IBM Watson's Internet of Things unit has found its new home base: Munich, Germany.
In addition to serving as headquarters for Watson IoT, the new campus will be IBM's first European Watson innovation center and laboratory, bringing together 1,000 developers, consultants, researchers, designers, engineers, data scientists and programmers to continually drive innovation and connected solutions.
IBM also opened eight Watson IoT Client Experience Centers around the world to extend the reach of cognitive intelligence and Watson's capabilities. There are four global centers — Beijing, China; Boeblingen, Germany; Sao Paulo, Brazil; Seoul, Korea; and Tokyo, Japan — and three in the United States, in Massachusetts, North Carolina and Texas.
What's more, IBM announced it will deliver Watson's APIs and services on the Watson IoT Cloud Platform.
"The Internet of Things will soon be the largest single source of data on the planet, yet almost 90 percent of that data is never acted upon," said Harriet Green, general manager of Watson IoT and Education. "With its unique abilities to sense, reason and learn, Watson opens the door for enterprises, governments and individuals to finally harness this real-time data, compare it with historical data sets and deep reservoirs of accumulated knowledge, and then find unexpected correlations that generate new insights to benefit business and society alike."
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