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Seeking solutions to IoT challenges ahead

This week, on a panel discussion at the National Press Cloud in D.C., White House CIO Tony Scott compared the explosive growth of connected devices to “free love in the '60s.” “That’s not necessarily a good thing in all cases so I think we’ve got to have some models and some broadly enforceable rule sets that can apply... that will actually, if done right, encourage the kind of growth that I think we all see.” Scott said. The Silicon Valley Business Journal reports that Scott stressed the importance of having conversations about the Internet of Things at the federal level to get ahead of new challenges.

The growth of IoT is, indeed, predicted to be astronomical; Forbes rounds up some of the latest numbers in an article this week. But while IoT is often talked about in terms of the exponential increase in data, Theo Priestley argues that the focus on finding analytical solutions may not be enough to meet the IoT challenges ahead. Priestley predicts, “Major software vendors will have to embark on an A.I. [Artificial Intelligence] acquisition trail to keep up with consumer technology, and this needs to happen now not tomorrow.”