Cisco: 50 Billion Things on the Internet by 2020 [Infographic]
Read the post for estimates up to 1 trillion by 2013 or 2015, depending upon whose speculation you are being paid to agree with.
It is an amusing infographic but more for what it doesn’t say than for what it does.
A fairly flat place that only talks about devices, cows, sensors and the like. Which is good, but surely only part of the story.
What about all the relationships between those devices? How do we identify/address them? Or their states over some time sequence?
The Cisco “Planetary Skin” sounds like an exciting project but even more so if those sensors and their data is correlated to other information.
To be sure we are in for “a really big show,” whatever number you happen to prefer.