THE INTERNET
OF EVERYTHING
Joel Cardella

JOEL CARDELLA
 Over 20 years in IT
 Currently Director, Information Security @ Holcim
 Twitter: @JoelConverses
 Email: dronf@pobox.com

GARTNER NEXUS OF FORCES WHICH
ARE CHANGING & SHAPING BUSINESS
Source:
Gartner.com

THE INFORMATION AGE
 Like the Industrial Revolution, we are in the midst of the
Information Revolution
 The railroads laid track and allowed people to get from one side of
the country to the other – the Internet has laid tracks (fiber cables)
and allowed us to go anywhere in the world
 We are changing the way the world works because of collection
and analytics of information
 Digital technology will drive business improvement and innovation

DIGITALIZATION
 Digitalization occurs when things become part of the digital world,
or things are created in it
 Convergence of the real world and the digital world comes closer
every day – it might one day be indistinguishable

THE INTERNET
 The internet has many uses, and many levels
 On the surface, we see the exchange of information as web
pages, media, emails, etc
 Deeper down, there’s the exchanges that happen through
interconnected people, devices and things
 And there’s the information about the information, called “meta
data”

INTERNET OF THINGS
 Sometime during 2008, the number of things connected to the
Internet exceeded the number of people on planet Earth
 International Data Corporation said the installed base of things
connected will be 212 billion by the end of 2020, including 30.1
billion connected autonomous things. Intelligent systems will be
installed and collecting data by this point (M2M)
 Cars, buildings, phones, will all be communicating via the internet
 Sensors will be everywhere – and as they get cheaper, things get
“smart” driving the growth of the IoT

SOME THINGS

3D PRINTING

3D PRINTING CREATES
SOMETHING FROM NOTHING!
3D printing is additive
manufacturing, versus the
traditional subtractive process

DESKTOP 3D PRINTING IS HERE
Local Maker groups
Makerworks-AA
All Hands Active
Omnicorp Detroit
i3 Detroit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5SpNua-XfI#t=130

WHAT ELSE CAN WE PRINT?
 http://www.ted.com/talks/anthony_atala_printing_a_human_kidne
y.html
 http://www.gizmag.com/d-shape-3d-printer/21594/
 http://www.blizzident.com/index.html
We can print almost anything you can imagine

INFORMATION IS KING
 “The information about the package is just as
important as the package itself”
 Fred Smith, FedEx Founder, Chairman, President &
CEO
 1978
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 So if we can print in 3D based on a set of information, what’s
more important;
 The information about the object (the meta data) or the object
itself?

THE CLOUD

WHAT IS THE CLOUD?
 The cloud refers to a massive amount of computing resources,
which are highly available for access and storage

CLOUD DESCRIBED
 The benefits of the cloud are:
 Instant computing
 Highly scalable, as little or as much computing power as is needed
 Not sensitive to peaks and valleys of information flow
 Highly available from anywhere
 Backup and recovery can be almost instantaneous
 Can be cost efficient
 The drawbacks of the cloud are
 Higher risk to information assets
 Compatibility with existing infrastructure
 Standardization
 Resource monitoring
 Expectation of availability increases
 Regulatory hurdles (intra- and inter-country)
 Must be always online to access resources

WHY DO WE CARE?

ANYONE CAN OWN A BUSINESS

SOCIAL

SOCIAL COLLABORATION

BUSINESS COLLABORATION
 Real time document collaboration
 Google Apps
 Microsoft Office Live
 Dropbox for business
 Workshare

NOW YOU BECOME A BUSINESS!
 The consumer and the business become one
 Collaboration now makes every person a business who competes
with traditional business models
 Airbnb.com
 Competes with traditional hotels and services like hotels.com
 Parkatmyhouse.com
 Competes with parking lots & garages

SUMMARY

GARTNER NEXUS OF FORCES WHICH
ARE CHANGING & SHAPING BUSINESS
Source:
Gartner.com

THIS IS ALL ABOUT POTENTIAL
The potential to use information to
Create new business opportunities
Create new things from old things, or
re-imagine old things
Imagine or Reimagine the impossible
(the art of possibility)
Drive innovation

SO WHAT DO WE NEED TO MAKE
THESE THINGS A REALITY?
 Digital technical architecture
 All technological assets
 Enterprise information architecture
 All the information assets of an enterprise
 Cyber security and risk management
 Secure transmission, access and storage
 Industrialized IT infrastructure ecosystem
 Internet of things as sensors & processors cheapen
 Digital leadership
 Leaders who think in the digital and physical worlds

TIPS FOR SUCCESS
 Recognize the potential of information - all products
have use value, exchange value, and informational
value
 Capitalize on the business moments – if you can think
it, you might be able to make it happen, right now
 Apply logical thinking in illogical ways – can we get a
car subscription service like the one we have with
Netflix? Ask crazy questions!
 Information moves at real-time or near real-time
speeds, so be flexible and adaptable