What are the Industries that Most Use Internet of Things?

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This article, authored by Cory Popescu, SIP Writers Forum, is for the IT / Internet professional, but it is equally applicable to anyone, as we use computer and mobile devices in all aspects of our lives regardless of our profession. 

Internet of Things (IoT) using machine learning as a powerful tool has spread in various industries to observe and predict behaviour patterns. This helps organizations to increase their revenues, improve utilizing their resources including their workforce, help them become more proactive to market dynamism.

IoT applications are used in a variety of industries and they started being developed and implemented over 15 years ago and earlier. Some of these applications are mentioned below.

Healthcare
The power of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning is harnessed in a field of paramount importance for humans: healthcare. Devices which incorporate new technology remind the patients to get important diagnostic tests to take their medication at prescribed time, to eat properly, and to keep them in reasonable health by not needing hospital services. Other devices can be used to predict infection and provide health analysis.  Predicting the probability of contracting a disease through sequencing of genomes and making comparisons with elements of large databases represent other important applications in medical services. This allows doctors to use optimum treatments for those diseases. 

Manufacturing
In the early days of AI, industrial robots have been introduced to assemble and ship products in manufacturing. Nowadays, new versions of robots perform more complex tasks in the electronics, automotive and home industry. Preventative maintenance in operations management is increasing the number devices which use machine learning. These devices are used to predict which parts become faulty so that they can be replaced with minimum downtime and costs.

Marketing
Customers are already used for quite some time to receiving reports and alerts about “what else” they might like after their online purchases. To understand customers better, organizations use IoT to scan customers preferences based on their transactions and offer them the “next best” product or service.  Monitoring the historical purchases for segments of customers, the machines learn how to respond to customers' demands in order to up-sell or cross-sell. Customers can make informed purchase decisions based on the IoT devices recommendations.

Customer Service
Developments in IoT devices help personalize machine and human interaction, making AI more efficient in customer service. Through digital devices, IoT applications generate questions and text response messages to accommodate chats with customers. The automation of the personalized interactions with customers and prospects significantly contributes to reducing administration costs and improves the net efficiency of the organizations.

Essential IoT machine learning developments manifest among others, in the fields of: transportation, network security, financials. Readers are welcome to provide comments of additional IoT applications that they know about, with proven capabilities as the industry of developing intelligent devices based on machine learning is continuously evolving.

References:
The FOW Community blog: Future Of Work: 5 Industries Being Most Affected By Artificial Intelligence by Connie Chan

Forbes: Tech: 3 Industries That Will Be Transformed By AI, Machine Learning And Big Data In The Next Decade by Bernard Marr

EngineersGarage: Top 10 Industrial Applications of Artificial Intelligence by Neha Rastogi

MIT Technology Review: Business Report: AI Hits the Mainstream by Nanette Byrnes

Cory Popescu

Your comments are welcomed

Click on the links below to read the other articles by Cory Popescu:
The New Thought Process of Machine Learning 
How Internet Helps Machine Learning
Can IT Professionals Become Savvy Networkers?
 

Health Concerns of IT Professionals

Screenshot: Google Search special featured snippet: Health Concerns of IT Professionals

This article, authored by Cory Popescu, SIP Writers Forum, is for the IT / Internet professional, but it is equally applicable to anyone, as we use computer and mobile devices in all aspects of our lives regardless of our profession.

IT people spend most of their lives at the office, sitting at the desk with the eyes on the pixeled screens. While IT work is only office work, many times stretching after regular business hours produces a significant number of health issues, whether related to physical or mental diseases. In essence, solutions to correct these health issues exist and this article presents some of the issues along with their possible remedies. The article is based on several actual cases from daily life and on the research described in the references of this article.

Some of the health concerns for people who spend long days, perhaps weekends and their entire working life in an office environment, could be related to physical and mental illnesses. In general certain areas of the body are affected and in particular it weakens the vital organs of the body.

Most common health issues, according to the research exposed in the references material below, seem to be the musculoskeletal disorders of wrists, arms, shoulders, neck, back, other ailments  such as cardiovascular disease related to vital organs, and others related to the mental state.

In the upper part of the body, eyes represent a crucial part to helping IT professionals succeed in their work. When eyesight gets weaker while intensively using the computer screens, the employees require eye protection and aids for reading earlier than workers in industries where the use of the computer screen is not so extensive. There are IT professionals undergoing vision improvement due to regular use of yoga exercises with a mix of mental alertness and relaxation techniques.

The vital organs that could be affected more refer to: liver, stomach, kidneys and heart. These ailments may be connected to eating significant amounts of junk food at irregular hours and to continuous loads of stress to meet the frequent deadlines. Due to longer hours at the office and sedentary lifestyle, healthy eating and healthy sleeping habits are often neglected. More so, in time, tight deadlines and constant top-down or sideways pressure to meet the requirements for customers, management, or other departments of the company  in the case of large corporations, lead to heart diseases found in a large percentage of IT professionals.

In order to heal the sickness, people visit the family doctors and/or the specialists in hope of a quick cure. Sometimes, it takes long before the body recovers, and sometimes it does not become completely healthy again. Some IT professionals have become acquainted with alternative ways to heal the body and keep it at a constant level of good health. These ways refer to easily accessible practices such as meditation and yoga which can even cure, if applied constantly and correctly under proper guidance, and they are favorably fit to prevent the ailments while developing your acute sense of awareness.

As we already know, it is far easier to prevent illnesses than to cure them. Therefore, the discipline to follow instructions to prevent musculoskeletal disorders and further on other illnesses is crucial to help your body cope with long hours at the desk using the computers. Some companies create special rooms for relaxation and exercise and some have included gym rooms in their buildings. Use these facilities at your will, consult with your management as a harmonious combination of physical workout and intellectual projects can only lead to effective results as concerns your health and work productivity.

References:
National Database of Indian Medical Journals: Prevalence  of  Occupational  Diseases  in Information  Technology  Industries  in  Goa

US National Library of Medicine. National Institutes of Health: Health problems and stress in Information Technology and Business Process Outsourcing employees

Computerworld: Health hazards for IT workers -- how that desk job wears your body down

Cory Popescu

Your comments are welcomed

Practical Steps to Create a Small Indoor Ecosystem: Luncheon July 9, 2013

SIPpost June 25, 2013: An Invite from the President

The Lunch and Learn: Hydroponics Plants for House Ecosystem

Tips to begin transforming the potted plants in your home 
from generators of harmful VOC’s into little engines of living air purification.
Planting for fresh air and greener environment in your home.

July 9 2013, Chef of India Restaurant
1415 Yonge St, Toronto, ON M4T 1Y7

Society of Internet Professional + Life Transformation Institute

What: Luncheon - Practical Steps to Create Small Indoor Ecosystem
When: Tuesday, July 9, 2013, 12 noon
Where: Chef of India Restaurant
Location: 1415 Yonge Street, Toronto, ON M4T 1Y7

The Lunch & Learn: Hydroponics Plants for House Ecosystem

Due to great interest following the June 11 presentation by PeapodLife, we are bringing back Wolfgang Amelung, Indoor Rainforest Ecosystem Inventor, to elaborate on the practical steps needed to create small indoor ecosystem projects.

Learn easy-to-implement tips to begin transforming the potted plants in your home from generators of harmful VOC’s into little engines of living air purification.

Please register on the eventbrite site at no charge, we are not charging for the workshop but only for lunch expenses.

Menu: All you can eat from large Buffet of Indian vegetarian and non-vegetarian dishes. Exclusive items, such as whole-wheat tandoori Nan, bean sprout salads and no-chili lentil curry.

Cost: $20 inclusive of taxes and service charges.

An Invite from the President of SIP

Welcome to the second edition of our weekly SIPpost. I hope you like the format and technology news. I would love to get your feedback, and if you would like, we will publish it to promote you!

Every month, a few associates and members meet and go Dutch at an Indian restaurant. In addition to networking opportunities, we also bring in speakers (you could be one) to get some education.

On July 9, 2013, we are asking a visionary Indoor Ecosystem Inventor, Wolfgang Amelung  to give some tips for your home computer room using hydroponic plants.

Please join us if you are in Toronto. 

Details are at https://2013jul9.eventbrite.ca

I'm looking forward to meeting you at the lunch.

Max Haroon | President
Society of Internet Professionals (SIP)
416-891-4937 | rsvp@sipgroup.org
http://sipgroup.org/ 

Podcasting Session Hosted by AIC in Conjunction with SIP

Presentation: Podcasting for Profit by Leesa Barnes
Photos from AIC & SIP Networking Event June 25, 2007

2007 @ sipgroup.org

On June 25, 2007 the Association of Independent Consultants (AIC) in partnership with the Society of Internet Professionals (SIP) held an interactive presentation:
PODCASTING FOR PROFIT: 3 Ways to Make Money from Podcasting
with Leesa Barnes, President of Caprica Interactive Marketing.

Max posted photos from this event with the notes:

Podcasting Session by Leesa Barnes, hosted by AIC in conjunction with SIP

It was nice to see you at the above event. You may have noticed Olga Goubar (SIP Blogger) was busy with her 'Shooter'; well the photos have turned out beautiful and I have posted them on our photo gallery of events.

The link for June 25, in case you have difficulty in locating:
http://sipgroup.org/symposiums/podcast/

Let me know your comments or captions if they are incomplete or if you want to change them.

You may notice that I have highlighted presence of Ludmila Panasenko, head of a health centre called The Art of Life. I have recently attended this centre and was very much impressed by the well equipped centre and their friendly professional staff. The centre is very close to the Crowne Plaza Hotel (Don Mills Road/Wynford Drive).

Some of you know that I am very much interested in holistic treatment and connection of mind to body for healthy living. I have found their goal are very similar to my passion.

Check them out at: http://theartlife.ca/home.html
or read their latest news on their blog: http://theartoflifecenter.blogspot.com/

I will encourage you to pay a visit to them and get an Aura diagnostic, scanned by the computer and interpreted by Ludmila (you will be surprised to find out, as I did, how much it resonates with your life and state of your health).

Wish you holistic health this summer.

Max Haroon, President
Society of Internet Professionals (SIP)
tel: 416-891-4937
email: founder@sipgroup.org
web: http://sipgroup.org/


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