Rise of a New Era: Advancing Towards 50B Connected Devices The promise of hyper-connected communities, industries and societies requires the connectivity of billions of devices about and around us; from smartphone to wearable, from home to work, from vehicle to machinery, from industry to healthcare, etc. This is the next wave digital transformation where smart connected everything will create huge economic benefits in every vital sectors of the economy and unleash new opportunities that can improve and save lives, boost human productivity, increase agricultural yield and enable a new industrial revolution with self-learning machines, robots, etc. This extraordinary growth of connected everything will drive an explosive growth of mobile data, scarcity of wireless spectrum, exposure to unprotected data, risk of data privacy and will require governments to heavily investment in fundamental technologies like Internet, mobile, storage and artificial intelligence as well as in education for the workforce to utilize connected devices as tools to improve productivity. Also required are pragmatic policies both nationally and globally for enabling rapid innovation as we build a secure brighter future together. The Infographic below illustrates the five key areas of attention to enable this transformation: 1) smarter spectrum usage, 2) smarter innovation funds, 3) smarter security & privacy, 4) smarter workforce creation and 5) smarter policies & laws. These are all required for the society to fully harness the benefits from massive scale deployment of connected devices.

1. Advancing Connected Devices
50,000,000,000
Smarter Spectrum Usage
Additional licensed spectrum required along with
advances in the field of spectrum sharing,
leveraging!
• Software defined radio!
• Authorized shared access!
• Licensed shared access!
Allocation of more unlicensed spectrum!
• Unlicensed wireless access!
• TV white space!
!
Path to Global Digital Transformation
by 2020
Smarter Workforce Creation
More and more businesses are focused on
automation and increased employee productivity.!
Education and training are required for blue collar
workers to transform into a digital empowered
workforce leveraging!
• Smartphones, fablets, tablets!
• Mobile Apps!
• and other smart devices!
as part of their working tools.!
!
Smarter Innovation Funds
Government investment of $B’s in research for
advancing fundamental technologies is today at
the core of our digital society e.g. Internet, mobile,
battery, hard drive, memory chip, Siri, etc.
Continued investment will be needed in basic
building blocks that enable innovation.!
• Public-Private partnership will be key for large
scale IoT infrastructure projects. !
• $B’s of private investment in R&D required for
enterprise and consumer use cases. !
Smarter Security & Privacy
Innovators and entrepreneurs need to proactively
secure devices, cloud and applications that can
control things in the physical world as well as
privacy of user data.!
New architectures will prevail that interconnect
clusters of architectures of connected devices
through identity, category, capability, service and
security profile.!
70% of devices use unencrypted
network services to access
Internet & LAN…
Smarter Policies & Laws
Data in the cloud will be moved around depending
on business benefits making it difficult, if not
impossible, to decide which law should apply and
under which jurisdiction.!
Additional policies and laws are required to protect
individual’s privacy while allowing anonymized
meta data to move around freely.!
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Mahbubul Alam
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will make deployment expensive…
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and cloud failed to
require password of
sufficient complexity
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when downloading SW/FW update…
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least one piece of personal info via
device, cloud or mobile apps…
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are blue-collar jobs…