What is the future in store for us the Internet of things and how it will change our working environment

At the mention of the term "Internet of things" we draw the image of a smart home with household items, interactions within its ecosystem. In fact, the next wave of the Internet of things will be just its implementation beyond our homes with you. Most of the time we spend at workAnd the coming changes will happen right there in offices and factories.

Magic motion sensors

Every day, in every job there is a lot of institutions of different types of activity: people enter the building, drinking coffee, talking about this and that, holding meetings and leave the office at the end of the working day. All this can be monitored and optimized. This is just the company does Enlighted. It proposes to replace inefficient traditional lighting special LED lights, combined with sensors. Imagine a myriad of light-emitting diodes, each of which is a sensor tracking the motion of a certain point of the room. Enlighted software processes the data in a map space, and shows what is happening on each square centimeter of the area at any given time.

Such motion sensors will help business owners save on lighting, climate control and cleaning, where there are no people. Already this makes the products attractive Enlighted, but, in addition to saving, collecting all data on the movement inside buildings can give something else.

The sensors do not have cameras, so that they do not record the faces of the people, but their resolution is more than enough to keep track of activity and thermal signature. After analyzing the data obtained by the sensors, it is possible to evaluate the rationality of the use of meeting rooms and other large spaces, as well as to determine the routes of movement of people, in order to better organize cooperation departments.

Previously, to collect such information from staff members who went through the building and everything was recorded manually. Now companies can in real time to see how to use every centimeter of space. Chapter Enlighted Joe Costello (Joe Costello) gives an example, when one of the companies with which they worked was a big controversy about the use of the conference room. Founder is going to add a few more negotiation, but after analyzing data for two months, it became clear that one of the Rooms are constantly busy, and the other, only a few people used from time to time, with 75% of its area remains free.

But do not think that all these new technologies only for white-collar workers. More great benefit of them can be removed in the area of ​​retail sales, which are very much tied to the movement patterns of consumers. How long the buyer had been in the store before you buy anything? Did the commission on the purchase amount of time spent in the store? How expensive was the purchase? All these questions can be answered by analyzing the data obtained.

As for Internet deployment procedures of things, it is not difficult to connect to the power supply network or telephone lines, especially if the equipment is already connected to the Internet. The cost of implementation is largely dependent on the extent of the organization. Among small companies integration with the internet of things - it is more or less familiar, but large corporations with a staff of more than a thousand employees remain on the sidelines. As the co-founder of a real estate agency TheSquareFoot Justin Lee (Justin Lee), the market is not yet take into account the needs of the new technology, as a result of workspaces in any way it is not adapted.

It's funny that sometimes motion sensors can track something unexpected. One of Enlighted customers were equipped with two sensors of the building in San Francisco Bay. Once all the sensors of the first building suddenly worked at the same time, a minute later the same thing happened with the equipment of the second building. As it turned out, at the time the sensors recorded the tremors earthquakeAnd if someone was watching them, he would be able to advance to warn the residents of neighboring houses.

Internet of Things in the production

Industrial industry receives from the integration with the Internet of things, perhaps even more than others. In factories dangerous work environment - is the norm. Vice-president SAP and Internet evangelist things Timo Elliott (Timo Elliot) jokes that the pioneers of this technology in manufacturing We may assume miners who used canaries as "sensors" hazardous methane content faces.

"In the industrialized world is very important local control and high security", - says Bruce Calder (Bruce Calder), chief engineer of the corporation for the production of Honeywell automation systems.

At industrial enterprises complete picture of what is happening can be obtained in only one place - the control room. To flock to all the information, and only the people there are may decide, if necessary. But if you synchronize data to the cloud, they will be accessible directly from your smartphone all specialized professionals both inside the shop and outside, including remote experts and consultants. real-time tracking information from the sensors and its analysis will identify abnormalities and promptly react.

The Honeywell will soon release compatible with the Internet of Things remote Orion, designed specifically for these needs. It can be used to collect data from all installed sensors and send them to the cloud, but other than that it allows you to analyze the data to decision making. The machine records the fact that in the course of normal working and what is not, and then predicts the occurrence of emergency situations, based on the changes of certain indicators.

According to Caldera, the industrial industry employers it is necessary to upgrade the monitoring system if they want to attract young people. Generation Zero appreciate the opportunity to interact with the environment through swipe gestures to which they are accustomed to on mobile gadgets. To replace retiring engineers, young professionals will have to gain experience and more advanced consoles will be able to help them do that.

Thanks to the development of consumer electronics, industrial Internet of Things could benefit from standardization. Instead of expensive equipment and measuring devices will be enough to use a smartphone or tablet, that everyone has, and simply connect to the network. In certain cases, can not do without special equipment, but it is important for the production of any savingEven the most insignificant.

Internet of Things Future

It is clear that the Internet of things in the workplace - this is much more than Nest thermostats in every corner of the office. The future of the data. But that's not the collection interesting dataAnd to get interesting results"Sifting" through algorithms mediocre data.

Like the formula in which innovations are made up of creative and decisive action.

Director of SAP design Ian Sam (Sam Yen)

The corporation SAP has its own line of products, but it also advises companies and indicates which of the operational processes can be optimized to achieve the best results. Not surprisingly, most of these discussions revolves around the Internet of Things.

The most simple example of its use - this is the tracking information from the sensors and display it in a convenient form for the employees. Imagine Google Glass, which, instead of new tweets show the availability of products in stock or schemes for field professionals. And all this in real time.

But perhaps the biggest impact the Internet of Things will have on our jobs. With the development of Internet, more and more work can be done remotely, we can work anywhere, and the working environment is often mixed with personal space.

On the one hand, this approach is no substitute for the office, where people gather to work on joint projects, but on the other - a flexible working space is more important than any other type of job.

The goal is to combine all without losing the possibility of interaction between people. Everyone familiar with the situation, when people gather at one table, but only staring into their smartphones. Need to avoid isolation and "humanize" technology, using it as a way to bring people together and keep the team spirit, even if the employees are physically far apart.

According to the vice-president of design and UX SAP Haka John (John Hack), a united world will bring entirely new specialty workers. On the example of the recent hurricane in Mexico, which, fortunately, did without victims Hack shows the importance of Internet of things in the field of logistics: the drones will deliver aid to remote areas, to perform exploration.

How will you manage and control all of this? There are new jobs, new challenges and new skills in order to reach the next level of economic activity in the world of the Internet of things.

John Hak

Internet of things has penetrated into the sphere of logistics through so-called cognitive outsourcing, allowing to do hard analytical work for us. Get at least a supercomputer IBM WatsonCapable shoveled mountains of data, and, sifting them and draw conclusions that ordinary people could not do, or would do, having spent a lot more time. Cognitive outsourcing will do the job more quickly, increasing not only the processing speed, but the speed of delivery of results.

The only problem with this approach is the difficulty of separating the desired signal from noise. When enormous data flow difficulty is to make decisions in real time and to automate the process.

The main things the Internet motto: "More data, more results". Based on the results, you need to make decisions that will improve our work. This is the future of the Internet of things in the work environment.