New words: The "Application-specific IOT" and "Industry-specific IOT"

As I try to learn more about IOT for my own edumacation, I sometimes stumble upon online articles that impart critical knowledge that I cant help but share. This, below, is one of them.

I am linking to an interesting article about the difference between The "Application-specific IOT"  e.g. wearables, the type of IOT that the majority of Americans know and are excited about and "Industry-specific IOT", which is something else that companies within the same industry will pursue.

Quoting the article:

How will IoT fans, pundits and especially company CEOs betting their company business on IoT explain the disparity between the vision and the reality? We are already witnessing the introduction of new “classes” of IoT such as the “industrial IoT”. I expect that we will witness the emergence of “application-specific IoT” and “industry-specific IoT”, which, in so many ways, will not be that different from the many M2M technology implementations that address narrowly defined yet no less valuable business opportunities such as the solutions implemented, for example, by Axeda at Diebold, EMC, GE Healthcare, and Philips Healthcare.

To read more about the Wisdom of Devices and the evolution of the IoT go to Joe Barkai's discussion on General IoT vs. Application-Specific IoT

A city saved $95m a year in utilities cost through use of IOT

According to this article "The Internet of Everything", aka Internet of Things, IOT, is the next biggest awesomest thing that will save the world because even though it is only in its infancy and is barely better than a bunch of interconnected sensors it generated a city $37 million in light and $58 million savings in water expenses.

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To learn more about this city and read more about how IOT will save the world, read John Chamber's LinkedIn Blog

Jahangir Mohammed, CEO of Jasper says that the Internet Of Things (IOT) is about service

According to Jasper's CEO the internet of things (IOT) is about service, not things. Satya Nadella, Microsoft's  CEO expressed a similar sentiment - that IOT is about things such as the OS and security systems.

He also implied that IOT will be as ubiquitous as ecommerce is now.

The Internet of Things (IoT) transforms the potential of a wide range of products by making them part of a wider service ecosystem, Jahangir Mohammed, CEO of Jasper said, noting: “the internet of things, it’s about service”

“Just about every business is going to become an Internet of Things business, it’s an inevitability. Because not only is the way people use things transformed, businesses are transformed. For the first time, businesses are continually connected to their customers, they know how customers are experiencing their products,” Mohammed said..


See more at Steve Costello's Blog

Microsoft's IOT strategy according to CEO Satya Nadella

Nadella echoed the argument mentioned earlier this month by Jasper's CEO that the internet of things is not just about the things themselves but rather it is more about the systems that make those things function. From this point of view, Microsoft has a big stake in how IOT develops. My initial thought on this news is in order for MS to have a say in IOT it has to put Windows head to head against other operating systems (iOS, Android) and other security and login systems (G+, facebook, Oracle, Cisco, etc)

It is not just about tablets, phones and PCs, but is also a platform that can "in fact run across a lot of places where general purpose compute is going to be important."

The attributes of Windows, its management and security, "are going to be more of a premium going forward," Nadella said

See more at Computer World