By Bob Newkirk IoT isn't about connecting things. It's about creating trusted intelligence. When the Internet of Things (IoT) first emerged, much of the conversation focused on the number of devices coming online. Billions of connected things. Today, we know that was the wrong metric. Connected devices don't create value. Trusted data does. The organizations winning in IoT aren't collecting the most information—they're transforming accurate, timely data into better decisions,

By Bob Newkirk We're not entering the age of AI. We're entering the age of Connected Intelligence. Artificial intelligence may dominate today's headlines, but AI alone doesn't create value. Without connected devices, trusted data, and real-world context, AI has nothing meaningful to learn from or act upon. The future belongs to organizations that connect the physical and digital worlds—transforming data into insight, insight into action, and action into better outcomes. That'