You work as a middle manager for one of the top US producers of luxury and mass-market automobiles and trucks.
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You work as a middle manager for one of the top U.S. producers of luxury and mass-market automobiles and trucks.
The chief technology officer (CTO) of the company from the course scenario has been watching new technology developments that the company could integrate into its vehicles to enhance the usefulness of and access to the data acquired by the many digital sensors that have been integrated into vehicle subsystems over the past 20–30 years. The technology trend of particular interest is the internet of things (IoT)—the interconnection of embedded devices, such as sensors and computers, over the internet. By taking advantage of this trend, the CTO believes the company can seize an opportunity to provide better service and predictive maintenance to its customers, improving customer satisfaction and adding additional revenue streams.
Based on briefings by the CTO, senior management has decided to implement IoT in its product line. Your CTO has asked you to lead a cross-functional team to take this initiative forward. Your first task is to make a recommendation for how the company should approach this business problem. Do you recommend using incremental or discontinuous (that is, slow or fast) innovation? Specifically:
Should the company…
or
The recommendation you and your team make is an important first step in pursuing this new technology.
In Milestone One, you and your team defined what that innovation looked like: would it be disruptive (new product line) or incremental (new features in one existing product)?
In Milestone Two, you developed a strategy plan and a high-level business model. You’ve shared these with various stakeholders, and they are in agreement with your assessment of how best to get to market with this IoT innovation, which will allow the company to be competitive.
Now, the CTO has asked you to come up with a proposed organizational structure that will support the innovation implementation. In this way, you will be assisting in making the innovation sustainable for the company from the course scenario. Companies that are innovative must make sure they have structured the organization in a way that supports innovation, and a key component of innovation is keeping track of what their customers want in terms of products and services.
The purpose of the modern-day sensor is simple: To collect analog data from the physical world and translate it into digital data assets. This idea isn’t new—throughout history we’ve developed similar technologies for the very same purpose, although each incarnation was slightly different.
Radar, short for radio direction and ranging, was an early way of gathering and translating data from the physical world. Radar generates and transmits radio waves, then “listens” for reflections. Any detected reflections are directed into a piece of electronic equipment that processes and displays them in a meaningful form. This type of detection system played a critical role in World War II, helping Allied forces identify hostile aircraft and ships.
A different type of sensing, or detection, technology was valuable during the Iraq war. When the Kuwaiti oil fires began, the smoke rendered night vision and other enhanced visioning tools useless. The solution was a forward-looking infrared camera that used thermal imaging to see and measure thermal energy emitted from objects. Its ability to penetrate through smoke and fog to capture the heat signature of approaching vehicles made it easier for soldiers to distinguish between friend and foe.
Innovations like these represented the start of miniaturizing technology for purposes of translating the analog world. There are a host of parameters in the world around us that we take for granted—it’s hot outside, the wind is blowing, the water is cold—but without tools, we’re not capable of measuring those things with any reliability. Sensors give us the ability to measure movement, waves, heat, light, and much more. Translating an analog situation into a digital one gives us the power to catalog the data associated with the physical world, and identify trends and patterns.
Link : https://www.iotacommunications.com/blog/iot-sensor-data/