IoT 101
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Visual Insights
Maximo
Tech Seller 101
100

The new name of the “Watson IoT” brand - which includes brands like Sterling & Weather

What is AI Applications?

100

Enables AI-powered remote asset monitoring at enterprise scale for asset maintenance and operations leaders seeking to optimize operating performance with fewer, more accurate alerts, and greater insights into what is causing failure.

What is Asset Monitor?

100

Name a computer vision use case

What is asset management, manufacturing quality inspection, surveillance, medical image diagnosis (basically anything reasonable)

100

Obtains the insights and visibility needed to maintain and control intelligent assets and equipment.

What is Maximo / Enterprise Asset Management?

100

The #1 best skill a tech seller should have...

What is listening / empathy?

200

A tool that allows for quick and easy IoT prototyping - amongst other applications

What is Node Red?

200

Is a step in data mining that identifies data points, events, and/or observations that deviate from a dataset's normal behavior.

What is anomaly detection?

200

Name a device that MVI can deploy computer vision algorithms to for edge inferencing

What is Iphone, camera, drone, Apple iPhone, etc.

200

Repairs that are completed after equipment has already broken down.

What is reactive or responsive maintenance?

200

The tool that records all of your opportunities and deals.

What is Atlas?

300

IBM’s new containerized platform for all asset management solutions under the Maximo umbrella

What is MAS or Maximo Application Suite?

300

Is a sub-discipline of systems engineering that emphasizes the ability of equipment to function without failure.

What is Reliability Engineering?

300

A type of computing chip has become popular for things like powering gaming computers, mining crypto currency, deep learning, and computer vision

What is a GPU

300

Maintenance that is regularly performed on a piece of equipment to lessen the likelihood of it failing.

What is Preventive maintenance?

300

Is the first conversation with a prospect after they show initial interest in your product.

What is a Discovery Call?

400

The messaging protocol used by IoT applications at IBM

What is MQTT or HTTP

400

An area of management concerned with designing and controlling the process of production and redesigning business operations in the production of goods or services.

What is Operations management
400

This computer vision technique enables computer vision algorithms to divide things into different groups

What is classification

400

A maintenance strategy that monitors the actual condition of an asset to deciding what maintenance needs to be done.

What is condition-based maintenance?
400

Is a legal relationship that is most often formed by a written agreement between two or more individuals or companies.

What is a business partner?

500

These two basically interchangeable terms are forms of computing used for when data is manipulated close to its point of origin

What is “Edge Computing”?

500

An acronym for supervisory control and data acquisition, a computer system for gathering and analyzing real time data.

What is SCADA?

500

This computer vision technique enables computer vision algorithms to detect things in images using bounding boxes

What is Object Detection?

500

Often AI or ML Techniques designed to help determine the condition of in-service equipment in order to estimate when maintenance should be performed.

What is predictive maintenance?

500

Is simply the process of creating a workable plan for targeting the right customers, establishing goals for income and ensuring sales growth over time.

What is Territory Planning?

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