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March 2015
By Jessica Groopman
Includes input from 38 ecosystem contributors
Edited by Rebecca Lieb and Charlene Li
Customer Experience in
the Internet of Things:
Five Ways Brands Can Use Sensors to
Build Better Customer Relationships
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Executive Summary
The Internet of Things is not some pipe dream, Jetsons-esque future state; it is
an entirely new paradigm for building relationships. Yet determining when, how,
and to what extent to apply connected products and other sensor-generated
data to the customer experience remains poorly understood by marketers and
digital strategists. Our research finds that the unique opportunity in the Internet
of Things is that it has the potential to mutually benefit both enterprise and
consumer. Enterprises gain visibility; consumers gain empowerment. This report
reveals five use cases illustrating how consumer-facing brands can embrace the
Internet of Things to create actual value for businesses and consumers alike.
Demystifying the Internet of Things ...........................................................................................................................................
Contextualizing IoT with Business Impact ..............................................................................................................................
Potential for Win-Win: IoT Enables Consumer-Brand Symbiosis ..........................................................................
Consumer-facing Use Cases in the Internet of Things ....................................................................................................
Use Case 1: Reward ..............................................................................................................................................................................................................
Use Case 2: Information and Decision Making .........................................................................................................................................
Use Case 3: Facilitation .....................................................................................................................................................................................................
Use Case 4: Service ...............................................................................................................................................................................................................
Use Case 5: Innovation ......................................................................................................................................................................................................
Embrace Use Cases Holistically to Differentiate the Customer Experience ..................................................
How Brands Can Begin Crafting Consumer-Facing IoT Strategies ........................................................................
I. Prioritize Use Cases ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................
II. Make the Business Case ............................................................................................................................................................................................
III. Build the Infrastructure for Interoperability ...........................................................................................................................................
IV. Engage with Transparency .....................................................................................................................................................................................
Conclusion ....................................................................................................................................................................................................
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DEMYSTIFYINGTHEINTERNETOFTHINGS
In the last year alone, some 4 billion devices have come
online, according to Cisco.1
Intel predicts that number
could reach as high as 200 billion in less than five years,
and by 2020 there will be roughly 26 smart objects per
human.2
The devices and interfaces represent windows into
a new world of capabilities that can be mutually beneficial,
empowering, and contextually opportune for brand and
consumer simultaneously.
Amid an increasingly connected culture and consumer
base, the Internet of Things (IoT) uniquely matches the
imperative for relevance—not just through connectivity in
communications but in literally connecting all elements
of brand experience. Data connections deliver insights;
when applied, these insights inform and improve products,
services, and ultimately customer experiences (CXs) and
relationships. Harnessing digital connections to foster
deeper human connections is the highest opportunity of IoT.
Adoption of the Internet of Things faces tremendous
challenges—around power, latency, costs, industry
alignment on shared standards, protocols, and
infrastructure for interoperability; around data integrity,
security, access, and control; and around risk aversion,
trust, and privacy. Each of these merit and are subjects of
upcoming reports and analysis. This report aims to help
executives, brand strategists, marketers, technologists,
innovators, and internal change agents make sense of the
Internet of Things by understanding what it is, why it is
important, what it can look like, the opportunity it presents
for enhancing every step of the customer experience, and
how to establish its priority.
As in the early days of social media, companies that
embraced the technology head on will fare far better than
those who dismiss it as a mere fad for Millennials. A recent
study found that while 87% of consumers were unfamiliar
with the term Internet of Things, 65% plan to adopt
connected technologies in the future.3
What businesses
must understand is that while these are early days for IoT,
there is no doubt the next era of the Internet is upon us.
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DEFINING THE INTERNET OF THINGS
One of the first challenges to applying IoT is understanding
what it is and what it isn’t. The digital world is converging
with the physical world, and this phenomenon, known as
the Internet of Things, represents the next era of computing.
It is one in which just about anything can be connected,
through sensors and data, to other objects, environments,
people, and of course, the Internet.
Altimeter Group defines the Internet of Things as:
The interconnection and interaction of the digital
and physical worlds, wherein uniquely identifiable
embedded technology connects and integrates
physical ‘things’ to information networks via
existing and emerging Internet infrastructure.
IoT is a platform for connecting people, objects,
and environments to inform and enable visibility,
engagement, and innovation.
Using a wearable fitness tracker to monitor your exercise is
one thing. Yet the real value comes when biometric sensor
data in the tracker can connect to a post-surgical recovery
plan, communicate healing progress back to the surgeon
in real time, show how the patient’s progress compares to
other (anonymous) patients’, suggest more effective ways
to expedite healing and mobility and avoid increases in long-
term medical insurance premiums. Here, the connection
between data, things, and the Internet can transform the
experience—, both immediate and long term.
IoT is a platform
for connecting
people, objects, and
environments to inform
and enable visibility,
engagement,
and innovation.
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CONTEXTUALIZING IoT WITH BUSINESS IMPACT
Pre-digital technology and media relied on a broadcast model—one-way, one-to-many communications— and brands set the
agenda in this broadcast model. The advent of the Internet, social media, and mobile brought the impact of dialog: two-way
communications between brand and consumer and consumer and consumer. Consumers now set much of the agenda.
The Internet of Things creates the opportunity for any element of the brand experience to have a voice. When we add sensors to
the world around us (e.g., beings, places, objects, environments), we grant these things a voice through the data they generate
simply by existing. IoT enables multiway communications between brand and consumer, brand and object, consumer and object,
and object and object (see Figure 1).4
The result is empowerment of each.
FIGURE 1 HOW THE INTERNET OF THINGS FITS INTO THE CONSUMER-BRAND PARADIGM
One-way communications
from brand to consumer
Two-way communications
between consumer-brand
and consumer-consumer
Multiway communications
between object and brand,
object and consumer,
object and object
Tools for brand expression
Traditional Media
Tools for self-expression
Social & digital media
Tools for experience expression
Contextual Media
Over time Near real time Real time, predictive
Brand Voice
Broadcast Model Dialog Model Connectivity Model
Consumer Voice
Object Voice
Model
Time
element
Tools/
Media
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POTENTIAL FOR WIN-WIN: IoT ENABLES CONSUMER-BRAND SYMBIOSIS
In many ways, utilizing IoT can be a win-win for brands and consumers. From a brand standpoint, product voice helps those in
consumer-facing functions (e.g., marketing, support, sales, product) achieve common goals: brand awareness, insight, contextual
relevance, satisfaction, efficiency, loyalty, innovation, and conversion. IoT helps achieve these goals through the following:
•	 Context, context, context. By leveraging sensors and customer insight, IoT brings us closer than ever to the ultimate
marketing objective: delivering the right content or experience in the right context. In other words, delivering the right
information or service to the right person, at the right place and time via the right platform.
•	 Unprecedented insight into the customer journey. Creating and monitoring sensor-based touch points in the offline
world provides brands empirical, often customer-driven, insights that bridge the historically mysterious gap between how
consumers behave online and what they do in conjunction offline.
•	 The world’s largest focus group. IoT enables real-time insights on actual consumer behavior, product performance, and
consumer-product/service interaction, not just what people say they do and what they say the product and service do. As a
result, product and service optimization can happen faster and with greater accuracy. It can also reduce friction in traditional
consumer-driven communications with brands.
•	 Consumer-driven optimization. Marketers can leverage consumer interaction for ongoing optimization thanks to real-time
insight into how consumers interact with connected endpoints, the ability for end users to customize preferences, machine
learning, and other predictive capabilities. This means more accuracy and less guessing.
From this data collection, brands are able to better listen to, observe, and use data-generated insights to inform how they engage
with customers and evolve their products and services.
From a consumer standpoint, the benefit is empowerment. The Internet and social media age brought consumers empowerment
in the form of power via access to information. The Internet of Things extends this, but fundamentally facilitates consumer
empowerment in the form of doing: controlling, allocating, conserving, monitoring, and accomplishing.
The more consumers are inspired and enabled to do within the context of their brand interactions, the more brand and consumer
agendas can align. Realizing this symbiosis requires input (an ongoing dialog) between both sides, meaning brands must
constantly prioritize utility, service, and tangible value creation. It’s not that consumers don’t value an emotional touch; we do. It’s
that services provide value and more actionability than content. As director of creative strategy at OgilvyOne’s Cheryl Metzger
puts it, “In a world of so much noise, emotional connection is simply achieved more tangibly through utility and services than
storytelling.”
Harnessing digital connections to foster
deeper human connections is the highest
opportunity of the Internet of Things.
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To download this report in full at no cost, please visit our website at:
http://pages.altimetergroup.com/customer-experience-in-the-internet-of-things-report.html
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About Us
How to Work with Us
Altimeter Group helps organizations understand and take advantage of digital disruption. Our research is applied and
brought to life in our client engagements. In conjunction with our research on customer-facing Internet of Things (IoT),
there are several ways Altimeter can help you with related business initiatives:
•	 Education and Workshops. Engage an Altimeter analyst to help make the business case to executives or arm
strategists with new insights on consumer-facing IoT. Schedule an advisory session or team workshop to build IoT
knowledge and explore opportunities for your business.
•	 Speeches, Webinars, or Reports. Educate and inspire your audience with thought leadership and research-based
content on consumer-facing IoT.
•	 Market Assessments and Opportunity Analysis. For brands or vendors, retain Altimeter for research-based
assessment of your opportunities, or an analysis of competitors, innovators, and emerging best practices on
consumer-facing IoT.
To learn more about Altimeter’s offerings, contact sales@altimetergroup.com or visit http://www.altimetergroup.com/how-to-
work-with-us.
Altimeter is a research and
consulting firm that helps
companies understand and
act on technology disruption.
We give business leaders the
insight and confidence to help
their companies thrive in the
face of disruption. In addition to
publishing research, Altimeter
Group analysts speak and
provide strategy consulting
on trends in leadership, digital
transformation, social business,
data disruption and content
marketing strategy.
Altimeter Group
425 California Street, Suite 980
San Francisco, CA 94104
info@altimetergroup.com
www.altimetergroup.com
@altimetergroup
415-489-7689
Rebecca Lieb, Industry Analyst
Rebecca Lieb (@lieblink) covers digital advertising and media,
encompassing brands, publishers, agencies and technology vendors.
In addition to her background as a marketing executive, she was VP
and editor-in-chief of the ClickZ Network for over seven years. She’s
written two books on digital marketing: The Truth About Search Engine
Optimization (2009) and Content Marketing (2011). Rebecca blogs at
www.rebeccalieb.com/blog.
Jessica Groopman, Senior Researcher
Jessica (@jessgroopman) is a Senior Researcher with Altimeter Group,
where she covers the Internet of Things. The focus on her research is
on the application of sensors for consumer-facing businesses, with
an emphasis on customer experience, privacy, contextual marketing,
automated service, and wearables. She is featured on Onalytica’s top
100 influencers in the Internet of Things. Jessica blogs about her
research at jessgroopman.com and is a regular contributor to numerous
3rd party industry blogs. She is also a contributing member of the FC
Business Intelligence IoT Nexus Advisory Board. Jessica has experience
conducting business, technological, and anthropological research.
Charlene Li, Founder and CEO, Analyst
Charlene Li (@charleneli) is Founder and CEO of Altimeter Group and
author of the New York Times bestseller, Open Leadership. She is also
the co-author of the critically acclaimed bestselling book, Groundswell,
which was named one of the best business books in 2008. She is
working on a new book on the digital transformation of leadership, to
be published in March 2015 by Wharton Digital Press.
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[Report] Customer Experience in the Internet of Things by Altimeter Group

  • 1. March 2015 By Jessica Groopman Includes input from 38 ecosystem contributors Edited by Rebecca Lieb and Charlene Li Customer Experience in the Internet of Things: Five Ways Brands Can Use Sensors to Build Better Customer Relationships Preview Only
  • 2. Executive Summary The Internet of Things is not some pipe dream, Jetsons-esque future state; it is an entirely new paradigm for building relationships. Yet determining when, how, and to what extent to apply connected products and other sensor-generated data to the customer experience remains poorly understood by marketers and digital strategists. Our research finds that the unique opportunity in the Internet of Things is that it has the potential to mutually benefit both enterprise and consumer. Enterprises gain visibility; consumers gain empowerment. This report reveals five use cases illustrating how consumer-facing brands can embrace the Internet of Things to create actual value for businesses and consumers alike. Demystifying the Internet of Things ........................................................................................................................................... Contextualizing IoT with Business Impact .............................................................................................................................. Potential for Win-Win: IoT Enables Consumer-Brand Symbiosis .......................................................................... Consumer-facing Use Cases in the Internet of Things .................................................................................................... Use Case 1: Reward .............................................................................................................................................................................................................. Use Case 2: Information and Decision Making ......................................................................................................................................... Use Case 3: Facilitation ..................................................................................................................................................................................................... Use Case 4: Service ............................................................................................................................................................................................................... Use Case 5: Innovation ...................................................................................................................................................................................................... Embrace Use Cases Holistically to Differentiate the Customer Experience .................................................. How Brands Can Begin Crafting Consumer-Facing IoT Strategies ........................................................................ I. Prioritize Use Cases .......................................................................................................................................................................................................... II. Make the Business Case ............................................................................................................................................................................................ III. Build the Infrastructure for Interoperability ........................................................................................................................................... IV. Engage with Transparency ..................................................................................................................................................................................... Conclusion .................................................................................................................................................................................................... Table of Contents 3 4 5 5 7 9 11 13 15 16 19 19 22 23 25 27 Preview Only
  • 3. DEMYSTIFYINGTHEINTERNETOFTHINGS In the last year alone, some 4 billion devices have come online, according to Cisco.1 Intel predicts that number could reach as high as 200 billion in less than five years, and by 2020 there will be roughly 26 smart objects per human.2 The devices and interfaces represent windows into a new world of capabilities that can be mutually beneficial, empowering, and contextually opportune for brand and consumer simultaneously. Amid an increasingly connected culture and consumer base, the Internet of Things (IoT) uniquely matches the imperative for relevance—not just through connectivity in communications but in literally connecting all elements of brand experience. Data connections deliver insights; when applied, these insights inform and improve products, services, and ultimately customer experiences (CXs) and relationships. Harnessing digital connections to foster deeper human connections is the highest opportunity of IoT. Adoption of the Internet of Things faces tremendous challenges—around power, latency, costs, industry alignment on shared standards, protocols, and infrastructure for interoperability; around data integrity, security, access, and control; and around risk aversion, trust, and privacy. Each of these merit and are subjects of upcoming reports and analysis. This report aims to help executives, brand strategists, marketers, technologists, innovators, and internal change agents make sense of the Internet of Things by understanding what it is, why it is important, what it can look like, the opportunity it presents for enhancing every step of the customer experience, and how to establish its priority. As in the early days of social media, companies that embraced the technology head on will fare far better than those who dismiss it as a mere fad for Millennials. A recent study found that while 87% of consumers were unfamiliar with the term Internet of Things, 65% plan to adopt connected technologies in the future.3 What businesses must understand is that while these are early days for IoT, there is no doubt the next era of the Internet is upon us. 3 DEFINING THE INTERNET OF THINGS One of the first challenges to applying IoT is understanding what it is and what it isn’t. The digital world is converging with the physical world, and this phenomenon, known as the Internet of Things, represents the next era of computing. It is one in which just about anything can be connected, through sensors and data, to other objects, environments, people, and of course, the Internet. Altimeter Group defines the Internet of Things as: The interconnection and interaction of the digital and physical worlds, wherein uniquely identifiable embedded technology connects and integrates physical ‘things’ to information networks via existing and emerging Internet infrastructure. IoT is a platform for connecting people, objects, and environments to inform and enable visibility, engagement, and innovation. Using a wearable fitness tracker to monitor your exercise is one thing. Yet the real value comes when biometric sensor data in the tracker can connect to a post-surgical recovery plan, communicate healing progress back to the surgeon in real time, show how the patient’s progress compares to other (anonymous) patients’, suggest more effective ways to expedite healing and mobility and avoid increases in long- term medical insurance premiums. Here, the connection between data, things, and the Internet can transform the experience—, both immediate and long term. IoT is a platform for connecting people, objects, and environments to inform and enable visibility, engagement, and innovation. Preview Only
  • 4. 4 CONTEXTUALIZING IoT WITH BUSINESS IMPACT Pre-digital technology and media relied on a broadcast model—one-way, one-to-many communications— and brands set the agenda in this broadcast model. The advent of the Internet, social media, and mobile brought the impact of dialog: two-way communications between brand and consumer and consumer and consumer. Consumers now set much of the agenda. The Internet of Things creates the opportunity for any element of the brand experience to have a voice. When we add sensors to the world around us (e.g., beings, places, objects, environments), we grant these things a voice through the data they generate simply by existing. IoT enables multiway communications between brand and consumer, brand and object, consumer and object, and object and object (see Figure 1).4 The result is empowerment of each. FIGURE 1 HOW THE INTERNET OF THINGS FITS INTO THE CONSUMER-BRAND PARADIGM One-way communications from brand to consumer Two-way communications between consumer-brand and consumer-consumer Multiway communications between object and brand, object and consumer, object and object Tools for brand expression Traditional Media Tools for self-expression Social & digital media Tools for experience expression Contextual Media Over time Near real time Real time, predictive Brand Voice Broadcast Model Dialog Model Connectivity Model Consumer Voice Object Voice Model Time element Tools/ Media Preview Only
  • 5. 5 POTENTIAL FOR WIN-WIN: IoT ENABLES CONSUMER-BRAND SYMBIOSIS In many ways, utilizing IoT can be a win-win for brands and consumers. From a brand standpoint, product voice helps those in consumer-facing functions (e.g., marketing, support, sales, product) achieve common goals: brand awareness, insight, contextual relevance, satisfaction, efficiency, loyalty, innovation, and conversion. IoT helps achieve these goals through the following: • Context, context, context. By leveraging sensors and customer insight, IoT brings us closer than ever to the ultimate marketing objective: delivering the right content or experience in the right context. In other words, delivering the right information or service to the right person, at the right place and time via the right platform. • Unprecedented insight into the customer journey. Creating and monitoring sensor-based touch points in the offline world provides brands empirical, often customer-driven, insights that bridge the historically mysterious gap between how consumers behave online and what they do in conjunction offline. • The world’s largest focus group. IoT enables real-time insights on actual consumer behavior, product performance, and consumer-product/service interaction, not just what people say they do and what they say the product and service do. As a result, product and service optimization can happen faster and with greater accuracy. It can also reduce friction in traditional consumer-driven communications with brands. • Consumer-driven optimization. Marketers can leverage consumer interaction for ongoing optimization thanks to real-time insight into how consumers interact with connected endpoints, the ability for end users to customize preferences, machine learning, and other predictive capabilities. This means more accuracy and less guessing. From this data collection, brands are able to better listen to, observe, and use data-generated insights to inform how they engage with customers and evolve their products and services. From a consumer standpoint, the benefit is empowerment. The Internet and social media age brought consumers empowerment in the form of power via access to information. The Internet of Things extends this, but fundamentally facilitates consumer empowerment in the form of doing: controlling, allocating, conserving, monitoring, and accomplishing. The more consumers are inspired and enabled to do within the context of their brand interactions, the more brand and consumer agendas can align. Realizing this symbiosis requires input (an ongoing dialog) between both sides, meaning brands must constantly prioritize utility, service, and tangible value creation. It’s not that consumers don’t value an emotional touch; we do. It’s that services provide value and more actionability than content. As director of creative strategy at OgilvyOne’s Cheryl Metzger puts it, “In a world of so much noise, emotional connection is simply achieved more tangibly through utility and services than storytelling.” Harnessing digital connections to foster deeper human connections is the highest opportunity of the Internet of Things. Preview Only
  • 6. 6 To download this report in full at no cost, please visit our website at: http://pages.altimetergroup.com/customer-experience-in-the-internet-of-things-report.html Preview Only
  • 7. About Us How to Work with Us Altimeter Group helps organizations understand and take advantage of digital disruption. Our research is applied and brought to life in our client engagements. In conjunction with our research on customer-facing Internet of Things (IoT), there are several ways Altimeter can help you with related business initiatives: • Education and Workshops. Engage an Altimeter analyst to help make the business case to executives or arm strategists with new insights on consumer-facing IoT. Schedule an advisory session or team workshop to build IoT knowledge and explore opportunities for your business. • Speeches, Webinars, or Reports. Educate and inspire your audience with thought leadership and research-based content on consumer-facing IoT. • Market Assessments and Opportunity Analysis. For brands or vendors, retain Altimeter for research-based assessment of your opportunities, or an analysis of competitors, innovators, and emerging best practices on consumer-facing IoT. To learn more about Altimeter’s offerings, contact sales@altimetergroup.com or visit http://www.altimetergroup.com/how-to- work-with-us. Altimeter is a research and consulting firm that helps companies understand and act on technology disruption. We give business leaders the insight and confidence to help their companies thrive in the face of disruption. In addition to publishing research, Altimeter Group analysts speak and provide strategy consulting on trends in leadership, digital transformation, social business, data disruption and content marketing strategy. Altimeter Group 425 California Street, Suite 980 San Francisco, CA 94104 info@altimetergroup.com www.altimetergroup.com @altimetergroup 415-489-7689 Rebecca Lieb, Industry Analyst Rebecca Lieb (@lieblink) covers digital advertising and media, encompassing brands, publishers, agencies and technology vendors. In addition to her background as a marketing executive, she was VP and editor-in-chief of the ClickZ Network for over seven years. She’s written two books on digital marketing: The Truth About Search Engine Optimization (2009) and Content Marketing (2011). Rebecca blogs at www.rebeccalieb.com/blog. Jessica Groopman, Senior Researcher Jessica (@jessgroopman) is a Senior Researcher with Altimeter Group, where she covers the Internet of Things. The focus on her research is on the application of sensors for consumer-facing businesses, with an emphasis on customer experience, privacy, contextual marketing, automated service, and wearables. She is featured on Onalytica’s top 100 influencers in the Internet of Things. Jessica blogs about her research at jessgroopman.com and is a regular contributor to numerous 3rd party industry blogs. She is also a contributing member of the FC Business Intelligence IoT Nexus Advisory Board. Jessica has experience conducting business, technological, and anthropological research. Charlene Li, Founder and CEO, Analyst Charlene Li (@charleneli) is Founder and CEO of Altimeter Group and author of the New York Times bestseller, Open Leadership. She is also the co-author of the critically acclaimed bestselling book, Groundswell, which was named one of the best business books in 2008. She is working on a new book on the digital transformation of leadership, to be published in March 2015 by Wharton Digital Press. 7 Preview Only