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After the Internet transformed commerce, the Internet of Things will do it all over again, says CIMdata's vp of research Stan Przybylinski. IoT is defined as products made smart with sensors that are interconnected. Sensors attached to "everything," however, generates huge amounts of data.
It seems like the Internet gold rush all over again, as "everyone" is getting into the act. Mr Przybylinski provided an image from Morgan Stanley that shows the layers of IoT and some of the firms in each one. (See Figure 1.) ThingWorx is now owned by PTC.
PTC, the stalwart CAD firm, is reorienting itself as the IoT company and likes to make it seem that they are the only ones with an IoT solution, but reality is different. They have serious competition. IBM created an entire IoT business unit, and funded it with $3 billion -- that's 2x PTC annual revenues.
With so many companies tipping in their toes, IoT is -- no surprise -- beset by standards; one slide shown by Mr Przybylinski actually needed two slides to list all the standards currently available. As I was writing this article, the headline "Huawei launches [10KB] Lite OS, an operating system for the Internet of Things" popped up on Techmeme's River feed.
Analysis firms are going crazy over IoT, outdoing each other with even bigger numbers.
Getting serious now, what does it take for a thing to be smart? Mr Przybylinski provided a list of items to consider, one that CAD designers can use to determine just how much IoT should be in the widget they're modeling:
ComputerWorld this year asked which new technology that firms would be spending on over the next 12 months. #1 was IoT, then #2 HPC [high performance computing], and last of all energy-saving and carbon-reducing technology -- maybe because priorities #1 and #2 will increase energy consumption.
In CIMdata's own poll, barely more than 10% of attendees at their PLM Forum are today collecting and analyzing data from IoT devices. The other nearly 90% were not interested, interested, or already collecting data but not analyzing it.
Other than PTC, some CAD vendors are trying to sound like they are also into IoT. According to Mr Przybylinski, Dassault is taking about the "fourth industrial revolution"; Siemens PLM is offering a "smart innovation portfolio"; Autodesk is emphasizing "makers" with things like Arduino and PLM 360.
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