The 'Internet of things' can offer solutions or new problems

Healthcare facility professionals will have to keep up with increasing rates of technological change


The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and other technological changes are happening an an ever-increasing rate, according to an article on the FacilityCare website. Healthcare facility professionals will have to keep up with rapid change to be successful in the jobs and their careers.

Facility and engineering managers will rely on new in-house experts as well as consulting engineering firms, contractors and manufacturers to keep up with the impending flood of technological changes.  

Gartner, an information technology research and advisory firm, projects there will be about 25 billion connected devices by the end of this decade.

Facility managers who embrace the change, will discover that the IIoT is tailor-made to alleviate many facility problems, the article said. The IIoT can manage the increasing complexity of buildings and integrate old equipment and systems with the new.

Read the article.

 



January 14, 2015


Topic Area: Information Technology


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