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OPINION: IoT<br />
THE FOUNDATION FOR IoT SUCCESS IS BUSINESS STRATEGY<br />
WHEN IT COMES TO IoT THE POTENTIAL FOR OUR LIVES, BUSINESSES AND INDUSTRIES TO<br />
TRANSFORM AND IMPROVE HAS NEVER BEEN GREATER, ACCORDING TO ZIZO CEO PETER RUFFLEY<br />
From a fully connected home, through<br />
to data being shared with<br />
manufacturers to help enhance<br />
products and manufacturing methods, the<br />
monitoring of patient wellbeing and<br />
medical equipment with the creation of<br />
'smart' hospitals, optimising the supply<br />
chain and ensuring the right temperature of<br />
goods in transit, and calculating the most<br />
effective route for drivers to enhance the<br />
first and last mile within delivery services -<br />
the possibilities for IoT seem endless.<br />
Research predicts that by 2025, there<br />
will be 55.7 billion connected devices<br />
worldwide, 75% of which will be<br />
connected to an IoT platform. What this<br />
means is that the amount of data being<br />
collected, and potentially the high volume<br />
of low value data collected, is becoming<br />
truly overwhelming.<br />
As Peter Ruffley, CEO at Zizo explains,<br />
whilst 5G and edge computing will make<br />
it possible to transmit data through high<br />
powered, low latency networks, these<br />
technologies are in their infancy, with few<br />
use cases. Network infrastructure<br />
challenges mean that 5G is still some way<br />
off and if we are going to be doubling the<br />
amount of connected IoT devices,<br />
organisations need to fully understand the<br />
value that is locked within their data. The<br />
question has to be, why does ALL IoT data<br />
need to be sent back to data centres?<br />
If organisations want to become truly<br />
data driven and be able to have IoT data<br />
move their business forward, they must<br />
begin by having a concise business<br />
strategy in place, teamed with supporting<br />
technology. In order to do this successfully<br />
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