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    {"title" :"Trends on Tuesday: Forecasting the Internet of Things","summary" : "An industry group tracking the growth and production of the “Internet of Things,” a term given to Internet-connected devices and accessories, is predicting that growth will slow over the next 6 months, but then surge 3 times as fast, over the following year. The research was organized by the IoT M2M Council, which is made","date" : "2015-11-03T10:00:36-04:00","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"wsullivan" : "Will Sullivan"},"topics" : {
        
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      "editpathURL" :"https://github.com/GSA/digitalgov.gov/edit/bc-archive-content-3/content/news/2015/11/2015-11-03-trends-on-tuesday-forecasting-the-internet-of-things.md","slug" : "trends-on-tuesday-forecasting-the-internet-of-things","url" : "/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2015/11/03/trends-on-tuesday-forecasting-the-internet-of-things/","content" :"\u003cdiv class=\"image\"\u003e\n  \u003cimg\n    src=\"https://s3.amazonaws.com/digitalgov/_legacy-img/2015/11/600-x-400-Internet-of-Things-Concept-Bobboz-iStock-Thinkstock-476790268.jpg\"\n    alt=\"Internet of Things Concept\"/\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003cp\u003eAn industry group tracking the growth and production of the “Internet of Things,” a term given to Internet-connected devices and accessories, is \u003ca href=\"http://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/261161/iot-forecast-4-drop-in-new-projects-then-12-ri.html\"\u003epredicting that growth will slow over the next 6 months, but then surge 3 times as fast, over the following year\u003c/a\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe research was organized by the IoT M2M Council, which is made up of 140 executives in the Internet of Things space. MediaPost described it as “the calm before the IoT storm.”\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMany of the Internet of Things products—from wearables like \u003ca href=\"http://www.apple.com/watch/\"\u003esmartwatches\u003c/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"http://www.fitbit.com/\"\u003efitness/activity trackers\u003c/a\u003e, to \u003ca href=\"https://nest.com/\"\u003esmart thermostats\u003c/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"http://august.com/\"\u003elocks\u003c/a\u003e, to payment tools like \u003ca href=\"https://plastc.com/\"\u003ePlastic\u003c/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"https://onlycoin.com/\"\u003eCoin\u003c/a\u003e, to the \u003ca href=\"/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2015/03/17/trends-on-tuesday-big-ideas-from-mobile-world-congress/\"\u003efuture smart toothbrushes we heard about last year at Mobile World Congress\u003c/a\u003e—run controls through a user’s mobile device and applications. \u003cdiv class=\"image\"\u003e\n  \u003cimg\n    src=\"https://s3.amazonaws.com/digitalgov/_legacy-img/2015/11/600-x-306-Wearable-technology-word-cloud-in-the-shape-of-a-car-lculig-iStock-Thinkstock-522299243.jpg\"\n    alt=\"Wearable technology and IoT Internet of Things word cloud in the shape of a car\"/\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\n\n\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe slower growth in IoT development gives mobile developers an opportunity to prepare their mobile applications for integration into these new devices and ride future growth in the market. Smashing Magazine has a very exhaustive \u003ca href=\"http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2015/10/getting-started-wearables-plan-build-design/\"\u003eguide to some of the user experience considerations\u003c/a\u003e for designing and building wearable, IoT experiences.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a crucial time to think about the \u003ca href=\"/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2015/10/07/is-your-agency-winning-its-mobile-moments/\"\u003emobile moments enhanced by the Internet of Things\u003c/a\u003e your audiences might be interested in. How can you build for those opportunities during the next two years?\u003c/p\u003e\n"}
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