible performance issues before they interfere with consumer use of the refrigerator and communicate that information to both the manufacturer and consumer so that service and/or repairs can take place immediately. This is an example of ________.

• A) the Internet of Things
• B) a data warehouse
• C) data mining
• D) sentiment analysis
• E) unstructured data

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