1. Setting The Scene From Miniscule Chips To Mammoth Machines “Existing industry The “Internet of Things” is Social alignments in IoT today exploding. It is made up of billions are as important as technical ecosystems will be of “smart” devices - from miniscule alignments. chips to mammoth machines - Existing industry ecosystems will disrupted less by that use wireless technology to be disrupted less by technological talk to each other (and to us). capabilities and more by the technological capabilities Our IoT world is growing at a alliances, partnerships, and breathtaking pace, from 2 billion communities formed in part by and more by the new objects in 2006 to a projected new startup businesses. 20 billion by 2020. That will be alliances, partnerships, around 3 smart objects for every The challenges for most startups human being on Earth! come in scaling from prototype and communities formed The promise of IoT is not just in to product manufacture, at scale. making our homes smarter or Findings from Intel Labs and Intel in part by new startup our phones more connected. The User Experience Research – as benefit of IoT is vastly amplified well as from workshops at the businesses.” when solutions are deployed University of Salzberg – stress the across factory, automotive, retail, importance of smoothing the path and healthcare settings. That is to product for new startups in because of the value in extracting order to achieve diverse scale. insights from aggregating disparate data streams. IoT provides the ability to track inventory, manage machines, increase efficiency, and even save lives. 4 5