DALLAS and ARMONK, N.Y., July 13,
2016 /PRNewswire/ -- AT&T* and IBM (NYSE: IBM) are
working together to help businesses accelerate their Internet of
Things (IoT) initiatives. The two companies will combine their
unique strengths in cognitive computing and global connectivity to
create open standards-based tools on the IBM Cloud to enable
developers to more quickly build and implement a wide variety of
IoT solutions.
Open standards-based tools allow developers to improve their
skills and avoid the churn of learning new tools, which helps
protect the investments businesses have made in IoT solution
development. As demand for IoT solutions grows, so does the demand
for skilled IoT developers. According to the VisionMobile 2016
Internet of Things Megatrends report, nearly 10 million developers
will be active in IoT by 2020, doubling the estimated 5 million
today. As businesses discover the need to more efficiently develop
and bring IoT solutions to market, they must invest in developers
to stay competitive.
IBM and AT&T are expanding their full commitment and investment
in open-source based tools, such as Node-Red, and open standards
like MQTT, all essential for creating IoT solutions. In addition,
developers can now add the power of IBM's Watson cognitive computing and AT&T's IoT
Platforms like Flow Designer and M2X, and access to its global
network. This combination of open standards and IBM's and
AT&T's unique technologies will result in a new level of IoT
possibilities and solutions for developers to leverage well into
the future.
"We have heard the call from developers and businesses for more
tools to make IoT a reality and together with AT&T, we are
bringing together powerful platforms and services to drive
collaborative innovation," said Harriet
Green, general manager, IBM Watson IoT, Commerce &
Education. "This collaboration enables individual developers to tap
the power of cognitive computing and combine it with massive
amounts of data streaming from billions of connected devices,
sensors and systems to create solutions that can help transform
businesses and society alike."
AT&T is also working with IBM on a new starter kit to make
it easier for developers to get going. Once completed, customers
will be able to purchase the combined AT&T and IBM technologies
in one toolkit for a complete set of IoT tools to start their IoT
projects right away.
Developers can now use IBM's open and security-rich Watson Internet
of Things (IoT) Platform and Bluemix services together with
AT&T IoT Platforms to gain deeper insights from data collected
from connected devices. Multiple Watson APIs and other IBM
services, including visual recognition, personality insights,
tradeoff analytics and speech/translation, are available.
Watson APIs can be used to break down barriers to analyzing
unstructured data and provide access to powerful capabilities,
including advanced cognitive computing, machine learning and deep
learning approaches to help better understand and engage users and
tackle the massive growth of data in multiple formats.
Developers can tap into enhanced capabilities and create innovative
IoT apps, such as an asset tracker app that could show the location
of an asset. When coupled with weather data from The Weather
Company, businesses could predict delays in the supply chain or
reroute deliveries due to bad weather.
"From farming to fleets, there are many companies that would
benefit from real, actionable IoT data," said Chris Penrose, senior vice president, AT&T
IoT Solutions. "Combining technologies with IBM can advance the
developer experience –so they can build comprehensive IoT solutions
for businesses. Developers can quickly turn their innovative ideas
into cutting-edge solutions."
Developers now have the ability to deploy apps on the IBM Cloud,
providing more visibility and understanding into the Internet
"things" they connect. The new integration allows AT&T M2X,
AT&T Flow Designer and AT&T Control Center to be used with
the IBM Watson IoT Platform and Bluemix services available on IBM
Cloud. In addition, developers will also have access to 10+ IBM
Watson cognitive APIs, OpenWhisk "serverless" computing APIs, and
other IBM Bluemix services.
The IBM Watson IoT Platform enables users to easily connect devices
in a security-rich environment and build applications tapping
advanced analytics and cognitive services. It uses learnings to
better manage the data it collects – a constant improvement cycle.
The simple access to IoT devices and data helps developers quickly
create visual dashboards. The dashboards provide analytics and IoT
apps.
AT&T Flow Designer is a cloud-based tool. It lets developers
easily create and deploy IoT apps. The solution will be available
as-a-service on the IBM Cloud. Developers can use it to make apps
supporting connected cities, industrial equipment, cars, homes and
health devices.
For more information on the IBM Watson IoT Platform, visit
http://www.ibm.com/internet-of-things/iot-solutions/watson-iot-platform/
or follow @IBMIoT on Twitter.
For more information on our IoT tools for developers, visit
www.att.com/iot.
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