.jpg)
Evaluation is of companies that participated in the forum in SP
The IOT Business Forum 2016, held on December 6th in São Paulo and with the institutional support of ABES, discussed the potential of Internet of Things technologies, trends, technology integration challenges, new business models and ways to leverage the IoT market.
An opinion shared by representatives of several companies, which promoted lectures at the forum, is that the main Brazilian market for IoT solutions is Industry 4.0, especially given the need to increase Brazil's competitiveness. Another finding is that IoT technologies, machine learning, artificial intelligence and big data are strongly associated, demanding highly trained professionals.
Ricardo Buranello, CEO of Telit for Latin America, noted that Brazil has regressed in its level of competitiveness in recent years and that it is necessary to maximize the return on assets installed in industries, which have a high degree of automation. “The development time of IoT projects is a critical success factor. Companies must rely on a robust cloud to bring in all the APIs they need to get plans moving.” The executive also cited as an example the growth potential of the residential alarm and vehicle fleet tracking markets, when compared to figures from other countries.
A reference in visual computing for the games market, Nvidia is another company that is directing investments and research to IoT through GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) processing. These units allow expanding the capacity and speed of hardware for the development and use of artificial intelligence technologies integrated with IoT applications, as explained by Marcio Aguiar, sales manager enterprise of the company in Latin America.
Increasing the productivity of production lines, integrating machine learning and predictive models to generate value and innovation were some of the points addressed by Mark Loucks, senior data scientist at Unisys. He also talked about the need to implement a culture of data analysis in companies and that among the challenges of IoT are: the lack of standards, the various sources of data and threats to the security of systems. In his assessment, artificial intelligence has become a more viable tool with the availability of cheaper and faster computing power to users.
IoT in healthcare
For Marlos Bosso, pre-sales consultant at SAS Brasil, the use of analytics and big data in IoT is fundamental. Using a brick factory as an example, the executive highlighted that even in simpler manufacturing processes, IoT technologies can add analysis and bring significant gains, making the process smarter. Bosso also spoke about the benefits of IoT in health, a critical sector worldwide, in which the goals are: to increase the number of visits, ensure the humanization and effectiveness of treatments in the face of the impossibility of increasing staff and investments. “Analytics intelligence and the use of devices can enable major changes in health services”, he evaluates.
Specifically regarding the healthcare area, Margareth Amorim, responsible for Business Development for the Healthcare area at SAP, and Guilherme Rabello, market intelligence manager at Inova Incor at Fundação Zerbini, presented the Smart Care Unit solution, which is in the of tests. The solution makes it possible to integrate the data provided by the various equipment that monitors a patient hospitalized in the ICU and also the information generated by the measurements performed by the nurses, making them available to physicians via the SAP Connected Health platform. In this way, specialists can control the patient's indicators in real time and make decisions within minutes.
Rabello recalls that from the beginning of the work, the aim was to find concrete solutions to solve real problems. The multidisciplinary team working on this project brings together around 50 people, including healthcare professionals, SAP employees and university students who participate in SAP Labs. Incor is one of the units of the Hospital das Clínicas complex of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of São Paulo and, per year, performs more than 200,000 consultations and 5,000 surgeries.
The event was promoted by TI Inside, organized by Converge Comunicações.
An opinion shared by representatives of several companies, which promoted lectures at the forum, is that the main Brazilian market for IoT solutions is Industry 4.0, especially given the need to increase Brazil's competitiveness. Another finding is that IoT technologies, machine learning, artificial intelligence and big data are strongly associated, demanding highly trained professionals.
Ricardo Buranello, CEO of Telit for Latin America, noted that Brazil has regressed in its level of competitiveness in recent years and that it is necessary to maximize the return on assets installed in industries, which have a high degree of automation. “The development time of IoT projects is a critical success factor. Companies must rely on a robust cloud to bring in all the APIs they need to get plans moving.” The executive also cited as an example the growth potential of the residential alarm and vehicle fleet tracking markets, when compared to figures from other countries.
A reference in visual computing for the games market, Nvidia is another company that is directing investments and research to IoT through GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) processing. These units allow expanding the capacity and speed of hardware for the development and use of artificial intelligence technologies integrated with IoT applications, as explained by Marcio Aguiar, sales manager enterprise of the company in Latin America.
Increasing the productivity of production lines, integrating machine learning and predictive models to generate value and innovation were some of the points addressed by Mark Loucks, senior data scientist at Unisys. He also talked about the need to implement a culture of data analysis in companies and that among the challenges of IoT are: the lack of standards, the various sources of data and threats to the security of systems. In his assessment, artificial intelligence has become a more viable tool with the availability of cheaper and faster computing power to users.
IoT in healthcare
For Marlos Bosso, pre-sales consultant at SAS Brasil, the use of analytics and big data in IoT is fundamental. Using a brick factory as an example, the executive highlighted that even in simpler manufacturing processes, IoT technologies can add analysis and bring significant gains, making the process smarter. Bosso also spoke about the benefits of IoT in health, a critical sector worldwide, in which the goals are: to increase the number of visits, ensure the humanization and effectiveness of treatments in the face of the impossibility of increasing staff and investments. “Analytics intelligence and the use of devices can enable major changes in health services”, he evaluates.
Specifically regarding the healthcare area, Margareth Amorim, responsible for Business Development for the Healthcare area at SAP, and Guilherme Rabello, market intelligence manager at Inova Incor at Fundação Zerbini, presented the Smart Care Unit solution, which is in the of tests. The solution makes it possible to integrate the data provided by the various equipment that monitors a patient hospitalized in the ICU and also the information generated by the measurements performed by the nurses, making them available to physicians via the SAP Connected Health platform. In this way, specialists can control the patient's indicators in real time and make decisions within minutes.
Rabello recalls that from the beginning of the work, the aim was to find concrete solutions to solve real problems. The multidisciplinary team working on this project brings together around 50 people, including healthcare professionals, SAP employees and university students who participate in SAP Labs. Incor is one of the units of the Hospital das Clínicas complex of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of São Paulo and, per year, performs more than 200,000 consultations and 5,000 surgeries.
The event was promoted by TI Inside, organized by Converge Comunicações.
EN 
PT 
