Paul Brody from IBM thinks that the data spinning off of the Internet of things in a few years may not be worth sending and storing in the cloud. However, a mix of technologies could create smart local mesh networks that create big value.
Combine Bitcoin’s block chain technology, BitTorrent and a secure messaging protocol called telehash and you get a distributed infrastructure that some IBM researchers think would be ideal for the internet of things.
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