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IoT Data Management Challenges: A View from the Trenches

Posted May 10, 2016 | Technology | Amplify

All that has been said and written about the challenges associated with the Internet of Things (IoT) does not quite prepare you for the practical difficulties that crop up as you start implementing and deploying IoT solutions. Most of the publicly available knowledge about IoT challenges relates to high-level issues that are typically addressed through architecture and design decisions. One of our recent successful implementations, an enterprise-wide Remote Energy Management System (REMS), brought us face-to-face with an entirely new set of ground-level challenges, from data ingestion to data storage, to data processing, to data analytics and visualization. In this article, we share our experiences related to data management in the course of implementing the system, both issues that we headed off at the pass and those that we discovered and addressed along the way.

About The Author
Pranav Shah
Pranav Shah leads analytics in the IoT area at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS). He has extensive experience in business intelligence and analytics in the telecom, retail, utilities, and government verticals. He may be reached at pranav.shah@tcs.com.
Suman Datta
Suman Datta has over 14 years of experience in various roles, such as Technical Architect, Project Manager, and Developer, in the areas of IoT, mortgage banking, and bioinformatics at TCS. He is currently working on IoT analytics and machine learning. He may be reached at suman.datta@tcs.com.
Rekha Vaidyanathan
Rekha Vaidyanathan works in the area of IoT analytics at TCS with over eight years of industry experience in software develop­ment as Analyst and BI Application Consultant, and four years of research experience in text mining. An Associate Member of the Information Retrieval Society of India, she may be reached at rekha.vaidyanathan@tcs.com.
Sudhakara Poojary
Sudhakara Poojary leads IoT delivery at TCS. He has over 19 years of experience of working on and leading large delivery projects for global customers across verticals. He may be reached at sudhakara.poojary@tcs.com.
Vidyut Navelkar
Vidyut Navelkar is Principal Evangelist for IoT at TCS. He has vast experience in developing organizational capabilities and ­successfully leading various large programs. He may be reached at vidyut.navelkar@tcs.com.
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