CRN: Can you spotlight a successful IoT deployment you've done with a channel partner?

Cisco's Tony Shakib

There's been a number of partners that we've worked on with large aviation companies for asset tracking. The biggest problem for them was just finding their assets and visualizing the usage, and some of the information that we provided was alarming. One of the most interesting cases was an oil and gas company that we work with, and this was down in Iraq and they actually wanted to take people just to make sure that if an explosion happens, everyone is accounted for, everyone is out of that region. When we put this system in, they pay contractors in Iraq about $4,000 a day, then they started realizing that these guys that they're paying $4,000 a day for are spending 30 percent of their time in the gym, two hours in the cafeteria and they're not doing their job. Then they started putting monitors back to where they are and exposing the information back to them. Then the productivity went up so much where the return on investment on this project, which was deployed through a partner, was less than three months. The possibilities are endless.