Cisco: 50 billion Internet-connected devices by 2020 思科預測: 2020年前將有500億個連結至物聯網的裝置

(Translated excerpts from EETimes article:
http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4409928/Cisco-sees--14-trillion-opportunity-in-Internet-of-Things?cid=Newsletter+-+EETimes+Daily)

1. Business opportunities initially in manufacturing, government, energy and health care that extend far beyond today's budgets for computers and communications systems.
初期，物聯網將造成包括製造業、政府建設、能源產業、以及醫療產業中遠遠超乎今日所能想像之預算以及電腦與通訊系統商機。

2. The IoT space presents a host of challenges.
物聯網產業仍存在許多須突破之困難

3. Cisco is working with a dozen utilities worldwide in hopes as many as 10 million smart meters will be deployed by the end of the year supporting Internet Protocol.

4. Today, as many as 2 billion smart meters are in operation using a mishmash of as many as 135 utility protocols. "There are cases where we need gateways, and we will have a migration strategy," said JP Vasseur.

5.Cisco crammed into 40 kbytes RAM an IPv6 stack for smart meters now supported on a handful of microcontrollers from companies such as Atmel, STMicroelectronics and Texas Instruments.

6. U.S. cybersecurity laws have hampered adoption of open, routable protocols, but those rules are due for an update as early as this month easing the way for IP, says Rick Geiger, executive director for Cisco's smart grid group.

7. Separately, Cisco invested in Cohda Wireless (North Adelaide, Australia), a vendor of 802.11p boards seen as a key enabler for connecting cars to the Net. The U.S. Department of Transportation is conducting trials of the technology which can be used to connect cars to each other and to infrastructure to smooth traffic flows and avoid accidents.

8. An automated parking system using sensors from Streetline, a Cisco partner, was demonstrated. The products will be used in Cisco's own headquarters and are one of many examples of sensors that will link businesses and consumers over mobile networks, creating opportunities for services managing big data analytics, said Cisco's chief technology and strategy officer Padmastee Warrior.