{"id":6093,"date":"2016-02-25T07:00:32","date_gmt":"2016-02-25T15:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/?p=6093"},"modified":"2016-01-21T08:35:21","modified_gmt":"2016-01-21T16:35:21","slug":"internet-of-things-iot-one-fifth-of-companies-already-involved-with-iot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/internet-of-things-iot-one-fifth-of-companies-already-involved-with-iot\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet of Things (IoT): One-Fifth of Companies Already Involved with IoT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Almost one-fifth of 3000+ global businesses <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/china-india-lead-global-interest-in-iot-deployment\/\" target=\"_blank\">surveyed by Forrester<\/a> say that they&#8217;ve already adopted some form of IoT products or services. \u00a0Businesses are hoping to gain an edge over others by being early IoT adopters.<\/p>\n<p>Forrester <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/china-india-lead-global-interest-in-iot-deployment\/\" target=\"_blank\">overviewed the technology, saying that<\/a> &#8220;IoT solutions help companies bridge the physical and digital worlds, ingesting information and context through sensors from the physical world into the digital, and taking actions in the physical world via actuators based on digital insights.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.microsoft.com\/eupolicy\/2016\/01\/18\/looking-beyond-the-obvious-to-benefit-from-iot\/\" target=\"_blank\">parallel Forrester report <\/a>commissioned by Microsoft identifies a few industries where IoT is already having an impact:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Asset Management<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Fleet Management &#8211; managing the location and usage of vehicle fleets<\/li>\n<li>Industrial Asset Management &#8211; managing the location and usage of equipment and machinery<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Operations 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