From Product to connected Product-as-a-Service

A guide to transforming the business model through IoT One of the biggest opportunities that the IoT presents is the possibility of transforming your company’s business model to one offering

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Five lessons you can learn from successfully crowdfunded IoT campaigns

The rising popularity of IoT products has resulted in a drastic change in everyday life as people now turn to technology to make their days run smoother and ‘smarter’.

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Smart thinking: Smart watches and speakers will be the next retail battleground, says Fastlane

Apple Watch sales doubled last year, and smart speakers such as Amazon Echo will be a £7 billion (€8.3 billion) market within five years. But are consumers and retailers ready

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As London breaches annual air pollution targets in 5 days, partners plan to map it with mobile sensors

Drayson Technologies and London’s largest environmentally-friendly private hire service,Greentomatocars, have partnered to create a mobile Internet of Things (IoT) sensor network that will help build a hyper-local map of air

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Industrial IoT: Walk before you can run

Successful IoT projects are security driven and focused on business needs, says Ben Boswell, UK & Ireland director of World Wide Technology.

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Oracle announces new artificial intelligence apps to improve customer experience

Oracle has announced new artificial intelligence-based customer experience apps that are designed to enable commerce, marketing, sales and service professionals to deliver smarter experiences across the customer lifecycle in real

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Actility acquires Abeeway to create a best-in-class portfolio for IoT location services

Actility, a provider of Low Power Wide Area Networks (LPWAN) has acquired Abeeway, a geolocation system provider.

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u-blox announces ‘World’s smallest’ quad‑band LTE Cat M1 module for IoT and M2M applications

u‑blox, a global provider of wireless and positioning modules and chips, has claimed to offer the world’s smallest quad-band LTE Cat M1 module, the u-blox SARA‑R410M.

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ABB and IBM partner in industrial AI solutions to combine ABB Ability and IBM Watson

ABB and IBM announced a strategic collaboration that brings together ABB Ability, with IBM Watson Internet of Things cognitive capabilities to unlock new value for customers in utilities, industry and

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OSPT Alliance creates Affiliate membership for ticket terminal makers and system integrators

Industry association, OSPT Alliance, has launched an Affiliate membership category. This is open to all reader and terminal manufacturers, and system integrators active within the contactless market

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Artificial Intelligence comes to the rescue for the retail industry

Exponential progress in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning, fuelled by the combination of cloud, big data and new algorithms, is transforming the retail industry.

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TomTom Telematics and BP partner to help customers boost fleet efficiency

TomTom Telematics and BP have joined forces to offer businesses fuel and driver management solution. BP FleetMove combines fuel transaction information from BP fuel cards with driver behavior data from the

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iDevices advised by WCP on its acquisition by Hubbell

iDevices®, a provider of connected home industry, has been acquired by Hubbell Inc. of Shelton, Connecticut for an undisclosed sum. With 2016 revenues of US$3.5 billion, Hubbell Incorporated operates manufacturing facilities in the United

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Business transformation: Products transform into services, services enable the outcome economy

The outcome economy is based on the outcomes, the results of products or services that are marketed to customers, rather than that of their face value. It represents a significant

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Ongoing trends in IoT device lifecycle management

Today, the number of connected devices is set to overtake the world’s human population. This connected devices ecosystem is what we popularly call the Internet of Things or IoT.

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H&D Wireless launches RTLS solution for industrial IoT

H&D Wireless, an Internet of Things (IoT), cloud and platform system provider, has launched GEPS for Industry, H&D Wireless’s new IoT enterprise indoor real time localisation service (RTLS) of Returnable

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