Such articles show that IOTA is still not fully understood by many.
And even the author doesn't fully understand as you can see here:
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with a concept called the internet of things (IoT), whereby nearly everything (think watches, refrigerators and automobiles) is connected to the internet and as such,
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Does iota plans to make small devices that participate in the IoT into nodes through swarm technology ?
Swarm nodes will be 99% of the network as far as I understood.