Ian Hughes is a Senior Analyst for the Internet of Things practice at 451 Research. He has more than 27 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 telecoms.
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.
The company has expanded its software portfolio for its Augmented Reality Smart Glasses, which is focused specifically on enterprise use, and has divided function into several critical tasks under the umbrella brand of Worksense.
The company has identified its Maximo market share in asset management as one place to consolidate its Watson IoT developments, while working with partners to bring other asset classes to the conversation with Watson Assistant.
At Mobile World Congress, the company demonstrated its new business and 'prosumer'-focused Blade AR glasses and waveguide technology alongside its detachable enterprise M300 devices, the latter bundled with a set of software services for remote worker assistance.
The company's LoopEdge platform helps enterprises connect their industrial hardware processing IIoT data with applications close to the point of generation, and also enable manufactured products to evolve into a connected service offering.
Blockchain technology earned a spot on the Mobile World Congress program agenda this year; it was showcased at several booths and was a topic of many conversations.
Mobile World Congress has expanded over the years from its handset roots as operators move toward a more connected IoT world, and 5G is now playing a major part in the event. MWC attracts a wide range of vendors. In this report, we cover some of the companies that made an IoT splash in Barcelona.
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