Well I'm pleased to say that I'm joined
it by Richard Blackburn, one of our speakers for today.
Richard is a from Bosch TT and he's 
gonna be speaking all
about the 'Internet of Things'.
Now this is obviously a buzzword 'Internet of Things'
that we've been talking about for a very
long time, what specifically are you
speaking about today Richard?
So the Internet of Things for Bosch is really
about looking at cross domains it's
looking about mobility solutions,
industrial technology, energy and
building technology and of course
consumer goods so the Internet of Things
goes from autonomous driving all the way
through to the Worchester Wave which is a
smart thermostat that you might have
connected to your boiler.
The real key with the Internet of Things is that it's
not about connecting things for the sake
of connecting things, they have to have a
purpose to you and I or anybody else
that is using them and it's our view
that we want to and our focusing on
creating personal assistance or partners
for those cross-domain
purposes going forwards.
I mean I absolutely love my smart heating that I have at home we got it about a year ago
and it's absolutely brilliant. What do
you think the biggest trends are, what's
suddenly becoming very popular? I mean
when I first heard about it I had
an argument with my husband you know 'do
we really need it, it's a bit pointless?'
and now we love it! 
What big things and what sort of shifts are
you seeing in the industry at the moment?
Smart home definitely,
estimates are about 15% of all worldwide
households by the end of this decade
will have smart home technology within them.
The thing is the smart home market
is quite fragmented so you have people
in heating, you have people in security
and then you have smart home technology
in terms of TVs, phones, Netflix and all
those types of things. Our offering
within the smart home industry tries to
look at all of those avenues and brings
them together as a solution rather than
independent products that work on
security or heating etc.
So a one-stop shop to make our 
lives easy?
A one-stop shop, indeed.
Brilliant!
Richard thank you so much and
good luck for the talk today.
No problem, thank you.
