6 tips for businesses to benefit from the IoT

You can no longer imagine our daily lives, whether at work or in personal life without technology. It is already part of the routine and came, of course, to stay. Brazil has more than 90 million Internet users and about 271 million mobile phones, according to Brasscom. These numbers only reinforce the increased adoption of the technology. But, and companies? It is already widely used for decades within large corporations. What, then, the technology can bring new and especially effective for business?

The Internet of Things is a good example when it comes to news. Much is said about the concept, but little is known in practice. Still, IDC now predicts that spending on technology and IoT will generate global revenues of about U $ S 8.9 trillion by 2020. What does this mean? As a company, we must be cautious when making large investments in a model still little explored as revenue generation. There are some steps that must be analyzed and followed to implement this type of technology, such as:

1. Understand processes

The first step is to understand the procedures to be able to identify where the real-time information will be useful and / or efficient within your company. Some processes live peacefully without it. In other words, do not believe that you must process all information from all areas of the company. No purchase necessary software for every inch of the company – you must perform a gradual approach, according to the business evolution.

2. Extract real benefits

Once you understand the process, you must determine what are the procedures for obtaining benefits of real-time data. What is the most appropriate means to get the information? The sensors, for example, will explode in the coming years. Technologies such as RFID or wearable devices are beginning to enter the market and depend directly on sensors to capture data.

3. Process with intelligence

The data will be analyzed not only by an IT team. Today there are software able to chew high volumes of information. Now we need to go beyond simple data collection and think about the strategy behind them. The Big Data today is the regular date tomorrow and companies need to adapt or be lost along the way. We have a lot of information at our disposal in a click, but you need to know to cross the data correctly to reach strategic analysis. Correct and assertive interpretations will be able to suggest more aligned with business shares of companies. More important than process data is the ability to choose what will be processed to determine the success of your organization. Decide to examine all the data to make any decision will make your company lose the timing and the market will swallow you.

4. Work the company culture

Decisions are increasingly based on facts, the analysis of all collected and properly mixed messages. If all employees not adopt this idea and not make the analysis of their routines will not be possible to extract value addition.

5. Have appropriate partners

Do not try to go it alone, seek partners for technology, software of choice and even for implementation of small projects. Certain companies can – and should – help you, too, with advice. Structural errors at the base of the processes, can compromise the rest of the business.

6. Implement and develop

After these analyzes, it is time to start deployments of its projects. The IoT can bring many benefits for companies to use gradually and strategically. Think of something simple: sensors can identify when the last employee leaves the company, changing your badge and then all the machines would be turned off. Lights, air conditioning. A simple implementation that can generate large cost reductions. Remember the Hype Cycle Gartner, after analyzing more than 2000 technologies, defined five stages to the news. First it arises, attracts too much attention, disappoint people (maybe the high expectations), begins to be understood realistically and is incorporated into everyday life. With the IoT will also be so, but you need to plan carefully to escape the “valley of disappointments” and not get carried away by the excitement of the moment and the market.

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