IBM’s Watson IoT business unit recently held an IoT Exchange in Sydney, comprising separate ‘academies’ focussing on Watson IoT’s role in enterprise asset management (Maximo), real estate/facilities management (Tririga) and engineering lifecycle management (Engineering). IoT Australia caught up with Kareem Yusuf, general manager of IBM’s Watson IoT business unit and Joe Berti, vice president offering […]
Cisco and IBM take Watson IoT to the edge
Cisco and IBM are to collaborate to deploy IBM’s Watson artificial intelligence technology at the edge of IoT networks to provide analysis and insights into IoT generated data. IBM and Cisco say they have joined forces to offer a new way to produce immediate, actionable insight at the point of data collection for companies operating […]
Who are the real leaders in IoT?
Market research firm IoT Analytics produces a quarterly report ranking the top 20 IoT companies. Given how difficult it is to (a) define the IoT market and (b) corral a company’s IoT revenue/activities, that’s a pretty tall order. Nevertheless, it makes for interesting reading, and the company is unequivocal as to who the leaders of […]
Is Reps’ inquiry into smart infrastructure or smart ways to build infrastructure?
Question: what does ‘Smart ICT’ mean to you? I really don’t know, and a Google search did not throw up any clear and consistent definition. This is a bit of a worry because the Australian Government has launched an entire inquiry into “The role of Smart ICT in the design and planning of Infrastructure” without […]
From the Internet of Things to the Economy of Things
IBM’s Institute for Business Value has produced an insightful and thought-provoking white paper. It argues that, just as the Internet disrupted information-based industries by making information indexable, searchable and easily tradeable, so too will IoT make many types of physical assets indexable, searchable and easily tradeable, with profoundly disruptive consequences. The white paper, The Economy […]
IBM joins Open Interconnect Consortium
After a shaky start Intel-originated IoT standards body, the Open Interconnect Consortium (OIC) appears to be gathering momentum announcing eight new members, the most of significant of which is IBM. However, the OIC faces a rival IoT standardisation body backed by Microsoft, LG, Qualcomm and other big names. The OIC was founded by Intel, Broadcom […]
By 2020 Google and/or Apple will dominate IoT: everybody else will be history
VisionMobile has published a report detailing “Four seismic trends that will shake up the IoT market.” One of these is that by 2020, Apple, Google or both will have built a dominant IoT platform that makes head-on competition impossible. VisionMobile explains: “Established technology companies like IBM, Cisco or GE, and incumbent IoT specialists like Jasper, […]
IBM to pump $US3 billion into IoT
IBM says it will invest $US3 billion over the next four years to establish a new Internet of Things (IoT) unit, and that it is building a cloud-based open platform designed to help clients and ecosystem partners build IoT solutions. IBM says its IoT push will build on “pioneering work in smarter planet and smarter […]
LPWAN – wide open field for wide area networking technology
If you’re not a close follower of what’s happening in the Internet of Things (IoT) this acronym—for low power wide area network—might be new to you, but it represents one of the most important components and one of the most hotly contested aspects of the Internet of Things – the radio communications technology that ‘things’ […]
IBM unveils LoRaWAN wide area network for IoT
IBM Research has unveiled a new wide area networking technology LoRaWAN (Long Range Wide-Area Networks) designed for the interconnection of Internet of Things devices, claiming that it can support communications rates of up to 100kbps over tens of kilometres from devices that can run for up to 10 years on a AA battery. The unveiling […]
