Thingalytics – A Preview and Introduction of a new book by Dr John Bates
Thingalytics — by Dr. John Bates
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The Internet of Things is changing the world. Thingalytics by Dr. John Bates is the most powerful book written to date about the Internet of Things (IoT), showing businesses how to take advantage of the fast Big Data that flows across the digital planet. Pulling from exciting examples of real-life innovation and invention, John makes IoT come alive.
From digitally enriching exotic shops in Istanbul, Turkey, to crossing the USA on a sensor-enabled Greyhound Bus to finding new ways to mend people in hospital smart operating rooms, Thingalytics depicts how IoT can make our lives happier, easier, more productive and even safer.
Thingalytics, a composite of “Things” and “Analytics,” shows businesses how to use real-time analytics and algorithms in order to seize the opportunities that flow from IoT, while simultaneously spotting and navigating around threats. As each real world object – from people to refrigerators, to tractors and ships or cans of fizzy pop – is digitized and connected to the Internet, it presents a unique opportunity for innovative businesses to learn from, and take advantage of, the digital vibrations it creates.
Illustrated by case studies from global, visionary organizations such as Coca Cola, Greyhound Bus and Medtronic, Thingalytics highlights how the alchemy of real-time analytics and smart algorithms can help turn fast Big Data into actionable gold nuggets for any business, anywhere.
Digital disruption to traditional “bricks-and-mortar” businesses is happening now. Organizations must transform themselves using digital technologies. Time does not stand still in this brave, new digital world. “Digital Darwinism is unkind to those who wait,” says R “Ray” Wang, a leading industry analyst who has written the Forward to Thingalytics.
John Bates personally interviewed each of the people in this book. His deep knowledge of their vision, their businesses and their goals gives him the insight and the gravitas to explain how each organization is conquering the digital world.
Winners in the IoT race will not only profit but could – just possibly – avert disaster. Thingalytics becomes very exciting when we see how lives can be saved, fraud avoided, customers delighted and carbon emissions reduced.
Chapter Outline
Chapter 1, “It’s All About Me,” explores how Thingalytics is empowering a new generation of personalized marketing and customer experience applications.
Chapter 2, “Machines with Feelings,” looks into industrial and retail processes and considers how smarter machines are enhancing efficiency, reducing costs and improving customer experience.
Chapter 3, “Home Is Where the Smart Is,” investigates how new intelligent Thingalytics apps are revolutionizing cooking, cleaning, washing and TV watching.
Chapter 4, “Take Two Smart Pills and Call Me in the Morning,” examines the hospital of the future and how it is already manifesting itself today.
Chapter 5, “I’m the Chairman of the Board,” explores smart self-learning algorithms that function as the “brains” of Thingalytics, focusing particularly on automated trading.
Chapter 6, “RoboCops: Smarter than the Average Criminal,” delves into how we can spot and ideally navigate around threats and problems, including some thoughts as to how Knight Capital and similar crises could have been avoided.
Chapter 7, “Planes, Trains and Automobiles,” discusses Thingalytics apps for smart logistics and autonomous transport systems.
Chapter 8, “The Technology Behind Thingalytics,” explores some of the technology issues involved in supporting massive-scale Thingalytics apps, and we consider how new Big Data streaming analytics architectures in the cloud could be the key to successfully meeting this challenge.
Chapter 9, “Go Forth and Use Thingalytics!” concludes our discussion by summarizing the lessons learned and explaining how you can move forward and use Thingalytics to improve your business.
About the Author
Dr. John Bates is a pioneer in the fields of the Internet of Things and Big Data Streaming Analytics. Wall Street and Technology named him one of the “Innovators of the Decade” and Institutional Investor lists him as one of the “Tech 50” most influential technologists. John holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Cambridge University UK and was a tenured academic until he left to found Apama, the revolutionary real-time analytics company. He has served as CTO at Progress Software and is currently CMO and Head of Industry Solutions at Software AG.
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