EP #507: Why the Internet of Things is about connecting life, not devices - with Sense founder Rafi Haladjian

If you are confused about the Internet of Things, watch this episode. Seriously.   Rafi Haladjian has been doing this whole IoT thing for many many years and his views on it are some of the most unique and prescient that I've come across. He is the founder and CEO of a company called Sense, inventors of Mother - a combination of devices, the cloud and dashboards to collect and make sense of the resulting data. The outcome of all of this will be a legion of smart services and apps as a result.   The current thinking around the Internet of Things (IoT) is to load up every single thing we wear, carry, drive, eat, watch and stand on with sensors. Those sensors feed back up into the cloud where data is collected and made big. This is a simple, rudimentary, bloated and wasteful process. That's where Sense comes in. The idea that we need sensors everywhere and in everything is not the guiding principle for this company or their founders. Instead, the platform of sensors they are building will become transient - use them for a while, move them when you are done while building an ecosystem of smart apps for each purpose.   A lot of thought has gone into the creation of this platform over the last 11 years and Rafi's approach has had the most profound impact on my thinking about this world we are entering.   Full show notes can be found here: http://untether.tv/2014/ep-507-why-the-internet-of-things-is-about-connecting-life-not-devices-with-sense-founder-rafi-haladjian/