Fitting IoT into your mobile enterprise

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Fitting the Internet of Things (IoT)

into your Mobile EnterpriseBrian Katz VMware

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Who am I?

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Day job - Director of Mobile Strategy, EUC at VMware

Just a nutter with a blog – http://ascrewsloose.com

Host: @themobilecast podcast

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If all you have is a IoT strategy you’ve

already failed!

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ConnectivityAPIs

Sensors

Big Data

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ConnectivityAPIs

Sensors

Big Data

IoT

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IoT

Wearables

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This level of operational insight will involve generating large amounts of data from each 787 aircraft, he explained. “We can get upwards of half a terabyte of data from a single flight from all of the different devices which are internet connected,"

- Virgin Atlantic IT Director David Bulman (Computerworld UK)

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IoT is connected sensors

that provide you with data that allows you make contextual decisions

and then act

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Appointments

Travel Schedule Illness

Fitness Apps

Predictive Analytics Pets

Guests

School Schedule

Mood

Open doors and

windows

Other smart devices in the home

Budget Gas

Fireplace Output

Smart grid load

Work Schedule Weather

Nest

More systems = Higher Value

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Smartphone is the window to your world

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Still Challenges• Lack of Standards across chips, components,

connectivity and data format

• Security Challenges

• Privacy Challenges

• Speed of the business isn’t going to slow down

• All levels of the technology stack need to come together

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IoTing the Enterprise• Sensor Everything

• It’s the data stupid

• Build a secure API to access that data

• Wrap identity around it

• Build apps that access the data through the API and prove identity

• Know what you’re building for (Biz Process)

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