Published on : 17th June 2016
Technology has been the biggest enabler in this 21century. It has enabled countless avenues for opportunities. The IT industry has garnered most of this revolution as today software’s has become and integral part of it. IT industry has rode multiple ways in the past viz. dot.com boom, y2k, mobility, transition etc. Soon we all be witnessing a new wave, the wave which will connect the world like anything, in the coming decade there will be plethora of devices around all of us, whether it is office, home, roads, playing fields etc. These devices will be driving the next wave of IOT i.e. Internet of Things.
As per the estimate nearly 14 billion devices, appliances and systems will be connected to the internet by 2022. From nest connected thermostats to upcoming connected homes from Apple or Google’s Brillo. The manufacturing sector will soon be looking towards IT as a solution provider for all their needs from connected travelling system, to a more advance fuel mapping systems across vehicles for a logistics chain. The internet of things has been catching up in the trend already as major service providers are jumping in to this bandwagon by providing there IOT platforms and enabling the world for their customers by providing in-depth analysis of each and everything happening around them.
With the concept of smart city and smart power grid already in place it will take no time for companies to join this for a better and more importantly fact enabled business development.
Just imagine a scenario where a cisco server can intelligently sense its component failure and sends a mail with procurement details to the maintenance team which in only one visit will be able to maintain it also just sense the amount of Business Intelligence it will be developing for the world where the design and manufacturing team can understand the frequent problems and can resolve it.
Automobile regulation authorities can check the emission of all the vehicles by a single application and help nail out future Volkswagen emission scandal.
The world is soon going to get transformed in to a connected world.
The technologies which will be handy in this scenario will NOSQL, HADOOP, HBase, Flume, Storm, RapidMQ, Kafka, several protocols, DI, Business Intelligence etc.
As an IT and IM organisation we should and we must catapult on this and I am sure it will surely help us in reaching our 1Billion. We must ride this wave.
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Vaibhav Rastogi