INTELLIGENT MOBILE TECHNOLOGY
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KEY TAKEAWAYS
• Businesses are starting to see and feel the benefits IoT can bring including cost
savings, efficiencies, customer experiences
• Big data is not a new concept but the amount of data is growing exponentially as a
result of the sheer number of people, places and things that now inhabit the digital
workplace
• Embrace smart innovations that aggregate and analyse your collected data, in
combination with third party feeds, to uncover new ways to get the most from your
employees, customers, processes and supply chain
• It makes sense to move some of the computing power required to process this
serious amount of data to a network location
Big data is not a new concept but the
amount of data is growing exponentially
as a result of the sheer number of
people, places and things that now
inhabit the digital workplace. As a
result, it makes sense to move some
of the computing power required to
process this serious amount of data
to a network location or Intelligent
Edge. Here, technologies connect
and automate anything from, IoT
enabled lighting to heating and from
manufacturing processes to industrial
systems.
Applications like our friend Robin,
not only require a host of systems to
connect and transmit data from mobile
and IoT devices, they also perform
various analytical processes to create the
workplace, operational, brand and IT
experiences I have just described.
What is more, outside of four
workplace walls, countless opportunities
exist to incorporate this data – think
connected cars, smart parking meters
and traffic control where external
connectivity solutions, like Long Term
Evolution or low-powered wireless
signals, are incorporated.
The Intelligent Edge consists of three
layers. Layer one is the foundation. This
is the infrastructure containing familiar
technologies like local area network,
wireless local area network, wide area
network, and contemporary innovations
like Bluetooth, Low Energy sensors and
converged edge systems.
In layer two, local area platform
technologies like mobility or mobile-first
platforms, manage the devices within your
enterprise, while wide area platforms use
universal IoT and focus on connecting the
billions of devices spread across a region.
Finally, a robust partnership ecosystem,
necessary for developing the applications
and services that deliver experiences
enterprises need to make their digital
workplaces run, forms layer three. A
typical ecosystem contains next-generation
innovators and enterprise players.
Safeguard your enterprise
Adopt technologies that protect
data in motion and at rest. Include
innovative solutions that use machine
learning and artificial intelligence for
detection, as well as for quarantining
and disconnecting devices exhibiting
suspicious activity.
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Unlock knowledge
Deploy solutions that collect
information about your employees,
customers and the world at-large. These
technologies help turn behavior into
insights you can monetise.
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Drive profitability
Embrace smart innovations that
aggregate and analyse your collected data,
in combination with other third party
feeds, to uncover new ways to get the
most from your employees, customers,
processes and supply chain.
Regardless of your industry or enterprise,
adopting a modern Intelligent Edge
architecture could be critical to harnessing
the potential of IoT at scale for your
business. IoT will transform business as
we know it today by offering benefits like
cost savings, improved security and better
customer experience.
Key to success
It is time to realise the potential of large-
scale IoT. Here are five tips for introducing
connected devices into your organisation:
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Take stock of your environment
It is impossible to develop a successful
strategy without understanding where
you are today. Profile your endpoints, the
solutions serving them and the underlying
infrastructure and architectures.
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Ensure you are extracting all data
This requires modern wired and wireless
technologies from the datacentre to the
edge, as well as solutions for connecting any
remote users and systems beyond.
Morten Illum is Vice President of EMEA
at HPE Aruba
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