“As devices and technologies are becoming more interconnected and can gather more data, federal agencies are looking to harness the power of “internet of things” to gather data and increase communications for enhancing their mission work.
For biomedical research, IOT capabilities have been helpful for forming ecosystems and enhancing instruments to generate large amounts of data around biological profiles, chemical properties and data analysis. These features better enable researchers to improve drug and treatment discovery, noted Timothy Mierzwa, enterprise strategy lead at the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences’ (NCATS) IT Resources Branch…”
“While there are different use cases for IOT adoption, there are also different challenges and considerations to take into account before folding them into mission activities. For one, agencies must have the proper infrastructure to enable the data ingestion and analysis to best leverage IOT.
‘At NCATS, we have a combination of not only the smart devices and instruments, but also the cloud infrastructure to handle that big data analysis that comes off those instruments and devices,’ Mierzwa said…”
“Applying zero trust principles to IOT security practices is another way that Mierzwa has looked to secure connected devices. He looked to segment IOT ecosystems within NCATS’s network so any respective devices don’t have access to data that they shouldn’t have…” Read the full article here.
Source: Here are Federal Agencies’ Steps to IOT Adoption – By Melissa Harris, May 9, 2022. GovCIO.
