The company I work for already does this.
My problem with the “internet of things” is this...
If things that are connected to the web can be hacked, then this opens up a LOT of opportunity for “book keeping fraud” in the “internet of things”....
This lesson brought to you all by “Sh!t Sherlock”, first name “No”....
In my professional life I have seen similar remote monitoring, just in my case it was of locomotives. Telemetry is constantly streamed to satellites and fed back to the IT geeks and through a fault monitoring "playbook" locomotives could be flagged for shopping and repair, with workscopes provided by the quality team.
It was helpful, but these "Red Rx" workscopes (mandatory workscopes) were exhausting and tedious in the field, and all the unit really needed was a qualified, and experienced machinist or electrician to diagnose the issue and make the repair (as long as the stupid "Lean Warehousing", parts store at the shop actually had the parts in stock... fat chance).
I just see ZERO wisdom in promoting a system that takes away from tried and true field engineering and the whole process of mentoring field personnel. It's not a "virtual oil field" out there, it's the real deal where people get hurt or killed... that fact has far greater implications than some actuarial type on the 5th floor of some office building assessing risk for CAPEX decision making.