Excellence for Resources Opens in Singapore to Help Companies in Asia Pacific Capitalise on Technology Innovations

Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has opened an Internet of Things Centre of Excellence for Resources in Singapore to help companies transform their businesses through a combination of deep industry experience and innovative technologies.
 
Supported by the Singapore Economic Development Board, the centre will house an innovation hub for Rio Tinto, which will be the centre’s foundation client.
 

Accenture’s Internet of Things Centre of Excellence for Resources has opened in
Singapore to help companies in Asia Pacific capitalise on technology innovations.
 

The centre will help agriculture, forestry, metals, mining, oil and gas, chemicals and utilities companies to capitalise on innovation and new digital services and business models. It will also focus on intelligent connected devices and machines that comprise the Industrial Internet of Things.
 
“As a robust international trade hub and base for some of the world’s top commodities producers, shippers and logistical supply chain firms, Singapore is uniquely placed for companies to use technologies to achieve cost reductions, efficiencies and productivity gains, and more importantly, to generate new revenue streams,” said Rachael Bartels, Natural Resources global industry managing director for Accenture.
 
Jean-Marc Ollagnier, chief executive of Accenture’s Resources operating group, emphasised: “As resources industries navigate commodity price cycles and challenges around talent shortages and rising production costs, digital technology provides a way to gain competitive advantage. This is the reason the centre is here, to help customers navigate any type of business cycle and pursue long-term growth.”

The centre will employ more than 30 researchers, scientists and engineers with deep experience in industry and technology domain areas including machine learning, cognitive computing, IoT sensor telemetry, advanced machine-human visualization, IOT security and business integration. Through the centre, Accenture plans to hone the skills of up-and-coming leaders and collaborate with knowledge partners including universities, research institutes and technology companies in Singapore. For complete post see here

How IoT startups can help in more efficient manufacturing

Today, more efficient use of resources has helped in productively, especially in the manufacturing segment. Machines have aided factory workers and supervisors with precise shop floor data management, making the process of monitoring manufacturing plants easier, more efficient, and eventually increasing productivity rates. IoT companies like Entrib Technologies are offering shop floor management services that provide real-time machine updates and production feedback for better plant performance. We reached out to experts from the manufacturing industry on the various aspects which IoT startups should consider to excel in this segment:

1. Stay updated on the latest innovations in the method of plant manufacturing or machining, as everyday there are different processes implemented to obtain the same component and constantly improving productivity.
2. The application developed should be able to handle the huge amounts of data generated from the various sensors installed throughout the manufacturing plant.
3. Startup teams should be capable of developing software that can perform the various design calculations for specific components.
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Safeguarding the Internet of Things

The Internet of Things delivers new ways to create and capture business value, but also creates some frightening new vulnerabilities that organizations must take specific actions to address.

The rapidly expanding Internet of Things (IoT) is poised to generate huge volumes of data and deliver valuablebusiness insights. But it also introduces substantial new risk.

A defining element of the Internet of Things (IoT) is that objects are not merely smart—equipped with sensors and processing power—but also connected: able to share the information they generate. More data, and more sensitive data, accessible across a broad network of interconnected stakeholders could pose significant dangers if compromised. As the World Economic Forum reported in March, “Hacking the location data on a car is merely an invasion of privacy, whereas hacking the control system of a car would be a threat to a life.” The rise of IoT requires enterprises to put in place systems to protect this new source of information-based value.  For original and complete post see here

Indian Internet To Outpace Global Tech Space

INTRODUCTION

The Indian Internet sector is poised to grow faster than any other tech sector over the next decade. The number of internet users in India has risen from 50MM to over 350MM since 2007 (Morgan Stanley). Research analysts are confident that India will be the second-largest internet market in the world behind China. With a rapidly growing middle class and growth in mobile technologies, the amount of time to add 100MM more Indian internet users have shrunk to just under two years. An increasing amount of growth is sourced from rural areas where first-time internet users are leapfrogging the PC phase and entering mobile. Smartphone shipments have double year over year since 2013 (Morgan Stanley).  for complete post see here

What IoT means for work and Productivity

IoT is the term for items which are designed to be used with technology and software that allow for data transmission and digital networking, also known as “smart” products.

Cohen has three takeaways for what IoT means for productivity and employment: 

        1. Process and architectural changes — how we do our work, and how the organization is structured — related to IoT will bring about new efficiencies and raise productivity and output. Without this type of progress, it will be difficult to operate massive networks with about 50 billion connected devices.

        2. Software Defined Environments will provide the ability to build, version and manage complex environments. IBM writes, “A Software Defined Environment (SDE) optimizes the entire computing infrastructure — compute, storage and network resources — so that it can adapt to the type of work required. In today's environment, resources are assigned manually to workloads; that happens automatically in a SDE.”

        3. New Jobs will be “cross-skilling” jobs that will merge functions that were previously more “siloed.” New jobs will also be created in teams that deliver software or manage operations more efficiently. Both types of positions will benefit from machine learning and from the ability to work with new protocols by using approaches from new coding languages.

From talking to Siri on your Apple Watch to adjusting your thermostat from your smart phone, the world is quickly becoming more reliant on Internet-connected devices. The availability of data on almost anything is taking the guesswork out of our lives. Our jobs and productivity will surely change in coming years — with greater automation, greater technological dependence, and “re-skilling” of our positions. For complete article and related video see here

IoT requires new ways of thinking about security

As companies like Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), AT&T (NYSE: T), GE, Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) and others fight for a piece – or the whole pie – of the connected home in the Internet of Things (IoT) era, companies big and small are going to need to think differently about how they secure all these "things."

AT&T Mobility CEO Glenn Lurie talked about his company's foray into the home security and automation market during his keynote at CTIA Super Mobility 2015 in Las Vegas last week. Presumably, the operator knows a thing or two about security, especially as it pertains to the home, and it will be super vigilant about what it connects in consumers' homes.  

The company is working with partners like Nest, the smart home thermostat company that Google acquired back in 2014. The Nest thermostat is one example of a lot of smarts packed into a little device, and while it's gone through its fair share of crashes, iterations and upgrades, it has the super powers of Google to help solve its problems. Others don't have that breadth and scale to tap into when things go wrong.

The problem the industry is trying to figure out is what the security paradigm is going to look like for these devices. "The very troubling thing I think we see right now is … people trying to layer more and more complexity into those systems to try to solve security and other problems or just putting too much intelligence" or computing power into the devices, said Shane Dyer, founder of a startup called Arrayent that supplies its IoT software platform to the likes of Osram Sylvania, Whirlpool and Maytag. There's not enough IT professionals in the world to keep these devices secure when there are billions and billions of them. For complete post see here

Research Reading in Internet of Things

IoTA: Internet of Things Application

S Ahuja, R Johari, C Khokhar - Proceedings of the Second International Conference …, 2015

Abstract The world is changing, so is our lifestyle which is getting dependent on the
numerous electronic devices. The very idea of what would happen if these entities start
communicating with each other is enthralling and amazing. In this paper we explore the ...

[PDF] Research on the Cloud Acceleration Method for the Compressed Sensing Algorithm under the Internet of Things

W Huang, S Zhang - 2015

Abstract. In this paper, we conduct research on the cloud acceleration method for the
compressed sensing algorithm under the environment of Internet of Things. On the Internet 
of things perception layer, an important part of the sensor network have been put forward ...

Cars of the future: the Internet of Things in the automotive industry

R Kirk - Network Security, 2015

The Internet of Things (IoT) regularly hits the headlines and frankly it is exciting to imagine a
world where we can control literally everything from a smartphone. Or is it? It is all too easy
to get swept along with the relentless advances in connected devices that we are ...

[PDF] Research on the Large-scale Database Optimization Algorithm under the Environment of Cloud Computing and Internet of Things

L Chen - 2015

Abstract. In this paper, we conduct research on the large-scale database optimization
algorithm under the environment of cloud computing and Internet of things. Based on cloud
computing technology and huge amounts of data, the database for many aspects of ...

On Context Awareness for Multisensor Data Fusion in IoT

S Gite, H Agrawal - Proceedings of the Second International Conference …, 2015

... utilities and smart grid. With the availability of low cost sensors, there is a growing
focus on multi-sensor data fusion (MSDF). Internet of Things (IoT) is currently
connecting more than 9 billion devices. IoT includes the connectivity ...

[PDF] Abusing the Internet of Things: Blackouts, Freakouts, and Stakeouts

N Dhanjani - 2015

The upcoming IoT age will blur the line between our physical and online lives. Attacks
targeting our online spaces will put our physical security at risk. Traditionally, the attack
vectors to our fundamental luxuries have required physical tampering, mostly because ...

On Context Awareness and Analysis of Various Classification Algorithms

U Nanda, S Rajput, H Agrawal, A Goel, M Gurnani - Proceedings of the Second …, 2015

On Context Awareness and Analysis of Various Classification Algorithms Umang Nanda, Shrey
Rajput, Himanshu Agrawal, Antriksh Goel and Mohit Gurnani Abstract Internet of Things(IoT)
is currently connecting 9 billion devices and is expected to grow by three times in next 5 ...

[HTML] The Readiness of ERP Systems for the Factory of the Future

M Haddara, A Elragal - Procedia Computer Science, 2015

... It is also known as the 4 th industrial revolution. Precisely speaking, industry 4.0 is based on
the technological concepts of cyber-physical systems, Internet of Things (IoT), which enables
the Factory of the Future (FoF). ... [4]; K. Ashton; That 'internet of things' thing. ...

[HTML] Workload Model Based Dynamic Adaptation of Social Internet ofVehicles

KM Alam, M Saini, AE Saddik - Sensors, 2015

Social Internet of Things (SIoT) has gained much interest among different research
groups in recent times. ... Abstract. : Social Internet of Things (SIoT) has gained much
interest among different research groups in recent times. ...

The security issues of the Internet of Things

C Tankard - Computer Fraud & Security, 2015

The Internet of Things (IoT) was first envisaged in the last century, but interest has picked up
in the past 15 years or so. It is a vision whereby potentially billions of 'things'–such as smart
devices and sensors–are interconnected using machine-to-machine technology enabled ...