While we’re still figuring out what the Internet of Things
will eventually look like, we do know this: It’s going to be very, very busy.
To help make sense of the noise IBM is announcing
MessageSight, a new, somewhat mysterious appliance that will help manage the
flood of data coming from Internet-connected sensors and devices. To pitch the
need for the box, IBM cites data from IMS Research, which says that there will
be 22 million web-connected devices by 2020. All these devices, which will
generate 2.5 quintillion bytes of data per day, are going to need hardware to
process them — or so IBM says.
If the understanding of the “Internet of Things” still
eludes you, envision a scenario where every component of you car had its own
sensor, and all of these sensors periodically phoned home about what was going
on inside them. Leaky tire? Faulty brake light? Empty fuel tank? With sensors,
your car could keep track of this information and warn you when bad Things are
going down. But getting sensors in devices is easy. The real challenge is
processing all of their data.
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