Advanced IoT applications require new approaches to technology in order to handle the bandwidth, networking, latency and other demands for ultra-fast processing of data-dense applications. This talk introduces fog computing, the technology that bridges the continuum from cloud to things in order to enable IoT.

What are the advantages of blockchain? How has it become so popular? Does using Blockchain in IoT mean that a crypto currency is involved? Is this a peer-to-peer system? Do block chains have to be mined? Is there a limit to how many blockchains can be mined?

Lots of elements go into a discussion of security, including some personal concerns about privacy. When we talk about IoT devices that are distributed and designed to report critical information, redundancy is also a major concern. What represents the framework for IoT to be secure?

Learn how fog is applied to two real-world scenarios: a smart, connected factory and energy exploration.

Fog Computing has a lot of opportunities as these use cases showcase. We look at the impact of Fog Computing in specific verticals and identify when and where Fog Computing is ideal.

It’s dynamic! Blockchain enables a shared identity management strategy that means that transference of ownership and encryption can be delivered in new ways. This panel looks at the opportunity to use encryption dynamically.

Got questions on fog and how it applies to different IoT scenarios? This is the place to get answers. Join in a lively panel discussion by members of the OpenFog Consortium as they answer your questions and discuss the challenges and opportunities in fog.

“Parts is Parts” was a commercial that said no one knows which parts go where, but the combined use of a digital twin and a blockchain allows a level of transference beyond the existing tools. This discussion looks at how blockchain can be integrated into the supply chain.

The Internet of Things is bringing exciting new benefits to businesses and consumers across many different industries. It is also bringing a whole host of equally exciting, yet certainly challenging problems to solve - including security. If you are responsible for developing an IoT solution, you know it needs to be secure, but what does that mean and how do you go about achieving that security? In this session we will look at some of the key ingredients involved in securing your IoT solution from both the hardware and the software perspectives.

NIST’s Cybersecurity for the Internet of Things (IoT) program supports the development and application of standards, guidelines, and related tools to improve the cybersecurity of connected devices and the environments in which they are deployed. By collaborating with stakeholders across government, industry, international bodies, and academia, the program aims to cultivate trust and promote U.S. leadership in IoT.

This session will explore IoT for Connected Care and Health Informatics in the home or residence that brings health-tech and wearable devices, connectivity, data analytics and visualization to caregivers and clinician to deliver healthcare to a growing number of people much more effectively and at lower costs. We are at the point of a new healthcare paradigm that is moving from a reactive approach towards providing proactive healthcare. IoT technology and concepts will play a big role in this transformation.

How is IOT being deployed on the factory floor and how does it improve the management of production? Have we gotten to the point where Programmable Line Cards are taking advantage of connectivity or are gateways making human intervention easier. Where is the promise of IoT for manufacturing being delivered and how?

It’s embarrassing how many times we end up reading about a sensor or a system has been breached and hackers use the back door to access consumer information. Part of the issue is that data is not mapped into models of access control. Hear about solutions that allow companies to secure the information and ensure that the data is not available to everyone.

The rule of the land is that Service Providers are going to deliver over heterogeneous networks for the foreseeable future as LTE, LoRa, 5G and Wi-Fi collide in delivering ubiquitous coverage. How do Service Providers manage single point of contact? Is every service provider forced to be an MVNO? Is this something to be managed in the device with SIMs and other solutions or is this a backend opportunity for exchange services?

How you can use IoT Enterprise vertical solutions and managed connectivity to get improve business processes, uncover the blind spots in your supply chain, protect your assets and improve logistics and distribution capabilities. Optimizing logistics and how your assets are performing is paramount to managing costs and improving ROI throughout the supply chain. Use cases and topics that will be discussed include: Remote tank monitoring solutions, Manufacturing & Logistics, Personal Safety, Managed Connectivity, and eSIMs

North Carolina’s Triangle Region is home to more than 2 million people, the Research Triangle Park, three major universities and the cities of Raleigh, Cary, Durham and Chapel Hill. It is one of the fastest growing areas in the United States and a global leader in the deployment of Smart City technology. This workshop will explore how this region is moving “Smart Cities” from a buzz word to a transformative implementation that solves modern problems and provides economic growth.

Need a consult? Looking to find economies of scale with other facilities or offices? Researching a patient’s symptoms or drug interactions? These are all challenges that could be solved with collaboration software and real-time communications enabled by IoT connectivity.

The life sciences and pharmaceutical industry continues to accelerate the adoption of mobile devices, wearables, and IoT technology to simplify the patient experience, improve quality of care, and create a positive impact on patient outcomes. In medical research, incorrect data capture or any unexpected change in variables can ruin a sample and cost millions of dollars and hundreds of hours. IoT Technology can help avoid these disasters. In this session, learn how IoT-enabled Clinical Trials, mHealth, and Wearable Technology will Transform Healthcare.

Identity theft happens despite attempts to protect personal information, and it can be a devastating event for the individual. Cyber-attacks occur similarly in an enterprise or its Industrial Control System (ICS) architecture, also delivering devastating impacts for the success of the business. This session will address the current state of these threats, outline what technical solutions, either available now or under development, can be identified to close the gaps regarding cyber security.

IoT device makers face a number of choices when it comes to securing their products. Often security decisions are limited to the needs and limitations of each product. That could, over time, lead to a fragmented set of technologies that need to be managed leading to higher costs. Secondly, security failures can occur at multiple points in a devices lifecycle. How does this impact device security? What are the core principles that all device OEMs must take into consideration to implement an IoT security Strategy and not just a point solution? Is there a framework that can be applied to make the right decision?

Your company has done its’ research and identified the benefits of IoT for your operations, but now comes the questions about implementation. It’s time to look at the location of your assets and determine the best strategy. Where does LoRA fit in? Should gateways act as aggregation points? This panel looks at how to determine and build upon the right strategy.

As cities around the globe grow, change, and revitalize themselves, the need to adapt to constant change while delivering efficient cost effective management is becoming more and more crucial. New business models, new markets, new threats to physical and IT infrastructure will require proactive and preemptive decision making. Natural emergencies and disasters will require modeling for preparedness and the ability to react quickly when disasters do occur. All of This will be essential to create and maintain a healthy economic engine for growth and sustainability. We will explore how the age of “The Internet of Things” combined with cognitive computing can deliver intelligent operational tools which will allow our city officials to deliver high value services to their citizens and business across the domains of: safety, traffic, water, power, waste, maintenance and weather events. We will explore how these technological advancements can be applied to create new models to enable and grow their economic engines.

Are you deploying IoT as a science project or for a competitive cost or revenue advantage? Join George Mulhern, CEO of Cradlepoint, as he shares strategic networking considerations to help organizations spend more time “consuming” technology and less time building it – greatly improving their time-to-value. Software-Defined technologies, elastic gateways, and 5G are among those strategic choices that could be the difference between a competitive advantage and a resource drain.

The Healthcare industry on the edge of an emergency fueled by an aging population and rising costs developed countries, while access to healthcare remains a challenge in developing countries. Enter a solution: low power wireless technology. Imagine wearable applications with no batteries harvesting energy from vibration, motion, temperature and sunlight.

Trustworthiness is a paradigm put forth by NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) and IIC (Industrial Internet Consortium) to address the relationship of key system characteristics of IIoT (Industrial Internet of Things) component and systems. The IIC defines trustworthiness as the degree of confidence one has that a system performs as expected, characterized by the five key elements of safety, security, reliability, resilience and privacy in the face of environmental disruptions, human errors, system faults and attacks. Trustworthiness is a trait used for years to define the characteristics of both IT (Information Technology) and OT (Operation Technology) systems. In IT, trustworthiness mainly addresses security, reliability, and privacy. On the other hand, trustworthiness in OT mainly addresses safety, reliability and resilience. Addressing the missing key system characteristics in both IT and OT systems and focusing on the relationship of the five key characteristics of the IIoT, trustworthiness paradigm will solve many IT/OT convergence problems, especially conflicts between safety, security, and privacy.

The exponential growth of connected devices operating at the edge of the network is creating a wide range of security concerns that require a new approach. As devices proliferate, it's getting harder to manage security credentials and software, monitor the security status, and provide cost-effective protection through traditional security model that rely on host-based protections and cloud security services. Fog computing—which distributes resources and services of computing, data storage, and smart networking close to end users—can provide a range of new security services at or nearer the endpoints to help address some of these challenges. This panel will discuss how fog computing can meet the stringent latency requirements for security-related processing in mission-critical systems such as industrial control systems and connected vehicles and how to overcome bandwidth constraints for cloud-based security services.

Social networks, like Facebook, Wayz and Yelp are defacto word of mouth engines that people use to guide and avoid issues. How can a city build solutions that take advantage of citizen connectivity to alert, alarm and appreciate the concerns and communications needed in a city? Is “there an App for that” or do we need to augment apps with other things?

Smart public infrastructure includes the ability to deliver essential services like clean water, dependable power, safe gas, and efficient public lighting. Smarter management of them is the foundation for smart cities. What sensor strategies and frameworks should be put in place for cities to support their citizens and avoid the missteps recently in the news?

Elderly adults are focused on aging in place with confidence, while also remaining active and mobile. However, seniors are at a great risk for falls, and it is crucial that they receive assistance within an hour of an emergency. In this session, we'll explore how healthcare organizations can increase value for their patients by offering mobile medical alerts, and how medical alert technology can help improve patient outcomes and reduce hospital readmission rates. We'll also discuss the economics of medical alerts and how devices can increase recurring monthly revenue.

There has been a lot of M&A activity particularly around MVNOs. What makes a good candidate for acquisition in IoT? Does connectivity drive demand? What should we expect for the rest of 2018?

MulteFire is delivering a new way to wireless. MulteFire is an LTE-based small cell technology that operates standalone in unlicensed and shared spectrum – delivering LTE-like-performance with Wi-Fi-like deployment simplicity. By removing the requirement to own licensed spectrum to deploy LTE technology, MulteFire broadens the LTE ecosystem to industrial IoT, enterprises, venues and more. Attendees at this session will learn how MulteFire allows anyone to deploy and operate their own private or neutral host MulteFire network. They will gain an understanding of how an industrial IoT environment will benefit by deploying a MulteFire network.

In the manufacturing industry, IoT is the enabler — connecting data to the machines, devices and materials across an entire ecosystem, and providing valuable intelligence to analyze the process in depth. The end result has enormous potential, with the opportunity to make intelligent factories and an integrated enterprise come to life. But where and how will you start? In this talk, Google Customer Engineer Elias Pinto will discuss how to leverage big data and machine learning to gain insight and build new IoT applications.

In many industries, the as-a-service model has become a viable alternative to capital expenditure for end users. Healthcare could be no different. In this session, learn what that process might look like.

The Industrial IoT represents a unique combination of opportunity and challenge for digital transformation. In these asset-intensive industries, preventing unscheduled downtime may be the Industrial IoT's killer app, yet incremental gains in throughput and efficiency are important priorities as well. Industrial environments also carry a legacy of often decades-old equipment that must be brought forward against a backdrop of enabling IT technologies that churn every 18 months. And while cybersecurity remains a critical concern, manufacturers and resource companies are finding that the potential benefits of technologies such as virtualization and remote connectivity outweigh the risks of not adopting them. In this presentation, Alex Glaser of Harbor Research reviews why the Industrial IoT--including the discrete manufacturing, oil & gas, refining, power gen, bulk chemicals and metals & mining sectors--are pursuing digital transformation, specific use cases of how they are implementing transformative new technologies, and the benefits they have achieved.

People make jokes about IoT security, but the reality is that connectivity can be taken advantage of regardless of whether you deploy IoT solutions or not. How do companies identify and isolate sensors and systems that have back doors and represent threats to the entire network? Hear how companies can implement an IoT Security strategy that manages legacy as well as new opportunities.

This session will review the major issues impacting how cities, states and national transportation stakeholders are planning for the future of roadways, parking and autonomous vehicles. Lidar, IoT, 5G and Sensor systems are being developed to allow for the technical elements necessary to enable Smart Transportation. Policy and Practice will be explored as it will be challenging to keep up with the rate of change.

The adoption of Industrial IoT (IIoT) has a broad focus on asset health and performance. According to a recent study by Cisco, more than 75% of IIoT initiatives are failing. Too often, the data collected by IIoT are incorrectly viewed as the end game. In truth, companies need to see beyond data collection to become winners in the new digital economy. This session focuses on how to improve results by consuming and sharing IIoT inputs layered with other key information. The integration of this rich, actionable data increases operational efficiencies and maximizes profitability. This panel discusses the real life lessons in the automotive sector.

Medicine is science, and the devices that collect data about patients are critical, not just for the data about that patient, but also in creating a process for intelligent analytics. There are more than 20 devices at every patient bed, and these devices are critical for diagnostics and improved patient outcomes.

When IoT is leverage appropriately at scale and enterprise-wide, efficiencies can be found in energy use, supply chain and maintenance cycles. Medical facilities have the same concerns and can garner the same financial benefits.

The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) landscape today is a confusing mix of proprietary connectivity technologies and standards. Some are general purpose, some are mostly appropriate for enterprise applications and others are optimized for a narrow set of domain-specific use cases in vertically integrated systems. This confusion hinders the ability to share data that IIoT systems need. Architects need clarity on how to effectively share data between IIoT components and systems. To address this confusion, the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) just released the Industrial Internet Connectivity Framework (IICF). It is the result of years of work by many organizations and is the only extensive connectivity analysis by multiple experts from many companies at a major consortium. More importantly, it not only provides high-level design guidance, but also detailed, useful, tangible and practical guidance for those building IIoT solutions today.

Surveillance systems have been deployed in every major city, yet we now have less than 10% of the video is watched by a human. How do we move surveillance to the next level where systems can make us safer and deter crime?

On the farm the weather drives decisions. If there is a drought you try to store, if there is rain you try to divert. Whether drones are watching above or sensors are buried in the soil, they are being used to manage resources, optimize crop production and track equipment. This session explores the numerous ways farming is being optimized by IoT.

The news is filled with discussions and proposals about smart city deployments, but what are the development strategies that make the implementation real and valuable to the municipalities? This session provides a framework for cities that are looking to make Smart City systems a permanent part of their infrastructure.

We have had a lot of investment in trials from both the public and private sector in Smart City solutions. We have asked implementers of these solutions to participate and share their experience and frustrations with becoming a Smart City.

Doctors are using connected devices to help increase participation in annual health checkups. It is cheaper, more efficient, and offers a variety of benefits for both employees, employers, and insurers. In the end, everyone wins.

Many sections of the Healthcare supply chain are heavily regulated and monitored, especially pharmaceuticals and the blood and organ donation supply. IoT monitoring and connectivity can help meet the compliance and QC needs of these suppliers.

Bluetooth 5 is a new personal area network protocol released by the Bluetooth SIG to improve and grow the capabilities of an already existing and successful protocol. This lecture talks about the ins and outs of Bluetooth 5 from a use case, hardware, and protocol standpoint. Bluetooth 5 now provides more capabilities of any PAN communication and is set to overtake the IoT world as the de-facto standard for near range communication.

What are the business and technical implications of new attacks like the CIA’s CherryBlossom toolkit and Mirai? These toolkits go after IoT devices, routers, and gateways. They use sophisticated techniques to compromise these systems, turn them into zombies, and enslave them into botnet armies that are rented out for DDoS attacks. Thus, even mighty giants like Twitter and Netflix have laid low. Hear about the new practices that use hardware security to protect the next generation of IoT devices and routers against such attacks. How can IoT avoid being part of the problem?

Connectivity is key in IoT. Learn how your business can be accelerated by open and secure, data-driven IoT cloud services that enable interoperability across markets and serviceability throughout a product’s lifetime.

The convergence of 5G wireless capabilities and ubiquitous deployment of IoT devices, harmonization of connectivity and interoperability is needed to enhance innovation. In close collaboration with industry and academic partners, IEEE has launched an initiative to facilitate the Harmonization of Connectivity of the Digital Citizen. This panel presents an overview of the Digital Citizen’s connectedness from personal area networks and sensors to metropolitan scale connectedness within a Smart, Immersive City environment.

Patient information is one of the most important security concerns in the data management world, and is heavily regulated by government agencies around the world. IoT distributed data security strategies can help keep that data safe, keep you compliant, and keep the bad actors out.

As the Internet of Things moves from hype to adoption and productivity, it’s time to figure out what is IoT actually good for. Connecting equipment and devices over the Internet enables us to collect a lot of useful data. But what for? Gaining visibility and actionable insight sounds interesting but the real benefit comes from being able to act upon that insight. This presentation will discuss how IoT applications deliver tangible value to the equipment manufacturers and operators alike.

The critical challenge is using this data when it is still in motion – and extracting valuable information from it. How do companies tap into their IoT sensors to collect data, enable predictive and prescriptive analytics while still maintaining data integrity?

Before we called it IoT and M2M, we had various closed systems that enabled reporting and system evaluations. As IoT deployments become better networked, do the analytics measure new opportunities for IoT to be deployed? Hear about the analytics that will make IoT valuable.

The speed of the Internet goes beyond human ability to process, so machine learning and artificial intelligence is essential in order for IoT to deliver on the promise of “just in time management”. How is AI being designed and developed to take advantage of IoT. What markets will be the early adopters and what lessons do we hope to gain from it.

Until recently most security experts have had open and frank conversations in public about threats. These days’ companies have a tendency to hide their pain. We are hosting this open forum for everyone to improve their cyber security plans. No question is stupid, so ask away. We have gathered some of our best thought leaders into the room to answer any questions attendees have about their unique situations.

The cloud is constantly be touted as the platform for IoT, but the reality is that solutions for operations are local, isolated and do not require IT’s central control. This discussion is about how solutions at the edge like Fog, Mobile Edge and other perimeter management frameworks enable Enterprises to improve processes in the field.

The Next Generation of emergency services is not a 911 call but the ability for people to report crisis and for dispatchers to see the entire situation. Where do we stand on getting the network deployed and how is it changing the ways cities react to situations of turmoil.

It often gets lost that one of the core components of the IoT’s “things” is their attributes and the data dictionary that must be mapped into the Business Intelligence systems. Once the data mapping is done the next effort is to integrate the knowledge base into the processes. This panel is a discussion about how IoT analytics impact Enterprise IT systems.

In the old days, we used to field various closed systems to enable reporting and local system management. Now, however, we are facing massive amounts of data being delivered in various formats. Streams and lakes of data are being gathered, but insight can still be elusive. This session will explore how IoT systems will increase business intelligence in the enterprise.

The lighting industry is just starting to look more closely at standardization, and with IoT in place, communication for IoT controls will be a matter of implementing well-defined, compatible control standards.

Leverage the millions of records of data being generated annually from your building to materially increase building efficiency without capital improvements. Lessons from more than 3000 buildings across 24 countries will be shared.