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1 Luxoft and the Internet of Things Bridging the gap between Imagination and Technology

2 Luxoft and The Internet of Things Table of Contents Introduction... 3 Driving Business Value with the Internet of Things Internet of Things Defined IoT: Enabled by Industry Innovation Decreasing Connectivity Costs Emergence of Big Data Platforms New IoT Platforms Standards Momentum Falling Sensor Costs APIs Everywhere Our IoT Vision: Driving Business Transformation... 6 Luxoft: Your IoT Service Provider Powered by Partnerships IoT Spaces, Objects, and People... 7 IoT Operations... 8 IoT Data and Decisions... 9 Industry Solutions Automotive Aviation Agriculture Energy (Utilities, Oil & Gas) Retail High Technology Logistics Telecommunications Let s Get Started...12 For more information, visit or iot@luxoft.com. 2

3 Open-Minded Engineering Introduction Driving Business Value with the Internet of Things Global enterprises across industries worldwide are exploring how to create business value with the Internet of Things (IoT). The impact of IoT is profound, with trillions of dollars of economic value to be created through the application of IoT systems and solutions over the next decade. Important technology trends such as falling sensor costs, pervasive Big Data platforms, open APIs, and lower connectivity costs are ushering in a new era of system engineering that will connect spaces, objects, and people everywhere. To realize maximum value from IoT, business leaders should begin transforming their organizations based on key learnings from use cases across connected automobiles, smart manufacturing, intelligent energy and smart grid, connected aviation, precision agriculture, and more. Internet of Things Defined The Internet of Things is the network of physical things (spaces, objects, people, and more) that are connected to the Internet. Although modern IoT technologies have historical context stemming from the machine-to-machine (M2M) environments of the last decade, new technologies and industry trends have turned it from a phenomenon constrained to manufacturing and industrial settings to a trend impacting global enterprise and consumer experiences everywhere. Estimates of the number of connected things in the coming decade range from 50 billion to over 200 billion. Regardless of what the future holds, IoT is here today and enabling enterprises everywhere to create new and exciting business value. Although today most consumers are aware of IoT in the context of things such as smart homes and wearables, the reality is that the most immediate opportunity to apply IoT is within enterprise companies across industries such as agriculture, automotive, aviation, energy, logistics, retail, telecommunications, and more. 3

4 Luxoft and The Internet of Things IoT: Enabled by Industry Innovation The growth of the IoT industry is enabled by a number of important changes in the technology landscape in recent years, including the factors listed below. Decreasing Connectivity Costs The cost of transmitting data whether over wireless, cellular, or traditional wired networks is decreasing, making it less expensive to acquire and transmit large volumes of enterprise data. The cost of connectivity should no longer stop you from deploying IP connections to virtually all your corporate assets and building your enterprise IoT systems. Emergence of Big Data Platforms In addition to large companies such as IBM, Microsoft, and Amazon investing in Big Data platforms, new Big Data software vendors have emerged, such as Hortonworks and Cloudera. Additionally, we re witnessing an ongoing evolution of innovation in the open-source community around technologies such as MapReduce, HDFS, and Hadoop. With more platform choices, it s easier to find the one that fits your needs. New IoT Platforms In addition to Big Data platforms, companies of all sizes are now creating IoT platforms to help companies manage and monitor their connected systems. From larger companies like Cisco, Microsoft, and Amazon to a wide array of startups, industry investments are being made to create software platforms that are tuned to the needs of IoT systems. 4

5 Open-Minded Engineering IoT: Enabled by Industry Innovation The Internet of Things is the engine that is fundamentally changing how information is accessed, shared, and leveraged. Standards Momentum The effort to develop standards for IoT is well underway. AllSeen Alliance, Thread Group, Open Interconnect Consortium, Industrial Internet Consortium, and other groups are working with large and small companies alike and helping ensure that all the applications and devices in your IoT solution will be able to connect across systems quickly and easily. Falling Sensor Costs New sensor platforms such as Rasberry Pi, Arduino, Intel Edison, and other start-up companies are entering the market. These companies are releasing inexpensive, powerful sensors that allow everything on the network edge to be connected to the Internet. With decreasing sensor costs, it becomes easier and easier to connect all your enterprise assets. APIs Everywhere The emergence of API standards and platforms like Mashery, Apigee, Akana, and others make virtually all data access easy for developers. Enterprises today can expose data across their IoT systems to integrate them into other enterprise processes. This means you can spend less time worrying about data access and more time focused on data insight. 5

6 Luxoft and The Internet of Things Our IoT Vision: Driving Business Transformation Connected systems create enterprise data, and enterprise data creates enterprise insight. We help customers capture, manage, and gain insight from their enterprise data. While it s called the Internet of Things, it s really all about the data you gather from those connected things. And gaining insight from that data helps you make improvements to your business new service offerings, transformed product lines, and improved time-to-market. IoT can help you transform your business. Luxoft: Your IoT Service Provider Luxoft helps you fully realize the potential of IoT, finding the right end-to-end solutions that integrate hardware, software, sensors, and cloud services to maximize the impact to your operations. At Luxoft, we have the experience and industry knowledge to support you in your unique industry and technology ecosystems. With a diverse team specializing in hardware, software, systems engineering, architecture, data science, design, and more, we are able to create complete solutions for any system. Our team creates solutions that fit your unique needs and can support all phases of system development, from initial architecture and design to deployment into industrial, operational, or consumer environments. We have helped clients in a variety of industries, including agriculture, retail, automotive, high technology, telecommunications, and aerospace. We ve seized opportunities using wearable technologies, beacons, mobile applications, hardware and sensor integration, and sophisticated cloud and data services. Our team is continually keeping pace with the evolution of our ever-changing industry and is always exploring new IoT-based technologies, strategies, and designs to help our clients succeed. Powered by Partnerships Given the potential reach and application of IoT, building the right ecosystem for your IoT project is essential. At Luxoft, we know it takes a complete ecosystem of software, hardware, and services to build your IoT solutions. We work with leading technology and platform partners across the globe to bring together the key services required for your solution. Some of our partners include: 6

7 Open-Minded Engineering IoT Spaces, Objects, and People At Luxoft, we focus on the technologies to power connected spaces, objects, and people, from mobile applications to wearables to industrial sensors. Enterprises today thrive by delivering the right information to the right people in the right context. We use new technologies, such as wearables, mobile platforms, and sensors, to instrument previously unconnected systems and yield new system telemetry that was formerly hidden or opaque. Enterprise Wearables As wearable technology surges in popularity, new opportunities are emerging for enterprises to capitalize on core wearable features. At Luxoft, we re investing in new platforms to help our clients navigate and execute in this fast-evolving environment in order to stay ahead of the curve and build value for their customers. Mobile Phone and Tablet Applications Mobile phone and tablet applications are among the most effective ways for businesses to both reach and interact with their consumer base. Luxoft specializes in application development, application updates, and the porting of applications from one operating system to another. Industrial Devices and Sensors New IoT technologies make possible the conversion of traditional industrial devices into smart devices. Luxoft helps our manufacturing and industrial clients leverage the IoT industry s innovations, transforming their old industrial devices into a smart system designed to improve their business operations. 7

8 Luxoft and The Internet of Things IoT Operations At Luxoft, we focus on the cloud technologies that enable you to access, store, and manage your IoT system data. We help our clients navigate the changing technology landscape of cloud platforms and services to identify the right tools for the right technologies and solutions. Through cloud-based strategies, our clients are changing the way enterprises do business. Cloud Migration + Migrating to the cloud can be incredibly costly, disheartening, and result in data loss or worse. Luxoft helps clients create a cost-effective cloud strategy by identifying the cloud services provider that best fits specific needs, architecting a platform solution, and migrating both content and applications efficiently. Cloud Applications Maximizing the potential efficiency and cost savings by migrating to the cloud for your business requires skilled operations. Luxoft provides the consulting services necessary to ensure that our clients know how to safely, securely, and smartly operate on the cloud platform of their choice. Application Design and Development Applications backed by the compute and storage power of the cloud allow businesses to scale their reach without the need for on-premise hardware and manpower. Luxoft specializes in building applications that run on the cloud, helping our clients to optimize their growth strategy. 8

9 Open-Minded Engineering IoT Data and Decisions At Luxoft, we focus on the data platforms and technologies that let you gain insight from your IoT system data and then take action based on your enterprise analysis and reporting. Smart design of how you access and interact with data is the engine behind effective technology solutions. We help our clients migrate, manage, interpret, and visualize their data to create intuitive tools for decision support and data exploration. Data Management Effective data management starts with designing and deploying a healthy infrastructure. Luxoft provides the expertise to collect, store, interact with, and maintain Big Data. From schema design to acquisition of embedded sensor data, we help clients simplify their data management needs. Data Analytics Extracting actionable insights from data starts with analytics. Your data has a story to tell, and our data scientists help translate that story into a context that stakeholders can understand. Using machine learning and streaming analytics, we discover patterns, identify trends, and help clients make sense of the seemingly complex. Data Visualization Bring your data to life with interactive visualization solutions. From next-generation tools to open-source frameworks, Luxoft builds upon the latest in data visualization technology to design solutions that make it easier to understand and communicate your data in meaningful and intuitive ways. 9

10 Luxoft and The Internet of Things Industry Solutions Luxoft has a number of IoT solutions for a wide variety of industries. Wondering if we can help find solutions in yours? See some of our great ideas and work below. Automotive Aviation Agriculture Energy For over 15 years, Connected airlines, At Luxoft, we are Energy comprises Luxoft has been an airplanes, and airports helping lead advances existing utilities, oil, and industry-leading software use IoT systems to in the global farming gas, as well as emerging integrator and solution optimize operations, revolution through our energy sources. The provider for automakers allowing them to IoT capabilities, helping global number of devices and automotive handle the over-75% usher in the next farming being managed by utility suppliers worldwide. increase in air travel revolution: precision companies is projected We build advanced expected over the next agriculture. Precision to grow to over 1 billion technology solutions 20 years. Luxoft s IoT agriculture enables in Applications by driving forward our team consolidates deep farmers to optimize the include grid monitoring vision of connected industry knowledge with inputs and outputs of and control, metering, cars, augmented reality, an innovation-focused their field operations, asset management and and mobile device and delivery approach to striving to do more tracking, and field force application connectivity. create custom, integrated for less. By integrating communication. At Luxoft, Millions of cars are IoT solutions. Whether legacy industrial we sponsor an in-house on the road with user you want to optimize hardware with web and R&D group to produce experiences built by fleet health operations, mobile applications, IoT solutions specifically Luxoft, which makes us create smart spaces we have helped for the energy and utilities a leader in building IoT (lounges, boarding areas, drive improvements market. These innovative solutions. and more), or help for agriculture and platforms are easily improve your connection equipment manufacturers customized to fit your with employees and worldwide. needs. customers, we have a solution for you. 10

11 Open-Minded Engineering Industry Solutions Let our Luxoft analysts and engineers help identify a proof of concept to support the business value IoT can bring to your company. Are you ready to connect your business to the Internet of Things? Retail High Technology Logistics Telecommunications Luxoft s best-in-class retail Since 2000, Luxoft Keeping pace with logistics As telecom companies solutions and services are has collaborated with issues arising from continue to evolve their a great way for retailers Fortune 500 technology globalization, emerging networks to support worldwide to improve companies to provide markets, and a hyper- the demands from customer experience, product and engineering competitive landscape advanced IoT system grow revenue, and reduce services, enterprise can be challenging. Luxoft deployments, we have operating costs. We application development, works with supply chain supported them using offer an integrated set of and online technology and logistics providers our experience in network cloud, mobile, beacon, services to help our of all sizes to pursue IoT function virtualization and tablet application clients build innovative innovations that target (NFV) data optimization design and development and robust software cost efficiency, supply for carrier or content services to advance solutions. As IoT-related chain transparency, and provider applications, your retail business. Our technologies have process optimization. We API optimization, and services and solutions emerged over the last work to provide a wide IoT device certification range from customer- decade (fitness bands, range of IoT software expertise. Our expertise facing interactive content wearables, API platforms, development services, ranges from supporting management systems to M2M, and more), Luxoft such as real-time services major telecommunication video display capabilities has worked hand-in- and location intelligence companies to content to sales engagement hand with our clients to solutions, track and trace provider partners, giving reporting all tailored build innovative custom mail delivery solutions, us the full range of IoT for demanding retail solutions to meet this and innovative low-cost telecommunication environments. quickly evolving and often sensors solutions. services and support you complex environment. require. 11

12 Luxoft and The Internet of Things Let s Get Started Are you ready to connect your business to the Internet of Things? Get started with a Luxoft IoT Quick Start evaluation. Let our Luxoft analysts and engineers help identify a four week proof of concept to support the business value IoT can bring to your company. For more information, visit or iot@luxoft.com. 12