The document presents a manifesto for a new approach to smart connected systems and the internet of things. It argues that current IT models and practices are outdated and not suitable for a world where everyday objects communicate and interact over networks. The manifesto calls for universal standards for connectivity, new information architectures that can integrate real-time device data, and automated tools for developing smart systems that can scale to include trillions of connected things. By leveraging collective intelligence across networks of interconnected systems and people, the internet of things has the potential to transform civilization, but a new approach that moves beyond incremental changes is needed.
Smart Systems and The Future of Smart Products_ Group 4_FinalPaper (1)Michael Hanacek
This document provides an overview of smart systems and the future of smart products. It begins with defining what constitutes a smart system, including smart cities, infrastructure, homes, products, and sensors. It then reviews literature related to the internet of things, smart cities, infrastructure, homes, products, and sensors. Several case studies are examined, including smart grids and smart classrooms, to analyze what makes an efficient smart system. The findings imply that companies will become more innovative in creating integrated networks of smart, connected products to guide new product development.
The document discusses the Internet of Things (IoT) and how it connects physical objects through sensors, connectivity and integration with other systems and people. It defines the IoT as being driven by sensors and actuators that collect data about the physical world, connectivity that allows these devices to communicate over networks, and people and processes that analyze and make use of the collected data. It provides examples of current IoT applications and envisions how these applications could become more integrated and networked to create new services and value across different industries. It also discusses the rapid growth of the IoT market in terms of connected devices, installed base and revenue opportunities projected to reach over $1 trillion by 2020.
Harbor Research - Global Smart Device & Smart Systems SpendingHarbor Research
Investment in smart systems and the Internet of Things is expected to greatly outpace traditional information and communications technology investment over the coming years. Smart systems involve connecting various inputs like machines, sensors, and devices to networks to enable collective awareness. By 2015, it is estimated that over 20 billion intelligent devices like smartphones, tablets, sensors and more will be shipped annually. This growth of smart devices will drive investment in smart systems to be at least twice the rate of traditional ICT spending between 2009-2014. Areas like value added services, system applications, and device enablement are expected to see especially strong growth within the smart systems market.
The Internet Of Things will have an increasing impact to all industries and health and fitness are no exception. This definitive guide provides a blue print for the things we all need to keep in mind as we adopt the IOT revolution.
The most important technology industry trend right now is also the greatest source of new business opportunity. As 50 billion devices connect to the Internet globally, three different types of businesses are jockeying for position: Enablers of underlying technology, Engagers that deliver to customers, and Enhancers that devise value-added services unique to the Internet of Things. For more insights, visit www.strategy-business.com
This document provides an overview of the Internet of Things (IoT) including:
- IoT is described as the "third wave" of internet development after fixed/wired and mobile internet.
- It will connect billions of physical objects and devices to the internet and exchange data.
- Key enabling technologies include cheap sensors, bandwidth, processing power, smartphones, and wireless coverage.
- Major companies are investing heavily in IoT sectors like smart homes, wearables, and industrial equipment.
- IoT will have significant economic impacts and reshape industries through new business models and data analytics.
The document discusses connectivity options for Internet of Things (IoT) devices. It describes how everything from household devices to infrastructure and transportation is becoming connected and able to share data. This brings advantages like improved decision making, services and efficiency. However, reliable and cost-effective connectivity is essential for IoT. Local connectivity solutions can be affordable but difficult to manage, while non-local options through cellular networks and partnerships provide seamless global coverage. The SIM card currently delivers connectivity for most IoT solutions by connecting devices to networks like 4G. In the future, embedded SIM cards will be built directly into devices.
Smart Systems and The Future of Smart Products_ Group 4_FinalPaper (1)Michael Hanacek
This document provides an overview of smart systems and the future of smart products. It begins with defining what constitutes a smart system, including smart cities, infrastructure, homes, products, and sensors. It then reviews literature related to the internet of things, smart cities, infrastructure, homes, products, and sensors. Several case studies are examined, including smart grids and smart classrooms, to analyze what makes an efficient smart system. The findings imply that companies will become more innovative in creating integrated networks of smart, connected products to guide new product development.
The document discusses the Internet of Things (IoT) and how it connects physical objects through sensors, connectivity and integration with other systems and people. It defines the IoT as being driven by sensors and actuators that collect data about the physical world, connectivity that allows these devices to communicate over networks, and people and processes that analyze and make use of the collected data. It provides examples of current IoT applications and envisions how these applications could become more integrated and networked to create new services and value across different industries. It also discusses the rapid growth of the IoT market in terms of connected devices, installed base and revenue opportunities projected to reach over $1 trillion by 2020.
Harbor Research - Global Smart Device & Smart Systems SpendingHarbor Research
Investment in smart systems and the Internet of Things is expected to greatly outpace traditional information and communications technology investment over the coming years. Smart systems involve connecting various inputs like machines, sensors, and devices to networks to enable collective awareness. By 2015, it is estimated that over 20 billion intelligent devices like smartphones, tablets, sensors and more will be shipped annually. This growth of smart devices will drive investment in smart systems to be at least twice the rate of traditional ICT spending between 2009-2014. Areas like value added services, system applications, and device enablement are expected to see especially strong growth within the smart systems market.
The Internet Of Things will have an increasing impact to all industries and health and fitness are no exception. This definitive guide provides a blue print for the things we all need to keep in mind as we adopt the IOT revolution.
The most important technology industry trend right now is also the greatest source of new business opportunity. As 50 billion devices connect to the Internet globally, three different types of businesses are jockeying for position: Enablers of underlying technology, Engagers that deliver to customers, and Enhancers that devise value-added services unique to the Internet of Things. For more insights, visit www.strategy-business.com
This document provides an overview of the Internet of Things (IoT) including:
- IoT is described as the "third wave" of internet development after fixed/wired and mobile internet.
- It will connect billions of physical objects and devices to the internet and exchange data.
- Key enabling technologies include cheap sensors, bandwidth, processing power, smartphones, and wireless coverage.
- Major companies are investing heavily in IoT sectors like smart homes, wearables, and industrial equipment.
- IoT will have significant economic impacts and reshape industries through new business models and data analytics.
The document discusses connectivity options for Internet of Things (IoT) devices. It describes how everything from household devices to infrastructure and transportation is becoming connected and able to share data. This brings advantages like improved decision making, services and efficiency. However, reliable and cost-effective connectivity is essential for IoT. Local connectivity solutions can be affordable but difficult to manage, while non-local options through cellular networks and partnerships provide seamless global coverage. The SIM card currently delivers connectivity for most IoT solutions by connecting devices to networks like 4G. In the future, embedded SIM cards will be built directly into devices.
The document discusses Internet of Things (IoT) and its applications for smart cities. It begins by providing an overview of IoT and its evolution from connecting PCs to connecting people via mobile to now connecting everything. It then discusses some of the key challenges for deploying IoT solutions at scale including quality, privacy, affordability, interoperability, security and skills shortage. The document provides examples of IoT applications for smart infrastructure management in areas like transportation, utilities, healthcare, disaster management, retail and homes. It concludes by identifying some of the current roadblocks preventing widespread IoT deployment and recommendations for organizations to overcome these challenges.
Internet of Things (IoT): More than Smart “Things”Ahmed Banafa
By 2020, experts forecast that up to 28 billion devices will be connected to the Internet with only one third of them being computers, smartphones and tablets. The remaining two thirds will be other “devices” – sensors, terminals, household appliances, thermostats, televisions, automobiles, production machinery, urban infrastructure and many other “things”, which traditionally have not been Internet enabled.
This “Internet of Things” (IoT) represents a remarkable transformation of the way in which our world will soon interact. Much like the World Wide Web connected computers to networks, and the next evolution connected people to the Internet and other people, IoT looks poised to interconnect devices, people, environments, virtual objects and machines in ways that only science fiction writers could have imagined.
In a nutshell the Internet of Things (IoT) is the convergence of connecting people, things, data and processes is transforming our life, business and everything in between.
The document introduces the concepts of the Internet of Things (IoT) and discusses its applications and architecture models. It aims to discuss semantic technologies, service oriented solutions, and networking technologies that enable the integration of IoT data and services into the cyber world. Sources and videos are provided on topics relating to IoT security risks, definitions, and business trends.
Openbar 11 - Leuven - IoT from hype to reality - AptusOpenbar
People see IoT as the connected future of tomorrow. The question is: how to get started? In this session, Alexander will guide you through the process of transforming an idea into an IoT solution. He will talk about the different IoT verticals, hardware, connectivity and the software solutions to get your smart solution up and running in no time. Expect a lively session with some real-life usecases.
Process oriented architecture for digital transformation 2015Vinay Mummigatti
How the digitally savvy enterprises need to transform their business processes - A paper on architecture and patterns for business and technology audience.
Building the Next Smart City With Mobile Cyber-Physical SystemsDr. Mazlan Abbas
Dr. Mazlan Abbas discusses building smart cities using mobile cyber-physical systems. He outlines how the Internet of Things market is growing exponentially, with over 6 billion devices connected by 2016. Smart cities can improve efficiency, reduce costs, create new products and revenue by using data from various sensors to monitor and optimize aspects like transportation, infrastructure, and the environment. Citizen engagement through crowdsourcing is important for identifying issues and gaining insights to optimize city resources. Mobile applications and open data platforms allow citizens to report problems and help make their cities smarter.
[DevDay2019] Internet of Things- By: Dr. Anand Nayyar at Duy Tan UniversityDevDay.org
In this lecture, he will start by elaborating the term “Internet of Things” along with current technological trends which has led to IoT, define the impact of IoT on Society making a strong base for Smart Cities, Industries- Transforming into Industry 4.0, Medical IoT as well as Future transformations in IoT.
The document discusses how the Internet of Things (IoT) is transforming businesses and provides an overview of IoT adoption. Specifically:
- IoT connects physical devices to collect and share data over networks, allowing for improved customer experiences, business growth, and safety. Adoption is growing rapidly across sectors like transportation, manufacturing, and utilities.
- While the technologies that power IoT like sensors, networking, and cloud computing have existed for decades, factors like lower costs and greater investor confidence are driving more organizations to implement IoT strategies.
- The document examines key drivers of IoT adoption including improved customer service, accelerated business performance, and reduced risks. It also provides industry-specific examples and recommendations for how
This document provides an overview and introduction to the Internet of Things (IoT). It discusses how IoT is transforming business through improved customer experiences, growth, safety, and more sophisticated applications. Key points include:
- IoT connects physical assets through sensors and analytics to extract valuable data and insights.
- Adoption is growing rapidly across sectors like transportation, manufacturing, energy, and public.
- IoT provides benefits like optimized operations, new revenue streams, improved safety and risk management, and regulatory compliance.
- As technologies mature and costs decline, the potential for IoT to impact organizations and society is vast. The document urges organizations to develop an IoT strategy to harness these opportunities.
By 2017 the Internet of Things market will be bigger than the PC, tablet and phone market combined. This report explains what the Internet of Things actually is and the impact it will have on social.
The document discusses lessons learned from early adopters of Internet of Things (IoT) technology based on interviews with 75 organizations. The key lessons are:
1) The scope of IoT projects is often underestimated as new stakeholders are added and the definition of success changes over time. Aggressive phasing and clear communications are needed.
2) User experience is critical and must be considered from the perspective of how different users will consume the data and insights.
3) Data and analytics skills are important as the value is in analyzing and using the data to make decisions, which requires addressing data quality, privacy, management and distribution challenges.
4) Maturity in analytics across the organization dictates value and requires
The document provides an overview of the Internet of Things (IoT). It defines IoT as the network of physical devices embedded with electronics, software, sensors and connectivity that allows these devices to collect and exchange data. It describes how IoT devices can be remotely monitored and controlled via existing network infrastructure. The document also outlines several key components of IoT including hardware, software, communication technologies, applications in different industries, and major players. It provides examples of large-scale IoT deployments and a glossary of common IoT terms.
IoT and its application by Akash SinghAkash Rajput
The document discusses several important applications of the Internet of Things (IoT). It describes how IoT enables smart homes through connected devices that allow remote monitoring and management of appliances. It also discusses IoT wearables for health and fitness tracking. Additionally, it outlines how IoT supports smart city initiatives through applications like smart traffic management and smart parking. The document further explains how IoT enables connected healthcare through remote patient monitoring and ensuring access to medical equipment. Finally, it discusses how IoT enables smart farming through crop and soil monitoring and remote sensing of weather conditions.
The document discusses the benefits of Internet of Things (IoT) technology for the Muslim world. It describes how connecting physical assets through sensors can help monitor things like health, transportation, and resource usage. The data collected from these connected devices and sensors can provide insights and optimization opportunities. New business models are emerging around monetizing sensor data through "Sensing as a Service" where data is licensed to applications and organizations. The document advocates for building an IoT ecosystem in Malaysia as a testbed for connecting infrastructure and developing smart city applications.
The vast network of devices connected to the Internet, including smart phones and tablets and almost anything with a sensor on it – cars, machines in production plants, jet engines, oil drills, wearable devices, and more. These “things” collect and exchange data.
Devices and objects with built in sensors are connected to an Internet of Things platform, which integrates data from the different devices and applies analytics to share the most valuable information with applications built to address specific needs.
Harbor Research recently completed a review of a new
cloud-based platform that takes a refreshingly new
approach to machine data analytics. Glassbeam jumps
ahead of the current market’s noise and confusion about
Big Data by viewing critical machine data analytics from a
business and operational perspective that can be addressed
by a single, scalable solution. In so doing, Glassbeam is
re-defining how value is created from machine data.
Each year Wing surveys the IoT landscape through our IoT Startup State of the Union. We do this to understand what is happening beyond the headlines, and share these insights with our community. This year, we expanded our data set to 3670 deals, across 68 IoT sub-categories, between 2013 and 2017.
The Internet of Things Conference at E4rAVe [PUBS]
This conference puts IoT in context for AV professionals, focusing on the potential opportunities in this burgeoning technology field. The conference begins with a session on how digitization and IoT have changed how the world works, leading to endless prospects for AV professionals. Other conference sessions showcase real-world IoT applications, as well as in-depth discussions of critical IoT-related issues, including security and data analysis.
The document is a white paper titled "Smart Systems Manifesto" published by Harbor Research. It argues that for the Internet of Things to reach its full potential, radical new thinking is needed about how devices, information, people and systems will interact. It calls for a "manifesto" to integrate disparate views on the future of information technology and demonstrate how technology architectures and business models must be mutually supportive. The paper discusses how smart connected systems will transform civilization by creating an agile global network of trillions of nodes that cannot be designed top-down but will require basic design principles to guide its evolution.
Eurotech reinvents Embedded Connected Computing for M2M. Machine-to-Machine c...Eurotech
Eurotech has developed a new platform called Everyware Cloud that simplifies device and data management for building smart connected applications. It integrates distributed devices with business applications by providing an innovative platform that combines embedded software tools, connectivity, and cloud computing services. This allows users and developers to more easily create open, scalable machine-to-machine applications and services that unlock greater value from connected devices and data.
This document discusses how new technologies like the Internet of Things, big data, and smart city initiatives are challenging existing sectors like content management to integrate these new technologies and data streams. Specifically, IoT and sensors are producing vast amounts of real-time data that needs to be connected and accessible across different systems. Content management must adapt to integrate this new data in automated and traceable ways. Technologies like big data analytics and geomatics also impact content management by enabling new forms of analysis and location-based information and services. The future requires increased innovation to allow for seamless integration of these new technologies and data sources.
The document discusses Internet of Things (IoT) and its applications for smart cities. It begins by providing an overview of IoT and its evolution from connecting PCs to connecting people via mobile to now connecting everything. It then discusses some of the key challenges for deploying IoT solutions at scale including quality, privacy, affordability, interoperability, security and skills shortage. The document provides examples of IoT applications for smart infrastructure management in areas like transportation, utilities, healthcare, disaster management, retail and homes. It concludes by identifying some of the current roadblocks preventing widespread IoT deployment and recommendations for organizations to overcome these challenges.
Internet of Things (IoT): More than Smart “Things”Ahmed Banafa
By 2020, experts forecast that up to 28 billion devices will be connected to the Internet with only one third of them being computers, smartphones and tablets. The remaining two thirds will be other “devices” – sensors, terminals, household appliances, thermostats, televisions, automobiles, production machinery, urban infrastructure and many other “things”, which traditionally have not been Internet enabled.
This “Internet of Things” (IoT) represents a remarkable transformation of the way in which our world will soon interact. Much like the World Wide Web connected computers to networks, and the next evolution connected people to the Internet and other people, IoT looks poised to interconnect devices, people, environments, virtual objects and machines in ways that only science fiction writers could have imagined.
In a nutshell the Internet of Things (IoT) is the convergence of connecting people, things, data and processes is transforming our life, business and everything in between.
The document introduces the concepts of the Internet of Things (IoT) and discusses its applications and architecture models. It aims to discuss semantic technologies, service oriented solutions, and networking technologies that enable the integration of IoT data and services into the cyber world. Sources and videos are provided on topics relating to IoT security risks, definitions, and business trends.
Openbar 11 - Leuven - IoT from hype to reality - AptusOpenbar
People see IoT as the connected future of tomorrow. The question is: how to get started? In this session, Alexander will guide you through the process of transforming an idea into an IoT solution. He will talk about the different IoT verticals, hardware, connectivity and the software solutions to get your smart solution up and running in no time. Expect a lively session with some real-life usecases.
Process oriented architecture for digital transformation 2015Vinay Mummigatti
How the digitally savvy enterprises need to transform their business processes - A paper on architecture and patterns for business and technology audience.
Building the Next Smart City With Mobile Cyber-Physical SystemsDr. Mazlan Abbas
Dr. Mazlan Abbas discusses building smart cities using mobile cyber-physical systems. He outlines how the Internet of Things market is growing exponentially, with over 6 billion devices connected by 2016. Smart cities can improve efficiency, reduce costs, create new products and revenue by using data from various sensors to monitor and optimize aspects like transportation, infrastructure, and the environment. Citizen engagement through crowdsourcing is important for identifying issues and gaining insights to optimize city resources. Mobile applications and open data platforms allow citizens to report problems and help make their cities smarter.
[DevDay2019] Internet of Things- By: Dr. Anand Nayyar at Duy Tan UniversityDevDay.org
In this lecture, he will start by elaborating the term “Internet of Things” along with current technological trends which has led to IoT, define the impact of IoT on Society making a strong base for Smart Cities, Industries- Transforming into Industry 4.0, Medical IoT as well as Future transformations in IoT.
The document discusses how the Internet of Things (IoT) is transforming businesses and provides an overview of IoT adoption. Specifically:
- IoT connects physical devices to collect and share data over networks, allowing for improved customer experiences, business growth, and safety. Adoption is growing rapidly across sectors like transportation, manufacturing, and utilities.
- While the technologies that power IoT like sensors, networking, and cloud computing have existed for decades, factors like lower costs and greater investor confidence are driving more organizations to implement IoT strategies.
- The document examines key drivers of IoT adoption including improved customer service, accelerated business performance, and reduced risks. It also provides industry-specific examples and recommendations for how
This document provides an overview and introduction to the Internet of Things (IoT). It discusses how IoT is transforming business through improved customer experiences, growth, safety, and more sophisticated applications. Key points include:
- IoT connects physical assets through sensors and analytics to extract valuable data and insights.
- Adoption is growing rapidly across sectors like transportation, manufacturing, energy, and public.
- IoT provides benefits like optimized operations, new revenue streams, improved safety and risk management, and regulatory compliance.
- As technologies mature and costs decline, the potential for IoT to impact organizations and society is vast. The document urges organizations to develop an IoT strategy to harness these opportunities.
By 2017 the Internet of Things market will be bigger than the PC, tablet and phone market combined. This report explains what the Internet of Things actually is and the impact it will have on social.
The document discusses lessons learned from early adopters of Internet of Things (IoT) technology based on interviews with 75 organizations. The key lessons are:
1) The scope of IoT projects is often underestimated as new stakeholders are added and the definition of success changes over time. Aggressive phasing and clear communications are needed.
2) User experience is critical and must be considered from the perspective of how different users will consume the data and insights.
3) Data and analytics skills are important as the value is in analyzing and using the data to make decisions, which requires addressing data quality, privacy, management and distribution challenges.
4) Maturity in analytics across the organization dictates value and requires
The document provides an overview of the Internet of Things (IoT). It defines IoT as the network of physical devices embedded with electronics, software, sensors and connectivity that allows these devices to collect and exchange data. It describes how IoT devices can be remotely monitored and controlled via existing network infrastructure. The document also outlines several key components of IoT including hardware, software, communication technologies, applications in different industries, and major players. It provides examples of large-scale IoT deployments and a glossary of common IoT terms.
IoT and its application by Akash SinghAkash Rajput
The document discusses several important applications of the Internet of Things (IoT). It describes how IoT enables smart homes through connected devices that allow remote monitoring and management of appliances. It also discusses IoT wearables for health and fitness tracking. Additionally, it outlines how IoT supports smart city initiatives through applications like smart traffic management and smart parking. The document further explains how IoT enables connected healthcare through remote patient monitoring and ensuring access to medical equipment. Finally, it discusses how IoT enables smart farming through crop and soil monitoring and remote sensing of weather conditions.
The document discusses the benefits of Internet of Things (IoT) technology for the Muslim world. It describes how connecting physical assets through sensors can help monitor things like health, transportation, and resource usage. The data collected from these connected devices and sensors can provide insights and optimization opportunities. New business models are emerging around monetizing sensor data through "Sensing as a Service" where data is licensed to applications and organizations. The document advocates for building an IoT ecosystem in Malaysia as a testbed for connecting infrastructure and developing smart city applications.
The vast network of devices connected to the Internet, including smart phones and tablets and almost anything with a sensor on it – cars, machines in production plants, jet engines, oil drills, wearable devices, and more. These “things” collect and exchange data.
Devices and objects with built in sensors are connected to an Internet of Things platform, which integrates data from the different devices and applies analytics to share the most valuable information with applications built to address specific needs.
Harbor Research recently completed a review of a new
cloud-based platform that takes a refreshingly new
approach to machine data analytics. Glassbeam jumps
ahead of the current market’s noise and confusion about
Big Data by viewing critical machine data analytics from a
business and operational perspective that can be addressed
by a single, scalable solution. In so doing, Glassbeam is
re-defining how value is created from machine data.
Each year Wing surveys the IoT landscape through our IoT Startup State of the Union. We do this to understand what is happening beyond the headlines, and share these insights with our community. This year, we expanded our data set to 3670 deals, across 68 IoT sub-categories, between 2013 and 2017.
The Internet of Things Conference at E4rAVe [PUBS]
This conference puts IoT in context for AV professionals, focusing on the potential opportunities in this burgeoning technology field. The conference begins with a session on how digitization and IoT have changed how the world works, leading to endless prospects for AV professionals. Other conference sessions showcase real-world IoT applications, as well as in-depth discussions of critical IoT-related issues, including security and data analysis.
The document is a white paper titled "Smart Systems Manifesto" published by Harbor Research. It argues that for the Internet of Things to reach its full potential, radical new thinking is needed about how devices, information, people and systems will interact. It calls for a "manifesto" to integrate disparate views on the future of information technology and demonstrate how technology architectures and business models must be mutually supportive. The paper discusses how smart connected systems will transform civilization by creating an agile global network of trillions of nodes that cannot be designed top-down but will require basic design principles to guide its evolution.
Eurotech reinvents Embedded Connected Computing for M2M. Machine-to-Machine c...Eurotech
Eurotech has developed a new platform called Everyware Cloud that simplifies device and data management for building smart connected applications. It integrates distributed devices with business applications by providing an innovative platform that combines embedded software tools, connectivity, and cloud computing services. This allows users and developers to more easily create open, scalable machine-to-machine applications and services that unlock greater value from connected devices and data.
This document discusses how new technologies like the Internet of Things, big data, and smart city initiatives are challenging existing sectors like content management to integrate these new technologies and data streams. Specifically, IoT and sensors are producing vast amounts of real-time data that needs to be connected and accessible across different systems. Content management must adapt to integrate this new data in automated and traceable ways. Technologies like big data analytics and geomatics also impact content management by enabling new forms of analysis and location-based information and services. The future requires increased innovation to allow for seamless integration of these new technologies and data sources.
In this Whitepaper Dennis Curry explores the impact of the Internet of Things on the corporate environment, highlighting the importance of building intuitive associations in disparate and highly complex data.
Consumidores Digitais: The Executive's Guide to the Internet of Things (ZD Net)Consumidores Digitais
A Internet das Coisas, ou Machine-to-Machine (M2M), é um dos temas mais atuais na tecnologia. Neste guia está o que os líderes empresariais precisam saber para potencializar seus benefícios.
Harbor Research - Strategies for Smart ServicesHarbor Research
The document discusses strategies for "smart services" enabled by connecting manufactured products to the internet. It argues that connecting devices allows manufacturers to (1) gather field intelligence on product performance and customer usage, (2) provide preemptive services based on this data to reduce failures and surprises for customers, and (3) create new recurring revenue streams from ongoing smart services. Early adopters like Honeywell, Air Products, and GE have transformed their businesses through these smart service strategies.
This document discusses how cognitive computing can help realize the full potential of the Internet of Things (IoT). It notes that while early IoT applications are providing value, the vast majority of data generated by IoT devices is currently unused. Cognitive systems that can learn from large amounts of structured and unstructured data have the potential to extract much more insights from IoT data and enable more advanced IoT applications. The document outlines some key foundations for a successful IoT strategy and argues that cognitive systems like IBM's Watson platform can help address the data challenges of IoT by facilitating deeper human engagement, continuous learning, predictive capabilities, knowledge sharing and optimization of complex systems.
In this presentation, Chittrieta introduces the topic of IoT, current applications of IoT and associated trends. Chittrieta's interest lies in application of IoT on the shop floor in the manufacturing vertical.
Eurotech: Smart Systems Innovator by Harbor ResearchEurotech
Today, virtually all products that use electricity - from toys and coffee makers to cars and medical diagnostic machines - possess inherent data processing capability and the potential to be networked. These can be integrated into systems that connect people, processes, and knowledge to enable collective awareness and efficiencies. Machine-To-Machine (M2M) communications and cloud computing are combining to create new modes of asset intelligence, collaboration and decision making. Eurotech's Everyware Cloud is a software platform that quickly connects devices in order to build and manage end-to-end M2M applications.
IoT's rapid evolution marks the next stage in the innovation economy - White ...Technicolor
Like many new technology trends – such as Big Data or Cloud
Computing – that have captured the imagination of consumers
and business executives alike, the Internet of Things, or IoT,
has become a bit like a “Rorschach Test.” People see what they
want to see with the term is invoked.
To be fair, IoT lends itself to this tendency, because the concept
is so incredibly big, and its implications so deep. At its root IoT
is about devices talking to each other without human intervention
using the internet protocol. But this alone would cleanly fall into
the category of machine-to-machine (M2M) communications.
“When you look at what’s happening with IoT devices, explains
Danny Lousberg, Director of Product Management for Qeo
at Technicolor, “you will see a huge effort to create a vertical
ecosystem in which a specific device is communicating with a
specific back-end server that lives somewhere in the cloud to
tackle a specific use case for the user. And that means these
devices all are battling for a piece of mindshare and eyeballs.”
“The Internet of Things is inherently different from M2M
communication because M2M is really meant to solve large-scale
problems for a big group of devices that are all trying to work
together in a larger environment that is not necessarily controlled
by the end user.”
What makes IoT truly powerful is when M2M is linked to Mobility,
Big Data, Cloud Computing and other critical elements in today’s
modern technology infrastructure to empower and provide
options to end-users.
“From my perspectives, it will be virtually impossible to view these
technological paradigms independent of each other and from IoT,”
says Kurt Jonckheer, General Manager, Virdata, and VP, Strategic
Projects, Technicolor.
“The promise of IoT is that devices and appliances of all sorts
will, without human interference, interact with each other to
create a better experience for users by engaging in things like
self-diagnosis, harnessing event-driven actions that enhance
the human experience, or simply reduce costs in an intelligent
and automated manner.”
This combination of technologies is already generating billions
of dollars in revenue. Trillions more will be triggered as
businesses come to grips with the true potential of IoT.
The fourth stage of the Industrial Revolution is upon us due to the far-reaching integration, accelerated by the Internet of Things, of Operational Technology (OT) and Information Technology (IT). This creates completely new opportunities as a result of new combinations of mental, physical and mechanical work by integrating the internet, sensors and embedded systems.
The Internet of Things enabled IT/OT convergence leads to cost reduction as a consequence of predictive maintenance, speed and intelligence, thanks to Machine-to-Machine communication and improved forms of Human-Machine Interaction. M2M interaction between and within machines and systems is the cyber-physical heart of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
The document discusses how the rise of the Internet of Things will require organizations to adapt their corporate structures and executive roles. As IoT connects more devices and generates unprecedented data, executives must work together across functions like operations, technology, information, marketing and human resources. The CEO must recognize opportunities in big data while the CIO manages vast information flows. As privacy and security challenges emerge, the CSO and CLO must collaborate to ensure compliance. Overall, success in the IoT era will depend on innovation through interdependent relationships between C-level executives.
We are citizens of a data-driven century in the early stages of a digital industrial revolution. Abundant data by itself solves nothing. The document discusses challenges that companies face with managing large amounts of industrial data from connected machines, including data being scattered across different systems, or "islands of disparate data", which makes it difficult to extract insights. It also outlines opportunities for companies to gain competitive advantages by better utilizing industrial data through new management systems and analytics.
An Overview of Internet of Things (IoT): From Literature Survey to Applicatio...IRJET Journal
This document provides an overview of the Internet of Things (IoT) through a literature review. It discusses how IoT aims to connect all physical objects to the internet through sensors and networking capabilities, allowing objects to collect and share data and be remotely monitored and controlled. This enables new applications and opportunities across various sectors like transportation, utilities, manufacturing and consumer services. The document also outlines the vision for IoT, where nearly all physical objects would be integrated into the network, resulting in a major increase in data collection and opportunities for machine learning and automated systems. It further discusses how IoT relies on continued advances in microelectronics, communications and information technologies.
Report 3 the fourth industrial revolution - things to tighten the link betwe...Rick Bouter
This report was all about the fourth stage of the Industrial Revolution made possible by the far-reaching integration of Operational Technology (OT) and Information Technology (IT). The IT/OT convergence and the end-to-end ecosystems that are under development – from design and production to client interaction and advanced Maintenance, Repair & Overhaul (MRO) – enable a future in which appliances, devices, things and machines for professionals and private people will communicate with central systems, with one another, and with users for the purpose of providing the best possible facilities to makers, service providers, legislators and customers.
Source, Sogeti ViNT: http://vint.sogeti.com/internet-things-4-reports/
This document discusses emerging technologies related to the Internet of Things (IoT). It defines IoT as physical objects communicating via the internet, with estimates of 30-50 billion connected objects by 2020. Key areas of focus for IoT include facilities management, industrial applications, energy, healthcare, transportation, and more. The document also discusses technology trends driving IoT like automation, robotics, AI, 3D printing, and analytics. It notes issues around ethics, security, privacy and jobs related to IoT.
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T
HE BIT, THE BYTE, AND LATER THE
PACKET MADE POSSIBLE THE ENTIRE
ENTERPRISE OF DIGITAL COMPUTING
AND GLOBAL NETWORKING. UNTIL
THE WORLD AGREED UPON THESE
BASIC CONCEPTS, IT WAS NOT POSSIBLE TO MOVE
FORWARD. THE NEXT GREAT STEP IN INFORMATION
AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGIES—
COMPLETELY FLUID INFORMATION AND FULLY
INTEROPERATING MACHINES AND DEVICES—
REQUIRES AN EQUALLY SIMPLE, FLEXIBLE, AND
UNIVERSAL ABSTRACTION SCHEMA THAT WILL
MAKE INFORMATION ITSELF TRULY PORTABLE IN
BOTH PHYSICAL AND VIRTUAL SPACE, AND AMONG
ANY CONCEIVABLE INFORMATION DEVICES AND
SYSTEMS. FOR THE INTERNET OF THINGS TO
REALLY TAKE OFF, RADICAL NEW THINKING ABOUT
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY MUST BEGIN AT THE
MOST BASIC LEVELS, WITH NEW CONCEPTIONS
ABOUT HOW DEVICES, INFORMATION,
PEOPLE AND SYSTEMS WILL INTERACT.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
4 Introduction
7 Designing The Future of Information
9 What’s Required?
11 Enabling Universal Connectivity
12 Automating Design and Development
15 Achieving Truly Flexible, Scalable Systems
17 Leveraging Collective Intelligence
19 Smart Systems Impact On Evolving Business Models
21 How Should We View Future Smart Systems Architecture?
23 Smart Systems Is A Radical Departure From Current Thinking
24 Getting There First; But To Where?
THE SMART
SYSTEMS
MANIFESTO
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For quite a few years now, Harbor Research
has focused most of its research and consult-
ing on what we call “Smart Systems”—the
convergence of pervasive or embedded
computing with the packet-switching
“network of networks” called the Internet.
These days, many people refer to this phe-
nomenon as “the Internet of Things.” We
prefer “Smart Systems” over other terms in
common use—notably “M2M,” which usu-
ally stands for “machine-to-machine”—be-
cause it captures the profound enormity of
the phenomenon - something much greater
in scope than just machine connectivity.
Whatever we chose to call it -- “Smart
Systems” or “Pervasive Computing” or “The
Internet of Things” — we are referring to
digital microprocessors and sensors em-
bedded in everyday objects. But even this
makes too many assumptions about what
the smart systems phenomenon will be.
Encoded information in physical objects is
also smart—even without intrinsic comput-
ing ability. Seen in this way, a printed bar
code, a house key, or even the pages of a
technical manual can have the status of
an “information device” on a network. For
that matter, all of these characterizations
do not even begin to address the human-
machine dimension of collaboration.
But very few people are thinking about
smart connected systems on that level.
Current IT and telecom technologists are
operating with outdated models of data,
networking and information management
that were conceived in the mainframe
and client-server eras and cannot serve
the needs of a truly connected world.
“Smart Systems” should automatically be
understood as “real-time networked in-
formation and computation,” but it isn’t.
We have now entered the age when ev-
eryday objects will communicate with, and
control, other objects over a global data
network—24/7/365. It’s not “the future,” it’s
now—this year, next year—and thus it is vi-
tally important that business leaders under-
stand this phenomenon, its effects on their
business, and what they should do right
now to position themselves for opportuni-
ties that are literally just around the corner.
Before delving into the new thinking that
makes this story possible, let’s talk about
why it’s necessary at all. The IT and tele-
com sectors have failed to re-evaluate
their relationship to advancing technol-
INTRODUCTION
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M2M & IT
technology only
tell part of the story
ogy and to their constituents. The busi-
ness and technology paradigms to which
these industries cling today are far too
limiting, too cumbersome and too expen-
sive to foster and sustain new growth.
From a Telco perspective, today’s discussions
of M2M systems focus almost exclusively
on communications -- the “pipe” -- and very
little on the information value. In other
words, on things that look good to the car-
riers. There are many popular visions about
wireless monitoring and wireless control.
Such as it is, wireless is a fantastic new ad-
vance -- no question. But, focusing on the
communication element alone as ‘first-or-
der’ business value amounts to grabbing the
wrong end of the technology stick. Wireless
communications alone steals the limelight
and potentially eclipses the real revolution
-- utilizing new networking technologies
and processes to liberate information from
sensors and intelligent devices to leverage
collective awareness and intelligence.
From an IT perspective, today’s corporate
IT function is a direct descendent of the
company mainframe, and works on the
same “batched computing” model—an
archival model, yielding a historian’s per-
spective. Information about events is
collected, stored, queried, analyzed, and
reported upon. But all after the fact.
That’s a very different thing from feed-
ing the real-time inputs of billions of tiny
“state machines” into systems that con-
tinually compare machine-state to sets
of rules and then do something on that
basis. In short, for connected devices to
mean anything in business, the prevail-
ing corporate IT model has to change.
The next cycle of technology and systems
development in the smart connected
systems arena is supposed to be setting
the stage for a multi-year wave of growth
based on the convergence of innovations
in software architectures; back-room data
center operations; wireless and broadband
communications; and smaller, more power-
ful client devices connected to personal,
local and wide-area networks. But is it?
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This paper is about an important new
perspective on smart systems and services.
This perspective does not just come from
our own thinking. It is from the diverse
group of people who are thinking about the
scope and on the scale that Smart Systems
deserves. It is because this community of
technologists and business developers is
so fragmented that we believe a new ap-
proach is required. This is why we believe
a new “manifesto” is required to begin to
integrate and bind these disparate views
of the future of information technology.
What do we plan to address in this
Smart Systems Manifesto?
»» the required architecture and tech-
nologies to inform a radically new
view of information services; and,
»» the corresponding emerging business
models these technologies will inform.
Most importantly, we plan to demonstrate
that for the first time in the evolution of
networked businesses, these two “architec-
tures” must be viewed in close proximity.
The two thrusts need to be mutually sup-
portive without inhibiting one or the other.
However, trying to coordinate and leverage
the respective roles of technology architec-
ture and business architecture often creates
contention. Many of the participants in this
emerging arena we speak with are coming
to see the continuously evolving relation-
ship between these two dimensions as
fertile ground for innovation. They need to
be interwoven and mutually supportive. In
fact, from our own direct consulting experi-
ences, we believe success in either increas-
ingly goes to the company that effectively
utilizes the combined potential of both.
In our years of work on the Internet of Things
phenomenon and its real-world effects on
business, we have not encountered very
many compelling visions about the com-
plete integration of things, people, systems
and real-time real-world inputs. The world
today, for the most part, lacks a group of
coordinated innovators that understand that
the tools we are working with to make prod-
ucts “smart” on networks were not designed
to handle the scope and diversity of interac-
tions they are being enabled to accomplish.
WHY DO WE NEED
A MANIFESTO?
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Since the beginning of computing there
have essentially been three generations of
technology and architecture: mainframe
computing, personal computing, and
network computing. Each generation of
technology has had significant impacts on
productivity and efficiencies: mainframes
standardized transactions; personal comput-
ing placed processing power into the hands
of professionals; and, networked systems
enabled business process automation.
What is important about the next gen-
eration of smart systems is the combined
impact of these legacy cycles of innovation.
While there is standalone value in each
discipline - embedded software, servers,
network infrastructure, and client devices
- it is the combination of these innova-
tions that will inform smarter systems.
“Smart Connected Systems” really means the
future of information, and that means the
future of civilization. It will require a remark-
ably agile global network that could com-
fortably scale to trillions of nodes—some of
them hardware, some software, some purely
data, many of them coming into and out of
existence or changing location constantly.
Obviously, such a network system cannot
be “designed” in any ordinary sense. Cer-
tainly, it cannot be designed “top-down.”
And yet the Internet of Things must be
designed in some sense. Such a net-
work will easily be the biggest technical
achievement in the history of human-
ity. Its closest predecessor is the global
financial economy—with which, in
fact, it will share vital characteristics.
Some basic design principles must be
put in place to guide the growth of a
vast, distributed technological organism
that must remain organized as it evolves
according to a logic all its own. It de-
mands that we design not only devices
and networks but also information itself
in ways not addressed by current IT.
The Internet of Interactions -- between
and among “Things” and “People” -- re-
quires much more than simple incremental
improvements in today’s technologies to
be fully realized. The challenge is much
more than a simple patch, Band-Aid, or
new flavor of what we already do.
can the internet of
things be designed?
Designing The Future of
Information
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What’s required is a true shift in thinking
about how devices, people and physical
systems will be integrated and how they will
interact. We need an approach that is not
about leveraging aging IT technology into
a new application context; its about look-
ing forward to a single, unified architecture
for the nearly infinite interactions to which
any PERSON or any THING can contribute.
What will this require?
»» Its about the ability to create more
universal standards for connectivity
and integration; one simple standard,
based upon the Internet Protocol
itself for networking any information
device (even non-electronic ones),
rather than the multiplicity of so-
called standards we have today.
»» A vision that looks toward the creation
of more universal means to integrate
and manage disparate data, to which
anyone can contribute, and which
liberates information by abandoning
traditional relational databasing and the
client-server computing models that
have us so deceptively ”trapped” today.
simple incremental improvements in
today’s technologies will not work for
the internet of things
These broader requirements are
driving several important devel-
opment trends, including:
»» The rapidly rising requirements for
smart products to be interoper-
able with a growing array of ap-
plications, systems and people.
»» End customers are beginning to recog-
nize the requirement for a unified family
of software and tools to develop smart
connected devices; today’s diverse soft-
ware offerings and fragmented supplier
community will not meet their needs.
»» The need for new development pro-
tocols to address the growing com-
plexity of new devices and systems.
»» The ability to aggregate, fuse
and manage structured, unstruc-
tured and time series data.
»» The maturation of radically new in-
formation models and architectures
that can more readily integrate clas-
sical IT capabilities with real-time,
state-based devices and systems.
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Taking these initiatives seriously does not
mean junking all current IT practice in one
fell swoop. The pillars of present-day infor-
mation technology will not crumble over-
night, nor has the great existing investment
in them suddenly lost all value. There are
reasonable, fiscally sane paths for migrat-
ing to the future. But migrate we must.
The assumptions and practices of the main-
frame and PC eras are now decades old and
not suitable for the pervasive computing
era that informs the internet of things and
people. The nature and behavior of a truly
distributed global information system are
concerns that have yet to really take center
stage—not only in business communities,
but in most technology communities, too.
When it comes to preparing for the global
information economy of the 21st century,
most people assume that “the IT and telco
technologists are taking care of it.” They
take it on faith that the best possible designs
for the future of connected things, people,
systems and information will emerge from
large corporations and centralized authori-
ties. But those are big, unfounded assump-
tions. In fact, most of today’s entrenched
players are showing little appetite for radical
departures from current practice. Yet cur-
rent practice will not serve the needs of a
genuinely connected world. What are the
major obstacles that need to be overcome?
Automated Development: When tele-
phones first came into existence, all calls were
routed through switchboards and had to be
connected by a live operator. It was long ago
forecast that if telephone traffic continued
to grow in this way, soon everybody in the
world would have to be a switchboard opera-
tor. Of course that has not happened, be-
cause automation was built into the systems
to handle common tasks like connecting
calls. We are quickly approaching analogous
circumstances with the proliferation of smart
connected devices. Each new device requires
too much customization and maintenance
just to perform the same basic tasks. We
must develop software and methods to
automate development and facilitate re-use,
or risk constraining the growth of this market.
the assumptions and practices of
the mainframe and PC eras are now
decades old and not suitable for the
pervasive and smart computing era
What’s Required?
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Flexible, Scalable Systems: IT profession-
als rarely talk these days about the need
for ever-evolving information services that
can be made available anywhere, anytime,
for any kind of information. Instead, they
talk about web services, enterprise apps
and now cloud computing. The Web stores
information in one of two basic ways: utterly
unstructured, or far too rigidly structured.
The unstructured way gives us typical static
Web pages, blog postings, etc., in which the
basic unit of information is large, free-form,
and lacking any fundamental identity. The
overly structured way involves the use of
relational database tables that impose rigid,
pre-ordained schemas on stored informa-
tion. These schemas, designed by database
administrators in advance, are not at all
agile or easily extensible. Making even trivial
changes to these schemas is a cumbersome,
expensive process that affects all the data
inside them. Just as importantly, they make
deep, inflexible assumptions about the mean-
ing and context of the data they store. Both
of these approaches to data-structure enforce
severe limitations on the functions you want
most in a global, pervasive-era information
system: scalability, interoperability and seam-
less integration of real-time or event-driven
data. The client-server model underlying
the Web greatly compounds the problem.
Optimizing All Assets - Tangible And In-
tangible: New software technologies and
applications need to help organizations
address the key challenge of optimizing
the value of their balance sheets, allowing
them to move beyond just financial assets
and liabilities to their physical assets and
liabilities (like electric grids or hospitals)
and then to their intangible assets and li-
abilities (like a skilled workforce). The task
of optimizing the value of financial assets,
physical assets and people assets requires
new technologies that will integrate diverse
asset information in unprecedented ways
to solve more complex business problems.
Leveraging Collective Intelligence: For
all its sophistication, many of today’s M2M
systems are a direct descendent of the tradi-
tional cellular telephony model where each
device acts in a “hub and spoke” mode. The
inability of today’s popular enterprise systems
to interoperate and perform well with distrib-
uted heterogeneous device environments is
a significant obstacle. The many “nodes” of
a network may not be very “smart” in them-
selves, but if they are networked in a way
today’s M2M systems are a
descendent of the traditional
cellular telephony model
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that allows them to connect effortlessly and
interoperate seamlessly, they begin to give
rise to complex, system-wide behavior. This
allows an entirely new order of intelligence to
emerge from the system as a whole—an in-
telligence that could not have been predicted
by looking at any of the nodes individually.
What’s required is to shift the focus from
simple device monitoring to a model where
device data is aggregated into new applica-
tions to achieve true systems intelligence.
Smart Systems holds the potential for
what Harbor Research calls “the network-
ing of every manufactured thing.” but it
also presupposes the existence of “a zero-
infrastructure, ad-hoc network” that makes
seamless physical connection possible.
How will the physical aspects of this net-
working actually take place? How will
virtually any device, right down to a lowly
light bulb, become a peer that connects
at will to the global data network?
we don’t need many
standards; we want one
Obviously, billions of devices of wildly
varying types cannot each receive indi-
vidual attention and configuration, or
conform to elaborate a priori specifica-
tions. If it literally takes a network engineer
to screw in a smart light bulb, pervasive
computing is never going to work.
Many schemes and so-called “stan-
dards” for device connectivity already
exist. But of course, all those “solutions”
add up to one big problem. We don’t
want many standards; we want one.
Of course, an elegant answer is offered
by IP which is predicated upon the idea
that we already have an excellent way
to get every conceivable device on the
Internet—the original design principles
and protocols of the Internet itself.
“Internet” is short for “internetworking.” The
Internet was designed in the 1960s to allow
the incompatible data networks and com-
puting systems of the time to share informa-
tion—to “talk to each other,” as people like
to say. The Internet is literally a “network of
networks.” That’s what the “inter” means.
Enabling Universal
Connectivity
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The public Internet as we know it today is
a worldwide embodiment of those original
data communications protocols—which are,
by design, extremely simple. For this discus-
sion, their key attribute is that they make very
few assumptions about the data they are
sending and about the devices connecting
to the network to send and receive data.
It is this extensible, technology-neutral basis
of the Internet that has allowed it to scale so
dramatically (and gracefully) since its incep-
tion, with minimal central administration.
There have been previous high profile
examples of industries trying to create niche
standards for special purpose networks only
to eventually evolve to open IP standards
years later. This circumstance is typified by
the evolution of fieldbus networks in the
industrial arena in the 1990s and early part
of this decade. Several larger players slowed
down their own developments, plowed bil-
lions of dollars into supporting closed and
then ‘pseudo open’ standards and fought
over the spoils for nearly 20 years only to
find the market eventually came to under-
stand the benefits of open IP based network
standards. We see no reason that this lesson
from history shouldn’t be applied now.
Looking forward, Harbor Research believes
there is a major opportunity for select mar-
ket participants to act as an ‘IoT architect
or catalyst’ and harmonize the network
standards for short range WLAN and WSN
applications around an existing, new or
adapted suite of interoperable standards.
Our society is at the cusp of a “perfect storm”
of network connectivity. This phenomenon
is not just about the dichotomy between
people communicating with people or ma-
chines communicating with machines: it also
includes people communicating with ma-
chines (e.g. a networked ATM), and machines
communicating with people (e.g. automated
stock ticker alerts on your smartphone). The
concept of network effects states that the val-
ue of a network grows exponentially with the
number of nodes connected to it. Along with
the value, however, so too grows the com-
plexity of the software integrated into devices
and the reliance on people and organizations
developing and supporting these systems.
we are at the cusp
of a perfect storm
Automating Design and
Development
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With the rapid growth of wireless networks,
connecting these devices to the Internet has
never been easier. The growth of devices
on the Internet today is chiefly occurring
in two distinct ways. The first is that previ-
ously separate networks – such as video,
voice, cellular, etc., - are all migrating toward
shared IP. This trend requires the Internet
to absorb wholesale transitions of full-scale
networks into its existing framework.
At the same time, new classes of devices are
becoming network enabled. The types of
devices being connected today extend far
beyond the laptops and cell phones we have
become so accustomed to. Today, virtually all
products that use electricity - from toys and
coffee makers to cars and medical diagnostic
machines - possess inherent data processing
capability and the potential to be networked.
The fact that a rapidly expanding range of
devices have the capability to automatically
transmit information about status, perfor-
mance and usage and can interact with
people and other devices anywhere in real
time points to the increasing complexity of
these devices. For example, software for
the average mobile phone contains over 10
million lines of code. Over the last five years,
software in automobiles has grown from an
average of 35 million lines of code to over 100
million. The astronomical growth of features
and functions within and among connected
devices pushes the bounds of what designers
of software for products ever had in mind.
Some basic design principles must be put
in place to guide the development of smart
connected devices. It demands that we
design not only devices and networks but
also information management systems in
ways not addressed by current IT technolo-
gies. The reader may ask, don’t we already
have a vast number of software products to
address these challenges? Don’t we have
real-time operating systems and develop-
ment tools? And aren’t these technologies
working together today quite handsomely?
Almost everyone will answer with a re-
sounding “Yes!” But consider this analogy
from Buckminster Fuller: Suppose you are
traveling on an ocean liner that suddenly
begins to sink. If you rip the lid off the grand
piano in the ballroom, throw it overboard,
and jump on it, the floating piano lid may
well save your life. But if, under normal
circumstances, you set about to design the
some basic design principles
must be put in place to guide the
development of smart devices
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best possible life preserver, are you going
to come up with the lid of a grand piano?
The growing scale of interactions between
feature-rich devices and the antiquated tools
available today to develop them are like that
piano lid. In a period of great change and
tumult, it worked—in the sense that it kept
us afloat. But that does not make it the best
possible design, or qualify it to be something
that we should plan to live with forever.
The tools we are working with today to make
products “smart” were not designed to han-
dle the scope of new capabilities, the diversity
of devices and the massive volume of data-
points generated from device interactions.
These challenges are diluting the ability of
engineering organizations to efficiently and
effectively manage development. The frag-
mented nature of software offerings available
today make it extremely difficult, if not im-
possible, to leverage design and engineering
work across different platforms and devices.
What is needed is a common means of
development that can leverage tools, tasks
and code across families of interrelated
devices. Customers expect evolving soft-
ware tools to be functional, ubiquitous, and
easy-to-use. Within this construct, however,
the first two expectations run counter to the
third. In order to achieve all three, a new ap-
proach is required -- a unified development
framework for smart connected devices.
What would this entail:
»» Software tools and development pro-
tocols that work together seamlessly,
securely and safely across diverse de-
vices - historically sofware development
has been very distinct for different
types of products such as computers,
phones and other intelligent [non-IT]
equipment - in the future diverse device
segments will be served by increas-
ingly common software and tools.
»» Software that supports interoperability
over long product life cycles - the abil-
ity to support products for 15-20 year
life cycles and bridge complete tech-
nology shifts will be required. Devices
will require multiple code upgrades to
remain compatible and interoperable.
»» Software and development tools to
address a broad range of application
technology does not
have to breed complexity
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requirements - increasingly, product man-
ufacturers will need to develop both GUI-
based/data centric applications as well
as low end “headless” non-GUI-based
systems where boot loaders, schedulers,
comms stacks and other OS components
are used. OEMs need a single unified
framework to design and build solu-
tions that can be certified to interoperate
across all the uP and OS classes they use.
»» Software and tools that leverage re-use
- given the scale of the Internet of Things
it will simply not be humanly possible
to write all the code required without
large scale re-use - the ability, for ex-
ample, to develop a security module or
comms stack that can be designed and
certified once but used multiple times.
We are reaching a critical juncture in mar-
ket development where engineering or-
ganizations will soon be crying out for a
completely new approach - one where the
operating system and its components can
be utilized again and again across an ever
broader spectrum of devices. We must
develop software and methods to automate
development and facilitate re-use, or risk
constraining the growth of this market.
IT professionals talk these days about
the need for ever-evolving information
services that can be made available any-
where, anytime, for any kind of informa-
tion. Most of this talk surrounds the advent
of cloud computing and services. All too
often, IT people speak about cloud and
web services with “the Internet” inter-
changeably without giving it a thought.
But the Web is not the Internet. The Internet
itself is a simple, elegant, extensible, scalable,
technology-neutral networking system that
will do exactly what it was designed to do
for the indefinite future. The same cannot be
said of the Web, which is essentially an ap-
plication running on top of the Internet. It is
hardly the only possible Internet application,
nor is it the most profound one conceivable.
The Web’s Achilles heel does not originate
in its browsing software, or markup lan-
guages, or the other superficial aspects
that most users touch directly. Those in-
ventions are not necessarily ideal, but they
are useful enough today, and they can be
we are reaching a critical juncture
where organizations will soon be crying
out for a completely new approach
Achieving Truly Flexible,
Scalable Systems
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replaced over time with better alternatives.
Rather, the Web’s weakness lies with its
basic enabling technologies—in particular,
relational databasing and the client-server
model—and the restrictions they place upon
structuring, storing, and retrieving data.
The Web, and now cloud services, stores
information in one of two basic ways: utterly
unstructured, or far too rigidly structured.
The unstructured way gives us typical static
Web pages, blog postings, etc., in which the
basic unit of information is large, free-form,
and lacking any fundamental identity.
The overly structured way involves the use of
relational database tables that impose rigid,
pre-ordained schemas on stored informa-
tion. These schemas, designed by database
administrators in advance, are not at all
agile or easily extensible. Making even trivial
changes to these schemas is a cumbersome,
expensive process that affects all the data
inside them. Just as importantly, they make
deep, inflexible assumptions about the mean-
ing and context of the data they store. Both
of these approaches to data-structure enforce
severe limitations on the two things you want
most in a global, pervasive-era information
system: scalability and interoperability.
The client-server model underlying the Web
greatly compounds the problem. Regardless
of data-structure, when you put information
on the Web you put it in a specific physi-
cal location—i.e., you upload your HTML or
middleware files, or your database tables, to
a specific directory on a specific server. Thus,
a Web URL does not point to information
per se; it points to the information’s physi-
cal location, which is a very different thing.
This means that the Web is machine-centric,
not information-centric. Information on the
Web is not free to move, and because its life is
tied to the life of a physical machine, informa-
tion on the Web can easily become extinct.
If a particular server goes offline, temporar-
ily or forever, all its URLs are dead and the
information is unavailable. You can “mirror”
your data so that copies reside on multiple
servers, but this does not change the fact that
Web-based information is always tethered
to specific locations on specific machines.
All of this adds up to a huge collection of
information-islands called the World Wide
Web. Assuming the islands remain in exis-
tence reliably, they are still fundamentally
incapable of truly interoperating with other
information-islands. We can create bridges
today’s cloud and
IT world are still
disconnected islands
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between them, but islands they remain.
That’s what they were designed to be.
The latest bridges are called “cloud broker-
ing services,” by which islands automati-
cally “feed” information to each other. In
terms of convenience for human beings,
Web services are a distinct advance over
manually navigating Web pages. You can
now set up a browser page or a desktop
applet to “consume” (receive and display) a
Web-feed of news headlines, stock quotes,
weather information, package tracking, and
so on. And that’s a good thing—a pleas-
ant, time-saving, incremental improve-
ment on yesterday’s way of doing things.
But many people talk about Web and
cloud services as “the next big thing,”
and if that’s true we can only say: We
were hoping for something bigger. Con-
suming a cloud service is exactly the
same thing as loading a Web page.
All of these new services are still prey to the
client-server rigidity and vulnerability we’ve
described, making them particularly unsuit-
able for vital public information services. And
in order to concatenate information from
diverse sources, these services depend upon
data-tagging conventions that require yet
more layers of prior agreement, schemas,
markup, and manual human administration.
With each additional layer of such engineer-
ing and administration, the Web comes
closer and closer to resembling a fantasti-
cally jury-rigged Rube Goldberg contraption.
The reason is simple. These new comput-
ing schemes were not designed for a world
driven by pervasive information flow.
In today’s world, information is not free (and
that’s free as in “freedom,” not free as in “free
of charge”). In fact, thanks to present infor-
mation architectures, it’s not free to easily
merge with other information and enable
any kind of search-based intelligence.
What would truly liberated information be
like? It might help to think of the atoms
and molecules of the physical world. They
have distinct identities, of course, but they
are also capable of bonding with other
what would truly
liberated information be like?
Leveraging Collective
Intelligence
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The traditional approaches to data discovery
and systems intelligence have two failings:
they can’t provide a holistic view of these
diverse data types and, the types of intelligence
tools available to users are, at best, arcane
and typically limited in use to “specialists.”
Users need new ways to find informa-
tion and discover patterns on their own,
without requiring specialists or IT sup-
port. This allows users to determine where
deeper analytics or the creation of an ad
hoc business process can add value.
Given the immature state of today’s real-world
systems, most people have trouble grasping
the power and importance these capabilities
enable. The ability to detect patterns in data is
the holy grail of smart systems and The Internet
of Things because it allows not only patterns
but a whole higher order of intelligence to
emerge from large collections of ordinary data.
The implications are obviously immense.
We need an entirely new approach that
avoids the confinements and limitations of
the today’s differing data types and tools. It
allows data to maintain their fundamental
identity while bonding freely with other data.
Facilitating discovery, based on data and
information accessibility, fusion and cumula-
atoms and molecules to create entirely dif-
ferent kinds of matter. Often this bonding
requires special circumstances, such as ex-
treme heat or pressure, but not always.
In the world of information, such bonding is
not all that easy. Today’s software platforms
focus on execution processes that generate
one of three types of data - unstructured,
transactional or time series. For each of these
data types, a specific set of intelligence tools
have evolved to provide “insight” but, in most
cases, these tools limit the questions that can
be answered to those known in advance. So for
a user attempting to do something as simple
as asking a certain multi-dimensional ques-
tion, creating new information from multiple
data types that is an easily perceivable, ma-
nipulable, or mappable “model” of the answer
to that question is a significant challenge.
The Internet of Things requires new platforms
to fundamentally changes this paradigm,
treating data from things, people, systems
and the physical world as augmented repre-
sentations. In other words, treating diverse
data types equally. This enables processes
connecting diverse data in any combina-
tion to be rapidly built and deployed.
traditional approaches to
systems intelligence won’t
work in the smart sytems world
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tive systems intelligence, is a fundamental goal
for information systems. The world needs
systems designed for a genuinely connected
world in which there are no artificial barriers
between pieces and types of information.
Smart connected devices are a global
and economic phenomenon of unprec-
edented scale - potentially billions if not
trillions of nodes will be connected if the
right technology and business architec-
tures are in place. Today the relationship
between the evolving technologies driv-
ing the Internet of Things and the business
models that these systems could inform is
“disconnected” and problematic at best.
Apple and some of its peers in consumer
space present an interesting case for how
Smart Business models are developing. Apple
is primarily a consumer-focused tech ven-
dor, with no need for the vertical industry
capabilities required in B2B applications.
Still, Apple provides a model for creating a
Smart System solution that pulls together
technologies from multiple domains and
packages that solution in a way that wins
buyer acceptance. Looking beyond Apple to
Google, Amazon, Facebook and other play-
ers coming from their roots in the evolving
consumer mobile internet arena, there are
a variety of new business models emerging
from cloud and related services platform
players that are the embodiment of Smart
Systems. Add to this the momentum from
these players are creating via collaboration
with their app communities -- Amazon has
over 100,000 developers building applica-
tions and businesses; Apple’s App Store has
created a phenomenal lead position -- they
are all driving entirely new forms of col-
laboration and peer product development.
The traditional notion of M2M applica-
tions has largely grown up in a B2B context
-- equipment manufacturers developing
remote services and support automation tied
closely to their equipment services contracts.
These models are focused almost exclusively
on customer support and automation -- not
on new Smart Services value beyond sup-
port. As these two classes of business models
inch closer to each other in the marketplace
it is increasingly evident that consumer smart
Smart Systems Impact On
Evolving Business Models
new business models and new
business design practices are
required to realize the potential
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business models provide many lessons for the
“cloistered” equipment manufacturers in B2B
arenas. The business benefits of large scale
collaboration and social networking tools in
the B2B arena are finally being recognized.
Executives in many product manufactur-
ing companies are only just beginning
to understand the opportunities driven
by the complicity between collabora-
tion tools, networked device intelligence
and service business design and it is
this set of relationships, not the techno-
logical shift, that will benefit but also chal-
lenge many product manufacturers.
What product manufacturers looking to-
leverage collaboration or benefit from
connecting “smart products” to the In-
ternet need to understand is we have en-
tered a phase in the marketplace where
ideas can emerge from anywhere in the
world; new network and IT tools have
dramatically reduced the cost of utilizing
them. The bottom line: no single company
should look to innovate on their own.
Collaborative communities both inform
and express the strategy. Built to pursue
multiple aims simultaneously, a dynamic
network of connected products and people
drive new information values which, in turn,
create new influences in the marketplace.
Power in human and device collaboration
structures falls to those who best under-
stand how to use this information and
influence to get and keep a key position.
Forging collaborative communities means
managing uncertainty. A product OEM
needs a clear understanding of the forces
at work between and among devices and
people. They must try to identify those few
“interactions” that make a difference. From
this understanding provided via real time
interactions, early indicators of the true
direction of customer needs and behaviors
can be understood long before others.
we are just beginning to understand
the opportunities driven by the
complicity between collaboration
tools, networked device intelligence
and service business design
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Some things that look easy turn out to be
hard. That’s part of the strange saga of the
Internet of Things and its perpetual attempts
to get itself off the ground. But some things
that should be kept simple are allowed to
get unnecessarily complex, and that’s the
other part of the story. The drive to develop
technology can inspire grandiose visions
that make simple thinking seem somehow
embarrassing or not worthwhile. That’s not
a good thing when defining and deploying
real-world technology to deliver innovation.
This is where the new values of a true smart
systems architecture really come into focus.
We’ve articulated a “smart systems”
vision and road map that empha-
sizes several points, including:
»» The architecture required to inform
an Internet of Things looks nothing
like today’s kludge diagrams of smart
devices connected to clouds; it will
inevitably evolve to a radically dif-
ferent peer-to-peer architecture.
»» As the architecture evolves, the defini-
tions of its most basic elements that
everyone is so anxious to quan-
tify today (servers, devices, routers,
hubs, etc.) will change radically.
»» What most people who do not under-
stand this evolution are missing is that
you cannot accurately quantify the
future state of the Internet of Things
by merely counting today’s mess of
architecture and systems elements.
Today the world of smart communicating
devices is mostly organized in hierarchies
with smart user interface devices at the
top and the dumb devices [often analog
or serial sensors and actuators] at the bot-
tom. Within this structure, there are typically
various types of “middle box” supervisory
devices forming a point of connectivity and
control for the sensors and actuators as well
as the infrastructure for the network. From
our perspective, this description of today’s
M2M, remote services and connected sys-
tems architectures looks very familiar and
is largely organized much like client-server
based computer systems….. no surprise
given they were designed in the 1980’s.
How Should We View Future
Smart Systems Architecture?
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As the Internet of Things opportunity ex-
pands, the sensor and actuator devices will
all become smart themselves and the con-
nectivity between them (devices, for the
most part, that have never been connected)
will become more and more complex. As the
numbers of smart devices grow, the exist-
ing client-server hierarchy and the related
“middle boxes” acting as hubs, controllers
and interfaces will quickly start to blur. In this
future-state, the need for any kind of tradi-
tional client-server architecture will become
superfluous. In a future Internet of Things, the
days of hierarchical models are numbered.
Now, imagine a future smart systems world
where sensors and devices that were once
connected by twisted pair, current loops or
were hardwired become networked with all
devices integrated onto one IP-based net-
work (wired or wireless). In this new world,
the “middle boxes” don’t need traditional
input/output (I/O) hardware or interfaces.
They begin to look just like network com-
puters running applications designed to
interact with peer devices and carry out
functions with their “herd” or “clusters”
of smart sensors and devices – let’s call
these new middle boxes, “aggregators”.
We can readily imagine an application
environment where there may be several
aggregators running applications which
overlap sharing their sensors and actua-
tors, some even ‘sharing’ a whole herd – a
smart building application, for example,
where the processor in an occupancy sen-
sor is used to turn the lights on, change the
heating or cooling profile or alert security.
In this evolving architecture, the network
essentially flattens until the end-point
devices are merely peers and a variety of
applications reside on one or more net-
work controllers which look for all intents
and purposes like today’s cellular router/
modems, industrial PCs or small “head-
less” high availability distributed servers.
In a smart systems application world de-
signed to capture, log and analyze large vol-
umes of data from sensors, the aggregators,
such as we are describing here, will carry out
the process of taking raw data and distilling it
into information “locally.” Local processing is
required to reduce the otherwise untenable
Internet traffic challenges that arise from con-
necting billions of devices. The notion that
all these “things” and devices will produce
streaming data that has to be processed in
some cloud will simply not work. It makes
the notion that all these“things”and
devices will produce streaming data
that has to be processed in some
cloud will simply not work
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more sense structurally and economically to
execute these interactions in a more distrib-
uted architecture near the sensors and actua-
tors where the application-context prevails.
This is the move we’ve all been waiting for
to a truly distributed architecture because
today’s systems will not be able to scale and
interact effectively where there are billions of
nodes involved. In this portrayal, the aggre-
gators will become peers in a network along
with the sensors, actuators and controllers
whether or not they have GUIs (headed) or
not (headless). The aggregators will also
become unified application platforms from
which to provide services to devices and
users where the applications run, where
the data is turned into information, where
storage takes place, and where the brows-
ing of information ultimately takes place
too – not in some server farm in a cloud data
center. Even the mobile handsets we admire
so much today are but a tiny class of user
interface and communications devices in
an Internet of Things world where there will
be 100 times more “things” than humans.
In this future Smart Systems arena, the
architecture and relationship structures
between and among smart devices will be-
come more or less flat. Hierarchy will disap-
pear. Peer-to-peer will become the “norm”
for interactions (with its attendant benefits
and pitfalls). From our view the movement
towards peer-to-peer, and the view that many
people hold that this is somehow novel, is
ironic given that the Internet was originally
designed for peer-to-peer interactions.
This is a vast opportunity of untold scale.
If we hypothesize that there will be 2-5
“headed” user interface devices for every
person on the planet – say 12-30 billion in the
future. Of these, if 4-5 billion will be por-
table and/or low power, there will likely be
30-40 billion controller/aggregator devices,
potentially managing around 60-100 billion
end-point sensor/actuator devices – a ratio
of 20:1 or so…and that’s just the relatively
Smart Systems Is A Radical
Departure From Current
Thinking
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near term. When you think there are only 1
billion PCs on the planet and 3 billion cell
phones, this all starts to come into focus
and in many ways, aggregators will be the
next “PC”…but with 30X more of them.
Today we can only see the beginnings of
this structurally: Industrial PC’s, communica-
tions hubs and all manner of gateway-like
boxes all morphing to aggregators with
handsets and tablets morphing to universal
user interface devices. In this vision all we
can hear in the today’s marketplace is the
siren song of client-server and Cloud stories.
In our years of experience, we have all too
often seen the unfortunate scenarios that
managers create when uncertainty and
complexity force them to rely on selective
attention. Unfortunately, when this hap-
pens, selective attention naturally gravitates
toward what’s readily available: past experi-
ence and uncertain assumptions. Today’s IT
and telco infrastructure players are doing just
this. By ignoring important trends simply
because it’s difficult to perceive an alternative
future, these managers are certainly leaving
the door open for competition that will lead
to their eventual obsolescence…which will
make for a very interesting world to live in…
Though their business models are inter-
mingling today, all of the major categories
of suppliers in the “traditional” so-called
M2M software arena have historically oper-
ated within well-established assumptions
about product scope and business models.
No one would characterize the existing
players of being technology or business
model innovators or disruptive in nature.
Radical new thinking about information tech-
nology must begin at the most basic levels,
with new conceptions about the interactions
of information with people, systems and
devices. We think more about future proof-
ing innovations by making the fewest pos-
sible assumptions about the nature of net-
worked objects and the data they produce,
carry or process - we need a much broader,
all-encompassing view of information.
Ultimately, this type of smart systems archi-
tecture will alter traditional business models
and how new applications are realized.
Since all of this that we are describing is a
radical departure from current offerings and
business practices, and is driven by a very
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unique set of needs, it stands to reason that
these types of solutions do not fall within the
narrow specialties of the existing players. In
fact, the architecture being described is prob-
ably best viewed as an entirely new market
category. This is particularly true given the
disjointed patchwork of solutions presently
in place and the apparent lack of vision from
existing players of what’s required in the
future. The opportunity to lead in developing
and shaping this market looks wide open.
ABOUT HARBOR RESEARCH
Founded in 1984, Harbor Research Inc. has
more than twenty five years of experience in
providing strategic consulting and research
services that enable our clients to understand
and capitalize on emergent and disruptive op-
portunities driven by information and commu-
nications technology. The firm has established
a unique competence in developing business
models and strategy for the convergence of
pervasive computing, global networking and
smart systems.