Why the IoT is just another part of something bigger

A recent discussion on current and future trends for the Industrial Internet side of IoT, with Harel Kodesh, the CTO of GE Software, showed the importance of one important factor in the development of the sector that is often forgotten in the examination of the details of the associated technologies themselves. The Industrial Internet is fundamentally just a part of something much bigger and all-encompassing.

Though some of the technology is, in and of itself, extremely interesting ‘stuff’, the real point is that the Industrial Internet has to be an integral part of everything that goes to make a ‘business’. This may seem to be a self-evident observation at first, yet there are those within and without the industry – including commentators on business and technology issues – who seem keen to make it just one more technology silo, with entrails that can be examined and pontificated upon in total isolation from their part in the bigger ‘whole’.