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the Internet of Things is the next frontier that many technology companies are pushing forward these days and AT&T has pioneered most of it through a good portion of the last decade a DNT invited us to ctia 2015 in Las Vegas the show is exactly where its innovation is headed and how you can already begin to enjoy it I'm hi Mary better with pocket now here with a quick look at your connected life sponsored by AT&T the Internet of Things or IOT is a new term given to a network of physical objects that can exchange data between each other but even before that name actually existed AT&T was already calling them and to end connected devices the whole idea of having our homes vehicles factories and even medical equipment connected to each other was a very nifty dream a few years ago but ctia was proof that those dreams are now a reality eighties keynote on IOT was actually the highlight of the conference and the company's CEO of mobility Glenn Laurie was nice enough to give us a quick overview of where things are headed but I think what you're seeing is just how deep and end the breadth of where I OT is going you know everything from connected home connected cars obviously on fire and then you're starting to see other things you know I think the the wheelchair is a great example right it's amazing because it solves a problem and and that's one of the things we've you probably heard us talk about a lot it's one thing to connect something but it has to solve a problem it has to make people's lives better the wheelchair allows a caregiver to see understand how the wheelchair is working it also allows them to make sure the seat cushion right has the correct arenít etc etc but what you're seeing is is really everything's going to be connected and that and you go down to our our exhibit on the floor we're really trying to show that whole vast set of devices that will be connected and how it will immobilizes people's lives ATT also took the opportunity during the keynote to announce that products from nest will now be able to connect to the company's digital life platform one of our major questions is what's AT&T scope going forward we consider everything you know one of the ways you be innovative and Google's are great examples you have to be open anything yeah be open to what makes sense yet be open to what customers may want when we looked at the digital life platform we felt it was so important to go have partners is to give our customers choice and as I said on stage or the foundation to get your life is security then when you have the automation on top you should be able to pick any automation you like so we opened our API so that we can bring those into our ecosystem and let you choose what automation makes sense for you and that's exactly what we did your nest is arguably one of the most successful they make beautiful products customers like them then they should be able to bring them inside of the digital life ecosystem and let nest get the credit they deserve and it's working under digital life but what it does is the customer a single app and a single experience and that's exactly what we're trying to do obviously the biggest concern we all have as consumers is how you can take advantage of a connected like today without burning a hole in your pocket with so many devices and for this 18th he already has a solution is is Mobile share value gives us a really nice tool which says look you go buy a bucket of data and we let you put any device it that you want to strap on to that data eat out of the same bucket so you got your smartphone's your tablets your cars your wearables your dog collars whatever you have right so for 10 bucks to add a tablet I can you have the same bucket it just seems fair and as we go forward we're gonna have to get more creative with when you add all these things that ain't the price needs to be right and fair for the customer to feel the values there but ultimately I think Mobile share value is the core of how we're gonna AT&T envisions your smartphone to be the controller of your connected life allowing you to not only activate and deactivate devices at home according to your needs but to also help you monitor them while you're on the go for now the company has focused its approach towards four major areas which are home automation and security IOT industrial IOT and the connected car from the few days that I spent at the show floor i must say that I'm rather impressed with its progress on all departments but my favorite was definitely the connected i received the very extensive demo on how your experience driving a vehicle is enhanced by being connected and all without taking your eyes off the road once you match that with the fact that a significant amount of automakers are already working together with ATT and things just continue to get better what's most important though is that even though we've seen a lot at this trade show this is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the Internet of Things and we can't wait to see where things will evolve over the next few years we've got a lot more coverage coming from ctia in Las Vegas so make sure you follow us on social media and subscribe to our YouTube channel as well can follow me on twitter Jaime underscore d better on Instagram at high Meadow iveta please give this video thumbs up if you liked what you saw I am high memory better thank you very much for watching we'll see you on the next video