Industrial Internet--Needs to be Win Win for all

Win for All

Further to my post about the efforts GE is making in utilising options with Industrial internet, and also looking at returns after investing in Industrial Internet, please find below the views from Jon Bruner, who is from O'Reilly media, and has posted this as part of collaboration between the GE and O'Reilly.

As industrial internet is about the data about machines, so when we are talking about it, then the data itself, and scope of data is very big in context.

Industrial data is able to provide data at various levels of frequency and accuracy, that has  not been seen before. This eventually helps in improving the big network from where the data is flowing on. Huge systems can be optimized, failures can be avoided, performances can be improved as each component is

providing its status in real time.

However, as this  enables the micro than micro information to be fetched, there is lot of worry from segments who may see this as interference in their area. The tech persons may find that the hard earned ways of managing things, may get overruled by the statis way of working defined as per idealistic ways. As

well, the employees may not like being micro managed for every task they are doing, just on the basis of evaluation of the the minor variations from their work. Consumer senses it as the breach of their privacy, when they see that  even the minute things are getting covered through it. 

This conflict  can be  handled are by providing value to both , the ones being monitored and the ones monitoring it. It canbe done by providing employees, the informationthey may require to improve their score their managers would be able to see on the basis of reports from the Industrial Internet.

For eg. Fort Collins Utilities plans to invest around $36 Million investment in industrial internet related things and help from software by Aclara. It plans to go around this by installing the advanced meters, which will generate lot of data about the  usgaes, and the transformers. This data willnto only help the

organization in finding in advance about the failure in power , as well particular transformer that needs to be changed to avoid explosions.

From the consumer point of view, this will provide the minute details about the usage on electricity and water, and also provide graphical version about the usage done for Heating, Cooling, Lighting etc. After all this analysis, a recommendation will be sent out to the   regular users based ontheir usgaes of power for particualr things, as well as the type of building, its structure status of the building etc will be considered. For high end clients, a staff person will go and  consult with the user about energy savings.

This will provide win-win situation to both of them. The main idea to sell it  off to various departments and to get greater worth,  would be to provide the value to each and every user, who is getting affected  with it.

Further refer:  http://www.ideaslaboratory.com/2013/02/18/jon-bruner-broadening-the-value-of-the-industrial-internet/

How about combining the ERP and mobility along with Industrial Internet. As mobility should not be just restricted to providing the same set of services on smart device as one was  doing on his PC, and we can utilise other features of the the smart devices as well. As we expect that the industrial internet will bring talking the machines very much in regular, then these machines will be sending the datas to their respective servers, so utilising that data through the smart devices can bring more value to it. An example of the feature to be used is the usage of Global Positioning of the smart device;
Taking an example, where in Industrial internet environment, one sensor is sending hundreds of readings about one core value to the server, and based on the pattern that the server looks at, it sees that the valve is about to be in Non Working condition. Based on that the server sends out the alert to the technician who is nearest to that valve usign technicians smart device GPS location about its condition, so it can be looked upon and valve can be changed. The Technician can update the action taken on server through their secured smart device, and as all these machines will be inter-connected, so the ERP system would be able to take that failed Valve as an item required in inventory, and then can create a requisition, which can be analysed by the supervisor for further sending it as approved  order.
This would enable extending the usage of mobility devices, ERP, Industrial data from industrial internet.