relayr: internet of things background and trends

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50bn Things (not people) will be connected to the internet by 2020 vs 8 today.  

$4.1 Trillion annual revenues for addressable market by 2016.  

$14.4 Trillion net value at stake from networked internet devices in 2023.  

Source: Cisco, Whitepaper, Embracing the Internet of Everything To Capture Your Share of $14.4 Trillion 2013, p.15.  

Size of the Internet of Things

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Thousands of new devices, that don’t talk to each other,

!!#@!?

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déjà vu. Same problem 30 years ago Computer Networks could not talk to each other, until...

…Cisco launched the multiprotocol router, networking computers, sharing information, kick-starting the Internet

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Today again, thousands of new devices, that don’t talk to each other,

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Connect them.

Today again, thousands of new devices, that don’t talk not yet to each other,

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Key IoT Business Drivers

•  Hardware Maker Revolution •  App Economy Explosion •  Cost of Sensors declining •  Cost of Cloud and Data Storage declining •  Public Awareness exploding (CES, Nest, Dropcam etc.) •  Innovation Pressure on Corporates •  Slow R&D Processes a liability to businesses •  Open Source Hardware (Arduino, RasPi, WunderBar) •  Global pressure to solve real world problems

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But what makes a revolution?

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“The real revolution here is not in the creation of the technology, but the democratization of the technology....

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... It’s when you ... give it to a huge expanded group of people who come up with new applications, and you harness the ideas and the creativity and the energy of everybody. That’s what … makes a revolution.“  -­‐  Chris  Anderson,  „Makers:  The  new  Industrial  Revolu;on“,  Oct  2012  

relayr bring things to life  App Revolution

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But there is another revolution, just getting started…

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relayr bring things to life  Maker Revolution

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More than 50% pledged in last 12 months

2009 2013

relayr bring things to life  Kickstarter: Tech Projects

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„...hardware is the new software… …you’re seeing more and more entrepreneurs that would have just done another app starting to get into physical design, because they can.”  -­‐  Chris  Anderson,  „Makers:  The  new  Industrial  Revolu;on“,  Oct  2012  

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But hardware is hard!

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App Explosion

Maker Revolution

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