The Next Phase
of the
Internet ‘Connecting things’
By Mary Turner, CEO of AlertMe O Of course
ver the next five years we will begin to manage our homes in the cloud. Getting access to our information and
monitoring our energy use, controlling devices and automating appliances when we are not there will be commonplace.
the ‘Smart Home’ has
been talked about before but now the catalysts are in place to make it a mass market reality. First of all, the challenges faced by the energy industry mean prices will only continue to rise and the roll out of smart meters will provide connectivity and access to energy data that just wasn’t possible before. Secondly, we are all time starved and cash poor, but we do already have home broadband, smart phones and are accustomed to using them to get access to friends, family and services online and via apps wherever we are. So the next logical step is to access our home through cloud services
The internet has transformed our daily lives. Tim Berners-Lee’s recent launch of
the Global Web Index
has just reported on the impact the internet has had on citizens around
28 entrepreneurcountry
the world. This index has been based on a comprehensive evaluation across seven key areas and 80 indicators from affordability, consumer use and content to infrastructure, speed and government accessibility. Sweden, the USA, UK, Canada and Finland make up the top five nations on the leader board. And there is no dispute that the telecoms industry has underpinned this growth in accessibility and uptake in the leading markets by providing high speed connectivity to support the explosion in content and services.
More than this, it has stimulated the ‘Digital Economy’, which is estimated
by an AT Kearney report this year to be worth £82bn to the UK economy alone and growing strongly year on year. Over half of this revenue has not been generated by new pure digital businesses, but has come from value added ecommerce for traditional ones.
However, the same report also warns that we must not be complacent if we want this growth to continue. The demands made on infrastructure providers by over the top services needs to be met with a regulatory environment that encourages ongoing investment in the telecoms backbone.
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