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10 ways to make the Internet of Things pay off

I got the concept of Cloud Computing. I got the concept of Big Data. What the heck is this Internet of Things? All I see is a mish mash of capabilities that are better enabled because of the Internet. Most of these "things" already existed previously to some degree or another and businesses that could take advantage of them have been doing so for awhile. What is the value of clumping them together under the IoT term? Seems like we just another Internet term to blog about for the year and then move on to the next topic. This one just means so little though.

I'd give this article a 50% on getting IoT use cases for business
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The real Internet of Things involves not massive data mining or hosting servers so much as the rise of lots of small embedded systems that can monitor and control things and report their activities and the results of their monitoring over the internet to a traditional server system - which can have a big data element to do reporting or a traditional relational database based system to do the same. As someone who has been working quietly in the IoT field for a few years this article really adds not much in the way of real information. Probably written by one of those great 'industry analysts' rather than someone actually in the field.

Very much one of those 'industry analysts' with no real knowledge of what is happening. I'd ignore this article if this subject is of interest and go use google or similar to find out the real story.

Internet Of Things is much more than just a marketing term. There's internet, so internet based or cloud powered apps, and there's things, so other kind of interactions, very different from humans, and requiring more sophisticated data processing.

Simply because Things, Objects, however you call them, are dumb.

That's the big concept behind our Smart Object Storage ( YobiDrive ): take into account at the cloud or internet level, however you want to call it, that Objects need a little help from their cloud friends. And they need instant help to push value added data to their subscribers. Connecting a temp sensor, I'm not interested in the room temp, but only mine, when the sensor is in my ear.

A mobile health sensor will need data processing, for example to clean up data before storing. A health diagnosis helper app will need prepared data, with archives, variances, trends.

So the mix of competences to build the full picture becomes way too complicated for a single company: you need electronics experts, data analysis and reformatting experts, and great app developers that deliver business value from this data.

That's why we believe this can't happen without having a new vision of cloud storage, allowing each of those competences to merge around a "Smart Object" that represent this dumb thing that you turn into a smart object by plugin in competences from everywhere.

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