By Nacho Lafuente, CEO at Datumize.
There is a gap of 50 years in this photograph. On one side, is a modern CEPSA petrol station in Gavà (Barcelona, Spain), offering the latest innovations in fuel, such as Optima 95. On the other side is a 1968 Lambretta 150 Special, a scooter manufactured in northern Spain quite a while ago. The one you see in the photograph was fully restored in 2018, so a 50-year gap has been closed.
Gartner defines IT/OT Integration as the end state sought by organizations (most commonly, asset-intensive organizations) where instead of a separation of IT and OT as technology areas with different areas of authority and responsibility, there is integrated process and information flow.
The term IoT was first coined by British entrepreneur Kevin Ashton in 1999, while working at Auto i.d. Labs. Fast forward nearly 20 years and experts estimate that IoT will consist of nearly 50 billion objects by 2020. staggering.
