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ARM Holdings dominates the quickly growing mobile processing industry. It makes sense for them to be concerned about the “Internet of Things” to come. Especially since people are using smart devices to connect to the internet more and more every day. For example, there was 1 billion smart devices connected in 2011, and there expects to be 50 billion smart devices connected within the next 10 years. ARM expects that within the next 10 years, anything that will benefit from having an internet connection, will have it integrated in to their products.
The internet of things is referring to any “thing” that may be connected to the internet, such as: radios, cars, home energy systems, lighting systems, and any smart appliance. At the forum, they are looking to create a plan to link all these appliances within the future so everything could run more smoothly together. ARM claims that if action is not taken, an internet of silos would be the result. A world with less value for businesses and customers due to the “things” not working with each other.
Gary Atkinson will be leading the forum set to meet August 24th in the UK. Companies to be included so far are white space wireless guru Neul, lighting maker EnLight, cloud-aware sensing outfit AquaMW, and home energy firm Alertme. Linking more appliances and objects through the internet could make living more convenient, and information much more accessible. Data sharing and better organization through the internet will once again be making our lives much easier.
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