INTERVIEW
JC: This piece of the IoT solution is often under-promoted. To put this into context market statistics around IoT are overhyped. What is the size of the IoT relative to something which we can understand – the internet? If you look at the internet of 2013 compared to 2020, it will be seven times the value of 2013. Then look at value of IoT based on the number of devices that are projected in 2020 and it could be potentially 36 times the value of the internet today. It’s huge but, when you consider that the IoT today is still much smaller than the internet, there is an enormous gap between the projections and the reality. What drove the internet forward was the killer app – search – which allowed data interoperability but that is missing in the IoT today. Jason Collins: Impact provides the building blocks to manage the device to the connectivity all the way through to building and managing the application
Regulation may help to some extent but the reality is that the cat is out of the bag. It will be too difficult to regulate all devices in the IoT
MM: So, what is the killer app for the IoT? JC: In contrast, the IoT is not yet the Internet of Things but more a set of M2M use cases and there is a focus on use cases because we are looking for the killer app, the equivalent of search for the internet. Which is why our horizontal platform, ADEP (Application Device Enablement Platform), is important. The industry will focus on use cases to generate near-term value but it’s also an opportunity for companies to think about how they interconnect people with the value of the things. ADEP is a core component of Impact. It is standards-based and facilitates interoperability of data. It provides an opportunity to create the IoT rather than M2M use cases. That’s not to discount the need for use cases. People need to understand what the good use cases are but if you want to become the next Google you need the platform and you need to interconnect data. A lot of the money in IoT will be made from the analytics. MM: Do you think that regulation has a role to play in securing IoT devices? JC: Regulation may help to some extent but the reality is that the cat is out of the bag. It will be too difficult to regulate all devices in the IoT. Even if a government does impose regulation on devices it will only be national, not global. The approach to IoT security should be multi-pronged. There should be some regulation but also best practice. For example, device manufacturers may certify their devices. And it will be critical to have standards-based platforms for interconnectivity so that there is a standard way to access the IoT device. But the most interesting approach to watch in the next two to three years is the role of the network in providing security for the IoT.
JC: Last year at Mobile World Congress we announced our IoT
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MM: In which areas are you most active in working with partners and building the ecosystem for IoT?