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Internet of Things (IoT): IoT to Shift to Distributed Architectures and Processing of Real-Time Data Streams

By Dick Weisinger

Adoption of Internet of Things (IoT) is expected to grow by 50 percent in 2016, according to Gartner.  43 percent of organizations will be using some amount of IoT technology by the end of this year.  Ultimately, two-thirds of organizations…

Internet of Things: Driving the Convergence of IT and OT

By Dick Weisinger

Increasingly the two areas of information technology (IT) and operational technology (OT) are converging.  IT refers to the physical devices like computers, storage and networking for managing data.  OT refers to the monitoring of events, processes and devices in manufacturing…

Internet of Things (IoT): Traditional IT Architectures Will Evolve to Become More Decentralized

By Dick Weisinger

20 billion devices will be connected to the Internet by 2020 and ready to send and receive data, according to a forecast by Gartner.  The amount of data generated by these devices will be unprecedented and dwarf the amount of…

Internet of Things (IoT): More Than 50 Percent of Heavy Industry Businesses to Use IoT Before End of Year

By Dick Weisinger

Heavy industries like utilities, oil, and gas are some of the biggest users of the Internet of Things (IoT), according to a recent survey by Gartner.  “Light industries”, like service-oriented businesses are experimenting with IoT technologies but on a much smaller…

Internet of Things (IoT): Top Ten Technologies Most Impacting IoT in the Next Two Years

By Dick Weisinger

Gartner says that over the next two years that the following technologies will have the broadest impact on the Internet of Things (IoT): Security – Beyond issues like data security and encryption and secure transmissions, IoT will introduce security issues like…