Intel has created an Internet of Things (IoT) business unit, aimed at uniting the chipmaker's Intelligent Systems Group and Wind River software business.
According to Intel, the IoT unit will handle all areas relating to the IoT space, from software and services, to hardware.
For Intel, the IoT is the fast-growing number of devices, systems and appliances that connect to the Internet and each other, and the associated mountains of data that need to be gathered, stored and analysed.
Its aim, says the company, is to bring solutions to organisations that are looking to transform their businesses, improve efficiencies and create opportunities, through the connection of devices to each other and the cloud.
During a presentation at an event in London yesterday, Kumar Balasubramanian, GM of the Intelligent Solutions Division, said the world is in the midst of a dramatic shift from an era of computers to one of computing.
He added that billions of devices are poised to make more than a trillion connections, and generate vast amounts of data in the process. Big data, Balasubramanian said, comes from intelligent systems - or devices that communicate with each other directly.
Balasubramanian added that IDC analysts predict that, by 2015, over one third of connected devices will be intelligent systems.
This big data has the potential to greatly improve lives, spur tremendous advances in productivity, and create new, industry shifting services, he said.
"This data will come from every step in the system, from cloud to client, and its capture will need technologies and platforms that are able to convert the data into value-added information and integrate the multitudes of disparate systems in a common, scalable way."
With this in mind, Intel has introduced an Intelligent Systems Framework, aimed at simplifying the deployment of the IoT to give its customers the ability to glean more value from their data, says Balasubramanian.
The framework is a set of interoperable solutions, featuring components from Intel and its ecosystem of partners, as well as software and middleware from Wind River and McAfee, he concludes.
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