Your blogs conencted with us at RAI - SCADA Nexus. Since 2001 we have been connecting electric utility grid control components to the network for data mining, presentation, analysis and control of the final elements within the "Cloud". Today the term used for such network enabled and cloud-hosted groups of devices is the IoT. We have been mildly successful as a small startup company and completely agree and support the IoT development concepts you and CISCO have put forth. We have over 37 forward thinking Electric Utility clients that are taking advantage of the SCAD Nexus IoT today. The only reason other utilities are not engaging our IoT solutions is we are small. So in addition to promoting new ideas it would also be helpful for CISCO to assist in organizing the acquisition of small inovative organizations that develop, pioneer, and deploy truly game-changing technologies like our company. With acquisition by known players in the market these advancements can be viewed, adopted and effectively utilized by today's business leaders. Smart, innovative, game-changing with name recognition leads to industry improving movements and acquisitions point the way. Perhaps this could be a productive area of influence in the IoT advancement.