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IBM Wants to Create “Buildings Where People Want To Be, Not Just Need To Be”

ISS Group, a provider of facility services, has signed a commercial agreement with IBM to use the power of Watson IoT to transform the management of over 25,000 buildings around the world. Late last year IBM has announced new initiatives designed to bring together the power of its Watson machine learning with the Internet of Things (IoT) in order to help customers and partners, especially those in industry, to reap the potential benefits from insights derived from collecting and analysing data. The firm also opened a global headquarters for its new Watson IoT unit in Munich, Germany, a facility that will also serve as the first European Watson innovation super centre to drive collaboration between IBM experts and clients. The Munich headquarters will be complemented by eight Watson IoT Client Experience Centres spread across Europe, Asia and the Americas. Recently IBM hinted at a big development at its Watson IoT Cognitive Building Forum, held at The Crystal in London, on […]

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