Remote working is no longer about the office worker, it has broken out of the office into factories, buildings and as far as our imaginations will take us. The modern worker has more autonomy, more opportunity than ever before to work from home, or in fact, anywhere else. Our ideas are just catching up with the possibilities presented by IoT combined with automation, AI and machine learning. EastPoint IoT has already several IoT projects underway or completed. 

Remote working is no longer solely the ability to be able to send an email, take a conference call, it has moved on to the engineer, the inspector, the monitor in whatever guise. IoT has opened up the ability of the genuine remote worker. 

Workers who used to have to engage physically, now they can leverage the AI and the business intelligence to avail of automation and machine learning. We are now looking at the next stage of remote working, hitherto unimagined occupations are seeing the walls of certainty crumble all around them.    
“Technologies such as blockchain, AI, Internet of Things (IoT) and 3D printing will have a transformative impact on how work gets done” Gartner 

IoT, the Internet of Things, can do its part in increasing the number of employees in remote work, in fact it is well on the way to doing so. IoT already enables many of us to work from home, a trend that is only going to increase. Yes, the pandemic is focusing our minds, and is increasing the adoption speed, but it has been happening all around us, we are merely more aware of it now.  
As consumers and workers, we have the devices in our homes to facilitate remote working. Although some jobs are naturally unable to be done remotely yet, that number is decreasing as we continue to explore the opportunities IoT presents us with.  

At EastPoint IoT, yes we are integrating and harvesting data from the sensors, but we are taking it further, in our vision for the world, we then use that data in AI and Machine Learning to remake how work is done in the twenty first century. The AI will now do what the engineer would have done. We are going to be integrating what emerges from the machines straight into the fully functioning brain of the company. EastPoint IoT is learning, growing and evolving our offering and ourselves constantly. The ERP cascades down, out and up, across the world. Everything is now possible. We just need to imagine it, then build it. At EastPoint IoT we have already started.  

We have already seen an explosion in remote working when it comes to office jobs. Many people now work from home, using their laptop’s cloud access. Many more again remote work some days and only go into the office for specific events. International meetings are another day to day of business that immediately lent themselves to remote working and are a viable option in lieu of travel.  
“The global industrial IoT market is expected to reach approximately USD 751.3 billion by 2023, growing at a CAGR of 23.88% from 2017 to 2023.” Wise Guy Reports 2020 

But what about IoT and remote working outside the office? 
IoT creates the data and intelligent systems can be built and learn from this data. Allowing us to do more from one physical position. Instead of the engineer travelling from one location to the next doing monthly, daily or annual checks on equipment, IoT sensors can do the job for them. Creating data that can be analysed and reacted upon when required. Mitigating the need for on site work, and as the system learns what to do in the event of one or more data points being reached, automation and AI are able to react accordingly to whatever the data reveals. A single technician on site or on call is now able to oversee a much larger body of work.