How The Internet of Things Will Change Everything | Branded Content | Tech Today and Tomorrow | Episode 1

When the Internet of Things is really operating,

there'll be so many things that just happen automatically.

It really will change the environment around us.

[Man] We have the opportunity to actually harness

so much potential.

The Internet of Things is the next step

in the evolution of the internet.

Whether it's objects in your home,

devices that you wear,

or factory equipment,

the Internet of Things is everywhere,

but what, exactly, is the Internet of Things?

IoT, is a network of physical devices

that are able to exchange data through their embedded

internet connectivity.

The data from these devices also provides us

with insight and control of business operations,

making our lives and businesses more efficient.

It's everything.

It's gonna be your clothes, your shoes, your car,

your house, the shops.

All the products that you take for granted

will be able to pass data between them.

IoT is a fantastic opportunity for us

to make the environment smarter,

to put sensors into places where we don't

really want to put humans,

where it may be expensive or dangerous.

The industrial IoT, we have made great inroads

into the use cases that were relevant for manufacturing

for the supply chain.

And we're now seeing IoT really coming to the fore.

IoT offers great consumer and enterprise opportunity

for us to, actually, get much more precise measurements

and information from the world that we live in.

We've all experienced this sort of wave

of products that are coming that hope to make

what we do everyday a little bit more seamless.

Nearly every product company is making bets

on connecting their products.

Medication adherence, people not taking their meds,

is one of the biggest problems in health care.

Each year it adds about $300 billion in costs

to the US health care system.

Our approach is let's improve that through the tool

that the patient uses each and every day,

the pill bottle.

This is an IoT device,

but it's so simple and so seamless

that someone that doesn't even own a cell phone

can use this.

There's a number of sensors that help our system

measure whether a patient has taken their dose.

If you miss a dose,

you get a friendly reminder,

like the bottle can pulse.

If there are more serious issues, like side effects,

or you need refill support,

we alert you as the patient.

True disruption of the health care industry

will occur when you can put sensors and communication

into tools that were previously not connected.

Better battery life is really important in this space

because a lot of things aren't, necessarily,

connected up with an electrical current.

We work on a number of different products and solutions,

but one of the exciting ones that we're working

on right now is a low-power network solution.

You're going to be able build from days to multiple

years of battery life.

So, if you think about something remote,

you can, now, begin to connect things

that have never had power to them before.

This is an example of what we've done for monitoring

shredder bin trash pickups.

The company that goes and collects those,

and shreds the papers had no idea if this

had two pieces of paper in it or it was completely full.

So, we were able to develop a solution that

allows them to, more predictably, send the driver

out to exact those that are full or needed.

Another solution we're working on is porta potties.

We actually developed a solution a that mounts inside.

It's monitoring smells and how many people have gone in

and used it.

So, if you think about time, materials, gas costs,

by knowing the conditions ahead of time, or remotely,

there's a tremendous amount of value that can

be extracted from that kind of service.

Once you've got the connectivity, and you are, now,

able to get information,

you're, now, able to do predictive insights

based upon the data that we're seeing.

We're seeing industries completely transformed

across the board.

The Internet of Things has raised tremendous

security challenges.

I think one of our biggest nightmares has yet to happen,

it is around the security risks of IoT devices.

So many products were designed with almost

no thought to security,

that there are all kinds of backdoors and issues there.

We heard of one company whose hackers got in through

an internet-connected fish tank.

With IoT and the connected home,

somebody could know, literally, when you're home,

what you're doing, what your schedule is

by just hacking in and monitoring all that data.

There needs to be some regulations before

they actually get installed in your home.

The devices and the sensors need to evolve

they need to become things that can be managed

in a way like we manage the mobile phone,

like we manage the desktop.

And I think being able to react quicker

is going to be critical.

I think IoT will definitely create efficiencies

and capabilities that we just can't imagine today.

The big connectivity advances of building

smart cities, smart societies,

those are all coming.

I think the Internet of Things is going to supplement

the internet.

At some point, will my devices be smart enough

that I'll forget that the internet's

the connectivity behind it?

Maybe.

It's going to make you a more rounded human being.

It's going to make you more equipped

to actually be successful.

It will become a mass tool for humanity.