relayr’s role in democratizing technology, making it available for a large number of developers who can then use their creativity and talent to develop amazing apps.

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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

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App Revolution

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But there is another revolution,
just getting started…

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Maker Revolution

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Kickstarter
More than 50% pledged in last 12 months
2009
2013

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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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