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San Francisco. The market for Internet-connected products, the so-called Internet of Things, is growing rapidly in the United States. The market exploded in the US in 2014 and in five years is expected to be 25 billion products in the field.
The market for Internet-connected products, the so-called Internet of Things, is growing rapidly in the United States. The market exploded in the US in 2014 and in five years is expected to be 25 billion products in the field.
– We are just at the beginning of a new phase in the Internet’s role in our everyday lives, says Alfred Liu, designer and consultant in San Francisco.
On the giant electronics store Best Buy in the district of Soma in San Francisco squeezed half a dozen people at a department that sells lighting products controlled by the mobile phone. Last autumn, this department store first in the US to open a separate department solely for internet connected products, a phenomenon called “internet of things” in the United States.
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It is about products for home, car, office or pocket that is connected to the network and can often predict when you need them. In addition to advanced lighting systems that can be adjusted from the mobile phone sells for example thermostats that adjust to the weather reports and umbrellas that glows intensely when it is expected to rain, so you must remember to take it out.
Photo: Linda Forsell.
– We now carry with us the internet online products throughout the day, not just phones but also watches, headphones, and a health meter. What is new is that all these products are now linked together, says Alfred Liu, who designs online products for a range of businesses in California.
Alfred Liu also runs an informal meeting group of people working in this area in San Francisco . In two years the number of members has grown from three to 2 600th
The interest of Things Internet grew sharply in the US last year and is expected to explode over the next five years. According to industry analysts, there will be 25 billion active products in the area in 2020. The market for these products will then be worth around unimaginable 19,000 billion dollars, according to an analysis of data now Cisco.
Here in Northern California, the heart of the US technology industry, dominate the Internet of Things conversation on many technology companies. Last year, Google bought the company Nest, whose products include Internet connected thermostats, for $ 3.2 billion. At this year’s Consumer Electronics Show, America’s largest technology trade show, launched more than 60 new Internet-connected products.
– It is a hardware renaissance going on in Silicon Valley. For many years, young technology companies focused on software, but now everyone wants to produce the next big thing in the Internet of Things area, says Nahid Alam, who left his job at Intel to start your own business, Little House, which manufactures computer chips for internet connected products.
Amanda Nagai and Ravi Kurani has started water analyst Sutro. They hope that their products will help save the environment. Photo: Linda Forsell.
At the piers along San Francisco’s old docklands, Embarcardero, sits the small company Sutro in a giant office building which it shares with about twenty other technology , many of which produce online products. Sutro has just launched a machine that keeps track of chemicals and algae in the pool. It may sound trivial, but is an important market in California where there are more than a million swimming pools and where this winter suffered from a historical drought.
Ravi Kurani, which based Sutro along with Amanda Nagai, hope the product to be adapted to a global market, where water resources are a growing problem.
– If you are not an expert on water chemistry, it is easy to make mistakes with a pool and irrigation systems . There are many who dumps a bunch of chemicals in the pool to avoid algae, or emptying out thousands of gallons of water as soon as they get algproblem, which is harmful to the environment and is a rampant waste of water. Our product can contribute to a more responsible water consumption. We begin here in California, but in the long run, we hope that the product may become even more important when, for example, farmers in India, where I grew up, gain access to these products so that they know which crops need watering. It can prevent huge problems with drought and famine around the world, says Ravi Kurani.
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