Sustainability spotlight H
ere’s what Devin Yaung had to say. Please can you tell us more about NTT
Ltd.’s IoT Services for Sustainability offering and why it was set-up? NTT Ltd.’s IoT Services for Sustainability offering covers devices, network, cloud and analytics as a service to help businesses with their global sustainability initiatives using data to reduce their carbon footprint through IoT. It’s something we’ve been doing for our clients
for a long time. For example, we’ve supplied Connected Conservation with the appropriate technologies to support conservation efforts, from radio devices, reserve area networks, and advanced solutions that use the latest AI to monitor nature from satellites. We’ve now packaged this into an official offering that our sales
teams can promote. Sustainability increasingly becomes a top priority for our clients and we want to ensure that we are creating market relevant solutions- but more importantly that we can use technology for good.
How will this help organisations improve their sustainability offering? You can’t manage what you can’t measure and this sustainability offering helps businesses measure their consumption and waste (inefficiencies) in multiple areas including but not limited to: meter reading, water management, predictive maintenance, and environmental monitoring. How exactly this offering can help businesses improve their
sustainability will be dependent on the industry and organisation itself. A hotel, for example, may want to know how much energy is being used for heating and cooling across the entire building. A factory, on the other hand, will have a completely different set of goals, such as reducing waste from downtime. Tere are so many use cases where our stack of solutions can
be optimised within a business and we want clients to know that they can overcome lots of different sustainability challenges with our solutions. It’s about understanding that NTT has the building blocks to address sustainability challenges across its services such as networks, cloud, edge, and wants to make a positive impact by assembling the systems that are needed to make a change.
Can you tell us more about NTT’s IoT services for sustainability technology? NTT’s IoT Services for sustainability is focused on creating digital information on physical assets that can be used to support enterprise sustainability goals. Tere are three main steps to this: digitise, analyse and act. First, you have to digitise the physical environment, taking a
door and knowing whether it’s open or closed, or taking a pump and knowing if it’s running normally or vibrating unusually, this is what IoT does with sensors. Te NTT Edge as a Service provides the right devices and optimal network (zero G through to Private 5G) to transmit that data.
www.pcr-online.biz Te next step is contextualising – analysing
the information and knowing what to do with it. Knowing it’s -12 degrees Celsius means nothing unless you know whether that reading is cause for alarm or action. Tis is where NTT’s digital intelligence comes in. Tis process can be done on the edge or cloud. Using the edge you make the decision on the device or gateway immediately, however, on the cloud, you can store the information to look at the history of the data and analyse the information. Finally, you need to understand how to act upon
the information received and how to get back-end processes to make sure the right person fixes the issue and starts the workflow process to ensure the issue stays fixed. Te NTT digital experience is about putting the end user at the center and providing them with the right information in the right format (mobile
app, text message, etc.) An example of such solutions includes our Private 5G network,
which is great for computer vision and allows vision to become a sensor that can see mistakes and correct them quickly. Another example is our operational technology environment filled with old machines that don’t talk to any other tech. We offer 4G and zero G solutions that can pull information and add context to it. Te IoT solution helps take information and get it to the right person to address any issues.
How is IoT instrumental in this? IoT takes the data supplied and turns it into action. It is the one entity that digitises the physical environment, adds context, and makes it actionable so that we can see and analyse the environment. Te problem today is that many IoT implementations are made
up of various point solutions that result in siloed data that doesn’t provide true insights. For example, there may be separate systems for temperature monitoring, door monitoring and occupancy sensors. Only when these separate system data are combined would you know the impact of an influx of people in a room with the door leſt open during the summer. You have all the information, understand it in context and know what
it means and that something needs to be done but now comes digital experience. How do you put the human element into the processes to respond to the data? NTT Ltd. is the infrastructure that goes up through the cloud whereas NTT data is doing the transformational parts of the business process, all working as one entity.
What role does the channel and IT companies have to play in relation to IoT and improving sustainability initiatives? One of the key things that we must understand is that no one can do this by themselves. At NTT we have a robust ecosystem of partners such as SAP, Cisco and Microsoſt to leverage each other’s strengths to create differentiated solutions. Tis is not limited to IT companies either, we have a global relationship with PwC, as they have the tax incentives and do ESG audits, as well as the World Economic Forum (WEF). We sit on the connected world council and are committing to conducting three workshops and two pilots together with WEF on improving sustainability.
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