Biography
Jan Willem Smeenk is the founder and CEO of SODAQ, one of the early IoT pioneers. He has a background in the Internet that dates back to the 1980's. He was co-founder of Booking.com in 1994 and connected Tanzania to the Internet in 1998. 12 years later he moved back to Holland to start SODAQ.
Presentation
The Sustainable Internet of Things
In a few years from now there will be 50 billion IoT devices. How will we be powering these? Batteries? No, we need a more sustainable Internet of Things. We all have to start developing devices that use very little power and ideally don't need to have batteries at all. For example; SODAQ is helping Moovement, a Rabobank iniative, to connect thousands of cows in Australia to the Internet using a solar powered GPS ear-tag that communicates over the LoRa network.