In the future, Cisco estimates that 50 billion devices and objects will be connected to the Internet by 2020. Yet today, more than 99 per cent of things in the physical world remain unconnected.
To capitalise on the unprecedented opportunities presented by this wave of digitisation, companies and cities are increasingly deploying Internet of Things solutions.
However, the networking giant believes digitisation is complex.
Customers are often connecting devices and objects - or converging unrelated networks - at previously unprecedented scales.
Furthermore, Cisco believes they can only realise the value of these connections through the application of advanced data analytics, and even then, customers often still need to create a new class of intelligent applications capable of accelerating new business models or increasing productivity.
Of course, all of this has to happen without ever sacrificing security at any point in the system, from the device to the data centre and via the cloud.
As a result, the new Cisco IoT System, announced today, aims to address the complexity of digitisation with an infrastructure that is designed to manage large scale systems of diverse endpoints and platforms, and the data deluge they create.
The new Cisco IoT System comprises six critical technology elements or ‘pillars' which - when combined together into an architecture - help reduce the complexities of digitisation with the company also revealing 15 new Internet of Things products within the six pillars.
“The Cisco IoT System provides a comprehensive set of IoT technologies and products that simplify and accelerate the deployment of infrastructure for the Internet of Things,” says Kip Compton, VP/GM, IoT Systems and Software Group, Cisco.
“This unique systems approach delivers a framework that makes it possible to deploy, accelerate and innovate with IoT.”
