Dr. Alessandro Curioni Vice President, Europe and Director, IBM Research - Zurich IBM Fellow
Internet of Things: From Hype to Reality
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IoT is Disrupting Business Models
Smarter cities
Smarter vehicles
Smarter home Smarter health
Smarter factories
Smarter transportation
More and more of the world’s activity is being expressed digitally by billions of interconnected devices…
…providing businesses with the ability to learn more about their operating environment, and identify and act with the potential to create new value.
By 2020, there will be 28 times more sensor-enabled devices than humans on the planet.
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Disrupting Business Models: Car2Go
• CarSharing developed by Daimler AG
• Eight countries, 29 cities • 13,000 vehicles, one is
delivered every 2 seconds • 1 million members • Mobile App powered by IBM
Softlayer Cloud
Collaborative Consumption
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Disrupting Business Models: Senet
• US-based Senet rents its IoT infrastructure
• Local oil providers are using the IoT to track fuel consumption at residences and businesses
• 20,000 sensors installed in 2015
Network as a Service (NaaS) M2M operator
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Sensors !& Devices!
VoIP!
Enterprise !Data!
Social !Media!
Data Tsunami !IoT Challenges: Big Data Tsunami
Sensors & Devices
Social Media
VoIP
Enterprise Data
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DATACURATION
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Mainframe!
Client / Server !
Cloud / Mobile !
Ad Hoc !FUTURE!
1960s!
1980s!
2000s - Now!
Compute and Storage at the Edge will Exceed the Cloud
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The Weather CompanyCollection of data from more than 100,000 weather sensors resulting in 2.2 billion unique forecast points worldwide
Retail: Benefitfrom weather
anomalies
Insurance: Prevent claims
Energy & Utilities: Predict outages and disruptions
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Dublin, Ireland
• Cars as a Service: How can sensors and the Internet of Things turn parked cars into a service to find missing persons, detect gas leaks or capture a crime in progress?
Network as a Service (NaaS) M2M operator
Density of Parked Cars in Dublin
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St. Gallen, SwitzerlandInternet of Things Sensors to Create a Smart City
• Sensors are being installed as part of a 6 month pilot for electric vehicle charge stations, intelligence smart meters, on-demand street lights, real time tram information
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IBM and ARMMaking the IoT “Idiot Proof”*
*quote from Fortune Magazine
• Out-of-the-box technology consumers can buy using ARM chips, which collect the data and sent it to the IBM IoT Cloud for analysis
Brain-Inspired Systems will Enable Better Analysis of IoT Sensory Data1/10th of a watt powers to neurosynaptic chip’s 256 million synapses. The goal is to simulate 1 trillion synapses using only 4 kW of energy
Conclusions• IBM is investing $3B in IoT over the next 4 years • Data is a natural resource and a basis for
Competitive Value • IoT is an enable to augment data in real time
at the edge • Future brain-inspired technology will accelerate IoT • Every industry will be impacted
Retail Banking
Oil & Gas
Healthcare
Automotive Pharma