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EMERGENT
Channel
Vision
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July - August, 2017
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To prepare for the everything-connected
future, enterprises will turn to savvy chan-
nel partners to connect wireless sensors
and machine-to-machine (M2M) devices
via short-range communications such as
Wi-Fi; that traffic can then be pooled at a
router and backhauled over fiber or cable.
And, mobile operators are looking at new
plays for their wider-range connectivity as
well as LTE advances.
Indeed, the industrial internet oppor-
tunity is significantly ramping up as the
smart-everything vision continues to build
out. The idea is to make use of sensor net-
work arrays to gather intelligence in real-
time, in order to make on-the-fly decisions
that result in greater efficiencies and better
outcomes across the board. From there,
it becomes possible to link horizontally
connected projects that make up a fabric
of intelligence. It’s not just smart verticals,
it’s also smart cities, smart states, smart
countries and eventually, a smart planet.
According to 2017 stats from Boston
Consulting Group, B2B spending on smart
technologies, apps and solutions will reach
$267 billion by 2020, with 50 percent of that
driven by discrete manufacturing, transpor-
tation and logistics, and utilities. Spending
on the applications is predicted to generate
$64.1 billion in the same timeframe, while
analytics will reach $21.4 billion.
Predictive maintenance, self-optimizing
production and automated inventory man-
agement are the three top uses cases driv-
ing market growth through 2020, according
By
Tara
Seals
IntelligentTransport
W
ith so many new industrial devices and systems
being connected to the internet, doors are starting
to open for smart use cases, such as just-in-time
electric capacity provisioning and automated
analytics for HD traffic surveillance.
The industrial
internet to
write a
new channel
chapter