New Zealand’s internet traffic is predicted to grow almost threefold by 2018.

This will mostly be driven by a sharp jump in the amount of television, movie and video content being watched online.

Also the growing “Internet of Things” will contribute to this growth. I saw a Wi-Fi enabled heat pump advertised the other day – so that you can turn it on remotely from anywhere and come home to a warm house.

Internet connected TVs are expected to be around 16% of the 32 million connected devices by 2018.

Wow, think about that – 32 million devices is around 7 connected devices for every single person in the country! What will your 7 be?

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/technology/news/article.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=11274580

This is the new term that has been coined to cover the multitude of other internet connected devices like TVs, refrigerators, routers, home heating systems etc – anything connected or that can be accessed via the Internet.

Consider the future of things like home heating systems etc that could be accessed remotely so a technician can diagnose a problem without coming to the house. We know of one person who can already remotely turn on heating, open windows, turn on the spa etc at their fully internet enabled holiday house.

The sky is the limit really if you have the money!