3. Internet of Things
World Forum
Inbar Lasser-Raab
VP Enterprise Product & Solution Marketing, Cisco
October 14-16, 2014 • Chicago, Illinois
Sep/2014
21. Internet of Things
World Forum
Jeanne Beliveau-Dunn
Vice President and General Manager, Learning@Cisco, Cisco Services
October 14-16, 2014 • Chicago, Illinois
Sep/2014
FSI
Double down on the uber solution
Connected Factory
High volume solution
Sports & Entertainment
Connected Justice
Growing Ecosystem of IoT Partners
It is not about the things it is about the business value
Not enough market understanding of the value of IoT. We need to educate the market
We need to develop an IoT business outcomes taxonomy
Security and Privacy – are the biggest obstacles to IoT, in every vertical
Two sides to security - security to understand IoT, and IoT to understand security
It is not just about the vertical opportunities, but connecting the dots between the verticals
Smart Cities & Energy, Smart Cities & Transportation, Smart Cities & Retail, Retail & Manufacturing
Is this the comeback of the horizontal solution - real-time analytics is critical
And if you look at some of the announcements today a lot of the work of the steering committee is coming into fruition.
IoT Reference Model: the Internet of Things World Forum Steering Committee is introducing a new IoT Reference Model that will serve as a common framework to help the industry accelerate IoT deployments. Developed by the 28 members of the IoTWF Steering Committee’s Architecture, Management and Analytics Working Group, the IoT Reference Model is an industry framework that helps explain IoT, and provide a common language for efficient collaboration within the IoT ecosystem. This seven-layer framework aims to help educate CIOs, IT Departments and developers on deployment of IoT projects and drive business value by accelerating deployment models, fostering industry innovation and collaboration by creating a common taxonomy.
Industry Talent Consortium: There is a projected skills gap of 2 million trained engineers that will be need specialized training over the coming decade to help realize the value of IoT. The IoTWF Steering Committee education workgroup is announcing the creation of an industry first IoT Talent Consortium to address this major skills gap. Cisco and other key players are creating an Industry Talent Consortium to address this major skills gap, with the objective of having all of the key players work together to identify skill gaps, find talent with the right background to up-skill or re-skill, create and implement the necessary training and certification programs, and hire that talent for the jobs that will power the IoT and the Internet of Everything. Key founding partners supporting the program include:
Academia: The New York Academy of Sciences, MIT, Stanford
Human Capital Solution Providers: Careerbuilder
Employers: Rockwell Automation, Davra Networks, GE, Cisco
Change Agents: Cisco, Xerox, Rockwell Automation, Udacity, Pearson, Knod
Cisco is expanding its Fog Computing portfolio:
Cisco outlined an expansion of its fog computing strategy with the second phase of its IOx platform for industrial scale IoT deployments. Cisco outlined increasing industry ecosystem partner momentum, new hardened IoT platform support and introduced its IOx Application Management Module. As a key part of Cisco’s fog computing strategy, IOx enables third party operating systems such as Linux and industry software applications to run directly on Cisco hardened IoT network platforms, which is critical for IoT solutions where applications, storage and compute needs to reside closer to ‘Things’ such as sensors and devices.
New IOx Partners: Since the launch of the IOx platform, it has become the de-facto fog infrastructure to deploy key vertical business models with players such as GE (Predix), Itron, OSISoft (PI), Intel and WindRiver, smartFOA in Japan, Tieto in the Nordics, Bitstew, Davra, SK Solutions and SAP Hana, amongst others announcing support.
New IOx Platforms: Over the last 8 months since introducing Cisco IOx, Cisco has driven an eight-fold increase in the number of platforms supporting the architecture. In addition to the Cisco Connected Grid Routers, CGR1120 and CGR1240, Cisco added Cisco IOx support to 16 other platforms including select Cisco 819, 88x, and 89x series routers. This extension enables fog applications to run in a variety of physical environments for specific industrial use cases such as manufacturing, transportation and energy.
New Application Management Capabilities:To accelerate and scale these industrial fog-based IoT computing models for IoT, Cisco today introduced the IOx Application Management Module. This new software solution helps customers reduce the time and expense involved in managing and monitoring millions of endpoints and their applications running right at the network edge, by centrally managing fog computing applications running on Cisco IOx edge.
Cisco outlines key components of IoE Services Suite: The suite consists of software, services and solutions that turn the data from the Internet of Things into business impact through automated processes and engaging personal interfaces.
Data And Analytics Solutions: The suite includes Data and Analytics solutions that reach and process data from the core to the edge of the network, and takes advantage of the Cisco IOx and fog computing models to create actionable business intelligence.
Context Aware User Interface Solutions: The Cisco IoE Services Suite also provides context aware user interface solutions that engage and enable customers and partners, and aims to deliver new capabilities that connect the data from the Internet of Things with people and business process.
We’ve focused on Cisco’s IoT Platform ad solutions portfolio, but Cisco’s commitment to the IoT goes beyond that. We continue to innovate to ensure that Cisco is the IoT Solutions leader. For example, our software embedded router, announced in August, 2013 can turn any field device (radio, proprietary mobile, hand-held or vehicular) into a smart device, eliminating the need for multiple devices and at the same time communicate across multiple networks. Cisco is the host of the IoT World Forum. This invitation only, inaugural event was held in late September, 2013, in Barcelona. Over 800 of the worlds leading IoT thinkers and companies met to discuss wide ranging topics that help move the IoT ecosystem, standards and solutions in every industry forward. 2nd iteration of the event will be held in Chicago, targeting 1,500 attendees almost doubling the size of last year’s. Though in it’s infancy, Cisco is also heavily involved with representatives in various IoT standards bodies to ensure that a consistent set of standards for IoT-related systems, devices, networks and data be developed and ultimately interoperate seamlessly. Cisco has also announced an investment fund of $250M that it will invest in partnerships with IoT start-ups and ventures to advance development and innovation. Finally, Cisco has the largest IoT partner ecosystem that ensures an IoT implementation will be planned, designed, and implemented efficiently. (Partners such as Rockwell Automation, Itron, and Schneider Electric are among those in Cisco’s ecosystem, and are probably names you are familiar with in your industry.)
Investment fund: http://newsroom.cisco.com/release/1412019
An emerging wave of Internet deployments, most notably the Internet of Things (IoTs), requires mobility support and geo-distribution in addition to location awareness and low latency. A new platform is needed to meet these requirements; a platform we call Fog Computing [1], or, briefly, Fog, simply because the fog is a cloud close to the ground. Fog Computing enables a new breed of applications and services, and [enables]..a fruitful inter-play between the Cloud and the Fog, particularly when it comes to data management and analytics
This new fog layer will create a paradigm shift in the network infrastructure. Today, businesses deploy three disparate devices for their networking, computing, and storing. Fog introduces a concept to combine all those devices into a single unified platform—instead of having to manage three things, companies will just worry about one.
Fog also shifts how data is processed. Today, data is first transmitted to the cloud and stored. From there, it’s analyzed and commands are sent to act upon that information, then operators are notified. Fog helps overcome the costly need to constantly move data around and allows analysis and notification to occur before the critical information in stored to meet compliance and regulation policies.
We believe this is all critical in accelerating the Internet of Things and today we’re excited to share with you our role in making this reality.
Earlier this year we announced the availability Cisco IOx, as part of the Cisco Fog portfolio of technologies.
We have seen tremendous market traction of Cisco IOx in the last few months along with the accelerating IoT market growth.
As IoT grows from early adoption to wide deployment, Cisco IOx is increasingly enabling solutions providers across many industries to create innovative software solutions.
New Cisco IOx Technology Partners:
GE created an application Predix for the Oil&Gas industry.
SAP and SK Solutions created asset management solutions for the Mining & Construction industries.
Itron created RIVA, a sensor/device manager for Utilities.
BitStew created GridDirector, a realtime interactive application to manage distribution and substation networks for Utilities
OSISoft created PI system a meter automation tool for the Oil&Gas and Utilities industries.
Davra Networks created Ruben System for the school bus fleets in the Transportation industry.
Increasing the number of Cisco platforms supporting Cisco IOx:
Launched with two platforms supporting IOx, now have 16, an 8X increase in the number of platforms supporting Cisco IOx.
In addition to the Cisco Connected Grid Routers, CGR1120 and CGR1240, we added Cisco IOx support to 16 other Cisco platforms, including C819, C88x, C89x routers.
Creates bigger footprint for developers
More flexibility to deploy IOx in more environments/applications
As the IoT market accelerates toward wider deployment, we expect to rapidly grow the installed base of Cisco IOx supported platforms, which is a great incentive for our partners and application developers to create new and innovative IoT applications.
Adding Cisco IOx Application Management capabilities:
Currently the process of deploying, monitoring and managing IoT applications across the verticals is costly, painful and slow for various reasons.
The complexity of IoT applications is primarily due to multiple application suites and geographical dispersion of where they run.
Cisco is adding capabilities to IOx to better manage and integrate applications being developed and deployed.
The Cisco IOx Application Management module is the newest addition to Cisco IOx which is a middleware between devices/things and the application.
It can be deployed as a standalone or integrated into existing network management systems.
Example partners for Endpoint Application Enablement (Cameras):
iOmniscient – providing facial recognition in a crowd and license plate recognition analytics
Intuvision and AgentVi – providing a broad range of video and search analytics solutions for cities and enterprises
AGT – integrating multi-sensor and data analytics to improve situational awareness, enabling cities to anticipate and prevent threats to citizens and property, and improve public safety
Network, compute, application and data management architectures that are IoT-ready require a different communication and processing model. Some of the main concerns around accelerating IoT deployments are:
IoT systems are complex combinations of hardware, software, networking, and databases. To convert the IoT idea into products, interoperability, repeatability, and scale, the problem needs to be broken down or partitioned
There is a need to effectively communicate Information Technology (IT) and Operations Technology (OT) Software and systems to create real value IoT implementations.
IT/OT/project managers of enterprises are struggling to define the scope and requirements of the project given a lack of a common framework to follow on IoT implementations
Today there is no standard way of understanding or describing these models for the IoT.
The IoTWF Steering Committee’s working groups are collaborating closely to address these concerns and accelerate the adoption of IoT technologies across the various verticals. Specifically, the Architecture, Management and Analytics Working Group of the IoTWF Steering Committee is presenting to the industry a reference model for IoT that will provide a framework for the deployment of IoT projects. This reference model has the following objectives:
Provides a common terminology
Brings clarity to how the information flows and is processed
Progresses towards a standardized and unified IoT industry
Delivers Thought Leadership
This reference model will provide the following benefits for IoT systems and deployments:
Scalability
Interoperability
Agility
Legacy compatibility
Cisco is excited to be part of the Architecture, Management and Analytics working group and the Reference Model is a great step for the IoT industry in coming together and creating solutions for the most pressing problems. We are looking forward to continuing to work with IoT WF Steering Committee members as well as other forums like IIC and OIC to carry the model forward as a useful model for the industry to help accelerate the adoption of IoT. Additional details on the Reference Model are being worked on by the Architecture, Management and Analytics working group and will be available shortly following the Chicago meet.
Main message: Jobs of the Future Are Being Defined Now
There are many jobs technology areas we must prepare for through early recruitment, education and skills development. Did you know the top 10 jobs in 2010 did not exist in 2004 (i.e. social media manager, elder care services, sustainability manager, search engine optimization specialist, online advertising manager, user experience manager)? More importantly, the hottest jobs today did not exist five years ago (i.e. data scientist, social tribe leader, cloud brokers, Android developers, digital sales, network programmers, health information technician, green architects).
Massive, global-scale change occurring at rates faster than could ever be predicted
top 10 jobs in 2010 did not exist in 2004: ie: Social Media/Online Manager, Elder Care Services, Sustainability Manager, SEO Optimization Specialist, Online Advertising Manager, User Experience Manager
http://www.forbes.com/sites/meghancasserly/2012/05/11/10-jobs-that-didnt-exist-10-years-ago/
Source: IT Career Finder, ‘Best Computer Jobs for the Future’, May 2012, http://www.itcareerfinder.com/brain-food/blog/entry/best-computer-jobs-for-the-future.html
Source: Info World, The 6 hottest new jobs in IT, June 2011, http://www.infoworld.com/t/information-technology-careers/the-6-hottest-new-jobs-in-it-052?page=0,0
Source: Modis as quoted in Network World, ‘10 hottest IT jobs: Developers, developers, developers’, August 2013, http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/081613-hottest-tech-skills-jobs-272921.html?source=NWWNLE_nlt_daily_pm_2013-08-16
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, April 2013, http://www.bls.gov/opub/btn/volume-2/careers-in-growing-field-of-information-technology-services.htm
So clearly we’ve identified the situation and the need. Now what are we going to do about it?
It is critical for Cisco’s and all of our success to solve these problems.
The talent consortium we’re launching at IoT world forum in October will help us link talent with employers.
Our goal is to connect talent who have pre-requisite skills to employers after necessary training and certifications to certify and reskill.
We’re developing this offering in partnership with academia, human capital solution providers, employers, and curriculum creators to build the talent we need.
Key Players
Academia – Who will help define the Prerequisite Skills needed for the Jobs
Human Capital Solution Providers – help identify top jobs, regions, supply/demand, Skill gaps
Change Agents - Organizations creating education curriculum, training & certifications, helps impart skills needed for the new jobs
Employers – Looking to hire individuals for the new job roles