LEADERSHIP SHOWCASE
“ As people become more sophisticated in their deployment , have more pieces of connected machinery and are partnering with equipment manufacturers or outside vendors , the idea of who gets to see the data is going to be paramount ”
– Theresa Bui , Director of IoT Strategy , Cisco
10 areas that offer varying degrees of difficulty to organisations . These include : developing an easy way to find and manage data ; the process of extracting data from multiple machine types ; extracting data from connected machinery and processing it at the edge to facilitate immediate action ; being able to view , monitor and analyse complex data in real time ; controlling who can see data and how often ; moving data ; and managing all devices remotely on a single pane of glass , management process or platform .
It ’ s the data control element in particular that Bui feels will become increasingly prevalent in the immediate future . “ As people become more sophisticated in their deployment , have more pieces of connected machinery and are partnering with equipment manufacturers or outside vendors , this idea of who gets to see the data is going to become paramount . It will grow in complexity and , in some ways , technology raises awareness of the ability to do that ,” she says .
At a more granular level , Bui believes there are three top IoT use cases in manufacturing that highlight the increasing impor-
AUGUST 2018