Internet of Things - Connecting the Digital and Physical Worlds

Smart Parking

Digitally enabling brick and mortar businesses opens up new ways to connect with users and increase resource utilization. Smart Parking collects and queries parking space information in real-time to reduce operational cost, increase parking space utilization, and provide a more valuable service to the end user.

Smart Bicycle Sharing

Combining discovery, location-based services, and payment, programs like the smart bicycle sharing services in China allow large pools of resources to be shared effectively across a community of users by interacting with IoT connected locks on each bike.

Connected City Lighting

Accounting for more than 10 percent of worldwide electricity consumption, lighting is an ideal candidate for digital transformation. Using smart monitoring, lights can be provisioned more effectively and can be programmed to operate in more energy efficient ways, such as 50 percent brightness during dusk and dawn, or auto illumination when triggered for security.

Smart Logistics

Using vehicle mounted terminals to collect data from multiple sensors including temperature sensors, GPS receivers, and identity cards, smart logistics combines IoT with cloud-based data processing for real-time tracking of goods, vehicles, and personnel.

Smart Detectors

Using wireless communication, sensors for smoke, carbon monoxide or water leaks can effectively inform monitoring centers of urgent problems and can even be offered with incentives to lower insurance costs.

Smart Goods

IoT solutions for costly consumer products like white goods offer reliable indoor coverage and online availability of household appliances, enabling remote monitoring for more effective maintenance and tracking of repair history.

Smart Homes

Smart home solutions include everything from home automation, surveillance, communication, entertainment, and even monitoring of utility usage like water, gas, and electricity, effectively encouraging green homes.

Internet of Vehicles

The IoV uses radio, voice, digital communications, and satellite navigation systems to provide drivers and passengers with traffic information, emergency response, and remote vehicle diagnostics for predictive maintenance.

By connecting the digital world to hundreds of billions of physical things, IoT is the doorway to interact with our world in new and innovative ways. This drives positive changes to the customer experience, improves operational processes, and creates opportunities for new business models. Further, IoT has opened up opportunities for alternative revenue models that leverage efficiency gains in manpower, increased resource utilization, and improved responsiveness to justify the investment in digital transformation rather than relying on traditional models whereby consumers cover costs.

As integral components of digital transformation, IoT, cloud, and big data will redefine the way we interact with our environment and quickly transition us into a true digital society.