“I firmly believe that there is not a single industry that won’t benefit from IoT” said Vernon Turner, senior vice president of research and IoT executive lead at International Data Corp. Today, it is hard to find any technology news these days without a link to the Internet of Things (IoT). This all-encompassing technological concept paints a picture of our future, which would be at home in a science fiction novel. While any individual example of an IoT application may seem undramatically realistic with today’s technology, envisioning a world of IoT begins to stretch the imagination on the scale of data transfer, cost of hardware and threat of security breaches. One of the most significant questions being asked about the feasibility of an IoT rich world is whether our current connectivity infrastructure could handle this broad level of data transfer. Indeed, the sheer number of potential “things” sending and receiving data over huge distances creates […]