Cisco Opens IoE Center in Tokyo, Drives IoT Solutions in Manufacturing, Transportation, and Smart City with Toshiba

Cisco Opens Internet of Everything Innovation Center in Tokyo
Cisco announced the opening of a new Internet of Everything Innovation Center in Tokyo, where partners and developers can incubate new solutions for local and global markets. The Tokyo IoE innovation center is the seventh Cisco has opened in key innovation hubs around the world.

Part of the center will include an R&D lab for rapid prototyping of solutions for specific industries and customers. In addition to the testing and development lab, Cisco will demonstrate IoE in action by showcasing partner solutions.

Cisco has previously opened IoE Innovation Centers in London, England; Barcelona, Spain; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Songdo, South Korea; Berlin, Germany; and Toronto, Canada. Cisco aims to invest $20 million over the next 10 years into the Tokyo IoE innovation center.

Based on 61 real-world use cases, Cisco consultants calculate that IoE-based solutions can deliver US$19 trillion of economic value worldwide over the next decade. For Japan, that value translates to $870 billion, including $248 billion in manufacturing and $109 in the public sector. Developing a vibrant ecosystem and vertical solutions are essential building blocks to capturing the full value of IoE. The new IoE Innovation Center will help develop and test new vertical solutions that can improve business outcomes and quality of life as well as spark a new generation of startups and jobs in Japan.

Cisco and Toshiba Intend to Jointly Drive IoT Solutions in Manufacturing, Transportation and Smart City
Toshiba Corporation and Cisco announced that they are collaborating on new ways to utilize the Internet of Everything that can dramatically improve processes, productivity and experiences in manufacturing, transportation and city environments. Representatives from Toshiba and Cisco signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the intention to advance the progress of a new Smart Community.

This global collaboration brings together the Cisco Fog Computing network environment featuring Cisco's network-wide security solution with the Toshiba Group's endpoint management technology. The joint effort will help monitor and maintain multiple devices, stream computing technology for high-speed information processing collected from devices, and provide storage technology to accumulate information generated with M2M technology. Through this process, Cisco and Toshiba will explore the feasibility of technological verification, marketing activities, and the provision of solutions for promoting widespread use of fog computing.

Toshiba seeks to generate new value by connecting its energy, health care, storage products and services using cloud computing, big data and analytics technologies, with the goal of creating a Human Smart Community: a safe, secure, and comfortable society. By combining cloud technologies with the IoT, M2M, and fog computing, Toshiba will apply the Human Smart Community to a wider range of devices and spread it to manufacturing systems, traffic/transportation systems, and smart cities.

To allow customers to make maximum use of the opportunities for value generated by the IoT and IoE, Cisco believes that a new approach to infrastructure optimized for many distributed sensors and data processing is critical. Cisco is also encouraging fog computing architecture, in which new networking, computing, and storage for value generation in the IoT era are deployed from the cloud to the edge. To expand the market for this technology, Cisco will promote innovation with its strategic ecosystem partners.

Keywords: Internet of Everything (IoE), Cloud Technologies, IoT, M2M, Fog Computing, ARC Advisory Group.