I am the Founder and Head of the team Adaptive Systems of Intelligent Agents, formerly known as the DIALOG team (Distributed Information Architectures for collaborative LOGistics, old web pages here). We claim that the DIALOG software was the first Internet of Things (IoT) implementation worldwide in 2002 (being used in several multi-organization real-world applications), according to the current view and definition of IoT. DIALOG was described in the (to our best knowledge) first research articles that explicitly mention IoT worldwide in 2002 (see e.g. "HUVIO, Eero, GRÖNVALL, John, FRÄMLING, Kary. Tracking and tracing parcels using a distributed computing approach. In: SOLEM, Olav (ed.) Proceedings of the 14th Annual Conference for Nordic Researchers in Logistics (NOFOMA'2002) , Trondheim, Norway, 12-14 June 2002. pp. 29-43).

The concept of Digital Twin has gained increasing momentum since it was introduced in about 2010. A Digital Twin is identical to the Virtual Counterpart (or Product Agent) concept that I presented in 2002 at the ELO workshop organised in Helsinki by Tekes (the former Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation), http://www.cs.hut.fi/u/framling/Publications/ELO7m...

My main areas of professional interest are:

• Artificial Intelligence
• Intelligent Products
• Internet of Things
• Reinforcement Learning
• Product Lifecycle Information Management / Closed-Loop Lifecycle Management (CL2M)
• Distributed programs
• Neural Networks
• Multi-Agent Systems

Some highlights on my achievements:

• First (or at least one of the first) academic articles mentioning the Internet of Things (IoT) concept (2002)
• IoT implementation enabling most current (2013) IoT systems with the DIALOG platform in 2001, used in industrial pilot systems in 2002 and 2003
• Creation of generic IoT architecture and implementations in several domains (homes, appliances, vehicles, industrial services etc.) during the PROMISE EU FP6 project