IoT Council is a timely ecosystem. Although it is not yet viewed as a strategic powerhouse, having grown only slowly without any advertising, it will soon become more visible in that capacity. It is a small but decisive building block, building a new political decentralized system where transparency reigns, all nodes are equal, and earlier dependencies are eradicated.

Rob van Kranenburg recounts how the seeds for the Internet of Things think tank, Council, were first planted back in 1996. Learn how early fears of a new ontology led to the creation of this silent accelerator for IoT projects.