Q&A: EPAM Exec On Company's IoT Practice
Submitted by Rick Saia on
Could you tell us about the smart greenhouse case study that won an award from Oracle?
We had been developing it for a few years … . The idea was very simple: At EPAM, we have a concept called "Garage," which is effectively an innovation area … physical space, multiple areas distributed globally where [engineers] can come in and try different things. One of the ideas was this thing that we [did] for the award ... where people were just interested in … connected capabilities into either preservation of greenhouses or rapid development of whatever grows in there.
So it was completely, if you will, a grassroots effort within EPAM. A couple of engineers sort of got interested and developed a concept that was presented to Oracle.
This was quite successful in … showcasing the capabilities internally, making a playground for teaching engineers [in] how to implement these things, and making sort of an end-to-end, tied, connected experience, from hardware, software, artificial intelligence, etc.