The State of the IoT Union: Industry Opinions & Commentary

P A R T I C I P A N T S:

Geoff Arnold, Cisco

• Dr John Bates, Software AG

• Emil Berthelsen, Machina Research

• Jason Bloomberg, Intellyx

• Geoff Brown, M2Mi Corp

• Michael Denis, Aircraft Commerce

• Mac Devine, IBM

Q. Of the various alternative terms, ‘Internet of Things’, ‘Web of Things’, ‘Industrial Internet’, ‘Internet of Everything’…which is the one you believe most relevantly/usefully describes the trajectory of the intersection between ‘things’ and the future? Or do you have another term altogether that you prefer?

Jason Bloomberg:

iot-blog-image20141110120750Much like “Cloud,” “Internet of Things” covers many different markets and technologies that serve different purposes, lumped together under a single catchy marketing term – for better or worse. Having a single catchy term is great for people who have the chutzpah to run IoT conferences (not that I know any of those!) but soon confuses people when they are trying to understand the specifics. On the other hand, no one alternative term would solve this problem.
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