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What does Internet of Things have to do with social media, marketing and sales?
Recently I received this question and it made me think for a while. In fact it took me more than just a while. Why? Because this is a great perspective to watch and see the Internet of Things (IoT) development and its technology implications. We can't predict the future but we can put together some scenarios and simulate them ... Exactly this is also the point of the question. With addition of more or less smart devices and sensors to the Interent of Human, we can better understand our world and make the difference.So basically and again ... technology and connecting devices is one thing, making sense out of it is what Internet of Things adds to the future of Internet. besides simple IoT applications connecting few temperature sensors arround the globe and mapping them on the Google map together with current temperature is only the beginning. Though there are many other, much more advanced applications and even complex services available based on the IoT technology (mostly using RFID and M2M), such basic projects as worldwide temperature sensing are the cornerstones of future Internet. This is also what history teaches us ... just to recall recent case with Twitter. When it was launched mostly comments where like "Why the hack should one send less than 150 chars messages over the Internet?" or "What's the point I follow some strangers on the Twitter?". Well Twitter has become very important media channel, at least.
So the question is not if, but rather when Internet of Things meets social media, marketing and sales. I already have spoted some intersting products and applications which goes beyond basic IoT or in popular language. We've seen IoT 1.0. We're expecting to see IoT 2.0.
Why Internet of Human doesn't work on the first »Internet of Things week« event?
June, 6th, 2011
I'm sitting in the lecture room on University Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona and I'm writing this blog, which will not be shared until I find the reason why my computer doesn't want to connect to Internet of Human. I also wouldn't be writing the blog if my Internet connection would have worked. Probably. I would rather surf the web.
So how do we expect that Internet of things will work if we can't deliver simple but reliable Internet of human connection? Well on the other hand the Internet of things may speed up deployment of new and additional Internet connections worldwide. Especially adding high speed connections (over 10Mbps) in order to support more advanced services. So do we first have to take care of the Internet infrastructure to help IoT services to develop or vice versa, are IoT deployments going to become major Internet infrastructure deployment drivers?
I'm sitting in the lecture room on University Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona and I'm writing this blog, which will not be shared until I find the reason why my computer doesn't want to connect to Internet of Human. I also wouldn't be writing the blog if my Internet connection would have worked. Probably. I would rather surf the web.
So how do we expect that Internet of things will work if we can't deliver simple but reliable Internet of human connection? Well on the other hand the Internet of things may speed up deployment of new and additional Internet connections worldwide. Especially adding high speed connections (over 10Mbps) in order to support more advanced services. So do we first have to take care of the Internet infrastructure to help IoT services to develop or vice versa, are IoT deployments going to become major Internet infrastructure deployment drivers?