Message from Co-Founder, Bit Stew Systems, From GE Digital

IIoT is Amplifying the Data Integration Challenge

6.4 billion connected things will be in use worldwide in 2016, and the number of connected devices will reach 20.8 billion by 2020. Newly connected devices are coming online within networks at an alarming rate, and most of the effort has been focused exclusively on data generation and not necessarily data management.

The challenge for the IIoT is how to get data from all of these complex devices and systems in highly diverse, often unstructured formats and make sense of it. This explosion of data will most certainly be too rapid, and too large of a change for traditional systems to handle. The risk for those who lag behind the curve on Industrial IoT is that they will cease to be competitive in the global industrial market.

Data Integration is Blocking Transformation

Adoption of the IIoT has slowed because most organizations struggle with managing the volumes of complex data that comes along with it. We recently conducted a survey of IT executives which revealed that 39% are challenged with integrating complex data from disparate sources and systems and believe that data integration is the single greatest barrier in adopting an IIoT strategy.

A New Way of Thinking

Solving the data integration challenge requires a whole new way of thinking and traditional data architectures must be reimagined to support the rapid proliferation of data from an exponentially expanding set of data types. So, how do we get there? The key to solving the data integration challenge is semantics. Bit Stew’s integration technology is designed to rapidly ingest and integrate data to provide a semantic understanding of information across disparate systems and sources. Deeper analytics can then be applied intelligently through analysis methods and workbenches.

Let the Machines Do the Hard Work

Don't panic. If you are intimidated by the impending explosion of streaming data from billions of IoT sensors, there’s still time to devise your IoT roadmap. Put the learning machines and algorithms to work for your business. Extract the insights from all your data by letting a data intelligence platform do the ingesting, mapping, and correlating for you.

Kevin Collins
Co-Founder, Bit Stew Systems, From GE Digital