Technology is considered one of the biggest drivers of Digital Transformation and Digital Disruption. Out of many frontiers of recent technological advancements, this talk focused on IoT, Drones and Fog Computing as key innovation accelerators for Digital Strategy.

1. Drones and Fog Computing:
New Frontiers of IoT & Digital Transformation
Biren Gandhi
Distinguished Strategist - Corporate Strategic Innovation Group, Cisco
@birengandhi /in/birengandhi

2. Looks Familiar?

3. What % of Fortune 500
companies were
around in both
1995 and 2014?

4. Hint: Babson Olin School of Business Advertisement, Fast Company April 2011, page 121
In next 10 years, how
many of Fortune 500
companies won’t be
around?

5. What’s the average
lifespan of a company
listed in the S&P 500?

6. Cisco Confidential 6© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
CHANGE
Is the New Status Quo
INNOVATION
GROWTH

7. Digital Transformation is happening NOW … But what is it?

8. “the use of technology to
radically improve
performance or reach of
enterprises”
Source: Capgemini Consulting - Digital Transformation: A Roadmap for Billion Dollar Organizations
What is Digital Transformation?

10. Why Digital Transformation?
“technology” topped
the list for the first
time since 2004

11. Tech Frontiers: Catalysts for Digital Transformation
• IoT Platforms (H/W, S/W, App Enablement)
• Fog Computing (Compute, Storage, Network, Cloud ßà Edge
• Drones (Smartphones with Wings)
• Robotics (Shifting Human Value, Butler à Military)
• 3D Printing (Physical à Bio)
• Blockchain (beyond Bitcoins)
• Artificial Intelligence (Google AlphaGo)
• Machine Learning/Deep Learning (Singularity Debate)
• Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality (Telepresence, Tele-X)
• Signal vs. Noise (consumer/enterprise/industrial ecosystems)

12. Inflection Point

13. IoT (IoE) Platforms: People, Process, Data, Things
People
Connecting people
in more relevant,
valuable ways
Process
Delivering right
information to the right
entity at the right time
Data
Converting data into
actionable information,
knowledge and wisdom
Things
Physicalobjects
connected to internet
and one another for
smarter decisions

14. Data
Geo-distribution
M2MChatter
Bandwidth Cost
(aggregation)
Balance of Real-
time & Non-real-
time
Reliability
Unlike Data Center
environment, failures
are “normal”
IT+OT
Deterministic
Control Loops
Cyber/Physical
Security
System
View
MacroPicture
(e.g. City)
Cohesive
Operations
Distributed Policy
Management
Legacy
Deployments
Complex mix
of GF/BF
equipment
Cloud
Interplay
Fragmented
Platforms
Eco-system
of tools, APIs
etc.
Unique IoT Challenges

15. Fog Computing
Sensing
Analysis
Control
DC / Cloud
Network
INTERNET OF THINGS
Fog
Fog Computing is a distributed
computing paradigm that extends
Cloud Computing model closer to
the edge of the network to address
unique challenges posed by IoT.
In essence, a platform for managing
intelligent services at the edge.
1. Distributed Computing for IoT
2. Cloud à Edge
3. Capture-Store-Process à
Capture-Process-Store

16. Fog Computing is Here & Now …
• City of Barcelona – Validation Project
• Collaborative Effort across Startups, Partners and Academia

17. ‘D’ for Data, Devices or Drones?

18. Precision Ag
• Seeding and
harvesting period
• Ill detection
• Pest control
• Smart watering
• Fertilizer need
• Crop damages
• Smart planning
• Livestock
monitoring
• Complement
terrestrial
sensors
Public Safety
• Disaster relief
and recovery
• Emergency
situation
• Traffic control
and smart
planning
• Crime control
• Bird’s Eye View
of incidents
• Smart event
management and
surveys
Power plants
and Energy
• Monitoring power
lines, turbines
• Assets surveys
• Access to
remote areas
• Reduce risky
situation for
people
• Safe inspection
of nuclear plants
Oil, gas &
mining
• Geophysical and
geomagnetic
surveys
• Calculate the
nature of
magnetic rock
structure
• Monitoring the
integrity of oil,
gas and mineral
pipeline and
installations (rigs)
Cinema and
Media
• Spectacular
movies
• Sports and
events real time
streaming
• Real time news
and journalism
• Precise and
useful data for
sport analytics
Drones Becoming a Part of Essential Business

19. Drones: IoT Drivers in Action
People
Connecting people
in more relevant,
valuable ways
Process
Delivering right
information to the right
entity at the right time
Data
Converting data into
actionable information,
knowledge and wisdom
Things
Physicalobjects
connected to internet
and one another for
smarter decisions
Collaboration
+ Emergency
+ Public
Safety
Legacy
Manual à
Efficient
Automated
Layers of
Optimal
Processing
+ Fog
Computing
LiDAR,
Ultrasonic,
Infrared,Tele
metry &
billions others

20. Universal Drone Platform
Smart Comms
Drone Agnostic Self Contained
Payload Agnostic
Many Verticals
Edge-Fog-Cloud
Architecture
App Enabled
Secure IP
FAA Compliant

21. Common Architectural Constructs
INTERNET OF THINGS
APPLICATIONS
Fog
Computing
Management
and Automation
Network
Connectivity
Security
Cyber and
Physical
Data
Analytics
Application
Enablement
Platform
CloudFog

22. Great Names That Lost Their Edge … WHY?
Some
Other
Book

23. Let’s disrupt ourselves before
someone else does …
Digital Transformation Success Recipe: Embrace Change
Technologies will come and go …
Get Comfortable being Uncomfortable …

24. Questions
Fog
Computing,
Drones,
VR/AR, …
@birengandhi/in/birengandhi

25. Thanks
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