Dr. Russell Clark is a professor at Georgia Tech and helps provide professional and continuing education to those living in the coastal area.  He specializes in the Internet of Things (IOT) which equates to the internet of everything.  He said that IOT is a marketing term put on a number of items which are used to connect a lot of things together and to ensure things stay connected.  The internet has become bigger because of the amount of money in the business world.  By 2020, there will be 34 billion devices around the globe connected to the internet.  Technology is now cheaper and last longer than it did a few years ago.  If you think about it, the smart phone has only been available for around 10 years and look how much it has evolved in such a short amount of time.  Dr. Clark says that we can apply technology to help create smarter cities.  An example would be analyzing bus routes to make them more efficient or using technology to track coastal flooding.  Precise real time data equates to meaningful data.