The document discusses challenges and opportunities in the Internet of Things (IoT) based on the author's experience. It notes that hardware development is difficult but important, and software depends on hardware. Successful IoT requires cross-department collaboration and engaging citizens. This will change how technology businesses operate. The author provides examples of IoT implementations with varying degrees of success and discusses strategies for companies to experiment with IoT through collaboration, prototyping, and working with startups.

1. Moderate, good, occasionally poor.
A forecast for the internet of things.
Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino
@iotwatch alex@designswarm.com

2. Tinker London designswarm Good Night Lamp

3. Three points.
Hardware is hard because it should be.
Software is key but depends on hardware.
The mix of the two requires cross-department,
cross-business collaboration and citizen engagement.
It will change the way business is done in tech.

4. What’s it all about?

5. What I know and what it costs

7. Plenty of ways to prototype.
Arduino & RaspberryPi SamLabs

8. What is #iot?

9. Occasionally poor.

10. Oh well.

11. Always paying for hardware.
My old British Gas Hive My new British Gas Hive

12. Moderate.

13. Micro-management syndrome.
Whirlpool app

14. Not knowing when a software solution could be better
Samsung smart fridge

15. Good.

16. Software as a glue to things that already work

17. Hiding in plain sight.
Flood Network

18. Software that has to work but not that often.

19. Hardware for people who care.
Japan Geiger Maps

20. Just in time hardware & health services.
Project Andiamo

21. So what?

22. Ways forward.
Allocate time & budget to experiment & collaborate
across business units.
Internal R&D with choice customers & small batch prototyping.
Send staff into incubators.
Work with startups.
Open source to engage and get feedback.

23. Thank you.
Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino
@iotwatch alex@designswarm.com