The internet of things (IOT) is the next wave of misunderstood fundamental transition technologies. Cloud was the most recent. It wasn't until the REST API created a certain amount of open standardization that things started to take shape and that wasn't in thanks to Cisco, HP, IBM, Microsoft or Dell. A cloud stack has become an amalgamation of open source components implementing the intent of SOA in a simplistic but elegant manner with over 70 percent of implementations leveraging the REST API. The player that forced this and led the way was Amazon.

So the point is; unless the larger players like Cisco start moving much more quickly and with broader collaboration to provide leverage of openness while incorporating key points of intellectual capital, the IOT will pass them by.

I believe Cisco has the key to the IOT of things but, rather than leading, is providing lip service just like IBM's smarter cities. Instead of leading the way to a new transition they are simply trying to capture additional hardware sales. If the big players would focus on enabling the transformation in the most technically proficient manner the additional equipment and services sales would become a natural result of their leadership. The world needs a leader to develop the mesh network technology that is open, superior in capability to handle the trillions of sense points in a stateful, resilient, and conflict free, secure manner. From my perspective that could be Cisco or will it depend upon another spin in effort like Insieme for a key component? Either way ubiquity will either be driven by Cisco or another Amazon like effort! The world will be better if the open standards are led by Cisco distinguished engineers if the can work outside of the NIH mode they appear to be accustom to.
The potential to bridge industries make IOT potential larger than anything we have ever experienced. If you want, call it the Moores law of transitional technologies that occur in much larger cycles! I'm a Jazzed about the options! The future !