It will soon be so cheap to add connectivity, everyone will do it

We spend a lot of our time focused on the U.S. market, but this week’s show we review an IP camera from a French company and feature Dave Friedman, the CEO of Ayla Networks, discussing the Internet of things evolution in China. Friedman discusses a recent deal his company signed to provide the back-end infrastructure that will let Chinese manufacturers connect their products to China’s WeChat social network. Friedman also offers to compelling stats on how much the cost of connectivity and cloud hosting has dropped in the last five years. No wonder more people have been using services similar to hostiserver.com. Soon we’ll add connectivity to everything! The Netatmo Camera First up Kevin Tofel and I riff on the ideas from this article in Wired, which looks at the convergence of features in the big mobile operating systems and says we’ve basically come to agreement on what a smartphone should do. Kevin and I apply that same questioning to the smart home during the first half of our show talking about the role of the cloud, context and services. Then we hit some news from the Industrial Internet Consortium and analysis around HomeKit that might make the AllSeen Alliance a little worried. Finally, we review the Netatmo Welcome camera which offers facial recognition. Listen up. Host: Stacey Higginbotham and Kevin Tofel Guests: Dave Friedman, CEO of Ayla Networks Defining the essential features for the smart home The industrial internet gets a new testbed 5-Minute review of the Netatmo Welcome camera Costs are dropping by 70 percent for connectivity and cloud services China is embracing the smart home and isn’t too far behind the US The post It will soon be so cheap to add connectivity, everyone will do it appeared first on IoT Podcast - Internet of Things.