Frost & Sullivan: Internet of Things (2:12)
The Internet of Things (IoT) will have a major impact on businesses and consumers in the future. Connectivity will enable solutions to be integrated with enterprise management solutions and help businesses improve efficiency and increase productivity. Every person globally will be impacted by IoT. The emergence of IoT has disrupted many industries and companies leading to a highly publicized embrace of digitization by various traditional companies. To survive over the long term, other traditional companies must embrace IoT and adopt new and emerging business models.
Frost & Sullivan’s Internet of Things program takes a 360 degree view of the IoT ecosystem. With a global team of over 300 analysts and consultants focused on IoT applications and enabling technologies, Frost & Sullivan provides the most comprehensive research into the ecosystem, new business models, business and consumer applications, data analytics, security, and much more.
IBM How It Works: Internet of Things (3:38)
The Internet of Things gives us access to the data from millions of devices. But how does it work, and what can we do with all that data? Find out in this animated tutorial from IBM’s Think Academy. For more information on IBM and the Internet of Things, please visit: http://www.ibm.com/IoT.
Watson is the first commercially available cognitive computing capability, representing a new era in computing. Watson analyzes high volumes of data and processes information more like a human than a computer—by understanding natural language, generating hypotheses based on evidence, and learning as it goes. (Photo: Courtesey IBM Watson)
As organizations work to make more data-driven decisions — 2.5 billion gigabytes of data being created every single day, they need advanced systems that are able to crunch massive amounts of structured and unstructured data and deliver actionable insights within seconds. Deloitte estimates the cognitive computing market will expand in five years to $50 billion in the U.S. alone.
Since its triumph on the television quiz show Jeopardy! IBM has advanced Watson’s capabilities and made it available via the cloud. Watson now powers new consumer and enterprise services in the health care, financial services, retail and education markets. IBM has also opened the Watson platform to developers and entrepreneurs, enabling them to build and bring to market their own powered by Watson applications for a variety of industries.
IBM Watson IoT Platform (3:17)
In 2008, IBM set a bold agenda for a Smarter Planet—a global movement built by infusing instrumentation, interconnection and intelligence into the systems that drive human progress and economic growth.
Earlier this year, IBM announced a $3 Billion investment in Internet of Things (IoT), and in October, we announced plans to acquire The Weather Company, accelerating IBM’s efforts in the IoT market that is expected to reach $1.7 trillion by 2020.
Today, the IoT has quickly become the single largest source of data on the planet, generating tremendous amounts of structured and unstructured data every second, every day. Watson thrives on tremendous volumes of data, and the IoT provides that. But, it’s a reciprocal relationship: the advanced power of cognitive computing will be necessary to fully exploit this burgeoning resource. Cognitive systems puts all types of data — even data that you may not be aware of — into context with systems that learn at scale, reason with purpose and interact with humans naturally.
IBM, an established leader in the IoT with more than 4,000 client engagements in 170 countries, 1,400 partners in its growing ecosystem and more than 750 IoT patents, is extending the power of cognitive computing to the billions of connected devices, sensors and systems that comprise the IoT.
For more information, please visit www.ibm.com/iot