Highlights

• IoT to Revolutionize Semiconductor Industry
• Digital disruption: Threat or opportunity?
• CEO Q&A on Cybersecurity
• Drone defense — powered by IoT
• How to ride the wave of IoT

We are in the last quarter of the year 2018. The year will go down into history pretty soon. But this year has surfaced certain technology adoption prominently, AI, IoT, Ml, and blockchain are some of those. Thank you so much for your support and enthusiasm for our curator blog posts. This October we present you five insightful articles from the world of ‘IoT’.

AI and IoT to Revolutionize Semiconductor Manufacturing Industry

Semiconductor manufacturing industry is one of the fastest growing sectors for technology adoption. Market research consultant Statistics MRC cited that many semiconductor companies have adopted IoT to drive new revenue and growth models. Also, the semiconductor players are now competing across different verticals such as AI, cloud-based computing, IoT, self-driving vehicles. This short article throws light on various dynamics of the semiconductor industry and drivers for adopting IoT or AI technologies. It discusses why numerous mergers and acquisitions are taking place in the semiconductor manufacturing industry and how its influencing build vs buy decisions.

Digital Disruption: How to Ride The Wave?

Are you a digital disruptor or are you getting digitally disrupted? Either way, you need more than IT to succeed in rapidly changing markets. Disruption is becoming a part of modern business. If you want to be successful in riding the wave of digital disruption strategy, companies must adapt to tapping into a real-time machine data, faster data analytics, and data-driven decision making. Investing in good analytics and reporting software can help you spot trends or outliers early – allowing you to respond in an agile way. Used right, this sort of software will help you react faster to market and customer needs. IoT, ML, and AI are forming the backbone of newer technology systems. This article delves into the key technologies and trends for manufacturers and what incremental gains manufacturers can achieve, to ride the wave of IoT.

CEO Q&A: Cybersecurity and the Internet of Things

There are many cyber attacks reported on SCADA systems, operational technology, and utilities in recent years. The awareness about cybersecurity in IIoT and ICS is increasing all the more in recent times. In the U.S. the Department of Homeland Security Computer Emergency Readiness Team (CERT), issues many reports on vulnerable attacks each week that discusses all the critical infrastructure and information which can is a potential risk to embedded systems and computing networks. These notices make CXOs aware about the risk of cyber threats which are affecting the organization.

So, the question arises that How to eliminate this cyber attacks and improve the cybersecurity in an organization. However, with the rise of treats from connected devices and IIoT, companies are not only taking the critical step to identify this attack but how to eliminate it and avoid the risk by this attack. This article is an excerpt of the conversation between Lucian Fogoros of IIoTWorld and Joseph Saunders of RunSafe Security.

Drone Defense — Powered by IoT — is now a thing

The Internet of Things (IoT) isn’t just helping make smart homes or enable predictive analytics for industrial applications. It’s also creating a wide variety of new business opportunities and connected world. Drones are powered by AI technologies and sometimes it can be a threat too. IoT Can help track their location and activities real-time and alert the basecamp for any security threat or malfunction or attack. This article shares interesting insights into IoT And Drone.

The real takeaway is that a transformative technology such as IoT is rapidly disrupting and creating businesses — not to mention lifestyles and many other things — in powerful, but difficult to predict ways.

Why the Future of the IoT Depends on Digital Policies?

Depending on which statistics you believe in, various reports are predicting anywhere in the neighborhood of 20-30 Bn devices will be connected to the internet by 2020. Majority of consumer products like TV, refrigerator, cars, to industrial products like automotive robots, to furnaces, to press machines will be connected to the internet and talking to other machines somehow. As exciting as it all is, there are challenges and threats too. On one hand people are excited to get the machine behavior data to make data-driven decisions, and on the other hand, people are wary of security, information leak, and hacking too.

As much as IoT is transforming business and opening newer business models, its also calls for defining certain policies and protocols. This article goes into details of why we need digital policies, what could go wrong in IoT era, what are the threats and challenges that need to be addressed based on past experiences, what are various considerations, and much more. This is worth your time.

If you already have a digital policy program, the digital policies for IoT add another layer. If you don’t already have the digital policies, your organization is at higher risk than you may realize. In that case, you must read as a wake-up call.

It’s been great to be able to give some insight on future trends and I hope you’ve enjoyed reading them as much as I have enjoyed writing it.