Accenture & Wireless Sensor Networks
Accenture Technology Labs is taking interest in sensornets. The emerging trend of Sensor Telemetry combines data—historical and current—with two-way wireless communications to offer unprecedented visibility into and management of equipment, products and interactions. It promises organizations more detailed, real-time views, not just of individual business transactions, but of physical state and operations, and human conditions. Sensor Telemetry will also enable organizations to respond faster and even predict incidents before they occur.
Accenture Technology Labs, the technology research and development organization within Accenture, believes that Sensor Telemetry will offer organizations the potential to improve performance by generating new revenue streams and improving their operational effectiveness. How? Imagine, for example, the goods in the back of the delivery truck being able to tell the truck driver that they have fallen over and are broken. Or imagine if utility poles could alert city officials if harmful insects enter the city limits. Sensor Telemetry can help organizations across many industries develop new revenue-generating services.
A report on the potentials of WSN is available here.
