AI and IoT: Taking Data Insight to Action - DZone IoT

Recent Gartner estimations lead us to believe that up to 20 billion connected things will be in use by 2020. Data is the oil of our century -- but should we be concerned with a "data spill hazard"? Will artificial intelligence curb this threatening phenomenon, or rather, will it reveal the full potential of IoT data value? If my calculations are correct, when artificial intelligence hits the Internet of Things... you're gonna see some serious sh*t." The question is no longer whether companies should embrace big data analytics technologies. The answer is that they definitely should. Whatever the source we trust, we all know that the amount of data we are dealing with is growing very fast. See, for example, what happens online in 60 seconds. That's why IDC has stated that "over the next three to four years, digital transformation efforts will no longer be'projects,' 'initiatives,' or'special business units' for most enterprises." Frank Gens, IDC SVP explains that these digital ...