Internet of Things and Geography - Review and Prospect

Abstract

Due to the development of Internet of Things, which is closely related to a series of geographical questions, this paper explores such new phenomenon of Human Geography, especially the change from Internet era to Internet of Things era. The aim of the geographical research on the new information technology in the near future is: to solve geographical problems in application, such as spatial attributes, space organizations, geographical distribution of elements and function, geographical types of service, spatial regularity; to re-examine Geography under Internet of Things, including new man-land relationship, new spatial structure, new business model and Commercial Geography, new urban spatial structure, new Industrial Geography, new Behavioral Geography, and new Information Geography.