School of Computing Science and Engineering

Course Code: CSIO4700 Course Name: IoT for Industries

IoT Data Management

Faculty Name: Mr. C.Vairavel Program Name:

 Prerequisite/Recapitulations

• Basic knowledge about IoT

 Objectives

• TO Study about IoT data management: the benefits, challenges, and

strategies
 Agenda

• IoT data management

• Benefits
• Challenges
• Strategies
 IoT data management
• Business leaders need an effective IoT data management strategy to optimize and store
collected data and implement IoT to its maximum potential.
• The advent of modern technologies such as IoT has helped businesses acquire large volumes
of critical customer and operational data.
• Organizations utilize the acquired data for analysis, maintenance, and enhancing the
efficiency of operations.
• This trend of aggressive data collection and utilization has led to the rise of data-driven
business practices.
• However, storing and sharing the collected data can be a major concern for business leaders.
• With data privacy issues making headlines, businesses have to be extremely careful with
critical data.
 IoT data management
• To implement IoT solutions in a secure and effective manner, business leaders need to create
an IoT data management strategy.
• An effective strategy can help reduce the impact of cybersecurity risks and ensure the privacy
of data.
• Additionally, IoT data management strategies allow business leaders to reduce costs and
implement IoT solutions efficiently.
• IoT data management helps organizations ensure that the challenges faced by IoT
infrastructure do not outweigh its benefits.
 BENEFITS OF IOT DATA MANAGEMENT

• Product development
• Asset wear-and-tear
• Personalization
 Product development

• IoT data management can help businesses understand the usage patterns of customers.
• These usage patterns can be incorporated into the design and development stages.
With this approach, businesses can identify errors in their current design and make
changes accordingly.
• IoT can also allow businesses to carry out field tests for their products. In this
scenario, IoT data management can help in identifying potential wear-and-tear areas
and expected product lifetime.
• IoT data management helps organizations understand how environmental conditions
and user behavior can affect the performance of their products.
• IoT sensors can also be used to measure product performance metrics. The data
collected by these sensors can be used to improve future versions of products. Such
metrics can help identify possible glitches, future customer requirements, and potential
failures in products.
 Asset wear-and-tear

• Generally, organizations have to frequently allocate resources for inspecting

wear-and-tear in different assets.
• Organizations schedule repairs for certain assets and equipment if needed.
However, some possible defects may not be discovered during audits.
• In this scenario, IoT sensors can monitor various aspects of equipment such as
vibrations, heat, and moisture in real-time.
• Thus, businesses can carry out predictive maintenance of their assets to avoid
possible failures and downtimes.
• Using real-time monitoring, businesses can also understand whether end-users
are operating their products in differently than anticipated.
 Personalization

• Studies suggest that 80% of customers are more likely to purchase products
when businesses provide personalized experiences.
• Therefore, businesses must offer customer-centric personalization to increase
their sales. IoT data management techniques can allow business leaders to
analyze customer data.
• With careful analysis, businesses can gain valuable insights into customer
behavior. Customer data can be collected over time and paired with machine
learning platforms to predict customer needs.
• For instance, in case a customer orders desserts during a specific time slot using
a food delivery app, the app can send various dessert recommendations in that
time slot.
 CHALLENGES FOR IOT DATA MANAGEMENT

• Scalability
• Data collected using IoT sensors are expected to grow in volume
exponentially. Research suggests that IoT devices would generate more than
500 zettabytes of data per year by the end of 2019. Hence, businesses can
face a major issue of decreasing storage space in IoT data management.
Also, business leaders have to explore how they can share and optimize the
gathered data. For this purpose, business leaders can ask themselves the
following questions:
• Can the existing infrastructure handle large volumes of data?
• Which platform can be used to manage the obtained data?
• Who can access the collected data?
• What will be the expected rate of data growth over the next five years?
 CHALLENGES FOR IOT DATA MANAGEMENT

• Security
• The generation of large data volumes can attract cybercriminals, who wish to
gain illegal access to crucial data. Several big players such as Google,
Facebook, Marriott, and British Airways have been victims of sophisticated
cyber attacks. Sensitive data of hundreds of millions of users was
compromised in these cyber attacks. Hackers can also target operational
data, which could disable critical processes in an organization.
• Various network vulnerabilities and newly-created malware strains can
exploit loopholes in an organization’s security protocol to illegally access
data. Hackers can also launch automated cyber attacks to hack into an
organization’s network. Additionally, lack of tech-savvy staff may click on
phishing emails and download malicious files, exposing sensitive business
data.
 STRATEGIES TO IMPLEMENT IOT DATA MANAGEMENT

• Identify use cases

• Hire skilled professionals
• Allocate sufficient budget
• Understand data requirements
• Implement security protocols
• Educate and train employees
 Identify use cases

• Before adopting IoT solutions, business leaders must identify potential IoT use
cases for various business procedures.
• For instance, a retailer may use IoT data to understand customer behavior, while
a manufacturing firm may use it for predictive maintenance.
• With this approach, business leaders can make informed decisions while
choosing IoT solutions and understand their data storage and management
requirements.
 Hire skilled professionals

• To implement IoT solutions and IoT data management successfully, business

leaders should hire skilled professionals.
• These professionals can help in developing and executing effective IoT adoption
strategies.
• Additionally, business leaders can assign project managers for their IoT
projects.
 Allocate sufficient budget

• Business leaders need to carefully understand several necessities such as

infrastructure and resources for successful IoT data management.
• By analyzing these requirements, businesses can allocate sufficient budget for
their project.
• In case of shortage of budget, business leaders can collect private investments.
 Understand data requirements

• Before beginning the data collection process, organizations have to understand

which type of data they will require and how much data storage they own.
• Business leaders need to analyze how different data sets can correlate to one
another to utilize available data efficiently and minimize storage requirements.
• Additionally, developers and business leaders need to collaborate to figure out
how collected data can be optimized and integrated with enterprise systems.
 Implement security protocols

• Businesses need to implement a multifaceted approach for data security.

• For starters, organizations can encrypt their data to ensure data integrity.
• Organizations should also restrict access to sensitive data by providing data
access only to concerned parties.
• Additionally, organizations must educate their employees about data security.
 Educate and train employees

• Businesses must educate their employees about IoT solutions, their benefits, and
IoT data management. For this purpose, organizations can also incentivize
educating other employees about IoT.
• The issues of scalability, security, and data gravity can be addressed more
effectively using existing IoT data management platforms.
• Such platforms can allow businesses to deploy, connect, and scale their IoT
infrastructure.
• Instead of building an IoT infrastructure from scratch, organizations can work
with IoT platforms that offer a global footprint and access to IoT devices, cloud
infrastructure, and networks. This approach can prove to be cost-effective for
small and medium businesses.
 References

1. Vijay Madisetti and ArshdeepBahga, “Internet of Things (A Hands-on-

Approach)”, 1st Edition, VPT, 2014
2. Michahelles, “Architecting the Internet of Things”, ISBN 978-3- 642-19156-5 e-
ISBN 978-3-642-19157-2, Springer
3. Francis daCosta, “Rethinking the Internet of Things: A Scalable Approach to
Connecting Everything”, 1st Edition, Apress Publications, 2013
4. CunoPfister, Getting Started with the Internet of Things, O‟Reilly Media, 2011,
ISBN: 978-1-4493-9357-1.
5. https://nasscom.in/system/files/secure-pdf/IoT_in_India_report_05072016.pdf