Ian Hughes is a Senior Analyst for the Internet of Things practice at 451 Research. He has 30 years of experience in emerging technology as a developer, architect and consultant through key technology trends.
Ian has 20 years of experience at IBM in cross-industry application development. This included automotive, global sporting events, retail and telecommunications.
Ian was early to the Web development space in 1998 and social media in 2004, and was influential in virtual-worlds adoption in 2006-09. He has spent the past seven years at his own consulting company, where he presented a regular emerging technology feature on a UK Saturday morning children's TV show, built virtual disaster simulators for hospitals, pitched startups to investors, wrote a technology column for a fashion magazine and wrote two sci-fi novels. He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Technology from Southampton Solent University in 2018.
Much of the use of AI and ML in industrial use cases has to do with real-time operations for functions such as predictive maintenance. This is important, but AI techniques are also being applied to assist designers with features like cost or weight reduction and even provide an inspirational muse for shape and form with generative design.
Industrial and OT companies rely heavily on the experience of engineers and operators, but now face the prospect of losing that experience, as the older workforce retires and is not replaced by a trained new generation. IoT, AR and AI offer ways to mitigate this risk, but the clock is ticking, and it may be too late for some.
Due to the size of the games industry and popularity across all platforms from consoles, PC and mobile devices, as well as emerging technology such as VR and AR, games are often classified as one type of use case for edge or cloud deployment or network use. But there are significant challenges in addressing the needs of different types of games. One pattern does not fit all.
The company is bringing its Predix Essentials IIoT product bundling to the market, using its existing Predix platform to create solutions for OT customers tailored to each vertical, such as manufacturing, oil & gas and power generation.
Maximo is used for enterprise asset management across a range of industries. Now IBM is looking to extend this organized base of assets with IoT instrumentation and AI-fueled insights to help not only to know what an enterprise has but how healthy the asset is.
Qualcomm Technologies and Bosch Rexroth have announced that they are collaborating to converge time-sensitive networking and 5G to enable wireless precise synchronization in real-time applications in anticipation of 3GPP release 16 standards.
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