According to Kevin Bloch, Cisco's CTO, three-quarters of all Internet of Things ("IoT") projects fail, mainly because they have been designed to solve individual problems and, as a result, have been divided into silos and not into They were born.
"The inaugural phase of IoT is characterized by numerous point solutions offered by a multitude of new, often new, providers, usually designed to solve a particular social problem, such as lighting or parking. The computer stack must be built to support the solution, "said Bloch.
"Finally, customers encounter multiple silos from multiple vendors that do not interact, are not cybersecurity, use different protocols, and generate more complexity at a higher cost."
According to Bloch, this is why Cisco is building an "IoT Phase 2" foundation, which consists of a platform capable of managing multiple sensors, vendors, applications and different data exchanges.
The CTA added that IoT projects also fail due to lack of cybersecurity, qualified skills by those who execute them, project definition, governance and support.
Launched with nine other axioms in the IoT landscape, Bloch said Cisco hopes to help other companies launch successful connected solutions by discussing both pitfalls and success stories.
The lack of cybersecurity was a second of his axioms, with Bloch saying that if something is not guaranteed, he should not be connected.
"Cybercrime is already at its highest level and has a negative impact on global economies of more than 1% of GDP," he said.
"We are becoming more mobile, we are using more cloud services, and we are expanding the deployment of IoT to tens of billions of connected things, increasing the opportunities for exploitation and attack." Our situation will inevitably get worse if we do not take adequate precautions.
"If that does not protect him, do not connect him."
Once again, Bloch said that most of the new IoT solutions that are being introduced are developed by companies or new companies with no experience, including security.
As a result, he said that Cisco continues to invest billions of dollars in cybersecurity solutions for IoT, mobility and the cloud. One of these products was Cisco's IoT Threat Defense solution, which was launched in June to mitigate and resolve common security issues that threaten the deployment and operation of connected devices. time stating that companies are removing the security mechanisms of devices to keep them at a low cost.
Cisco IoT technical director Shaun Cooley said in June that many devices also have the ability to protect, emphasize the safety side of the net, as well as improved processors, require better labeling of devices and require a notification process and approval before allowing connectivity.
The IoT Threat Defense suite is also enabled by the intuitive Cisco network, which combines technologies for which Cisco has been working in recent years: software-defined networks, software-defined access, network feature virtualization, API capabilities, and intelligent WAN.
According to a third axiom, Bloch argues that IoT is about collecting data and processing the data itself, without connecting, with Cisco predicting that the connections will not cost anything in a decade.
Under this axiom, Bloch said that there are two main components needed to be able to "measure" the physical world and allow automation: detection by camera, sensor or processor; and connectivity, or the transfer of data measurements to a computer.
"Detection and connectivity provide data that allows a product to outsource its capabilities and provide a range of new opportunities and services," he said.
One of the axioms of IoT Bloch argued that the key is to have the right data, to know what to ask for data and to know how to find the answers, the CTO correlates with this other hypothesis: that by 2025 , 40 percent of all Data will never reach the cloud.
"While the accumulation of data may seem important, the key question is: what are the data for?", He said.
"Most organizations already have more data than they can handle, however, most of the time they do not have the correct data, if they did, would they know what to ask about the data? able to formulate the problem, how could they do it? About finding the necessary answers in the data? "
The key for organizations is to find the answers to these three questions using a combination of computation, artificial intelligence and machine learning, he argued.
Cisco has focused on providing IoT solutions globally, announced in June its IoT kinetic trading platform focusing on connection management, computer "fog" and data delivery, which "optimizes the ability of companies to put their IoT initiatives on the market".
"It's really a platform to unload their devices," he said at the time the senior vice president and general manager of IoT applications and Cisco Rowan Trollope, adding that complete the Cisco Jasper IoT platform.
"We are going from the periphery to the device to provide an incredible platform for more data."
According to Trollope, billions of terabytes of data are "stuck" in non-connected devices around the world, which Cisco Kinetic could help extract. This will also speed up the time between concept validation and implementation for customers.
