The Internet-of-Things (IoT) is a hot topic and many Master Data Management (MDM) practitioners as well as tool and service vendors are exploring what the rise of the Internet-of-Things and the related Industry 4.0 themes will mean for Master Data Management in the years to come.
In my eyes, connecting these smart devices and exploiting the big data you can pull (or being pushed) from them will require a lot for all Master Data Management domains. Some main considerations will be:
- Party Master Data Management is needed to know about the many roles you can apply to a given device. Who is the manufacturer, vendor, supplier, owner, maintainer and collector of data? Privacy and security matters on that basis will have to be taken very seriously.
- Location Master Data Management is necessary at a much deeper and precise level than what we are used to when dealing with postal addresses. You will need to know a home location with a timespan and you will need to confirm and, for moving devices, supplement with observed locations with a timestamp.
- Product and Asset Master Data Management is imperative in order to know about the product model of the smart device and individual characteristics of the given device.
It is also interesting to consider, if you will be able to manage this connectivity within a MDM platform (even multidomain and end-to-end) behind your corporate walls. I do not think so as told in the post The Intersections of 360 Degree MDM.
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