{"253701":{"#nid":"253701","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Alain Louchez Connects the Data Dots for Manufacturing","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u201cGiven the low cost of sensors and the large demand for process optimization in manufacturing, very high adoption rates of the Internet of Things are possible,\u201d \u003Cstrong\u003EAlain\u0026nbsp; Louchez\u003C\/strong\u003E, Managing Director, Georgia Tech Center of Development and Application of Internet of Things Technologies, explained at his Sept. 30 Georgia Tech Manufacturing Institute Brown Bag Seminar. \u201cPerhaps 80 percent to 100 percent of all manufacturing could be using Internet of Things applications by 2025. This would lead to a potential economic impact of $2.3 billion.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe reason the Internet of Things is so important to manufacturing and other industries is that change comes from data, and data will come from \u201cthings\u201d as more and more companies incorporate sensors and track information on processes, products and services. But what exactly is the Internet of Things? According to Louchez, it is \u201ca global infrastructure for the information society, enabling advanced services by interconnecting physical and virtual things based on existing and evolving interoperable information and communication technologies.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn other words, it is the link between human and non-human things such as personal devices. By 2025, said Louchez, there will be at least 50 billion \u201cthings\u201d connected to the Internet.. There are currently 6.8 billion mobile phones on the planet, and \u201cwe will see 1.4 billion smart phones in use on the planet by the end of the year \u2013 and probably two-thirds of those will be connected to Facebook,\u201d Louchez noted.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo advance data exchange and gathering, in June 2012, the world was introduced to Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6), \u201cwhich changed the magnitude of the Internet by many, many levels,\u201d Louchez said. \u201cWe moved from 4.3 billion Internet addresses with IPv4 to 340 trillion trillion trillion addresses available on the Internet with IPv6.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Internet of Things is a vision of society where we regroup the technologies behind everything we do \u2013 a movement toward a hyper-connected society. By 2025, with 50 billion \u201cthings\u201d connected to the Internet, on average, there will be more than 6 objects connected to the Internet per person on earth, and the sensors in those objects track everything you do. \u201cIt\u2019s going to be big and it\u2019s going to touch everything,\u201d said Louchez. \u201cManufacturing will be a big part of that.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMany companies already have a corporate focus on the Internet of Things but use different names. GE, for example, uses what it calls the Industrial Internet. Bosch has the Internet of Things and Services, while Ericson talks of a social Web of things and networked society. But, Internet of Things technologies have not yet reached its peak. According to a recent study by Gartner, it will take 10-15 years to reach the \u0022plateau of productivity.\u0022 Right now, said Louchez, \u201cWe are taking all the \u2018things\u2019 and elevating them to the level of people. It\u2019s a revolution, and a revolution does not take place over night.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor manufacturing, Internet of Things will create the manufacturing plant of the future. It is the core of future manufacturing. It will also provide direct contact with what is going on in the supply chain. In fact, Louchez said, \u201cOver the next 10 years, advanced manufacturing will become globally linked as automation and digital supply chain management become the norm across enterprise systems.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EInternet of Things initiatives are being put in place around the world. According to Louchez, China is far ahead of the United States. Internet of things took a prominent role in a 12-year strategic plan in this country. Today, more than 40 China universities offer a degree in the Internet of Things.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGermany launched an initiative called Industry 4.0. The goal of this initiative is to recreate manufacturing so that Germany is more productive and more efficient. The initiative lays out plans to \u201cshape the Fourth Industrial Revolution,\u201d explained Louchez. \u201cAnd it will all be driven by Internet of Things technologies (e.g., cyber-physical systems). In other words, the factories of the future will optimize and control their manufacturing processes largely by themselves, so we need to be looking toward the future.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIf there is one thing Louchez wanted participants to take from the presentation, it is this: \u201cThe Internet of Things will have a bidirectional impact.\u201d It will impact manufacturing processes through greater automation, tracing, optimization and human interaction. And on the end-product side of things, manufactured goods will be embedded with Internet of Things technologies that will transform the socioeconomic fiber, including marketing, sales, information management, business models, city life, and more, explained Louchez. He added, \u201cInternet of Things-embedded goods will transform society.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELouchez\u2019s presentation was part of the GTMI Brown Bag Seminar Series, which takes place each Monday between noon and 1 p.m. in the Manufacturing Research Building, Room 114. Students and faculty are invited and are welcome to bring their lunch to the meeting. If you have questions or you want to be added to the reminder list for these events, please contact Tina Guldberg at \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:tina.guldberg@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Etina.guldberg@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn his Georgia Tech Manufaturing Institute Brown Bag Seminar, Alain Louchez explains the significance and future impact of the Internet of Things.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"In his Georgia Tech Manufaturing Institute Brown Bag Seminar, Alain Louchez explains the significance and future impact of the Internet of Things."}],"uid":"27857","created_gmt":"2013-11-11 16:45:43","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:15:05","author":"Tracy Heath","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2013-11-11T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2013-11-11T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"155831","name":"Georgia Tech Manufacturing Institute (GTMI)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"79601","name":"Alain Louchez"},{"id":"79611","name":"Brown Bag Seminar"},{"id":"68951","name":"Internet of Things"},{"id":"215","name":"manufacturing"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETina Guldberg\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDirector, Strategic Partnerships\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E404-385-4950\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:tina.guldberg@gatech.edu\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Etina.guldberg@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["tina.guldberg@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}