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Aruna Srinivasan , Senior Director of the Internet of Things at the GSMA , believes that the COVID-19 pandemic will be the catalyst for the kind of ubiquity that Koopmans describes . “ Over the next few years I think we ’ ll see an optimisation of connected / virtual life and real life ,” she explains , adding that “ The pandemic has taught us the value of each , and I ’ m excited to see how we achieve a balance in all areas of our lives .”
“ Over the next few years I think we ’ ll see an optimisation of connected / virtual life and real life ”
ARUNA SRINIVASAN SENIOR DIRECTOR OF THE INTERNET OF THINGS , THE GSMA
Koopmans goes even further , positing that , up until this point , IoT has largely been used to augment and automate pre existing business functions . “ Many IoT implementations are just business extensions ,” he explains . “ For example , the remote reading of electricity meters , the predictive maintenance of logistics trucks , or the traffic management driven by parking sensors . Credible applications in their own right , but completely vertically integrated , only useful to the business running it .” These relatively narrow applications are , Koopmans reflects , “ a far cry of the Internet of Things - the emphasis being on Internet .”
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