IoT is "Always-On" 24/7 (Internet of Things Applications USA 2014)

• Moore's law is nearing its end and now More than Moore's law is taking over.

• Computing is still need to create contextual awareness, prognostic system maintenance, and layer intelligence it IoT devices

• Sensor devices to be on 24/7, this idea of Always-on changes the expectation of IoT.

• Why should we be inconvenienced to have to activate our vehicle voice recognition with a push of a button, why can we not simply talk to the car and have it "listen" to us at all times?

• Wearable medical devices are always-on, our body has many involuntary functions that don't stop when we go to sleep, and similarly technology needs to support us 24/7.

Willard Tu, Director - Embedded Solutionis Marketing, ARM, is based in Motown the automotive capital. Willard has focused his career on the embedded market segment, accumulating over 20 years of knowledge. He has worked for Motorola (Freescale), National Semi (TI), NEC Electronics (Renesas) in business development roles, and has spent the last 8 years at growing ARM's embedded market share.

Arm technology is at the heart of a computing and connectivity revolution that is transforming the way people live and businesses operate. Our advanced, energy-efficient processor designs have enabled intelligent computing in more than 130 billion chips and our technologies now securely power products from the sensor to the smartphone and the supercomputer. In combination with our IoT device, connectivity and data management platform, we are also enabling customers with powerful and actionable business insights that are generating new value from their connected devices and data. Together with 1,000+ technology partners we are at the forefront of designing, securing and managing all areas of compute from the chip to the cloud.