Technology debate: Making great connections

The Internet of Things is revolutionising the way we all live and work. We gathered our panel at the offices of Unified World in Blackburn to look at the impact on businesses and how they are responding to this tech-led revolution.

How do we define the Internet of Things (IoT) in the business environment?

MW: Essentially it is about taking any asset, any person, any value to the business and making it a data object that can be used by that business to improve efficiencies and services. For example, you can have sensors on trucks, for tracking efficiency and performance.

ALS: If there is anything in your business that you need to control, monitor or measure and you’re doing it manually, there is probably a way you can automate it and make it more efficient. It is about taking an object and connecting it to something that will make sense of the data provided.

IoT allows us to take all of our assets, our people, our machines and connect them to  many different data sources without human-tohuman intervention