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welcome back to the show friends our guest today a very special guest she is the managing director of Internet of Things group at Intel which means she might have the answer to the question should everything be smart we're very excited to welcome Bridgette Karlin here thank you for being with us thank you for having me it's a pleasure yeah we're so excited to talk about the Internet of Things because this is sort of a very broad kind of category in a lot of don't really even maybe know what specifically the Internet of Things is we should start there what is IOT as we'd love to call it so the Internet of Things is essentially taking everyday objects and connect them to the Internet so that they can collect and share and analyze data so that we can extract more meaningful information so in a nutshell it's it's taking things like your phone's appliances your cars and connecting them to the internet so that we can get the data off of them and then understand a little bit more about what's happening with the device so that will what's the end goal there the idea being that our houses are things our appliances will all better able to serve us right right and so the purpose of connecting these devices and getting data off of them is so that we can understand a little bit more about the environment the conditions around you these are translating into new types of experiences new types of business models and for for many of us better efficiencies with businesses with our resources and being able to sustain our environment so let's talk a little bit about a smart object because every year at CES we see amazing things at the Intel booth it's one of our a lot of silly things that others all them all over the place yeah for sure so we've seen we've seen spider dresses we've seen yeah I mean we've seen spider dresses we've seen interactive baby onesies we've seen great we've seen laptops with Intel chips in them and we see a lot of different products obviously Intel does a lot of different things so we don't expect you to know every single process until ever put a chip into but in terms of sort of trends that we've been seeing in iterative things what do you think are the most popular Internet of Things products or sort of ideas that we've really kind of seen bloom in the last maybe six months or so and going forward a great question well I think we're in a very exciting time we're in an era of computing where customers are choosing experience over product features and functions and what we're witnessing are three basic trends the first one is that we're becoming a smart and connected world so all these chips that we're embedding into things are helping us make the device itself smart and then connecting it so that's the first thing we're seeing the second thing we're we're experiencing is that the computers are gaining senses we call this the sense offical of computing where we used to see in 2d now we get to see in 3d we can detect temperature and motion and things like that so that's you know we're gaining more senses from art from our devices and then the third thing is that the computers are now becoming an extension of you so you know how we take our smart phones everywhere we go now we have our smartwatches and we're seeing that more and more in devices where we're now becoming more seamlessly integrated with our technology and you mentions that yes that's that it's a terrific show a lot of really cool technologies it's a great showcase but you see things like for sports we now see what started with smart glasses we now have we have a partner called Oakley there are Lukas Annika smart eyewear brand and they've integrated voice in and and storage and processing into glasses so that as your runner and you've got your sunglasses on it can start giving you voice-activated coaching and it's one of the things that you know start to incorporate new experiences that we didn't originally expect out of our glasses right so new kinds of things like that yeah don't run too fast you might break your ankles um that would be me okay like don't run too fast Ashley you're gonna hurt yourself so in terms of one of the things that I have sort of noticed is cars integrating with Internet of Things so as you're driving home you kind of let your car know hey I'm on my way home or no I know it just sort of knows you're on your way home and it says like oh I should probably bring down the thermostat a couple degrees and you know like get out I feel like now we're sort of training our cars to be our dogs where they bring you the paper and your slippers and you get home and it's like all very nice and cozy and so do you think that when when you are sort of managing the strategy of Internet of Things group at Intel what are the types of questions you sort of ask yourself in terms of you know is this something that Intel wants to get into is how do you kind of make those decision because obviously as we've mentioned like until does a lot of things and so how do you say like this also is within Intel's vision but but is pushing the envelope in terms of what can be done yeah great question I mean you know when you're thinking about strategy and what markets you should go into what technologies are appropriate for that market you first start with the customer you start with you know what problems can we solve what experiences can we make possible and that really in a nutshell is how we start approaching innovation and that sort of thing and I would say that you know for the Internet of Things we look at the IOT in sort of to two basic segments one segment being consumer where you've got things like your SmartWatch and you know different types of wearables and in fact that's a really exciting area for us because analysts are telling us that we're going to have about 780 million wearables by 2018 Wow so and then the second sort of bucket is the industrial side and that by far in a way when we think about the total economic opportunity for IOT which is about four to eleven trillion dollars globally about 70% of that is coming from the industrial side so when you think about the industrial side what does that mean well it's transportation its retail its healthcare it's smart building you even gonna say you guys even had at CES this year a smart hardhat yeah it's really cool that is so cool that is with a partner called daiquiri and they took essentially our intel realsense technology which enables 3d and that sort of thing plus our processors and they took what used to be the old hard hat and they made it smart by putting in these technologies and they created an augmented reality situation so when you have an industrial worker out on you know the oil rig you know repairing something and if he's up there and they say hey this part needs to be replaced as well they can in real time send him the schematic so that he can literally see through augmented reality in 3d this schematic that he should work on and exactly where to go fix the part and and it'll give him the instruction plus be able to do the real-time collection of the data so that is the kind of thing when we think about new experiences but really new product and and production level efficiencies we know it we thought that you know in the past yeah it's really interesting to sort of think about the idea of convenience giving us more time to create or to to sort of pursue other interests like I mean obviously in the Industrial Revolution that was sort of the start of leisure time for everybody sort of have leisure time and now with robotics IOT and all of the different things that we kind of have coming together and converging right now we're starting to see maybe a second age of that where we're like okay so now we're increasing productivity in the industrial market or increasing convenience in the personal market you're sort of able to kind of get that sense of well what do I do with this a little bit this little tiny bit of like two minutes of extra time that I have now well it adds up over time like what do I do at that time yeah and you mentioned you know when we think about the crossover where you can see IOT taking hold in the industrial side like let's talk about retail so Levi's is one of our customers a great partner and they essentially we're trying to address one of the big retailer challenges which is out of stocks I mean the last thing you want to do as a retailer is not have the right pair of jeans and the right spot when you go in and you want to buy them so we implemented our Intel IOT platform which also includes a an Intel retail sensor capability and we worked with Levi's to read the data off of their RFID tags that are already sewn into your jeans and so as the G's literally move around the store like the dressing room or on the shelf or something the store knows exactly where those jeans are and those that if they've been sold or if they're you know stuck somewhere in a corner so when the shopper comes in they can make sure that they've got the right pair of jeans in the right spot for the consumer so I think consumer benefits because they get the product they want and the retailer in Levi's case you know make sure that they've got the right product the right place like that story just for some reason reminded me of being a kid where you like take go into clothes into a round rack and you just laugh now they'd be able to find those pants much easier I'm so sorry bollocks I'm so sorry well what do you think is a is is a product or a appliance or an item or an object in our world that is not smart that should be smart wow that's a great question I think rather than trying to answer that I think you know what should be smart that isn't it's sort of like I think the question is what's next yeah because literally you know things it really it's up to our imagination in fact Intel sponsors America's greatest makers it's a new reality TV show where we have inventors coming on that have thought of all kinds of things like you know taking a glove that will now translate gestures into speech or helping a kid you know put some little Curie into a processor in a toothbrush so that you keep the kid on track when he's brushing you know on the wrong attachment in Japan it sinks to an app and it lets you either watch the news play a video game or play a song while you brush your teeth and we're like do we need this but then that's the point it's like you got to keep kids on track sometimes and that's a really good way to do it and another one is a brain control joystick so think about you know when you're gaming or even for the disabled that have the ability to do these kinds of controls so the possibilities are really endless and when we think about you know what's the one thing that should be smart or just sort of think of it more like what's the next thing that's going to be made smart pretty much it's an inevitability for just about anything that you you have ever used and I'll tell you you mentioned you touched on you know with our CES show with the Intel carry module literally the the little processor the size of a button yeah going into things like a toothbrush or something like that in addition to that technology we have 5g communications coming out that we're investing in and that's another technology that will make these not only these devices smart but make the connectivity and the experience much more seamless so they're not just smart isolation they're smart together together and they'll be able to share data back and forth with each other so my glasses when I'm running or like you forgot to brush just about time but thank you so much for coming in and stopping by later we find I Oh tea and I mean we love future tech here obviously like everyone at home really loves future tech so thank you for coming by and talking to us about this stuff stop by any time well you know it's my pleasure on behalf of Intel I think we're at a time where technology is being valued not just for the devices that it makes but for the experiences it makes possible so they think that's very exciting for us so thank you so much that was the very lovely at Bridgette Karlin stopping and managing director Internet of Things group at Intel we will be right back we've got a lot more delightful things that are gonna happen on this show that you're probably more familiar with stick around stick around