Lost In Translation: IoT Adoption In Southeast Asia In 2015

We spent a large part of the year in the cities of Manila, Bangkok, Jakarta and Kuala Lumpur speaking to local enterprises about this (too) broad and (too) overused term: the Internet of Things (IoT).

We discovered very quickly that, although IoT seems to be very much overly/wrongly used in the English-speaking world, there really isn’t a direct local translation in these four locales. For local enterprises in these countries, they see IoT as an extension of Enterprise IT, without having a definition/term for it.

As we near the end of 2015, let’s look back at the industries in the region where the conversations involving IoT projects are more pertinent.