IoT Company IBM

IBM integrates technology and expertise, providing infrastructure, software (including market-leading Red Hat) and consulting services for clients as they pursue the digital transformation of the world’s mission-critical businesses. IBM provides the software and services necessary to build connected, intelligent, and secure workflows that turn operations into a competitive advantage. Wherever you are in your digital journey, IBM delivers insights powered by AI and deep industry expertise to help you achieve operational excellence, and run a smarter business today.

IBM operates on the software side of the IoT market. The IBM IIoT platform provides a way to model the device hierarchy that is integrated as part of a solution and to acquire information from those devices by using industry standard protocols. By bringing together the IoT with cognitive computing technologies, we’re infusing a new kind of thinking into objects, systems and processes. Watson technology understands, reasons and learns. It communicates in natural, human terms. It understands context and nuance, enabling it to not only uncover new insights but also unearth entirely new pathways to explore and possibilities to imagine.

The Internet of Things (IoT) reference architecture defines IBM's approach to IoT solutions. Such solutions use information from devices, people, and applications with cloud or on-premises services and systems to generate insights and value. The center of the reference architecture is the IBM Watson IoT™ Platform. That platform is extended by IBM, third-party, and open source technologies to provide the capabilities of an Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) platform, as defined by the Industrial Internet Consortium's IIoT Reference Architecture. The intention is to define a logical architecture that remains consistent even as the physical capabilities change.

The Internet of Things is the billions of physical devices around the world that are now connected to the internet, all collecting and sharing data. Compose and extend apps that take advantage of data and analytics from your connected devices and sensors. Powered by AI and IoT data, connected and intelligent assets can optimize performance, adapt to changing circumstances, and help ensure continuity. By combining IoT data with IBM Cloud technologies, business can extract valuable insights to improve virtually every aspect of their operations and enable innovative, new business models.