Industrial IOT
what is IIOT?
The industrial Internet of Things (IioT) is a foundational technology for Industry 4.0 initiatives that uses connected smart sensors, actuators, and more to connects your people, products, and processes to power digital transformation. Using industrial IoT platforms, companies connect, monitor, analyze, and act on industrial data in new ways to improve efficiency, maximize revenue growth, reduce costs, and more.
You can start fast with digital transformation, using IoT for strategic pilots while easily scaling solutions to reshape your organization. Leaders depend on the industrial IoT across the value chain to make enterprise-wide impact—from how they design, manufacture, and service products, to how they create value and engage with customers.
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advantages of industrial IOT
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Maximize Revenue
Eliminate unplanned downtime and operational roadblocks to keep revenue growing. Scale to new markets, improve throughput, and unlock new business models such as products as a service with IioT.
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Reduce Time to Market
Get to market faster with rapid application development. An industrial IoT platform allows you to wrap and extend legacy assets for new functionality.
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Lower Operational Costs
Unlock industrial data from connected products and systems to boost productivity and efficiency while keeping costs low. Remove bottlenecks and increase efficiency.
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Improve Quality
Secure and scale your product, service, and factory operations. Improve service quality, reliability, and customer satisfaction.
Technology
Industrial IoT
To identify the right IioT projects that will make an impact on your business and achieve a true digital transformation at repeatable scale, consider how you would answer these questions:
- Which business goals will quickly benefit from IioT capabilities?
- What are the most relevant IioT projects that best support these business goals?
- Which IioT functions and capabilities are needed to implement these projects?
- How can you leverage this information to make smart IioT investments and build a repeatable roadmap for success?
Industrial IOT
The Internet of Things (IoT) stands at the forefront of our ability to bring together the digital and physical worlds in a manner that could have profound implications for both society and the economy. Potential benefits of the IoT include everything from streamlined operations and management of physical assets to improvements in human health and well-being. Against that backdrop, the IoT (see sidebar “Defining and assessing the Internet of Things”) can be the beating heart of digital transformations, which have accelerated during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Health and wellness is one of the most promising application areas of IoT technology. Remote health management, managing lifestyle-related diseases and conditions, fitness programs, care at home, chronic diseases and care for the elderly are some of the important use cases. Other use cases include improving a patient’s compliance to treatment and medication in hospitals, clinics and other care facilities. Medical devices such as personal home-use diagnostic devices or low-end diagnostic and imaging devices that are used by mobile health workers are one of the key technology components.
Backend systems exist for data aggregation, storage, analytics, visualization and host user-centric services. In the IoT, physical objects monitor their surroundings and participate in daily activities, helping create new products, services and business models, to improve efficiency and optimize business operations.
Additionally, mobile phones can be used for many physiological monitoring and examination tasks. The potential economic impact of IoT in healthcare alone could run into trillions of dollars of annual savings.
The Internet of Things (IoT), once merely a concept debated and discussed only in laboratories, think tanks, and technology companies, is now mainstream. Companies and consumers are seeking to employ IoT solutions to improve operations, manage physical assets, and improve health and well-being, to offer three examples. Technological advances, including 5G mobile networks, edge computing, and advanced analytics, could increase the impact of the IoT. In an era of rapid-fire change and drastic disruption, the need for flexibility, agility, and efficiency has never been so acute.
It’s why today’s industrial businesses are investing heavily in the industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) as a core aspect of digital transformation strategies. And successful adoption is proving its value. IIoT provides the ability to digitally connect people, processes, and products to securely collect, monitor, and analyze data and enable faster, better decision-making across the entire enterprise. With a vast range of applications and capabilities, IIoT solutions meet different needs for every business. But success is dependent on a consistent factor: a focus on the high-impact use cases that align with and enable strategic business objectives.