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The Irish companies at the beating heart of ‘the internet of me’

Forget the smartphone, Irish technology is helping to define the future of the smart person in a connected world

Fergal Lawlor, chief executive of Alpha Wireless

Lane Patterson

As access to more bandwidth enables our world to become even more connected, the question is not “What else can we connect?” – for there clearly is no limit – but “What can we as humans do with that data?”.

Consumers have been hearing about connected homes, connected cars and all sorts of next-level capabilities for some time now. Who doesn’t (or who does?) want a refrigerator you can control with a phone?