#CES2016 Internet Of Things

Sean Kinney, Managing Editor - RCR Wireless News: Chris Hare, CEO - nTeTe; and Steve Brumer, Partner - 151 Advisors, join host Jeff Mucci, RCR Wireless News for discussion about Internet of Things (IoT) highlights from CES 2016.

Brumer
- "insanely bigger , wider and deeper than ever before"
- "not a lot of people know how to make money in IoT"
- virtual reality was material theme
- refused to go to external hotels for meetings. Focused on the exhibition center and the AT&T Developers Conference
- Uber was a fantastic way to get around vegas and did great job
- AT&T has done an amazing job building smart city ecosystems and partnerships - similar to what carriers are doing in Asia

Below are a few quotes and comments from today's discussion.

Chris Hare
- Vegas and CES can't cope with anymore growth
- Woke up and realized he was a car show
- 27,000 versions of fit bit
- Lots of people throwing IoT products against the way to see what will stick
- Industrial IoT appears to be leading the way in terms of viable business plans
- Spent very little time on the convention floor
- One SIM card and one carrier relationship are increasingly important for carriers and industrial IoT players

Sean Kinney
- "Only 358 days until 2017CES - mark your calendar"
- Wearables moving towards services that deliver meaningful and insight value to consumers
- Industrial IoT players were there and appears to be ready to grow
- AT&T is connecting their digital home applications with their connected car "Drive" application
- Would not be surprised to see many of the autonomous vehicles being focused on fleet applications

Other key themes include:
- Distributed IoT architectures and computing activity by intel, Mediatek that includes security at the chip level
- IoT gateway product companies were touting security and encryption. Six months ago, security was behind the gateway; whereas, the trend seems to be moving towards integrating the security into the gateway

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