CESIoTChat

Venetia Muench

perhaps a connected home sensing if a normal activity does not happen?

great idea so if they aren't up and eating at the right time then take an action

Saurabh Bhide

a wheelchair that can monitor vital statistics of person who is using it?

cristene j g-w

entirely right. Imagine the apps - and smarter clothing, notifications, meds

great what about monitoring taking mess?

Roopa Maniktala

smarter footwear to prevent injuries and falls

IBM_Electronics

@VenetiaMS would make a big difference for families

cristene j g-w

mess? Are you referring to my kitchen?

Haha my typing is at its usual high standard

and driverless vehicles

There are already in-home detectors that sense normal motion patterns and alert people when they change (possibly indicating a fall or illness).

I believe its a service that you can sign up for.

it's not just real time alerting, though, it's also about identifying patterns of behavior that could lead to improved services to the elderly

some great use cases already in places like Bolzano, Italy https://www.youtube....

I think the main thing as well is how this can be done in a very non-invasive fashion. No cameras, all done by monitoring services like water/electricity and patterns

drohanesian11

How do you all see the Internet of Things shaping Smarter Cities? #SmartCities #IBMIoT #CES2015

3 Votes Vote

to enable smarter cities we have to look from the user perspective back to the cloud. It's not about the Thing is about the Service #IBMIOT

Infusion of data that can enable much better use of City resources...and communication back to those citizens.

Smart Meters are an easy example of that...you and the water utility can be quickly notified of potential leaks through analytics...saving water and money immediately.

one example for very large cities would be traffic mgt

But in the bigger picture, these meters also help show standard sets of patterns, that can help identify conservation techniques and demand optimization at a systemic level.

Phil Fritz

data from IOT can also be converged with data from legacy applications to drive new insights, particularly with geospatial analytics

Yes, traffic management is a good example of different types of sensors: traffic motion sensors, camera analysis, mobile phone apps GPS, and actual city vehicle GPS locations. These all get combined for analytics...ala Google Maps & Waze.

Phil is spot on. Geospatial is a form of data integration. Instead of hard links or "foreign keys", you can assume a relationship due to time and location proximity.

Which lets you combine completely separate data in interesting ways.

Ryan Begley9

Will the iot become the dominant sales and marketing channel in the near future?

5 Votes Vote

IBM_Electronics

Question from @peter_ryans @SScottB

Venetia Muench

and how dramatically will it change personalization of messaging?

there is a huge amount of buzz around IoT from a sales & marketing perspective. Our focus will always be on the business value of the projects and I'm sure Cloud, Analytics and Big Data along with Social will remain at the fore

IBM_Electronics7

Q2: What keeps businesses from adopting #IoT? #CES2015

Suresh Subbanarahari

Hyper connectivity opens new Business channels

Veena Pureswaran

Enterprise privacy concerns

Rami Ahola

Just because you can connect stuff doesn't mean it's good business. I think the biggest roadblock is lack of profitable business models.

Interoperability, Standards, Security are all Challenges to face. The availability of an API Economy #IBMIOT

Martin Kienzle

we need to clear the "standards jungle"

It is indeed about the SECURE IOT #IBM IOT

a more fundamental issue is defining IOT ecosystems that customers actually care about

cristene j g-w

@rmdouglass remarkably enough, IoT also needs biz models that companies care about

work in from consumer needs, not outward from perspective of device manufacturers

Neil Postlethwaite5

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4 Votes Vote

Greg Knowles

Piece of cake! I connected my first device in less than 30 minutes! Recipes provide step-by step instructions and code snippets. https://developer.ib...

@gtkwahoo I would expect no less from you ... #likeaboss #IBMIoT

S Scott Burnett4

To connect everything there must be a composable Service infrastructure in the cloud we call it BlueMix #BlueMix

3 Votes Vote

hey for the laywoman, what is a composable service?

@susanconfort Think about Facebook for people. Friending and Sharing. IOT devices will do same and the services are unlimited and must be "composable" #IBMIOT

@susanconfort and taking it to the next level, think about the ability to compose services like data streams from your IoT devices with analytics or mobile devices to react quickly to events, all with minimum coding

Susan Confort3

What about iot applications in retail?

How about inventory that can count itself?

Veena Pureswaran

Haulage and transportation can be significantly optimized

Ryan Begley

the notion of inventory is likely to become significantly different in an iot future

Gabriel Vizzard

how about iBeam http://www.fierceret...

Ryan what do you mean that the notion of inventory will be different

IBMVentureGroup

Lots of these already emerging, see iBeacons for example

also things like people management in shopping malls, pushing offers based on location, it's exciting times for #IBMIoT in Retail

Gabriel Vizzard1

What about all these different standards for wireless IoT

IBM_Electronics

@SScottB and Ted - what do you think?

Greg Knowles

Wireless protocols have different applications -- in the home (short range & peer to peer), in the city (longer range), across geographies. But within some of those domains there are dozens of variations, and we need some consolidation...

Gabriel Vizzard

@gtkwahoo Indeed, there will likely by polywireless standard gateways.

It's not about one winner but the accommodation of multiple protocols that can interoperate. We address this with out IoT approach