Tag: iot
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Would you like to hug a cow?
Cows, IoT, and ML On this week’s Software Defined Interviews, Whitney and I talked with my friend Saad. We mostly talked about the irresistible topic of monitoring cows, which he did at his previous startup: In this episode, Whitney and Coté speak with Saad Ansari, a product manager at Databricks, about his fascinating journey from…
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Link: MOOvement: A track & trace system for cows
An IoT use case, for tracking cows, that actually helps out the business (in addition to the customers, the ranchers): Rabobank’s network and financial support helped mOOvement enormously, says Van de Ven. The bank has also benefited from the product. Van de Ven: “Nowadays, you can use satellite images to determine the condition of the…
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🗂 Kafka at Audi, IoT
> When Audi wanted to build a system to manage the on-board telematics data in its vehicles, it turned to Kafka. The system gathers and publishes data about engine performance from 850 sensors in each car, from cylinder heads to braking systems, feeding back tens of terabytes of data to Audi every day. But Audi…
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Link: AWS’s Snowball Edge
A private cloud box from Amazon: The Snowball Edge Compute Optimized with GPU includes an on-board GPU that you can use to do real-time full-motion video analysis & processing, machine learning inferencing, and other highly parallel compute-intensive work. You can launch an sbe-g instance to gain access to the GPU. It has Lamda and EC2…
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Link: Enterprises to spend almost $2 trillion on digital transformation by 2022
“Industry spending on DX technologies is being driven by core innovation accelerator technologies with IoT and cognitive computing leading the race in terms of overall spend,” said Eileen Smith, program director with IDC’s Customer Insights and Analysis Group. “The introduction of IoT sensors and communications capabilities is rapidly transforming manufacturing processes as well as asset…
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Link: Modeling the future enterprise: people, purpose, and profit
“One answer is in a straightforward metric—how new technologies like cloud, cognitive, mobile, IoT, mobile, etc., impact industries via the gross domestic product (GDP) by industry by region. Looking at the improvement opportunities in healthcare, energy, government, and the supply chain, among other domains, IDC has identified $18.5 trillion in annual economic value add by…
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Link: Microsoft has designed an Arm Linux IoT cloud chip. Repeat, an Arm Linux IoT cloud chip
An edge device in every home, office, street corner, etc. “The way it works is like this: Microsoft makes its system-on-chip (SoC) blueprints available to chip designers, which fabricate the chipset and flog it to IoT device makers. These manufacturers slap the silicon in their products, and run Microsoft’s Linux-based Sphere OS along with their…
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Link: Liberty Mutual embraces AI, blockchain
“The Boston insurer is also testing blockchain software to develop a platform intended to create an audit trail and move money across the business faster, Scerbo says. Blockchain could eventually present carriers with the opportunity to pair the ledger technology with IoT to avoid fraud using connected-car sensors and smart home devices increasingly being adopted…
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Link: Digital Twin initiatives set to take enterprise center stage: Gartner
“Gartner revealed the results of a survey which suggests that 48 percent of companies which are already enjoying the benefits of IoT are using, or plan to use Digital Twin by the end of 2018.” Original source: Digital Twin initiatives set to take enterprise center stage: Gartner
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Link: Why Haier Is Reorganizing Itself around the Internet of Things
There’s of course Halo Effect to look at over 5 years with this kind of thing, but here’s a relatively new model for corporate strategic and operational “culture.” Plus, Sheinhardt Wig Company microwaves. Original source: Why Haier Is Reorganizing Itself around the Internet of Things
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Link: Don’t dream big when taking on industrial or enterprise IoT
Stacey says that, even with IoT projects, starting small is good to prove long term ROI. She also describes the problem with doing transformational ROI when the work might just be doing improvements, like adding in more safety to industrial things. This doesn’t measure the creation of a new business ahead of time, innovation, which…
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Link: IoT and the end of business as usual
“if today’s business leaders want to use their influence to promote this society they are so optimistic about, then they need to take the steps necessary to get us there. And that means moving beyond magical thinking and taking a long-term view.” Original source: IoT and the end of business as usual
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Link: The era of the cloud’s total dominance is drawing to a close – Life on the edge
A bit of an over-statement. What they want to say is “lots of new computing from IoT and pocket devices,” or something. “many new applications have to act fast. According to some estimates, self-driving cars generate as much as 25 gigabytes per hour, nearly 30 times more than a high-definition video stream. Before so many…
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Link: Meet Kate Garman, Seattle’s smart cities coordinator, tasked with making the city more efficient
Examples of what a city would do with IoT: “The private sector has pushed cities in a lot of ways,” she said. “My favorite example is, because Uber and Lyft and other transportation network companies could show you where your ride is on your phone, people started really asking, ‘Well, where’s my snow plow? Where…
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Link: Driven by AI, blockchain and IoT, IT spending could hit $3.7 trillion in 2018 – SiliconANGLE
Gartner says: “businesses will spend nearly $3.7 trillion on information technology hardware, software and services in 2018, up 4.5 percent [y/y]” Original source: Driven by AI, blockchain and IoT, IT spending could hit $3.7 trillion in 2018 – SiliconANGLE
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Link: Do Your Customers Actually Want a “Smart” Version of Your Product?
Figuring out product management for home automation/IoT. Plus a sampling of market-sizing and penetration stats. Original source: Do Your Customers Actually Want a “Smart” Version of Your Product?
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Link: Vendors talk about why AzureStack is good for their markets
This is especially true in “industrial Internet of Things” applications, where the likes of ABB and GE collect data from sensors on their equipment and analyze it to help with things like predictive maintenance and capacity planning. Often, for performance and/or security reasons, the compute gear that does the analytics is placed directly on oil…
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Link: JFrog Raises $50 Million To Provide The App Store For The Internet Of Things
That’s a big chunk of change. Developers don’t pay for anything, eh? Source: JFrog Raises $50 Million To Provide The App Store For The Internet Of Things
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Link: Internet of Things Spending Forecast to Reach Nearly $1.3 Trillion in 2019 Led by Widespread Initiatives
“According to a new IDC Spending Guide, worldwide spending on the Internet of Things (IoT) will grow at a 17.0% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) from $698.6 billion in 2015 to nearly $1.3 trillion in 2019.” I think IoT is becoming mor like IoEverything. Source: Internet of Things Spending Forecast to Reach Nearly $1.3 Trillion…
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Want IoT? Here’s How a Major US Utility Collects Power Data from Over 5.5 Million Meters – High Scalability –
Want IoT? Here’s How a Major US Utility Collects Power Data from Over 5.5 Million Meters – High Scalability –
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