How to get cats online? The power of IoT
Talking about the what, why and how of IoT
We saw it first with PCs, then phones, and now, embedded devices and the IoT. Back in 2011 Ericsson predicted 50 billion connected devices by 2020. In the same year Apple launched the iPhone 4S. This really stretched the imagination. Back then only few people dared to imagine things like getting cats online.
What happened since then? Today we have about 35 to 40 billion installed IoT devices, IDC predicts that we will have 55.7 connected IoT devices by 2025. So Ericsson was almost right with its crazy prediction of 2011. And we have internet connected cat. “To get that cat online four things had to happen”, described Daniel Cooley.
1. unlimited cloud infrastructure
2. data networks
3. computers in every single pocket
4. billions of low-cost powerful connectivity solutions
“What is most exciting about embedded computing to me today is, that it is going online. Any CPU out there is a candidate for connecting to the cloud. We have billions of these things surrounding us. It is a very powerful concept. We will spend the rest of our careers designing generation after generation after generation of this IoT technology.”, said Cooley.
But what is IoT? For Cooley it is closing the air gap and connecting it to the cloud. “Once connected, everything is different. It sets the data free”, according to Cooley.