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.
Artificial intelligence, in the scope of the games industry, is often considered to be primarily about how specific in-game characters work out how to deal with the human player. In gaming narratives, this is a more unique use case for AI than regular enterprise use, but the industry reflects adoption of AI techniques across many other use cases.
The two companies have announced a partnership bringing together product lifecycle, supply chain and asset management to provide manufacturers with systems to create a full industrial digital thread.
As IoT platforms become more standardized, they primarily act as data transports. Waylay sits on top of that data and provides a range of microservices to tap into it for analytics and automation purposes. Focused on R&D the company looks to partnerships with companies such as ARM and EPAM to help leverage its approach.
The coronavirus outbreak has rapidly shifted global markets, including those related to enterprise technology, since we published our 2020 Trends report on the Internet of Things in November 2019. This report serves as an update to our 2020 predictions in light of market changes due to COVID-19.
The company continues to expand on its theme of virtualization and digitization of process industries, which have shown a distinct advantage for pandemic-impacted operations now operating remotely. It is also touting HIVE, a clustering of its C300 controllers for smarter edge computing fail-over on industrial equipment.
The past few weeks have seen IT vendors and buy-side organizations in the IoT market begin to adjust to different ways of operating and to reflect on what changes the new business as usual requires. Here are some observations from the IoT team on what is happening in our part of the technology sector.
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