ARMONK, N.Y., March 31, 2015 /CNW/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM)
today announced that it will invest $3
billion over the next four years to establish a new Internet
of Things (IoT) unit, and that it is building a cloud-based open
platform designed to help clients and ecosystem partners build IoT
solutions.
IBM's pioneering work in Smarter Planet and Smarter Cities was
based on practical applications of IoT in the enterprise and led to
a broad set of solutions, ranging from water management to
optimizing retail and customer loyalty to alleviating traffic
congestion. IBM leads in enterprise IoT implementations that
securely combine and analyze data from a wide variety of
sources.
With new industry-specific cloud data services and developer
tools, IBM will build on that expertise to help clients and
partners integrate data from an unprecedented number of IoT and
traditional sources. These resources will be made available on an
open platform to provide manufacturers with the ability to design
and produce a new generation of connected devices that are better
optimized for the IoT, and to help business leaders across
industries create systems that better fuse enterprise and IoT data
to inform decision-making.
"Our knowledge of the world grows with every connected sensor
and device, but too often we are not acting on it, even when we
know we can ensure a better result," said Bob Picciano, senior vice president, IBM
Analytics. "IBM will enable clients and industry partners apply IoT
data to build solutions based on an open platform. This is a major
focus of investment for IBM because it's a rich and broad-based
opportunity where innovation matters."
IBM estimates that 90 percent of all data generated by devices
such as smartphones, tablets, connected vehicles and appliances is
never analyzed or acted on. As much as 60 percent of this data
begins to lose value within milliseconds of being generated. To
address this challenge, IBM is announcing it will offer:
- IBM IoT Cloud Open Platform for Industries: This
platform will provide new analytics services that clients, partners
and IBM will use to design and deliver vertical industry IoT
solutions. For example, IBM will introduce a cloud-based
service that helps insurance companies extract insight from
connected vehicles. This will enable new, more dynamic pricing
models and the delivery of services that can be highly customized
to individual drivers.
- IBM Bluemix IoT Zone: New IoT services as part of IBM's
Bluemix platform-as-a-service will enable developers to easily
integrate IoT data into cloud-based development and deployment of
IoT apps. Developers will be able to enrich existing business
applications – such as enterprise asset management, facilities
management, and software engineering design tools – by infusing
more real-time data and embedded analytics to further automate and
optimize mission-critical IoT processes.
- IBM IoT Ecosystem: Expansion of its ecosystem of IoT
partners – from silicon and device manufacturers to
industry-oriented solution providers – such as AT&T, ARM,
Semtech and newly announced The Weather Company – to ensure the
secure and seamless integration of data services and solutions on
IBM's open platform.
IBM's capabilities are illustrated in a new global strategic
alliance announced today with The Weather Company through WSI, its
global B2B division. WSI's forecasting system ingests and processes
data from thousands of sources, resulting in approximately 2.2
billion unique forecast points worldwide, and averages more
than 10 billion forecasts a day on active weather days. The IoT and
cloud computing allow for collection of data from more than
100,000 weather sensors and aircraft, millions of smartphones,
buildings and even moving vehicles. The two companies will
help industries utilize their understanding of weather on business
outcomes and take action systemically to optimize those parts of
their businesses.
The new unit will be led by Pat
Toole as General Manager.
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For more information on IBM's Internet of Things business,
please visit www.ibm.com/IoT
As a leader in building practical IoT applications for the
enterprise, IBM is working with a broad range of global clients,
including:
- Continental is jointly developing fully-connected mobile
vehicle solutions with IBM for car manufacturers around the
world.
- Cummins Inc. collects and transmits real-time performance data
of its engines for predictive analysis with IBM IoT solutions to
maintain higher operating levels and reduce downtimes.
- Pratt & Whitney is using IBM IoT solutions, including
predictive analytics, to more accurately and proactively monitor
the health of more than 4,000 commercial engines.
- SilverHook Powerboats is using IBM's IoT Foundation service to
access and analyze telematic and biometric data from its boats and
pilots to make real-time racing decisions.
- IBM is engaged in a partnership with the University of South Carolina to produce more
insights on predictive maintenance, combining deep industry
expertise from the university's Condition-based Maintenance
Research Center with predictive analytics software and skills from
IBM.
- Whirlpool Corporation is leveraging IBM's IoT and predictive
maintenance and quality solutions to improve the performance and
reliability of its appliances.
IBM also has been helping cities around the world become smarter
by designing strategies for collecting, sharing, analyzing and
acting on data. For example:
Smarter Cities
- Miami-Dade County, Florida is
working with IBM on a Smarter Cities initiative to improve services
for residents and help agencies share information among the 34
municipalities within the county. The project spans multiple areas
including using data from smart meters to analyze and detect water
leaks in the Parks, Recreation, & Open Spaces Department; a
project to improve the efficiency of buses for the Transit
Department, and predictive policing and real-time crime analytics
with the Miami-Dade County
Police.
- In Montpellier, France the fastest growing city in
France, IBM Intelligent Operations
delivered via the cloud helps the the District Council set up and
experiment services for water management, mobility and emergency
management.
Smarter Buildings
- Carnegie Mellon University is using
IBM IoT solutions to reduce energy and facility operating costs.
Currently in a pilot program, it will eventually be deployed across
36 buildings on its Pittsburgh
campus.
- The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) is working with
IBM to develop and install advanced smart building technology in 50
of the federal government's highest energy-consuming buildings.
Smarter Public Safety
- The Rochester, Minnesota
Police Department is mining, sharing and extracting intelligence
from data by working with IBM to improve officer safety, criminal
investigations and crime prevention programs.
Smarter Transportation
- In Dublin, Ireland, the city
is working with IBM to identify and solve the root causes of
traffic congestion in its public transport network.
- In Melbourne, Australia, Yarra
Trams is using IBM technology to access real-time information about
service disruptions, tram performance and tram locations.
Smarter Water
- In Canada, the Southern
Ontario Water Consortium is working with IBM using sophisticated
tools to understand watershed dynamics, safeguard drinking water
and forecast the impact of growth. The new platform analyzes data
collected every 15 minutes and assimilates 600 data points per hour
from more than 100 sensors.
Additionally, IBM also has partnered with a number of IoT
ecosystem leaders, with more to come. For example:
- AT&T and IBM combined their analytic platforms, cloud, and
security technologies to gain more insights on data collected from
machines in a variety of industries.
- ARM and IBM partnered to combine ARM's leadership in the
embedded market utilizing the ARM® mbed™
platform with IBM's leadership in Big Data, Analytics and Cloud
Services to provide an easy to use Starter kit, enabling IoT
developers to rapidly achieve end to end development from device
through cloud services.
- IBM Research and Semtech announced a new technology based on
low-power, wide-area networks that offers significant advantages
over cellular networks and wifi for providing machine-to-machine
(M2M) communications.
- ESRI, a market leader in Geographic Information System (GIS)
technology, has a long history of collaborating with IBM on the
development of IoT solutions that bring mapping and spatial
analysis to businesses and government institutions around the
globe.
Contact: IBM: Vineeta Durani,
917-855-2680, vineeta.durani@us.ibm.com
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