Within two years, the Internet of Things (IoT) will be the single greatest source of data on the planet, generated by billions of interconnected sensors and devices embedded into the world’s physical systems. IBM's Watson technologies thrive on tremendous volumes of data, and the IoT provides that. Cognitive systems puts all types of data -- even data that you may not be aware of -- into context with systems that learn at scale, reason with purpose and interact with humans naturally.
IBM is an established leader in the IoT with more than 6,000 client engagements in 170 countries, 1,400 partners in its growing ecosystem and more than 750 IoT patents. IBM is extending the power of cognitive computing to the billions of connected devices, sensors and systems that comprise the IoT, helping to transform the way we all live and work.
In February 2017, IBM officially opened the doors to its Watson IoT headquarters in Munich, Germany, one of the world's most advanced centers for Watson cognitive computing and IoT capabilities. The center will serve as the new global ecosystem for collaborative innovation, special industry "collaboratories" that bring together clients and partners to work together with IBM’s 1,000 Munich-based IoT experts to tap into the latest design thinking and push the boundaries of what is possible with IoT.
IBM is betting big and investing $3BN to bring Watson to IoT - allocating +$200M to the new Munich center alone.
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Harriet Green, Global Head of Watson IoT (left) and Ilse Aigner, Bavarian State Minister of Economic Affairs and Media, Energy and Technology press the button to activate IBM's new global center for Watson IoT in Munich, Germany. (Credit: IBM)
IBM General Manager Watson IoT Harriet Green and Senior Vice President, Services, Ricoh Americas, Mona Abutaleb celebrate the Watson-Powered Interactive Whiteboard which bring new efficiencies to the workplace. (Credit: IBM)
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Using IBM's IoT technology to monitor animal behavior patterns to detect rhino poachers
Date added: 19 Sep 2017
Welgevonden Game Reserve in South Africa is tracking the behavior patterns of animals such as zebra, impala, eland and wildbeest to detect poaching activity. The new IoT powered solution developed by IBM, MTN and Wageningen University collects animal location information, movement, direction and average speed of travel along with other data. (Credit: IBM)
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Welgevonden Game Reserve is using IBM's IoT technology to prevent rhino poaching
Date added: 19 Sep 2017
IBM, MTN and Wageningen University use an IoT powered solution that gives Welgevonden Game Reserve in South Africa, a powerful tool in the fight to save endangered Rhinos. The solution uses the threat response patterns of other animals such as zebra, wildbeest, impala and eland, as an early warning signal, without divulging the precise location of the rhino. (Credit: IBM)
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Zebra fitted with a sensor to detect threats from rhino poachers
Date added: 19 Sep 2017
IBM, MTN and Wageningen University's IoT powered solution fits animals such as zebra, wildebeest, eland and impala with custom made sensors which will transmit data on their behavior to the IoT platform. As a result, plains game such as the zebra, act as sentinels and their response patterns provide an early warning in the battle to save endangered rhinos. (Credit: IBM)
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IBM develops a solution to help save the remaining rhino population in Africa
Date added: 19 Sep 2017
Game conservationists are battling to protect the dwindling number of rhinos in Africa (Credit: IBM)
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IBM Launches New Global Center for Watson IoT in Munich, Germany
Date added: 16 Feb 2017
Harriet Green, Global Head of Watson IoT (left) and Ilse Aigner, Bavarian State Minister of Economic Affairs and Media, Energy and Technology press the button to activate IBM's new global center for Watson IoT in Munich, Germany. (Credit: IBM)
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IBM and Ricoh Transform Corporate Meetings with Industry-First, Watson-Powered Interactive Whiteboards
Date added: 16 Feb 2017
IBM General Manager Watson IoT Harriet Green and Senior Vice President, Services, Ricoh Americas, Mona Abutaleb celebrate the Watson-Powered Interactive Whiteboard which bring new efficiencies to the workplace. (Credit: IBM)
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IBM Watson IoT Takes Flight with Aerialtronics Commercial Drones
Date added: 03 Oct 2016
Aerialtronics Commercial Drones Tap IBM Watson IoT to vehicles to bring powerful cognitive capabilities to any location including the inspection of cell towers. (Image courtesy of Aerialtronics)
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Aerialtronics and IBM Watson IoT Deliver 360 Degree Cell Towers Inspection
Date added: 03 Oct 2016
Aerialtronics drones leverage high definition cameras and Watson Visual Recognition APIs to analyze cell towers and identify specific areas of concern that could impact the quality of telecommunications services. (Image courtesy of Aerialtronics)
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Aerialtronics and IBM Watson IoT Bring New Efficiencies to Manual Inspections
Date added: 03 Oct 2016
With IBM Watson IoT and Aerialtronics drones, business can immediately inspect cell towers and identify potential areas of concern, all from the ground. (Image courtesy of Aerialtronics)
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Infographic: IBM's Global HQ for Watson IoT
Date added: 03 Oct 2016
Based in Munich, German - the heart of the Industry 4.0 Initiative - IBM's new Global headquarters for its Watson IoT businss is quickly becoming a global hotbed for collaborative innovation. (courtesy: IBM)
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IBM Watson Powers Wave of Innovation in Consumer Electronics for the Home
Date added: 05 Sep 2016
Global Head of IBM Watson IoT, Harriet Green (front) with David Tuerk, Panasonic’s European General Manager for Smart Home (left), Norbert Schmidt, Vice President Product and Brand Whirlpool EMEA (center) and Cedric Hutchings, GM Nokia Health (right). (credit: Thomas Koehler/photothek.net)
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IBM at IFA Berlin
Date added: 03 Sep 2016
Global Head of IBM Watson IoT, Harriet Green, with Olli the autonomous vehicle at IFA Berlin (credit: Thomas Koehler/photothek.net)
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IBM and Bragi Put the Power of Watson IoT into the Ear
Date added: 05 Sep 2016
Global Head of IBM Watson IoT, Harriet Green (right), tries Brag's smart earphones powered by Watson IoT, with Bragi Executive Vice President, Darko Dragicevic.(credit: Thomas Koehler/photothek.net)
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Weather Underground Personal Weather Station Network
Date added: 21 Jul 2016
The PWS Network consists of over 200,000 stations across the globe. (Credit: Weather Underground)
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Personal Weather Station (PWS)
Date added: 21 Jul 2016
A closer look at a personal weather station. (Credit: The Weather Company)
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Weather Station Installation
Date added: 21 Jul 2016
Installation of meteorological station at the Kazwama Health Center in Uganda by TAHMO engineer George Sserwadda (R) (Credit: TAHMO)
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IBM helps ISS Transform the Management of over 25,000 Buildings Globally with Watson IoT
Date added: 30 Jun 2016
Global Facilities Management Leader ISS Partners with IBM Watson IoT to Make Better and More User-Friendly Buildings. Andrew Price, Chief Commercial Officer, ISS (left) and Nils J. van der Zijl , Business Unit Executive, IBM Watson IoT Europe (right). (Credit: IBM)
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IBM Watson IoT helping ISS to Make Happier Buildings
Date added: 30 Jun 2016
Buildings with a 'Human Touch' are happier and more productive. Global facilities Management leader ISS turns to IBM Watson IoT to transform our experience of buildings. (Credit: IBM)
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The Edge of What's Possible with IoT
Date added: 02 Jun 2016
IBM and Cisco are working together to provide real time Internet of Things insight at the edge of the network, providing businesses in remote locations with the ability to tap the combined power of IBM's Watson IoT and business analytics technologies and Cisco's edge analytics capabilities to more deeply understand and act on critical data on the network edge. (Credit: IBM and Cisco)
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IBM and Cisco combine the power of Watson Internet of Things with edge analytics
Date added: 02 Jun 2016
IBM and Cisco are collaborating to provide instant IoT insight at the edge of the network, bringing together IBM Watson IoT and business analytics technologies and Cisco edge analytics capabilities to help organizations more deeply understand and act on critical data on the network edge. (Credit: IBM and Cisco)
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USC and IBM open 'Center for Applied Innovation" for Cognitive Computing and Internet of Things
Date added: 14 Apr 2016
On April 14, 2016, the University of South Carolina and IBM celebrated the grand opening of the $25 million 'Center for Applied Innovation' in Columbia, South Carolina. The Center will support university, IBM and private sector researchers, including Fluor Corporation, who will collaborate to develop real-world applications for the Internet of Things using cognitive computing, predictive analytics and predictive maintenance software. Initial projects will include developing ways to enhance and personalize tools in higher education, make aircraft more reliable and supply chains more efficient. (Credit: IBM)
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IBM Watson IoT Gives lift to Innovation in Smart Buildings
Date added: 19 Feb 2016
The Leadenhall Building in London, where KONE - an IBM Watson IoT customer - provides the largest and fastest suite of panoramic elevators in the world. (Credit: DBOX for KONE)
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IBM Watson IoT Gives lift to Innovation in Smart Buildings
Date added: 19 Feb 2016
The Leadenhall Building in London, where KONE - an IBM Watson IoT customer - provides the largest and fastest suite of panoramic elevators in the world (credit: DBOX for KONE)
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Under Armour And IBM To Transform Personal Health And Fitness, Powered By IBM Watson
Date added: 07 Jan 2016
At CES, IBM Chairman and CEO Ginni Rometty, and Kevin Plank, Founder and CEO, Under Armour, announced a new "cognitive coaching" system, powered by Watson, that will transform personal health and fitness. The system will serve as a personal health consultant, fitness trainer and assistant by providing athletes with coaching around sleep, fitness, activity and nutrition. It will initially be available within UA Record™ available now on the App Store. (Alan Rosenberg/Feature Photo Service for IBM)
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At CES, IBM And Medtronic Unveil Plans For Cognitive Diabetes App
Date added: 07 Jan 2016
IBM Chairman and CEO Ginni Rometty, and Medtronic CEO Omar Ishrak, unveil the latest advances in applying cognitive computing to diabetes management during CES 2016. The two companies showed a research prototype for a first-of-its-kind cognitive app designed to analyze real-time data from Medtronic devices to help detect important patterns and trends for people with diabetes. In a pilot, IBM and Medtronic applied cognitive analytics to 600 anonymous patient cases using data from Medtronic insulin pumps and glucose monitors. The technology was able to predict hypoglycemia – low blood sugar – up to three hours in advance of onset—early enough so a person with diabetes could take action to prevent a potentially dangerous health event. The goal is to interpret the available data and act as a personal assistant. Contact: Christine Douglass, IBM, cgdouglass@us.ibm.com, 415-535-4479 (Alan Rosenberg/Feature Photo Service for IBM)
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IBM and UnderArmour announced plans to create a Watson-powered personal health consultant
Date added: 07 Jan 2016
On January 6, 2016 at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, IBM and UnderArmour announced plans to create UA Record™ with a Cognitive Coaching System, a Watson-powered app that will serve as a personal health consultant (credit: Under Armour)
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IBM Opens Watson IoT Global Headquarters
Date added: 15 Dec 2015
The Highlight Towers at Mies-van-der-Rohe-Straße 6 in Munich, Germany will serve as the global headquarters for IBM's new Watson IoT unit, as well as the company's first European Watson innovation super center. The campus environment will bring together 1,000 IBM developers, consultants, researchers and designers to drive deeper engagement with clients and partners, and will also serve as an innovation lab for data scientists, engineers and programmers building a new class of connected solutions at the intersection of cognitive computing and the IoT. The center represents IBM’s largest investment in Europe in more than two decades. (Photo copyright: Rainer Viertlböck for IBM.)
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