Intel White Paper Implementing the Internet of Things - How to Build a Scalable and Manageable IoT Strategy

Implementing the Internet of Things How to build a scalable, secure and manageable Io T strategy

The Io T excels at helping a business discover details about its environment that it never had access to before. For example, a winemaker might gain a more precise knowledge of moisture levels at various soil depths in a vineyard. Combining this data with measurements of temperature, hours of sunshine, and fertilizer, wine- makers are able to make more accurate decisions in timing the harvest to achieve an optimal end product based on real world conditions. Such insights reduce operational costs, increase yield, and improve quality.

The Io T also helps businesses to understand what is happening and why it is happening—enabling them to make more informed decisions. The data itself is just

The rapid growth of the Internet of Things (Io T) con- the raw material. The insights generated from analysis tinues to transform businesses large and small. At are what has the power to transform businesses. its core, the value of the Io T comes from extracting

Building a basic Io T solution architecture is not difficult.

information, analysing it, and using the results to make

There are two core components: an infrastructure of

business decisions. The real beauty of the Io T lies in

sensors and networks stretching from the end user’s

how the benefits can be tailored to each company’s

devices up into the cloud, and the cloud-hosted plat-

vision and purpose.

form software and business solutions used to analyze

The Io T opportunities are so large that they seem al- and gain insight from the avalanche of digital data most limitless. In fact, Mc Kinsey predicts that the Io T’s collected from these Io T devices. economic impact will be between $4trn and $11trn per year in 2025. Such figures demonstrate the Io T’s enor- mous potential to benefit every industry—from man- Edge to cloud solutions from ufacturing, transportation, and energy to healthcare, Intel and IBM retail, and finance. As impressive as these projections

are, they might obscure the fact that businesses are Technology leaders of all types—from device makers already realizing real benefits from the Io T today. to software developers—are working together to real- ize the benefits of the Io T. Consider IBM, with its many

So, how does a business extract value from the Io T?

cloud data centers around the world and track record

Nearly any machine, vehicle or building—in other words

of breaking down data and squeezing meaning out of

any “thing”—can be outfitted with sensors and securely

daunting quantities of bits and bytes. Add equal parts

connected to the cloud via gateways. The connections

of Intel, with its long history of making the processors

enable businesses to continuously collect data from

that keep much of the world economy running and

their “things.” By analyzing this data and correlating it

its profound grasp of IT infrastructure and embedded

with other data sets such as weather, geo-location or

devices.

business-specific data, organisations can achieve new insights on their operations.