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What blockchain means for you, and the Internet of Things
Written by Chris O'Connor | February 10, 2017 | Business, Security
Why is everyone so interested in blockchain, and what does that interest mean for the Internet of Things? Blockchain is beginning to play a major part in the Internet of Things by enhancing security, enabling inclusion of low-value devices to be increasingly viable and making managing a device easier for decades to come. Blockchain builds ...read more
Knightscope: robotic police
Written by Kamron Nafarieh | August 10, 2016 | Robotics, Security
Robotics is a diverse and far reaching industry. In the digital age, we are just beginning to understand where robotics can have an impact. Enter Knightscope, a crime fighting robot. Crime rates in the United States have fluctuated greatly over the years. After the second World War, crime rates increased in the U.S. and continued ...read more
IBM and AT&T join forces in the IoT
Written by Liza Cooper | July 13, 2016 | Article, Blog
IBM and AT&T team up to create robust IoT solutions. This collaboration will provide deeper insights from data collected from connected devices. This partnership will bring forth a fully integrated solution that will provide access to powerful design tools, global connectivity, advance analytics, and cognitive services for analyzing IoT data. These features will help to ...read more
Cisco and IBM: What’s possible in IoT
Written by Chris O'Connor | June 3, 2016 | Article, Blog
Today, in a typical industrial deployment, only 1% of IoT data is actually analyzed. This is because of legacy processes and drawbacks in current IoT platforms that make it too expensive and slow to analyze the other 99% of data Let’s take a look at a typical oil platform to understand why most data goes ...read more
Getting started with Watson IoT
Written by Mary Bunzel | June 3, 2016 | Article, Blog
Much has been written about how the Internet of Things has disrupted traditional businesses — and how that disruption is poised to skyrocket as we distill better insights from our connected devices. Today, smart leaders already know it’s time to get started exploring the power of IoT for business. What most don’t know, however, is ...read more
Coursera: a developer’s guide to the Internet of Things (IoT)
Written by Bret Greenstein | May 16, 2016 | Blog
The rapid growth and popularity of the Internet of Things has inspired many to think of ideas that will challenge the status quo. There are countless of examples of IoT businesses that were started by individuals tinkering and exploring with electronics and prototyping boards. It is through the act of connecting their device to the ...read more
IoT made easy
Written by Chris O'Connor | May 9, 2016 | Blog
A basic IoT platform must connect devices, must be able to collect data, must handle thousands of vendors, hundreds of standards and must be able to scale to millions of devices sending billions of messages. To deliver true value beyond the basic platform, we can add cognitive, security, privacy, insight generation and close loop automation. ...read more
Why use IoT for business?
Written by Lynne Slowey | April 17, 2016 | Business
Watch the video Understand the power of Internet of Things and cognitive computing, see real results and case studies from our clients including Silverhook Powerboats, Honda, and TP Vision – the maker of Phillips televisions. With over 13 billion connected devices out there already, and this number predicted to grow to over 29 billion by ...read more
IoT Made Simple with Watson IoT Platform
Written by Lynne Slowey | April 17, 2016 | Video
Watch the video With a value of over $71 trillion, can you afford not to be a part of the Internet of Things? The IBM IoT Platform helps you build, manage, and quickly launch IoT applications whether you are a fast-moving startup or an enterprise. Get started on your IoT journey at http://ibm.com/iot. ...read more