Internet of Things: Five truths you need to know to succeed

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Hyperbole is the norm when talking about how businesses can transform themselves using Internet of Things and big data. What you hear less often is just how difficult it can be to get these projects right.



After more than 10 years of working on big data and Internet of Things (IoT) programs, analytics firm Teradata has seen how much effort is required to mine useful insights from webs of interconnected sensors.

Sprinkling IoT sensors throughout your firm won't necessarily give you a snapshot of what you need to know, at least not without a lot of work, said Martin Wilcox, who leads Teradata's centre of excellence.

"It's about the sensor data, stupid," he told the Strata + Hadoop World conference in London, going on to warn:

"The data those sensors produce is an unreliable, unwilling, and in some cases downright deceitful, witness to the events we care about."

Here are the five hard truths about IoT that Wilcox said businesses need to take on board.

1. Sensors sometimes lie

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2. Sensors can obscure the bigger picture

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3. Adding sensors is the easiest part

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4. Extracting useful information is anything but simple

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5. By itself, sensor data is usually useless

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See more at: techrepublic.com

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  2. Unknown12 September 2016 at 00:18

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