The Internet of Things is growing rapidly, with 127 additional devices connected to the Internet each second. That figure comes from David Evans, the former chief futurist at Cisco and current CTO and cofounder of Stringify, an IOT startup, writing in a special issue of Politico dedicated to IoT topics. The fact that the political affairs publication is devoting so much space to the topic suggests governmental officials are ready to get involved in everything from connected cows to the networked battlefield. Or perhaps not. As Politico's Darren Samuelsohn reports, 13 members of Congress have come together to form an Internet of Things Caucus, launched in part by Rep. Suzan DelBene, a Washington Democrat and a former Microsoft employee. Unfortunately, the caucus has yet to meet. Samuelsohn quotes Rep. Darrell Issa, a California Republican and cofounder of the caucus, as saying few of the 435 members of the House and 100 members of the Senate even know what the IoT is.
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