I wish Cisco would stop creating this unnecessary hype and these pointless "Internet of Everything" Counters. They do not help the engineers and researchers working in this field and such kind of hype might be good for the marketing and corporate communications teams, but is detrimental to the developers and engineers, who have diligently and arduously working on the underlying low-energy protocols, routing algorithms and related IoT/WSN technologies for a long time.

I've been working in the "Internet of Things" domain since 2005, from the time it was called "Wireless Sensor Networks" (before the term IoT started getting featured in every possible report on disruptive innovation). Many researchers have been gradually trying to piece together the complex puzzle of making "a large number" of devices inter-operable. Now suddenly, Cisco does a blitzkrieg of a marketing initiative and renames the industry to "internet of everything", and makes all these random trillion dollar predictions.

It's creating an immense pressure on the technology researchers to start producing products and services which get a piece of this mind-boggling revenue number that you've pulled out of a hat.

I wish you'd get some credible technology researchers to back-up your claims, rather than just publishing these out-of-the-hat kind of counters and $14.4 trillion dollar revenue numbers.