Internet of Things – Rules, rules and more rules!

The Internet of Things holds fascinating possibilities. Connected homes, better healthcare, proactive equipment maintenance, smarter shopping, contextual customer service, and the list goes on. In Thingalytics, Dr. John Bates provides very interesting examples from all walks of live about how the phenomenon of connected things is poised to change how we live our lives and do business. It’s a must read book for anyone interested in the Internet of Things. More and more devices – cars, home appliances, medical devices, industrial equipment etc. – are being enabled to transmit data. This data is being collected and analyzed to derive correlations and help make the many interesting and even lifesaving use cases possible. Wouldn’t we all want to see healthcare costs reduce because the machines are able to exchange information and do what many people manually did before in a fraction of the time needed before? Won’t it be great to be reminded by a virtual doctor that we need to follow the plan & instructions better? How about our ovens taking over a complicated recipe, and our cars driving us in full comfort without us having to even key in the destination? There are so many fascinating use cases possible in every walk of life. A lot of this intelligence is about rules: if this then do that. We build more complicated rules as the amount of data and the decision variables increase. As we mature, we can also move on to predictive analytics by deriving inferences about the future from what happened before, which […]

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