{"id":117830,"date":"2019-05-14T06:49:37","date_gmt":"2019-05-14T11:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=117830"},"modified":"2019-05-14T06:49:44","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T11:49:44","slug":"latta-reintroduces-iot-related-legislation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2019\/05\/14\/latta-reintroduces-iot-related-legislation\/","title":{"rendered":"Latta reintroduces IoT-related legislation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>WASHINGTON, D.C.&nbsp;&#8212;&nbsp;U.S. Representative Bob Latta (R-Bowling Green) recently re-introduced the&nbsp;State of Modern Application, Research, and Trends of IoT Act<em>,<\/em>&nbsp;or the&nbsp;SMART IoT Act.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This legislation would direct the Secretary of Commerce to conduct a study on the state of the Internet-connected devices industry, or \u201cInternet of Things\u201d (IoT).&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/latta.house.gov\/uploadedfiles\/smart_iot_116th.pdf\">Click here<\/a>&nbsp;to read the bill text. Upon introduction, Latta released the following statement:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIoT technologies have the promise to change lives for the better, and as these new inventions develop, it\u2019s important that government is a partner with &#8212; not a hindrance to &#8212; America\u2019s innovators. With a projected economic impact in the trillions of dollars, we need to look at the policies, opportunities, and challenges that IoT presents.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;SMART IoT Act&nbsp;will make it easier to understand what the government is doing on IoT policy, what it can do better, and how federal policies can impact the research and discovery of cutting-edge technologies.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Submitted information WASHINGTON, D.C.&nbsp;&#8212;&nbsp;U.S. Representative Bob Latta (R-Bowling Green) recently re-introduced the&nbsp;State of Modern Application, Research, and Trends of IoT Act,&nbsp;or the&nbsp;SMART IoT Act.&nbsp; This legislation would direct the Secretary of Commerce to conduct a study on the state of the Internet-connected devices industry, or \u201cInternet of Things\u201d (IoT).&nbsp;Click here&nbsp;to read the bill text. Upon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-18 10:58:04","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}