IBM Partners: Here's How Big Blue Is Upping The IoT Ante

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Investment in New IoT "Co-laboratories"

As part of its Watson IoT Headquarters, IBM is building up "some of the industry's first ever cognitive IoT co-laboratories."

These will be hands-on industry labs where clients work together with IBM researchers, engineers and designers to drive collaborative innovation in the automotive, electronics, manufacturing, healthcare and insurance industries. The labs will enable specialists to take on various challenges in their industries, as well as apply new concepts and technologies to build IoT solutions and develop and test new business models, solutions and services.