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The forecast for scheduling is about to get brighter
Written by Brendan Crotty | October 18, 2016 | Blog, Buildings, Cities
IBM has launched Maximo Scheduler Plus, an advanced work management solution that gives businesses the tools they need to manage both their field workforce and complex projects like shutdowns, outages and turnarounds. Scheduler Plus can help you optimize work schedules using real-time weather forecast data, letting you schedule maintenance and service workers more efficiently. Schedulers ...read more
AutoMOBILE – the future data-defined mobility experience
Written by Sebastian Wedeniwski | October 14, 2016 | Automotive, Blog
The connected car is transforming from a hardware-defined vehicle to a data-defined mobility experience, inside a contextual space that can be personalized and is capable to learn. But what exactly is a data-defined vehicle and how will we start designing this? Today, vehicles are about, physical appearance, physical engine design, and physical performance, manage and ...read more
It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s Watson IoT!
Written by Bret Greenstein | October 3, 2016 | Aerospace, Blog, Manufacturing...
Ladies and Gentlemen, we have lift off. Watson IoT now has a bird’s eye view of the world thanks to a partnership we unveiled today with Aerialtronics. Aerialtronics designs unmanned aircraft systems or what we like to call drones. These are not the toys you see kids using on their front lawns or at the ...read more
IBM and Schaeffler announce partnership for digital transformation
Written by Scott Stockwell | October 3, 2016 | Automotive, Blog, Factories...
German industrial giant Schaeffler, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of precision-engineered parts that keep the world moving, has entered a multi-year strategic partnership with IBM to supercharge its entire operations with Watson’s cognitive intelligence. Using IBM’s cloud and Watson IoT technologies, Schaeffler will connect and transform every aspect of its business from its supply ...read more
Keeping it clean: IoT enabled chore cheats
Written by Jen Clark | September 29, 2016 | Blog, Home
Personally, I’m a little over-the-top about cleaning. Over-flowing laundry baskets and grimy counters bug the hell out of me and spending time cleaning is a chore. But whether you’re a clean freak or would prefer to avoid the loathsome task altogether, here are a few IoT-enabled cheats to make life a little easier. The smart ...read more
Moving to a new world of cognitive manufacturing systems
Written by Karen Lewis | September 27, 2016 | Blog, Factories, Manufacturing...
This article is Part 1 of a series focused on how the application of cognitive IoT is triggering business and digital transformation. By tapping the power of cognitive computing, organizations are moving from IoT vision and proof of concept to strategic deployments aimed at driving real transformation. The result is a new industrial era defined ...read more
Conquering the growing complexity of lease accounting standards
Written by Scott Potter | September 20, 2016 | Blog, Buildings
When people think about leases, the real estate industry immediately comes to mind. But for many companies — across all industries — leases are some of the most expensive assets on the balance sheet. Asset-intensive businesses also lease equipment, from lower cost assets such as IT equipment, to large assets such as fleets, airplanes, complex ...read more
No really, what is the Internet of Things?
Written by Anthony Behan | September 20, 2016 | Blog
The question ‘what is the Internet of Things?’ seems almost trite, unnecessary. But if we take it for granted, we may miss some vital clues as to how it redefines the Internet, and social interaction with technology. The simple definition from a Google search says that it is ‘a proposed development of the Internet in ...read more
Observations from ThingMonk: people making IoT platforms
Written by Zach Jory | September 13, 2016 | Blog, Platform
I’m writing from ThingMonk and I can’t do any better than the summary on their event page “the developer conference for people making IoT platforms. We bring together technologists and designers building core infrastructure for IoT for 2 days of awesome, unique talks on topics including bots, industrial automation/industry 4.0, machine learning, time series data, ...read more
‘Home James’ – talking about self-driving vehicles at Upshift 2016
Written by Scott Stockwell | August 19, 2016 | Automotive, Blog
What’s the future of mobility? How soon will we see self-driving cars? With ever increasing numbers of us living in cities, will we be able to get around or will we be trapped in perpetual gridlock? These are some of the thorny topics that AutoBlog wrestles with and on 6 October in Detroit, Michigan, they’re ...read more
Analytics and cognitive are improving asset reliability
Written by Dan Bigos | August 10, 2016 | Factories, Manufacturing
In the previous blog we focused on capabilities and benefits available to manufacturing organizations via the combination of the IoT and analytic technologies – each fundamental components of cognitive manufacturing. Intelligent, instrumented, connected equipment now enables lines of business closely associated with manufacturing processes to gain a far more detailed and accurate understanding of equipment ...read more
Dogstar: the world’s first dog emotion sensor
Written by Liza Cooper | August 10, 2016 | Home
I am willing to bet that you, or someone you know, uses a wearable device. I am also willing to claim that your dog does not have his or her own wearable. Yet. Meet Dogstar. Dogstar was born at Cornell University, during their Startup Studio, a program that encourages students to flex their entrepreneurial muscles. ...read more