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TIKIRI WANDURAGALA TITLE : SENIOR CONSULTANT FOR INFRASTRUCTURE SOLUTIONS
COMPANY : LENOVO LOCATION : UNITED KINGDOM
A senior consultant specializing in x86 systems , Wanduragala has over 30 years of experience in the IT industry , having worked in a number of international roles with PC and server vendors . At Lenovo he advises customers in EMEA on data centre optimisation projects .
at Lenovo , describes , IoT devices will help reduce traffic , and direct autonomous vehicles efficiently through the streets of smart cities . “ Deliveries which are not successful the first time are a key driver of congestion , as drivers have to return to the same address repeatedly . In a smart city , location data that shows when a customer is home can be shared anonymously through IoT devices with delivery companies – with their consent – so that more deliveries arrive on the first attempt .”
The role of cloud in handling the large amount of data generated by IoT devices In 2021 , there were over 10 billion IoT devices in the world , and by 2025 , IDC expects global data generation to exceed
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