The internet of things has been a buzzword for a few years recently but it has become one of those things that everyone likes to include everything. Most companies can see the potential but don’t know where to begin. We mention a few points here that can potentially be low-hanging fruits when considering an IoT […]
Source: http://www.verizonenterprise.com/resources/reports/rp_state-of-market-the-market-the-internet-of-things-2015_en_xg.pdf
This is the second post in our IT Vendor Management Series. The first was “3 Step Guide to Selecting B2B IT Vendors“. Once selected, the next step is to shortlist the vendors with whom you will want to set up a lasting relationship for acquiring development, maintenance, and support services. Stick to the following four steps […]
The key questions in this post are derived from Philip Kotler’s seminal work on marketing management. 1. WHAT ARE THE MAJOR WAYS IN WHICH WE CAN GROW THE BUSINESS? This should be the main agenda on a marketer’s worry-plate, especially the one who deals with SMEs. Experience and observation inform that some of the […]
The Big Strategic Opportunity Ability to draw intelligence from their data: This is the most pressing factor that concerns 67% of the 226 IT executives that Oracle surveyed in 2014. Surprisingly, 29% of the executives rate their organizational preparedness as poor to handle the data deluge. The 5 key inhibitors, for executives and organizations alike, are: […]
My search for the cheapest controller for IoT sensor data collection led me to investigate the Arduino family. Since I came from a Microsoft background, I had investigated the Raspberry Pi and Intel Galileo, both tipped to run the new version of Windows. You can run Linux on each of these right now which gives a […]
Why Big Data? Big data solutions are primarily meant to address the three core data-related challenges faced at enterprise level. These are also called the “3 V’s Problem”. Volume: A Big data solution stores and queries 100’s of TB of data. The total volume of data grows by 10 times every five years. Storage must […]
I recently got a hold of Texas Instrument’s sensor tag. This is a combination sensor containing: pressure temperature humidity accelerometer gyroscope magnetometer The WIKIPedia page highlights some interesting uses for the tag. It doesn’t look very useful for industrial applications – appears to be geared towards the Mobile development community targeting personal applications. Other interesting […]
The internet of things claims to connect “things” to the internet. When envisioning projects, an understanding of the sensors available and the price range for sensors serve as starting points. We wanted to break things down and figure out what broad category of sensors are available. We’ve broken things down to the sensor level. You will also […]