Predictive Health Care: How the IoT Can Save Lives

Predictive maintenance isn't just for machines. The Internet of Things is set to revolutionize the health-care industry in many ways, such as real-time alerts for health emergencies, implantable devices that administer medicine, and drones that dispatch health care to remote areas.

Predictive Maintenance: Teaching Old Machines New Tricks

One of the key applications to real-time capabilities within the industrial world is predictive maintenance, which enables companies to address issues with machines and production systems before they break down and create bottlenecks. RTInsights Industry Insights editor Joe McKendrick discusses the collaboration between IBM and National Instruments on a cloud-based, predictive maintenance solution.

Real-Time Patient Monitoring Reduces ‘Alert Fatigue’

Amara Health Analytics is a provider of predictive clinical analytics software driven by a combination of machine learning, natural language processing, semantic analysis and real-time physiological signal processing. This is how Amara Health solved their problem with struggling with the wide array of structured and unstructured data it had to manage.

Uncertainty in Real-Time Fraud Detection

There are only a few complex event processing (CEP) fraud engines that support all of the varieties of uncertainty that reside in financial environments. Here, RTInsights contributor Ivo Correia discusses the need to support uncertainty—which may constitute a significant line of research and development for CEP engines.

Educating Future Data Scientists in Real-Time Analytics

The data scientist, a relatively new and critical role, is concerned with developing a historical model from Big Data that can be deployed in real-time to predict future business events. RTInsights Editorial Director Suzanne Kattau discusses how Penn State, UConn and NYU are a few of the universities educating tomorrow's data scientists.

The Driverless IoT-Connected Car is Here

The Internet of Things (IoT) has become a powerful force for business transformation, and its disruptive impact is being felt in the automobile industry as driverless IoT-connected cars are now a reality. RTInsights Editorial Director Suzanne Kattau explains.

Building Real-Time Apps via Component-Based Development

Commoditization of components such as light sensors, gyroscopes and GPS is accelerating the growth of the Internet of Things (IoT). Here, RTInsights contributor C. Thomas Tyler discusses how component-based development (CBD) can meet heightening demands for speed and scale in real-time, IoT application development.