That’s certainly the case with Iota, a revolutionary new software platform designed to give research teams the flexibility, agility, and robustness they need in today’s technology-driven research environments. Best of all, the Iota innovation platform is simple and scalable. It is scientist and engineer friendly, making it easy to learn, adopt and integrate.
Iota uses a Microsoft Office 365 (MS365) framework, including Teams and OneNote. Because MS365 is widely used across many STEM industries, it’s a well-known tool—which means it enables an extension of an already familiar workflow and interface.
Iota is hosted in a cloud environment and accessible via the web-based Teams client.
Iota is integrated with wearable technology, capturing data from various sources.
Users are able to organize, improve, annotate, visualize and analyze data so it can be stored and retained in a usable format.
Customizable components or modules can be added to Iota to further its use as an immersive collaboration tool.
With Iota, all information is housed in the platform, even that with third-party collaborations. Iota’s quality controls and audit trail ensures built-in data integrity and security.
All the captured data are automatically processed in Iota using custom cloud-based analysis engines, including searchable video, machine learning algorithms, data visualizations, etc.
Iota enables easy information-sharing, connecting researchers and labs to each other for real-time collaboration. As an open collaborative platform, Iota enhances speed and accuracy as multimedia data are captured and organized.
Iota provides an end-to-end process for managing data throughout its lifecycle—from creation and initial storage, to cataloguing and analysis, to archival for future research and analysis reuse.
As Iota gathers data from various contributors, it “fuses” data together in unique ways—ultimately, building organizational knowledge on a project.
The beauty of Iota is that it can be tailored for any company in any industry by building customized modules and components that specifically address their needs and how they want to use Iota.
Ontology-based search engines provide more accurate and relevant search results by defining the relationships between words and content. This allows you to quickly target only the content you want to view, by selecting a proper class. Varya enables you to generate an ontology model based on your business-specific content, regardless of industry type—allowing you to connect to organizational knowledge with the confidence it will provide the results you need. Read case study
With an agnostic and open approach, Iota is designed to connect with multiple devices.
Varya Virtual’s ontology search engine
Iota’s Integration with Wearable Devices
[A large pharmaceutical company] found that the use of head mounted wearable devices from RealWear combined with the use of Varya’s Iota platform greatly eased the transfer of technical information within the organization. Specifically, this meant significantly reduced technical transfers between Product Development organizations and Manufacturing. Similarly, the team identified significant opportunities to streamline our work with CROs, given the ease of which collaboration partners could share notes, results and methods. The combination of these improvements allowed our scientists to create multi-user, collaborative ‘notebooks’ where information could be expanded to include video, image and audio content and information could be exchanged internally and externally easily and securely.Book a demo with a Varya Virtual team member.
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