Geospatial IoT Insights — October 6

The industrial IoT has already proven its versatility with deployments going live in a number of enterprises, showing off dozens of different use cases. But a few key uses consistently present themselves within the same trade, and even throughout different industries. Industrial IoT 5G has listed the Top 5 industrial IoT use cases which have a more recurring nature, compared to others. The highest ranking use case is predictive maintenance, and our experiences with Powerboard can only support this conclusion. [Industrial IoT 5G]

IBM is pushing its Watson IoT platform and we saw many stories covering it last week. Here’s one of them: Aerialtronics’ commercial drones are the first to leverage the IBM Watson IoT Platform and the Visual Recognition APIs to analyze images and identify specific areas of concern such as loose or frayed cabling and damaged equipment. [Sensors & Systems]

Tackling climate change was in the focus of SXSL at the White House last week. The search for viable solutions is heating up and we at Planet OS firmly believe software and data have a key role in identifying and solving the key pain points of the climate change. The climate change discussion at SXSL can be summarized by President Obama’s quote during the main panel: “We’re seeing climate changes at the more pessimistic end of the range that was anticipated by scientists. So we’re really in a race against time”. [Techcrunch]

IoT is producing vast amounts of data. How to wrangle meaning from Internet of Things data is becoming more important day by day if you want to stay ahead of the competition. Bob Selfridge from TMMData has listed the steps to achieving it: automate the data gathering process; add context to IoT data with a diverse data ecosystem; make connectivity your default; give your entire team access to the data of things; and prioritize flexibility. [IT World]

Finally, a visual overview of the history and potential risks of the Industrial Internet of Things. By 2020 the Industrial IoT is expected to be a multi-billion dollar market. With massive scale come massive security challenges. Security expert Lancen LaChance shares his enterprise security best practices checklist, accompanied with a nice infographic. [TechRepublic]

Originally published at planetos.com on October 6, 2016.