A new survey from McKinsey & Company suggests that the enterprise Internet of Things is poised for strong growth. However, there remain many questions about the utility and impact of IoT in the enterprise since most companies are still in the early stages of implementation. To date, they have only achieved modest, incremental benefits from their enterprise IoT programs. With limited evidence of bottom-line impact, executives are cautious about increasing their enterprise IoT investments, and few have embarked on large-scale initiatives designed to transform their operations or enable new products and services. Continue reading “McKinsey – IoT Poised for Strong Growth”
Category: IoT
Envisioning the Smart City
Philips Lighting interactive virtual reality experience envisions smart cities in 2030 – re-imagined underground public spaces and interactive streets enabled by connected lighting.
Is Ambient Intelligence the Future of IoT?
An condensed repost from the World Economic Forum
What technology industry analyst firm Gartner is calling “the device mesh” is the logical evolution of the Internet of Things. All around us and always on, it will be both ubiquitous and subtle — ambient intelligence.
In that envisioned future we’ll do truly different things, instead of just doing things differently. Today’s processes and problems are only a small subset of the many, many scenarios possible when practically everything is instrumented, interconnected, and intelligent.
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The Benefits of Autonomous Driving
The world of autonomous driving brings mobility to people who lack easy or practical access to driving, such as the elderly and disabled. It also appeals to the lifestyles and virtues embraced by millennials, such as health, entertainment, and mindfulness. As they technology matures towards the later stages of innovation, A.T. Kearney expects the following benefits to be especially powerful:
Corporations Working On Autonomous Vehicles – CB Insights
While the everyday buzz continues to collect around Tesla and Alphabet, and their respective ecosystems, there are a growing number of auto brands and other tech heavyweights are also investing heavily in autonomous R&D. CB Insights has collected the names.
The Programmable World 