This document discusses 7 trends in IoT for 2017 according to Prof. Ahmed Banafa. The trends are: 1) IoT and blockchain will converge to address scalability, privacy and reliability concerns, 2) more IoT devices will be vulnerable to DDoS attacks, 3) IoT will create more mobile moments through connected devices, 4) AI and containers will be applied to analyze IoT data, 5) new wireless connectivity options will be tested for IoT, 6) there will be a shortage of IoT security and marketing talent, and 7) new business models are needed that bundle services with IoT products. The document concludes that IoT is becoming more complex and integrated but barriers remain before its full benefits are

1. 7 Trends of IoT in 2017
Prof. Ahmed Banafa
College of Engineering
San Jose State University
San Jose, CA USA

2. • IoT is one of the transformational trends that
will shape the future of businesses in 2017
and beyond. Many firms see big opportunity
in IoT uses and enterprises start to believe
that IoT holds the promise to enhance
customer relationships and drive business
growth by improving quality, productivity, and
reliability on one side, and on the other side
reducing costs, risk, and theft.

3. • By having the right IoT model companies will
be rewarded with new customers, better
insights, and improved customer satisfaction
to mention few benefits.

5. With all this in mind, let’s explore some of the
trends of IoT impacting business and technology
in 2017:

6. 1) IoT and Blockchain Will Converge
• Blockchain is more than a concept now and
has applications in many verticals besides
FinTech including IoT. Blockchain technology is
considered by many experts as the missing
link to settle scalability, privacy, and reliability
concerns in the Internet of Things.

7. • Blockchain technology can be used in tracking
billions of connected devices, enable the
processing of transactions and coordination
between devices; allow for significant savings
to IoT industry manufacturers. This
decentralized approach would eliminate single
points of failure, creating a more resilient
ecosystem for devices to run on.

8. • The cryptographic algorithms used by
Blockchain would make consumer data more
private. In 2017 IoT will converge with
Blockchain for better security and privacy
opening the door for a new category in
applications, hardware, and talents.

9. 2) IoT Devices and More DDoS Attacks
• Forrester thinks that the recent DDoS attack that
hit a whopping 1600 websites in the United
States was just the tip of the iceberg when it
comes to the threat that the connected device
poses to the world. That attack confirmed the
fear of vulnerability of IoT devices with a massive
distributed denial of service attack that crippled
the servers of services like Twitter, NetFlix ,
NYTimes, and PayPal across the U.S. on October
21st , 2016.

10. • It’s the result of an immense assault that involved
millions of Internet addresses and malicious
software, according to #Dyn, the prime victim of
that attack. "One source of the traffic for the
attacks was devices infected by the Mirai botnet".
• All indications suggest that countless Internet of
Things (IoT) devices that power everyday
technology like closed-circuit cameras and smart-
home devices were hijacked by the malware, and
used against the servers.

12. 3) IoT and Many Mobile Moments
• IoT is creating new opportunities and
providing a competitive advantage for
businesses in current and new markets. It
touches everything—not just the data, but
how, when, where and why you collect it. The
technologies that have created the Internet of
Things aren’t changing the internet only, but
rather change the things connected to the
internet.

13. • More mobile moments (the moments in
which a person pulls out a mobile device to
get what he or she wants, immediately and in
context) will appear on the connected device,
right from home appliances to cars to
smartwatches and virtual assistants. All these
connected devices will have the potential of
offering a rich stream of data that will then be
used by product and service owners to
interact with their consumers.

15. 4) IoT, Artificial Intelligence, and
Containers
• In an IoT situation, AI can help companies take
the billions of data points they have and boil
them down to what’s really meaningful. The
general premise is the same as in the retail
applications – review and analyzes the data
you’ve collected to find patterns or similarities
that can be learned from so that better
decisions can be made.

16. • The year 2017 would see Internet of Things
software being distributed across cloud
services, edge devices, and gateways. The year
would also witness IoT solutions being built on
modern Microservices (an approach to
application development in which a large
application is built as a suite of modular
services.

17. • Each module supports a specific business goal
and uses a simple, well-defined interface to
communicate with other modules) and
containers (lightweight virtualization) that would
work across this distributed architecture.
• Further, machine-learning cloud services and
Artificial Intelligence will be put to use to mine
the data that would be coming in from IoT
devices.

18. 5) IoT and Connectivity
• Connecting the different parts of IoT to the
sensors can be done by different technologies
including Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Low Power Wi-Fi ,
Wi-Max, regular Ethernet , Long Term
Evolution (LTE) and the recent promising
technology of Li-Fi(using light as a medium of
communication between the different parts of
a typical network including sensors).

19. • In 2017, new forms of wireless connections,
such as 3GPP’s narrowband (NB)-IoT,
LoRaWAN, or Sigfox will be tested. Forcing IoT
decision-makers to evaluate more than 20
wireless connectivity options and protocols,
which is one step in the right direction of
having standards for connectivity.

20. 6) IoT and Talent-Shortage
• Organizations launching IoT projects including
smart cities and industrial facilities face a
tougher time in recruiting talent. Complicating
matters is that it remains a challenge to find
enough workers to secure the Internet of
Things.

21. • 45 percent of IoT companies struggle to find
security professionals, according to a
TEKsystems survey. 30 percent report having
difficulty finding digital marketers.
• In 2017, industrial major vendors will invest in
IoT training and certifications and make it part
of the mainstream training programs in the
tech industry.

22. 7) IoT and New Business Models
• The bottom line is a big motivation for
starting, investing in, and operating any
business, without a sound and solid business
models for IoT we will have another bubble ,
this model must satisfy all the requirements
for all kinds of e-commerce; vertical markets,
horizontal markets, and consumer markets.

23. • A new business model including sharing cost
of devices with consumers, reducing the cost
of ownership and making UX less hassle and
more joyful. 2017 will see new categories
being added to smart markets.

24. • One key element is to bundle service with the
product, for example, devices like Amazon’s
Alexa will be considered just another wireless
speaker without the services provided like
voice recognition, music streaming, and
booking Uber service to mention few.

25. The Road Ahead
• The Internet of Things (IoT) is an ecosystem of
ever-increasing complexity; it is the next level
of automation of every object in our life and
convergence of new technologies will make
IoT implementation much easier and faster,
which in turn will improve many aspects of
our life at home and at work and in between.

26. • From refrigerators to parking spaces to smart
houses, IoT is bringing more and more things into
the digital fold every day, which will likely make
IoT a multi-trillion dollar industry in the near
future. One possible outcome in the near future
is the introduction of “IoT as a Service”
technology. If that service offered and used the
same way we use other flavors of “as a service”
technologies today the possibilities of
applications in real life will be unlimited.

27. • But we have a long way to achieving that
dream; we need to overcome many obstacles
and barriers at many fronts before we can see
the benefits of such technology.

28. Any questions?

29. Thank you!
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