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Giving the Internet of Things a Voice

“I think the internet of things (IoT) means many different things to many people. Much of the time it’s no different to what we used to call machine-to-machine; it’s largely rebranding for something that never quite achieved its potential,” claims technology evangelist, serial entrepreneur and developer, Nick Hunn. Hunn is Chief Technology Officer at, wireless consulting firm, WiFore, but he has been “connecting things” for as long as he can remember. “I like to think I’ve helped people add wireless connectivity to everything from snow ploughs to sex toys,” he said, during a Memoori webinar last week. Hunn believes we are just at the beginning of the story of IoT for consumer products and that the technology is vastly over hyped at the moment. Recently however, he has seen some real applications starting to emerge in commercial areas, where people are using connected data in much more promising and meaningful ways. Ways that move us […]

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