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Internet of Things: From Strategy to Action: Driving IoT to Industrial Scale
1. An annual journal produced by Cognizant
VOLUME 9 • ISSUE 1 2016
Part III
Digital
Business
2020:
Getting there
from here!
Internet of Things
From Strategy to Action:
Driving IoT to
Industrial Scale
Cognizanti
2. Cognizanti • 2
Internet of Things
Full IoT value cannot be
realized by connecting a few
devices. Organizations need to
get beyond instrumentation,
and focus on the impact
these technologies can have
on their business strategies,
which will require leadership,
vision and partnership.
“Modern technology is not just a collection of
more or less independent means of production.
Rather it is becoming an open language for
the creation of structures and functions in the
economy. Slowly, at a pace measured in decades,
we are shifting … to technologies whose main
character is that they can be combined and
configured endlessly for fresh purposes.”1
— W. Brian Arthur
The market phenomenon known as the
Internet of Things (IoT) must be understood
as a technology collective, as it is built from
previously existent technologies, and benefits
from the convergence of commercially
available components. The Internet itself is
the culmination of multiple technologies,
and the multi-tier architecture common to
most IoT solutions (edge devices and sensors,
gateways, cloud) is built on the progression of
hardware and software that has powered the
computing revolution for years.
However, while the vision for interconnected
networks of “things” has existed for decades,
execution has been hampered by an inability
to craft end-to-end solutions and, perhaps
more importantly, the lack of a pressing and
financially-viable business case for wide-scale
adoption.
The IoT’s building blocks have continu-
ally evolved over decades of research into
pervasive and ubiquitous computing, cul-
minating in a seamless connection between
the digital and physical worlds. As a result,
consumer and industrial adoption of Internet
Protocol (IP)-powered devices is increasing,
as many industries find creative and even
transformative ways to exploit the “data
exhaust,” or Code Halo™, surrounding
people, processes, products and operations.
From Strategy to
Action: Driving IoT
to Industrial Scale
By Mary Murphy-Hoye
3. 3
The list of potential IoT examples grows by
the day – and their application is seemingly
limitless. When it comes to a company’s
product portfolio, almost everything in it
appears up for grabs. We see endless opportu-
nities to build smart products, smart processes
and smart places that enable business transfor-
mation across the extended value chain (see
Quick Take, next page). Smart, connected
products can provide insight into how
customers actually use a product, how well the
product performs and a new perspective into
overall customer satisfaction.
Capital-intensive products can be sold for
the first time “as-a-service,” shared among a
pool of customers and handled as an OpEx
item rather than a more expensive CapEx
investment. IoT opens the door to a whole
new way of building and conceptualizing
products, and serving customers with a
sustained engagement model, as companies
that may have interacted with customers
only at the initial sale of capital equipment
can now create an ongoing relationship that
continues over time.
Future Promise
First, a prediction for the near future: In a
few years, the term “IoT” will disappear from
our vernacular, and discussions will revolve
around the purpose of IoT – the business
transformation that results when physical
assets, production processes and inhabited
spaces are connected as a “system of systems”
whose components inform and feed upon one
another to drive new business value. Entirely
new business models, products-as-a-service,
smart cities, intelligent buildings, remote
patient monitoring capabilities and industrial
transformation models will emerge. Order-of-
magnitude improvements will take shape as
business intelligence drives efficiency, waste
reduction, predictive maintenance and other
forms of value.
Companies will take for granted that ambient
data captured from the physical world will
inform their products, processes and customer
services. The conversation will be less about
how to connect “things” and more about
the insights resulting from instrumentation
of large parts of the value chain. IoT tech-
nologies will be a commodity, and the real
value will be in the analytics performed on
the voluminous streams of contextual data
emitted by the “digital heartbeat” of the value
chain. IoT will be inherent in how products
operate and how physical business processes
transpire, and the instrumentation-to-insights
continuum will become the standard way of
doing business. But we are some years away
from this vision, and we need to explore what
it takes to get there.
Today’s Reality
Much of today’s market discussion around the
IoT is focused on the component ingredients.
New and established companies saturate
the market with individual, and sometimes
isolated, pieces of the IoT solution. Several
platform leaders are emerging, as well. But
even as the ingredients mature, sustain-
able success will require more than neatly
stitching them together. As the hype around
IoT rises, many organizations will easily
overlook the massive level of change – on
both a technological and business level –
they must overcome.
IoT technologies will be a commodity, and the real
value will be in the analytics performed on the
voluminous streams of contextual data emitted
by the “digital heartbeat” of the value chain.
4. Cognizanti • 4
Creating Value through Scaled-Up IoT
Quick Take
Businesses are embarking on their IoT journey
from different perspectives; some begin with
investigations into new sensing technologies,
while others start by exploring their existing
and advanced data sources through new data
mining techniques. As their products take on
new characteristics through the application of
IoT instrumentation, businesses can re-imagine
their products and create valuable new services
for their customers. Here are some examples
of what we’ve seen in our work with clients on
scaling up IoT:
OO Industrial equipment rental company:
This business is reducing downtime and
minimizing lost revenue through new
track-and-trace capabilities that improve
the utilization of machine rentals. New
business opportunities are also emerging,
with the addition of key IoT end-to-end
ingredients, including an array of mobile
applications that feed behavioral data on
a variety of end customers into a highly-
scalable analytics platform.
This company is an example of an early
leader reinventing its capital-intensive
business and bringing greater transparency
to field operators, as the people operating
the equipment can obtain more data on
machine status in-real-time, while they are
using the equipment. Through mobile apps
and instrumentation, the field operator
can know more about the machine state.
Eventually, after achieving a level of
significant scale with this solution across
sites, this company will be able to offer
new data-driven services that enable new
leasing and equipment-sharing models
that better serve customers and increase its
addressable market.
OO Leading healthcare organization:
This company has implemented a remote
patient monitoring solution that reduces
the need for patients to visit clinics when
measuring routine vitals, increasing patient
satisfaction and reducing operating costs.
The ability to generate continuous data
and insights about patients in a home
setting also provides healthcare profes-
sionals with an early warning system about
each of their individual patients and could
also provide new insights across many
patients with similar conditions. When
it rolls out remote patient monitoring
at scale, on a state or national level, the
company, its customers and the patient
could realize enormous value.
OO Oilfield services company: This business
instrumented its submersible pumps to
more effectively extract petroleum from the
ground. Instrumentation can also reduce
maintenance costs, eliminating the need
to send a technician to the site by enabling
remote monitoring and even remote
upgrade services. The company is now
beginning to think through the potential
of the “connected oilfield” and needs to
identify and remove obstacles to scale to
fulfill the vision of the digital oilfield across
all sites.
5. 5
The most advanced organizations are
deploying experimental pilots and prototypes
and, in many cases, are focusing exclusively
on the instrumentation ingredient of IoT.
(For more on how organizations are assessing
IoT’s potential, please read “Transcending
the Hype: A Transformative IoT Emerges,”
Cognizanti Vol. 8, Issue 1, 2015). While this
early experimentation is necessary, most
companies fail to realize that prototypes don’t
expose the complexity of IoT at scale, and
it is only through scale that business value
potential can be realized. IoT scaling also
unleashes a tsunami of new forms of data,
posing a challenge to existing infrastruc-
ture, algorithms and applications. To take
advantage of this torrent of data, organizations
need to reinvent and reimagine their own
products and processes (see Figure 1,
next page).
The Differences
with IoT Delivery
Adding connectivity, computation and
interactivity directly into everyday things
requires organizations to consider new types
of challenges, such as radio interference,
power, physical access and ruggedized design.
IoT, therefore, requires critical understanding
of industry business problems, new instru-
mentation technologies and techniques, and
the physical nature of the environment being
instrumented.
IoT solutions are typically defined by a
three-tier architecture, including:
OO Physical instrumentation via sensors
and/or devices.
OO An edge gateway, including communication
protocol translation support, edge monitor-
ing and analysis of the devices and data.
OO Private/public/hybrid cloud-based data
storage and complex big data analytics
integrated with enterprise back-end systems.
The complexity of the individual technolo-
gies and their integration is why many early
IoT pilots focus either on sensor selection
and the challenges of instrumentation, or big
data analytics of existing telematics environ-
ments. Without an equal emphasis on instru-
mentation and actionable insight, however,
the solution will not be positioned to deliver
business value.
Successful business transformation initiatives
apply basic IoT building blocks to a specific
industry challenge to gain market advantage,
and are fitted to the constraints of the char-
acteristic-sensing infrastructure (e.g., RFID
tags and readers in retail inventory tracking
vs. vibration sensors in manufacturing for
predicting equipment failures). Finally, these
IoT integrations must then be tuned to the
actual physical environments in which the
instrumentation technology will be deployed
and aligned with the business focus areas for
each company. This often requires companies
to seek outside expertise or leverage a comple-
mentary set of ecosystem partnerships.
Additional scalability challenges include:
OO The large number of autonomous hetero-
geneous sensors and devices.
OO The high volume/velocity/variety of data
needing spatial and temporal context.
OO The new forms of end-to-end IoT security,
distributed device management and dis-
tributed data analysis.
OO The physical installation/support services
needed to support IoT system deployments
at scale.
OO The need for continuous critical
assessment of potential partner capabili-
IoT scaling also unleashes a tsunami of new
forms of data, posing a challenge to existing
infrastructure, algorithms and applications.
6. Cognizanti • 6
Connecting the IoT Dots
A scalable IoT architecture typically comprises three tiers:
edge devices and sensors, connectivity and a platform layer.
To realize IoT’s business benefits, organizations must design and implement each layer of
the architecture at-scale, with hooks across company functions to ensure tight integration
with run-the-business legacy systems. Our reference architecture illustrates how large
volumes of device and sensor data can be collected and then fed into an analytics platform.
From there, structured data is passed to an integration and visualization layer, through
which enterprise applications such as ERP and CRM applications can access streams of data
in real-time. Lastly, dashboard applications can be plugged into this architecture to help
business leaders make more informed operational and strategic decisions.
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IoT Reference Architecture
EDGE DEVICES CONNECTIVITY PLATFORM LAYER
IP-Capable
Gateway
SECURITY &
COMPLIANCE
MONITORING LOGGING DEVOPS
Service broker
Complex event
processing
Data storage
Device
provisioning &
management
Rules engine
Workflow
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MANAGEMENT
Integration &
VisualizationCloud Services Analytics
IoT Agent
Device provisioning &
registration
Data collection
Command and control
Remote software
upgrade
Remote access
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Low-Power
Device or
Sensor
IoT
Agent
IoT
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IoT
Agent
Network
Abstraction
Cellular – 3G, 4G, etc.
Satellite
Wi-Fi
SigFox
Communication
Protocols
HTTP, HTTPS
MQTT
AMQP
CoAP
Hot path analysis
Streaming analytics
Alarms &
notification
Device heartbeat/
state check
Cold path analysis
Reports
Predictive analysis
Machine learning
Business apps:
desktop & mobile
Reports &
dashboards
Enterprise app
integration
API gateway
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7. 7
ties and technology evolution to incorpo-
rate best-of-breed ingredients. Prioritizing
criteria such as scalability and longevity
is key, particularly because the IoT uses
nascent technologies from an emerging
and rapidly changing ecosystem, with
startups emerging almost daily.
OO The context of IoT-generated data (i.e.,
metadata) exponentially increases the
volume, variety and velocity of data that
must be collected, handled by the IoT
solution and incorporated into legacy
enterprise systems.
At a business level, this means companies
must look beyond the question of which pilot
experiments to run and investigate how to
design and implement IoT solutions that
scale, even if they start small and evolve
toward larger implementations over time.
As with most technology initiatives, the
business cases are realized only at scale.
Connecting a few devices doesn’t really do
justice to the power of the IoT to create more
meaningful products, processes and places
to elevate business performance. Specifi-
cally, pilots illuminate how IoT connectivity
works, but they often fall short of revealing
the potential for waste reduction, efficiency,
productivity or creative new business models.
Overcoming the
Challenges of IoT Scale
To quickly move from prototyping to
real-world deployment, we recommend the
following:
OO Focus on the underlying business
problem or opportunity. Change the
mindset around IoT from technology
experimentation to business transfor-
mation, beginning at the heart of the
company’s most valuable assets. A coordi-
nated engagement between the COO and
CIO, a CFO-ready business plan, product,
delivery and customer service is a pre-
requisite for IoT scale.
OO Understand how IoT amplifies value.
When an object becomes part of the IoT,
it gains a unique persistent identity and
the ability to share information about its
state. As a result, an intelligent object’s
value is amplified across its lifecycle – from
creation, manufacturing, delivery and use,
to its demise – as well as across its network
of suppliers, producers, partners and
customers, whose interactions and access
are managed through and by the IoT.
When a product’s lifecycle and network are
taken into account during an IoT explora-
tion, it is possible to realize the potential
for structural transformation of processes,
networks and even the product itself.
OO Consider the physical nature of the
environment. IoT brings connectivity
to everyday objects rooted in a physical
place. This results in two critical facets
of IoT scaling: an understanding of the
interplay between objects, between
objects and people, and between objects
and the environment (requiring a deep
understanding of the setting and how the
physical place works), and an understand-
ing of how the physical environments
themselves may impact the connectivity
and successful interaction of objects. Since
IoT is dependent on wireless radio waves
to transmit data from objects, any radio
interference in a physical environment can
affect transmission and needs to be taken
into account during system design.
Pilots illuminate how IoT connectivity works, but they
often fall short of revealing the potential for waste
reduction, efficiency, productivity or creative new
business models.
8. Cognizanti • 8
The goal of IoT scale is for individual
systems to interact with one another
within the physical world and become
invisible, embedded and blended into
the workplace. It takes an understand-
ing of the inner workings of a place and
the ability to translate technology into
that environment. For example, a “digital
oilfield” IoT concept may bring together
oil and gas consultants who understand
industry pressures, drilling rig personnel
who know the physical nature of
day-to-day operations, and IoT technology
experts who can instrument and connect
the environment.
OO Realize it “takes a village” to unify
all IoT ingredients. IoT is a “system of
systems” made up of many different ingre-
dients and expertise, and is dependent on
end-to-end systems integration. This is
what can revolutionize a business model
and enable coordinated initiatives archi-
tected for scale. Enrolling partners with
the required domain expertise, as well
as hands-on experience with integrating
IoT technologies, will help your organiza-
tion chart a long-term roadmap for IoT
strategy and implementation.
Realizing Full IoT Value
Progressive organizations will quickly
transcend IoT workshops and pilots to build
a long-term roadmap that is driven not by
technology, but by their business vision for
the future.
IoT can be both massively disruptive and
valuable across an industry, so while early
pilots help companies understand how to
bring basic connectivity to life, they still fall
short of unlocking the underlying business
value that can only be mined at scale.
To create a meaningful difference in the
business model, the product and/or opera-
tional processes, organizations must tackle
IoT in a coordinated way across functions –
at scale. This requires vision and leadership,
as well as outside expertise and an ecosystem
of partners to deliver a successful IoT journey.
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Footnotes
1
W. Brian Arthur, The Nature of Technology: What It Is and How It Evolves, Free Press,
January 2011, http://books.simonandschuster.com/The-Nature-of-Technology/W-Brian-
Arthur/9781416544067.
Author
Mary Murphy-Hoye is Vice-President of Cognizant’s Internet of Things Services Practice and leads the
company’s IoT global consulting services organization. Prior to joining Cognizant, Mary held senior leadership
positions over her 28-year career at Intel, where she helped companies create and implement large-scale
prototypes and solutions in high-volume production environments utilizing disruptive technologies. Mary has
worked as trusted advisor across multiple industries, from end-to-end retail, industrial automation, high-tech,
oil and gas, through chemical, manufacturing and transportation (including ocean-bound cargo containers
and railcars) and logistics. She received a bachelor of science degree in mathematics from University of
Arizona and has won numerous awards for her research and innovation. Mary was named one of Connected
World’s Women of M2M 2014. She can be reached at Mary.Murphy-Hoye@cognizant.com |
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/pub/mary-murphy-hoye/1/b7/386.
Acknowledgments
The author would like to thank Vivek Asija, a Product Marketing Director within Cognizant’s Emerging
Business Accelerator, for his contributions to this article.