2. Introduction
• Definition; A connection of smart assets and sensors that matter
most to you to collect and share data so as to enable new insights
to transform your business.
• Connecting the physical and digital worlds
3. How IoT can transform businesses.
• Improve efficiency by monitoring and tracking the health of your
assets.
• Enables innovation by analyzing data from Multiple sources in real
time
• Use advanced analytics to transform your organization by creating
new business models and revenue systems.
4. Ways IoT effects modern business
• Big Data Analysis: companies generate large amounts of data every
single day. This info can be used to improve customer experiences.
• Reliability monitoring: Companies offering warranties on their
products can gauge how consumers use their products. This allows
for a more accurate estimate of a product lifecycle and the ability to
adjust warranties on future products based on hyper-active
modelling of current products in consumers homes.
• Heightened consumer expectations: with the amount of
information consumers give to companies, customers tend to have
heightened expectations of quality, value and ongoing support.
5. • Web Presentation: Every company/business needs to have a
website to put their information out there. People look up business
they see around whether big or small.
• Instant support and troubleshooting: Consumers always know
what is available to them from your competitors, If customers have
issues with your product, they expect you to know how to handle it
and provide a 24/7 method for reaching out to your support team.
6. MICROSOFT AZURE IoT services
• Improve efficiency: connected devices and assets can be
monitored over time and alerts sent to the right team when
action is needed.
• Enables Innovation: through monitoring and analyzing your
business in real time, you can enable your business to innovate
and make most out of the situation.
• Business Transformation: Using the data from asset monitoring,
advanced analytics can be used to enhance decision making and
innovation. Businesses can be transformed by creating new
business models and revenue streams through data insights.
7. What are Azure IoT services
• Azure event hubs: A scalable service for ingesting and storing data from line-of-business
assets and sensors.
• Azure Document DB: A NoSQL document database-as-a-service that helps enable fast
deployment of IoT applications that are flexible and scalable, handle a diversity of data,
and run in a trusted cloud environment
• Azure stream Analytics: A real-time distributed stream computation service that
provides low-latency, scalable processing of streaming data in the cloud with an
enterprise-grade service-level agreement.
• Azure Notification Hubs: A scalable, mobile-push notification engine for quickly sending
millions of messages to iOS, Android, or Windows devices
• Azure Machine Learning: Harness machine-generated data with powerful, cloud-based
predictive analytics.
• Azure HD Insight: A Hadoop distribution powered by the cloud to process unstructured
or semi-structured data from web clickstreams, social media, server logs, devices and
sensors, and more.
• Microsoft PowerBI: A self-service analytics tool for all your data.
8. “ For a company to compete in
the 21st Century a website to
put their information out
there and to deal with their
consumers will be a good thing
to have”
9. References
• IoT and modern businesses:
http://www.smartdatacollective.com/keithtullyy/318066/5-ways-
internet-things-effects-modern-business.
• Microsoft azure IOT services: http://www.microsoft.com/en-
us/server-cloud/internet-of-things.aspx#Fragment_Scenario4.
• Prepared By: Becky M.O. Abraham
