Ian Hughes is a Senior Research Analyst for the Internet of Things practice at 451 Research, a part of S&P Global Market Intelligence. 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.
Virtual reality in applications such as industrial training offers a rich set of experiential capabilities. The HP Omnicept suite of features looks at more human biometrics and provides a machine learning layer to help make adaptive VR applications that can deliver an optimized adaptive experience.
At a recent robotics and automation event, 3M shared its approach to companywide adoption of new technology. More than just installing robotics, it described the cultural changes that had to occur to move from a more traditional industrial mindset to an Industry 4.0 one as a long-term strategy.
Connect 2020, renamed from Oculus Connect, was an online-only series of videos, talks and demos of Facebook's continuing expansion into VR hardware and software. Besides a new untethered and cheaper headset in Quest 2, there were lots of game reveals and entertainment enhancements. It also showed its approach to helping people work flexibly anywhere in VR/AR with Infinite Office.
The pandemic has forced companies to adopt and adapt to new work models, often including large-scale remote work efforts and virtual collaboration. If deployed properly, IoT can help companies facilitate more healthy work environments, and support employee productivity in the new normal, whether that normal is distributed or in the office.
The company is addressing the market for increasingly complex robotic systems across sectors by providing a set of key components in a developer-friendly hardware and software package. The RB5 system includes edge computing power for machine learning, connectivity through 5G and a range of sensors.
As we move into late summer, the IoT market is beginning to look forward to the future and prepare for life after the pandemic. In this report, we pull together quick observations from our IoT team to shine a light on what is happening in this sector.
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