In line with the theme of field based technologies, I attended the Lunch & Learn at the IET Savoy Place in London last week on 'IOT - Are you Ready ?' presented by Mischa Dohler a full Professor in Wireless Communications at King’s College London. He gave a very dynamic understanding of wireless communications and what variables are currently being taken into account to create IoT devices, including how power, energy, security alongside demand and product-delivery will be the key success factors in delivering an IoT ecosystem correctly.

Interestingly, three years ago the concept of 'Subnet of Things' was introduced by Jim Morrish at the 2014 IET Pinkterton Lecture in the heart of India's tech hub - Bangalore - at the GE's John F. Welch Technology Center. As a key take away, he specifically talked through his insights of how to build IoT ecosystems using the concept of 'Subnet of Things'.


Given the rate of innovation in the last three years for specific IoT based infrastructure, hardware and software it’s now possible to envisage how industry will create  the  'Subnet of Things' . So perhaps in the next 2 years we will finally see the many anticipated consumer-field based IoT products in the market place, beyond farming, health, cars and weather.


In contrast, most IoT based devices attribute their genius to the use of sensors - so how that aspect of innovation flows into the modern office enterprise is yet to come about. The obvious use of IoT is authentication and authorisation using bio data, however, for the modern client server office environment, it’s still open on how IoT can be fully utilised to service core business activities.


Details on Professor Mischa Dohler can be found here.


Details on the 2014 IET Pinkerton Lecture in Bangalore India can be found here.