It's Time for IoT To Prove Its Worth

For the last few years, technology vendors have been talking up the Internet of Things (IoT) and IT decision makers have taken notice. It can be hard to distinguish whether the hype over IoT is real, but as Piers Stobbs, chief data officer of British price comparison website Moneysupermarket.com "Much like big data, artificial intelligence, machine learning and blockchain, IoT has become important for a reason – there is something there. I think there is always a bit of hype around these technologies but they don't come about without some underlying gravitas". We're now at a stage where IT decision makers want clear use cases to be demonstrated at scale so that they can replicate these for their businesses.