While I am also jaded at the mention of "IoT" these days, I think he tied it down to the concrete well enough, in discussing "time series data". With Timescale

While I am also jaded at the mention of "IoT" these days, I think he tied it down to the concrete well enough, in discussing "time series data". With TimescaleDB time series data is the offer, not some vague idea of "connectedness" or "the future".