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.
Edge and distributed computing is evolving rapidly across IoT offerings. Orchestration and deployment to these distributed and mesh-based architectures is what Virtuosys specializes in: now Veea has bought into that approach. The two companies have been working closely together on IoT projects.
With one leg in the oil and gas industry, Xpansiv has the ambition to drive digitization across the commodities value chain. Its platform combines big-data analytics and ML with IoT and distributed ledger and blockchain technology to enable companies to create a near-real-time digital representation of any commodity.
At its Build satellite analyst event in London, Microsoft wanted to show that its capabilities are more than just point technologies. With a diverse portfolio of hardware, software and services, the company sees an opportunity in integrating these capabilities into cutting-edge innovations.
Industrial safety footwear is a known constant in personal protection equipment. Intellinium has targeted this as the most robust place to embed IoT connectivity for worker communication and safety, including the ability to signal for assistance with a simple toe-tap inside the boot.
The company was seeing an increasing problem in maintaining its custom systems, so it rewrote its manufacturing execution system as a cloud-based common system that it is also able to provide as a service for other manufacturers with 42Q.
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