【IoT】Chris Curran :物联网遇到大数据

【IoT】Chris Curran :物联网遇到大数据
發佈日期：2014年8月7日
Chris Curran describes the evolution of The Internet of Things, its adoption by the business sector, and the inevitable merge with big data. Curran is the Chief Technologist at PwC.
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Transcript - The Internet of Things is an idea that's been around for maybe 10 or 15 years or so. And I think the first time I heard about it there was some discussion of a European appliance manufacturer who had a refrigerator that was connected to the network, the Internet. And I think the scenarios that were playing out there were: "Okay, what if the refrigerator was smart and knew enough to adjust temperatures?" Maybe it knew enough to send a request or a message to the manufacture saying "Hey, the compressor is going bad." That was the first time I had heard about this idea of connecting a product to the network. A product that wasn't a traditional computer; wasn't something that we thought was supposed to be connected to the network or interconnected. And that started to open up a lot of people's eyes I think to this idea. It may not have been the first theoretical time that it was discussed but it was the first time that I think popular media and culture started talking about this idea. But, for whatever reason that connected refrigerator didn't really take off. The idea really didn't kind of explode. Then we started hearing about the connected washing machine in the same kind of context. And I think that that idea of the Internet of Things then started to refine a bit and we heard about machine-to-machine communication. The idea that instead of human to machine, so sort of through a screen or through a webpage or through our mobile phones or whatever, that machines would talk to one another. So the idea of a stock quote generating a message that would be sent to another machine that might think about "Okay now I may need to make a trade." So the automated trading world. Or a weather forecast that's reported online triggering a message to another system that's going to adjust stock levels. So this idea that machines might talk to one another without a human in between was sort of a refinement I think of the Internet of Things idea.
And now over the last handful of years we're seeing more consumer facing ideas and concepts and products coming out that I think has regenerated interest in this machine-to-machine communication. So now we're hearing things about the connected car and the connected thermostat and the smart home. So now that the consumer side of things is heating up, we're also asking ourselves from a business perspective: "What is the Internet of Things for a business?" Maybe where you don't have a consumer product or a widget that you sell. Maybe you're a services company or a bank, what does the Internet of Things mean for a business like that, particularly a services company?
And so for companies that aren't as consumer facing or product oriented, I think there's more opportunity but more sort of clouds around what the Internet of Things means for business. And I think that anything that we think about, that we estimate, that we operate in, places we work in, people we work with, we think about the effectiveness of those things, the effectiveness of our workplace, the effectiveness of a warehouse, the effectiveness of routes that a truck takes or that a forklift makes. And we make guesses about the right ways to design a workspace or design a logistics path, design a warehouse. And the question is can we use the idea of sensors to collect data about things that we were just guessing about before, that we were estimating, that we were sort of using our gut to design? Can we collect real data about performance of people and places and processes that can give us more insight into optimizing and evolving our designs for the way our business works? And that's what I call the Internet of Business Things. It's not the consumer facing stuff, it's the business stuff. And I think there's a lot of promise for that. The Internet of Things is interesting from a technological perspective for a number of reasons. One thing that's interesting is that it's a blend of hardware and software. As a computer science person and a technology person for my whole career, most of the focus for the vast majority of my professional career has been on software. Hardware was, from an enterprise perspective, from a business perspective, largely relegated to the technology providers that give us servers and routers and the components of the hardware systems and servers that we use in networks and now more in the cloud. But it's more of a platform on which we do business applications and software and data work that's largely software oriented. [TRANSCRIPT TRUNCATED]
克里斯·柯伦介绍了物联网，它通过了工商部门的互联网的发展，并与大数据不可避免的合并。柯伦的首席技术官普华永道（PwC）。
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抄本 - 物联网是的存在了，也许10年或15年
左右的想法。而且我觉得我第一次听说这件事有一个欧洲家电厂商谁了被连接到网络，互联网冰箱的一些讨论。我认为这是打出来有情景：“好吧，如果冰箱很聪明，知道够调节温度？”也许它知道够发送请求或消息来制造说：“嘿，压缩机可能会出现问题。”那是我第一次听说过这个想法的产品连接到网络。该款产品是不是一个传统的计算机;是不是我们认为本来是要连接到网络或互连。这着手开拓了很多人的眼睛，我觉得这个想法。它可能不是，这是讨论的第一个理论的时间，但它是第一次，我认为大众媒体和文化开始谈论这个想法。
但是，对于连接冰箱并没有真正起飞是什么原因。那种想法真的没有爆炸。然后，我们开始听到有关连洗衣机在同一种语境。我认为，物联网的这一想法，然后开始细化一点，我们听到了机器对机器的通信。有观点认为，排序等等，而不是人类的机器，通过屏幕或通过网页或通过我们的手机也好，这机器会相互交谈。因此，股票报价的想法产生，将被发送到另一台机器可能会觉得一个消息：“好吧，现在我可能需要进行交易。”因此，自动交易的世界。或者说，在线用户报告的触发消息到另一个系统，那将调整库存水平天气预报。所以，这种想法，机器可能会相互交谈，没有人之间是那种细化，我认为物联网理念的互联网的。
而现在已经超过了年，我们看到更多的面向消费者的思想和理念和产品出来，我认为已经在再生这款机器对机器通信感兴趣的最后一把。所以，现在我们听到有关连接轿厢和连接的自动调温器和智能家居的东西。所以，现在的事在消费者方面正在升温，我们也问自己，从商业角度看：“什么是物联网的企业在互联网”也许，你没有一个消费者的产品或一个小工具，你卖。也许你是一个服务公司或银行，什么是物联网是指一个企业那样，特别是服务公司？
就这样，公司未作为直接面对消费者的，或以产品为导向，我认为有更多的机会，但更多的排序在什么附近的物联网对企业意味着云。我认为，任何我们想一下，我们估计，我们工作在，地方，我们工作，我们一起工作的人，我们想想这些事情的有效性，我们的工作场所的效率，仓库的功效，路线的有效性一辆卡车发生或叉车使。而我们做出正确的方式来设计一个工作区，或设计一个物流通道，设计仓库猜测。而问题是，我们可以利用传感器的想法，以收集有关的事情，我们只是猜测之前的数据，我们进行了估计，我们用那种我们的肠道设计？我们可以收集关于人和地点和过程，可以让我们更深入地了解优化和改进我们的设计，我们的业务运作方式表现真实的数据？这就是我所说的物联网业务的网络。这不是面对东西的消费者，它的商业的东西。我觉得有很多的承诺为的。
的联网是为从若干原因技术角度有趣。有一件事是有趣的是，这是一个混合的硬件和软件。作为一个计算机科学的人，一个技术的人对我的整个职业生涯中，最关注的焦点为我的职业生涯中绝大多数已经对软件。硬件是，从企业的角度来看，从商业角度看，主要是降级的技术供应商，让我们的服务器和路由器，我们在网络中使用的硬件系统和服务器的组成部分，现在更在云中。但它更多的是我们做的业务应用程序和软件和数据的工作，在很大程度上是面向软件的一个平台。 [成绩单TRUNCATED]