8. During 2008, the number of things
connected to the Internet exceeded the
number of people on earth
2003
2010
2015
By 2020 there
Source: Cisco Blog
will be 50 billion.
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What if Telcos would leverage their existing consumer relationship by offering promotion services to consumer facing industries helping them to enter consumer relationships.
This is communicated to your alarm clock to go off 15 minutes earlier.These things are starting to talk to each other and develop their own intelligence… Imagine a scenario where… there was an accident on your driving route causing a 20 minute detour.… your car knows it will need gas to make it to the office. Fill-ups usually take 5 minutes.… your office is notified of the traffic delay and will start a remote meeting instead.And signals your coffee maker to turn on 15 minutes earlier as well. And signals your car to start in 15 minutes earlier to melt the ice accumulated in overnight snow storm.
Leading to IoT/M2M
SAP is engaged in enabling M2M business processes in a variety of industries which means a great opportunity for telcos
Jointly with Deutsche Telekom T-Systems (need to confirm we’re allowed to mention) SAP is running an M2M smart port project at one of Europe’s largest harbors.
Carry on explaining we’re the leader in M2M enabled industry business scenarios …