In order to ensure IoT is successful in India, there is a need for a strong collaboration and coordination between government and the industry to provide IoT products, solutions and services without compromising privacy, security and safety of people.

Here are some unmissable IoT news and events that happened in Aug 2015 in India

Partnerships:

Reliance Communications tied up with US-based company named Jasper, that provides software for connected machines, IoT though the network of 120 telecom operators globally.  Reliance Communications in talks with several state governments to bag smart grid and smart city project and the company has recently launched five cloud connectivity centers across the country. Within five years, earnings from IoT and cloud business to contribute a fifth of its total revenue

Mobile Health Solution:

 It is a combination of IoT and wearables. The IoT is expected to have a profound effect on healthcare in India. Intel India is a microcosm of Intel and we want to keep it that way. Intel R&D will increase focus on developing local, customized solutions for the Indian market- because the market segments that are growing in India- particularly mobile and IoT call for more custom solutions than we have ever needed before.

New IoT Products:

D-Link introduced three new IOT devices in India

• Wi-Fi Smart Plug to automate things around home to increase productivity. Schedule home device on/off and monitor energy usage
• Motion Sensor to get a notification for every movement around your home’s front door.
• Audio Extender to stream music across home.

Safety Management

The Internet of Things (IoT) to proactively monitor, manage, and maintain systems, and respond to unwanted situations. Senslytics focuses on building a platform for the industry specific IoT analytics needs. This can be deployed in private cloud, public cloud or in customer’s network.

Health Device Management

Netspective design a lot of small medical devices that are attached to operating beds or patients and the collected data are fed into safety critical clinical networks that need to make split-second decisions.

M2M ( Machine to Machine ) Industrial Solutions

EcoAxis believes the demand for more intelligent monitoring solutions will increase exponentially in the coming years. The upsurge in demand will also bring competition and EcoAxis is all prepared to leverage the market growth in the space of machine monitoring and analytics deploying IoT.

Tagging cattle and milk tankers:

Mother Diary is using IOT through GPS tracking of our tankers and temperature monitoring of the warehouses and products dispatch vehicles. Mother Diary is using new emerging technologies for tagging of cattle for animal health and nutrition information to monitoring stock levels at the outlets and homes, from automating the entire process of quality and environment monitoring, there is no area which will be left untouched

Finally,

Some tips for new IoT startups in India: There are a lot of opportunities, but finding the right product-market fit could take some time. Set aside technology and  think about actual problems one encounters and then designing a solution.

Source: LinkedIn Post – IoT (Internet of Things) India – Unmissable Growth Opportunity – Aug 15 Update

Search can predict the future

• It works because searches reveal something about people’s intentions and the scientists are saying that the powerful search engine may be able to help predict the economic future
• Google searches for business and politics topics can predict a future stock market crash, researchers have claimed.

Social Media monitoring can predict the future

• By using social media monitoring tools you can predict what your consumer will do next and based on those sentiments you can launch new service, product or campaign
• The rate at which movie tweets are generated can be used to build a powerful model for predicting the success of a campaign
• The sentiment content in the tweets shows that they can improve box-office revenue predictions based on tweet rates only after the movies are released.

Kids are helping in the future of technology design

• Kids have been asking for computers to look, feel, sound, act and interact in ways more like humans
• Kids are helping in better integrating digital experiences with real-world places and activities which will predict Future of robotics and real-world gaming

Hollywood movies are way too ahead in showcasing futuretechnologies

• Decades ago, in 1927, it started with voice recognition, super intelligent robots in the movie metropolis ; and recently they had gestural interfaces, insect robots and crime prevention software in the movie Minority Report(2002)

Professional Consulting Service Providers ( likes of Gartner and PwC )

• PwC has predicted the future of work by 2022 where they are also talking about The End Of The Office.
  
• Gartner 2014 top prediction talks about has its focus on disruptions brought about by digital business, the Internet of Things and smart machines, so plan for a disruptive but constructive future.

Process of predicting future involve three steps: 1) Collect, 2) Analyse and 3)Visualize

Collect

• Existing data and trends from various resources like research publications and quality web blog
• Social media platform
• Data on various Political, Environmental, Socio-Economic, and Technology factors

Analyse

• Extrapolate sustainable changes and trends
• Identify disruptions
• Identify significance and risk of each factor

Visualize

• Identify correlations and quality of references
• Explore past, present and future for a given area of interest, for a particular period
• Understand complex relationships and look for unanticipated or counter-intuitive patterns
• Visualize actionable insights into future events

You will see more of digital fortunetelling in my upcoming blogs

It is a good thing that we cannot predict the future accurately; otherwise it will be very difficult to get out of bed.

Source: LinkedIn Post – The future is already here – it’s just not evenly distributed

You will discover here: how to collect data on future trends?

• Google Alerts
• Hootsuite Social Search Options
• Personalized Google News

Google Alert result for –for “future of digital marketing”

Hootsuite Search and Results for “future of technology|IoT|business|marketing”

Here are some key takeaways

Future of work:

• More focus on AI, robotics, 3d printing and automation.
• Skills: from STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) to SMAC (social, mobile, analytic and cloud)
• Asana and Facebook like apps will replace emails
• Passion, collaboration, and technology will play equally crucial role
• Rise of solopreneurs

Future of Healthcare

• Big data could save lives. Wearable devices and big data to detect patterns in the progression of the disease
• Gaming and social to creep into the personal healthcare realm
• Real-time “digital dashboard” of medical data available to doctor and patient
• Google will make you immortal

Future of Manufacturing

• Nanoshapes: They have extremely smooth surfaces, that is potentially very advantageous for commercial applications
• IoT ( Internet of Things) will bring automation, reduces risk as businesses save on labour and service costs
• 3D printing: You could print house, car, gun or even a burger

Once Einstein said “I never think of the future – it comes soon enough.”

 

So don’t wait, stand first in the line, use alerts, put a tracker on your key words, monitor it on daily bases, get insights, act upon those and change.

Source: LinkedIn Post – Stand first in the line: Future is getting distributed

While NASA has recently approved 3d printed parts to be used in space and General Electric Co. (GE)  is predicting that 3d printing could disrupt the economy of the future. 3D printing is also predicted to revolutionize fashion industry  as now 3D-printed accessories can be custom-designed to fit any body shape and printed on demand.

Now, imagine this for a second . The meat you eat is 3D printed or how about a 3D printed gun that fires real bullets. Future of sex toys is also 3D printing. Info graphic below explains the evolution of 3d printing in details

The rise of 3d printing revolution

Source: Shapeways

Tissue engineering and bio-printing started a many decades back and in the near future 3d printers would be able construct full body organs

Printing the Human Body

Speed ( Network )

Data centers are becoming heavily virtualized and increasing demand of video content is making 10GbE not  fast enough for toda’s Data Centers. You can expect 10GbE connections between servers within the same rack and 40GbE from rack switch to the core network switch or router or edge router.

SDN ( Software Defined Networks ) 

Your IT guys can quickly provision new servers and new storage but what about network as that’s not easy today, because each server they create they need to  manage network address, firewall settings and some other network parameters based on the organization network and security policies. Its tough job to automate network scalability, reliability and security. Openflow enables you to control the behavior of your network devices. Additionally openflow creates a common networking platform and you don’t have a lock-in.

Sustainability ( Green )

Not surprising at all that the power consumption used in data centers is more costly than the cost of the hardware  during its life time. Additionally organizations are facing increasingly pressure due to environmental implications of running these data centers, and regulatory requirements are increasing every year. You will see more or solar and bio-fuel, heat from servers can be used to power chillers that cool the water to be used in data centers. Using tools to monitor all data center resources will get more popular.

The kind of issues we today in Data Centers will drive most of the innovations in the future. Here is a current survey done on Data Center issues.

Some of the best information that can captured graphically is here:-

What is Amazon Glacier?

New, long-term, low-cost, secure and durable storage for data archival and backup.

How it integrate with AWS ecosystem?

What does it offer? What’s new?

Data such like digital media archives, financial and healthcare records, raw genomic sequence data and long-term database backups as being ideal for Glacier

How much does it cost?

Very low cost as compared to any other cloud service.

$0.01 per gigabyte per month

No upfront commitment

Storage Price : $0.01 per GB / month

Request Price :

UPLOAD and RETRIEVAL Requests $0.050 per 1,000 requests

LISTVAULTS, GETJOBOUTPUT, DELETE† and all other Requests Free

Data Transfer IN               Data Transfer Price:

All data transfer in               $0.000 per GB

Data Transfer OUT

First 1 GB / month               $0.000 per GB

Up to 10 TB / month           $0.120 per GB

Next 40 TB / month           $0.090 per GB

Next 100 TB / month          $0.070 per GB

Next 350 TB / month          $0.050 per GB

What will change?

Glacier is definitely not about short-term planning, this is a brand new approach to data archiving that is designed to help maintain information throughout the decade and century. Glacier seems to be perfect fit for enterprises that have long-term goals in mind.

In a long term, essentially you can see this as a replacement for tape

Conclusion

This solution targets large organizations with regulatory compliance, and media,medicine and entertainment companies with large amounts of digital storage.

Amazon said that in “coming months” it will allow customers to “seamlessly” move data between S3 and Glacier based on data lifecycle policies

Challenges

Migration of data

Bandwidth related cost with your current hosting/data storage environment

But again, keep in mind that there is nothing else that is more reasonably affordable solution than AWS Glacier.

Need to know more …

Amazon Glacier

Amazon Glacier: Archival Storage for One Penny Per GB Per Month

AWS Glacier’s dazzling price benefits melt next to the cost of tape …

and making them ideally suited for transaction processing,and mobile and streaming applications that require low latency access to storage systems that can deliver tens of thousands of IOPS.

Instance configuration that Amazon has just added:

High I/O Quadruple Extra Large Instance

60.5 GB of memory
35 EC2 Compute Units (16 virtual cores*)
2 SSD-based volumes each with 1024 GB of instance storage
64-bit platform
I/O Performance: Very High (10 Gigabit Ethernet)
Storage I/O Performance: Very High**
API name: hi1.4xlarge

*8 cores + 8 hyperthreads for 16 virtual cores

 

**Using Linux paravirtual (PV) AMIs, High I/O Quadruple Extra Large instances can deliver more than 120,000 4 KB random read IOPS

and between 10,000 and 85,000 4 KB random write IOPS (depending on active logical block addressing span) to applications.

For hardware virtual machines (HVM) and Windows AMIs, performance is approximately 90,000 4 KB random read IOPS and between 9,000

and 75,000 4 KB random write IOPS. The maximum sequential throughput on all AMI types (Linux PV, Linux HVM, and Windows)

per second is approximately 2 GB read and 1.1 GB write.

For those who want “Hard Disk Drive Vs SSD”

Like a hard drive, an SSD is a device for storing information. But unlike a hard drive, it doesn’t have any moving parts.

Today’s SSD are built with flash memory — the same stuff that stores data and applications on your iPhone.

These drives have been around for years, but they’ve been slow to make headway in the real world, in part because

they’re more expensive than traditional hard drives. A 300GB flash drive sells for around $500, whereas a comparable

hard drive is closer to $100. A 3 terabyte hard drive — which is about ten times larger — sells for around $350.

                                                                                                                                                                    Source: Wired

Microsoft’s Trustworthy Computing Division conducted research among small and midsize businesses (SMBs), defined as companies with between 100 and 250 PCs in the U.S., India, Hong Kong, Malaysia and Singapore. The goal of the study was to gather data to better understand the cloud’s benefits relating to IT costs,

improved security and better time management. For the purpose of this research, cloud users were defined as companies that used a cloud service via a subscription model.

“The security benefits of the cloud are there to see,” said Adrienne Hall, general manager of Trustworthy Computing at Microsoft. “In addition to driving towards industry standards such as the Cloud Security Alliance’s (CSA) Security Trust and Assurance Registry (STAR), we must step up our efforts to help SMBs, and other much larger organizations, better understand the security benefits of the cloud so they can make informed decisions about the suitability of the cloud for their business.”

The study illustrated one such mobile content delivery provider, SkyWire Media, reports positive results after cloud migration. The company introduced Microsoft’s cloud management service Windows Intune that help them into cost and time savings and better protection against cyber threats.

There’s a perception that security is a barrier to cloud adoption,” said Adrienne Hall, general manager, Microsoft Trustworthy Computing, “Yet when companies embrace and invest in cloud services, they find the benefits far outweigh previous concerns.”