IoT For All Podcast · 13 Apr 2020 · 49m
Sky Matthews, CTO of IoT at IBM, discusses the shift in enterprise IoT from platform-centric builds to value-driven applications, emphasizing the need for digital transformation in complex industries. He argues that 5G hype is currently overblown for enterprises, predicting its real impact will come years later through cost reductions that enable scalable data-heavy use cases like autonomous vehicles. Matthews highlights the convergence of edge computing and hybrid cloud architectures, which forces traditional manufacturers to rethink embedded development lifecycles and adopt continuous integration practices. He also identifies the waste of resources on building proprietary IoT infrastructure as a major industry challenge, advocating instead for leveraging existing cloud ecosystems and partnerships.
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Engineering & simulation
AI is being applied to analyze requirements and other natural language artifacts to improve their quality and boost engineer productivity.
“So for example, analyzing requirements and other natural language artifacts to help improve the quality of them, just to give the engineers a sort of boost in productivity and help them focus on more important things.”
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large enterprises
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