The only thing that I see missing from most (all?) IoT discussions is operational impact.

Traditional monitoring/management solutions were built on the client/server model and struggle with real time, low latency solutions (like Cisco collaboration - voice and video) that are centralized, let alone a massively distributed compute platform like this would be.

The real value and uptake in these solutions *will not* - in my opinion, be realized unless the solution consumer has complete confidence that the solution is always there, available and delivering accurate information (see the correlation - can't commit to causation! - between the growth in Twitter and the reduction of their infamous "fail whale" occurrences).

Something to think about.

rob