Cognitive (Internet of) Things: Collaboration to Optimize Action

This book explores cognitive behavior among Internet of Things.  Using a series of current and futuristic examples – appliances, personal assistants, robots, driverless cars, customer care, engineering, monetization, and many more – the book covers use cases, technology and communication aspects of how machines will support individuals and organizations. 

This book examines the Cognitive Things covering a number of important questions:

•      What are Cognitive Things?  

•      What applications can be driven from Cognitive Things – today and tomorrow?

•      How will these Cognitive Things collaborate with each and other, with individuals and with organizations?

•      What is the cognitive era?  How is it different from the automation era? 

•      How will the Cognitive Things support or accelerate human problem solving?

•     Which technical components make up cognitive behavior?

•      How does it redistribute the work-load between humans and machines?

•      What types of data can be collected from them and shared with external organizations?

•      How do they recognize and authenticate authorized users?  How is the data safeguarded from potential theft?  Who owns the data and how are the data ownership rights enforced?

Overall, Sathi explores ways in which Cognitive Things bring value to individuals as well as organizations and how to integrate the use of the devices into changing organizational structures. Case studies are used throughout to illustrate how innovators are already benefiting from the initial explosion of devices and data. Business executives, operational managers, and IT professionals will understand the fundamental changes required to fully benefit from cognitive technologies and howto utilize them for their own success.

Dr. Arvind Sathi is a Cognitive Scientist with IBM®’s Cognitive Solutions Lab. Dr. Sathi received his Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence from Carnegie Mellon University and worked under Nobel Prize winner Dr. Herbert A. Simon. Dr. Sathi is a seasoned professional with more than 30 years of leadership in cognitive and analytic solution development and delivery. He works with IBM clients worldwide to envision and build cognitive solutions. Dr. Sathi was a pioneer in developing cognitive solutions at Carnegie Group, leading to its successful public offering as a profitable AI company. At KPMG / Bearingpoint, he led the practices for Cognitive Process Automation, Enterprise Integration, & Analytics. At IBM, Dr. Sathi has led several cognitive and analytics programs including a number of IBM products from Watson, Analytics and business units, and has provided technical oversight to IBM’s strategic accounts. He has also delivered a number of workshops and presentations at industry conferences on technical subjects, and holds two patents in data masking. He has published three books on analytics―Customer Experience Analytics, Big Data Analytics, and Engaging Customers Using Big Data―and is releasing his fourth book titled Cognitive (Internet of) Things in October 2016. He has also been a contributing author in a number of Data Governance books written by Sunil Soares, and has published an article series on Advanced Analytics for IBM Developer Works. Arvind Sathi is a member of IBM’s Academy of Technology.