Service Applications - Exploiting the Internet of Things

Internet of things (IoT) is connected world of capabilities and services that enable interaction among physical objects supported by technologies such as sensors, RFID, wireless, mobile, cloud and internet. In this paper we analyze the drivers for IT services to use IoT and challenges involved and establish the need for accelerators. Various service applications can be built using IoT in all the verticals to improve process efficiency and productivity. We propose IoT Application Accelerator in this paper which is a light-weight IoT platform that can be used to rapidly prototype, develop and deploy value-added IoT applications, solutions and services. This paper highlights the case studies developed using the application accelerator platform and highlights the technical enablers such as analytics, machine learning, big data and cloud for rapid IoT services, business offerings and benefits.