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Highlights: TiEcon 2015 - Disruptive Entrepreneurship

Navigating the IOT Landscape Tom Kerber, Director of Home system and Energy , Parks Associates

1. With HVAC monitoring service... appliance monitoring service

New Business Model opportunities

1. Complementary product sales 2. App sales 3. Advertising, Lead Genration 4. Data Echange 5. API transaction fees 6. Subsidise user costs

Data creates growing value Ability to use data for user and industry benefit ..This is happening across multiple verticals 

From the article "Highlights: TiEcon 2015 - Disruptive Entrepreneurship" by Sivakumar Sundaram.

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