Amazon Echo: A Prime Example of IoT in the Home

Amazon is a company that has gone from being an innovative online book retailer, to one of the largest ecommerce retailers in the world, and is now the largest cloud computing provider and a major player in IoT.In addition to their core ecommerce website, Amazon has a line of internet connected ebook readers, personal tablets, a smartphone, a smart TV device, and now their latest, an intellig Their new product is the Echo. It's a small, relatively discreet IoT connected speaker that works in much the same way as Apple's Siri, Microsoft's Cortana, and Google's Now services. Are there enough compelling features with the Echo to make it a breakthrough device in IoT mass adoption? More importantly, are there risks with having an always on, always listening, IoT device in the home? Although IoT devices around the world have now exceeded 5 billion, there are still billions of consumers that haven't seen the value, or even recognized the potential of a more connected home.