By now, you may have heard the term, internet of things. Sounds interesting, but what does IoT actually mean? IoT is an evolution of mobile, home, and embedded applications that are being connected to the internet integrating greater compute capabilities and using data analytics to extract meaningful information. Billions of devices will be connected to the internet and soon, hundreds of billions of devices. As related devices connect with each other, they can become an intelligent system of systems. When these intelligent devices and system of systems share data over the cloud and analyze it they can transform our business, lives, and our world in countless ways.
Whether it’s improving medical outcomes, creating better products faster with lower development costs, making shopping more enjoyable, or optimizing energy generation and consumption.
Here’s an example of the big picture. Imagine an intelligent device such as a smart traffic camera, the camera can monitor the road for congestion, accident, and weather conditions and communicate that status to a gateway that combines it with Data from other cameras creating an intelligent citywide transportation systems.
Imagine that intelligent traffic system connected to other citywide traffic system. Now image that intelligent traffic system connected to other citywide transportation systems that get data from their own intelligent devices, creating an even larger system of systems.
Let’s say the city’s intelligent traffic system detects massive congestion due to an accident. That insight can be sent to the citywide transportation system which can analyze the accident’s impact on other city systems. Recognizing the accident is near the airport and two city schools, it could notify those systems so they can adjust flight and school schedules. It can also analyze and derive optimal routes around the accident and send those instructions to the cities digital signage systems to guide drivers around the accident. That’s just one example of the potential benefits that can happen when intelligent devices share insight with other systems, forming ever expanding systems of systems.
How do we get there? Regardless of the solution, Intel processors are designed to help you get to market faster and easier. You can scale solutions across a variety of performance, power, and price points with a single set of application code that runs on every Intel processor. What will you develop to help drive the Internet of things? We’d love to help.
Please contact your local Intel representative or visit us on the web at www.intel.com/IoT to find out more.