IBM Watson will be the next big thing in the Internet of Things business
International Business Machine Corp.’s Watson- a cognitive computing technology has jeopardizes the market. The technology is assisting doctors in treating the patients along with helping the professionals from the finance sector to refer products to clients as per their needs now has a different purpose.
Watson will now assist the IBM clients in skimming through the massive amount of data that is likely to be generated by the masses since objects connected to the Internet are becoming part and parcel of our everyday lives. The expertise of Watson will now be offered to all those clients that opt for IBM’s IoT Foundation cloud product offering.
The service is likely to make use of an API that will allow the computer to comprehend to the way people communicate, analytics service that is predictive along with machine learning, image and video recognition, analytics of texts that will allow the technology to chalk out the meaning of texts that are unstructured. Moreover clients will be able to design products that have a new interface and distinct features.
The company is also coming up with a new headquarter particularly for the Internet of Things division of Watson that will be located in Munich. This headquarter will house 1,000 IBM employees. The headquarter in Munich will also serve as an “experience center” which can be accessed by the IBM clients so that they can have hands on experience with Watson.
Similar to the announcements made by IBM earlier, the company tends to create a lot of hype about news that is somewhat marginal. Earlier in March, the company made an announcement regarding an investment of $3 billion to establish an Internet of Things segment. Later in September, they made Harriet Green the head if their IoT business unit.
According to Fortune, “And given that IBM says that there are more than 9 billion connected devices operating today, and that those devices will generate 2.5 quintillion bytes of new data every day over the next 15 years, it’s hardly a surprise that IBM would involve Watson and its artificial intelligence capabilities to parse that data.” So now the question arises is that what needs to be the thing that the company will focus on in terms of IoT.
At present the company is operating almost 48 data centers all over the globe along with taking into consideration the fact that the data is stored within the geographical jurisdiction of a country in case the local government requires.
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