07 September, 2017
IoT for Industrial Manufacturing, sometimes called the Industrial IoT (IIoT), offers manufacturers the opportunity to radically redefine their operations and even their entire businesses. The capabilities of IoT enable manufacturers to gain greater visibility and insights into their operations through the efficient utilisation of data and the tighter integration of disparate systems. (more…)
14 August, 2017
With a current market valuation of 900bn , the potential for IoT is huge but many businesses are still grappling with how it can benefit their organisation and how exactly to get started. (more…)
28 July, 2017
Motives and challenges for smart city projects. In the 1969 heist movie, The Italian Job, the team replaces the tapes for the computer used to manage the city of Turin’s traffic lights. In the ensuing traffic chaos, they are able to steal the gold and make their getaway. While the technology may have moved on, with tapes replaced by the cloud, the idea of technology being used to improve a city and even the applications (a form of traffic management in The Italian Job) remain the same.
Smart cities all involve the application of technology to the city, typically by government
The author, Tom Rebbeck, leads Analysys Mason’s Enterprise and IoT research practice
Each smart city project will have different goals but all hope to use technology to improve the city, by increasing productivity, reducing pollution and enhancing life for citizens. Individual projects may vary depending on the city and the region, but they all include this basic idea of improving a city through the application of technology.
The central and multifaceted role of governments in smart city plans is also a common feature. Governments, whether local, regional or national, have a role to play in various aspects of smart city development.
Firstly, the government is a user – often the largest user – of smart city services. Secondly, the government is the main buyer of smart city services. Finally, it dictates the rules that cities must follow, from planning regulations to the licensing of taxi firms. In large part, the success of a smart city project will depend on how the government is able to manage these various, and sometimes conflicting, roles.
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28 July, 2017
IoT Now Magazine (ISSN 2397-2793) explores the evolving opportunities and challenges facing CSPs across this sector. Our exclusive interviews pass on the key lessons learned by industry leaders in next gen Machine-to-Machine (M2M) and Internet of Things (IoT) services.
In Innovation Supplement 2017:
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05 June, 2017
What are the business model and monetization trends and what does it mean for IoT success?
This IDC report shares the top 10 predictions for worldwide software business models and monetization for 2017. These predictions make up the framework for the planning and execution of technology-related initiatives of the IT and line-of-business (LOB) decision makers and influencers in the year ahead.
Read the IDC report to learn about the main software monetization trends. See how this could impact your IoT business and to get guidance for next steps:
This IDC report is brought to you by Flexera Software, market leaders for Software Monetization solutions.
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15 May, 2017
Smart transportation is one of the areas in which Internet of Things (IoT) deployments can achieve measurable impacts on consumers’ lives and enable cost savings and operational efficiencies to be achieved by fleet operators. These benefits, of course, feed down across all forms of commerce as transport is made more efficient, and environmental impacts are reduced, thanks to optimised journeys and minimised fuel consumption.
05 May, 2017
The Internet of Transportation Things expands the addressable market for fleet management. The commercial fleet management (FM) market is impacted by a number of trends, including several developments that can alter the market conditions for solution providers and associated players in the coming years. Multiple parallel market and technology shifts that are currently transforming the fleet management industry may in the longer term create a playing field characterised by a new type of market dynamics.
The author is Rickard Andersson, a senior analyst at Berg Insight
According to Berg Insight’s research in the space, the fleet management market is in the coming years expected to continue along a consistent growth trajectory which has prevailed in the past decade, largely driven by international telematics giants offering increasingly sophisticated solutions to customers of all shapes and sizes. The market is at the same time gradually extending as new and improved functionality is implemented on a wide scale across an ever-increasing range of asset types.
Infrastructure and applications for fleet management solutions Fleet management is an ambiguous term used in reference to a wide range of solutions for different vehicle related applications. Berg Insight’s definition of a fleet management solution is a vehicle-based system that incorporates data logging, satellite positioning and data communications to a back office application. At a high level, the infrastructure for fleet management can be divided into four segments including the vehicle segment, GNSS segment, back office segment and network segment. On the application level, fleet management solutions include numerous feature sets for various types of commercial vehicles. Typical high-level categories include vehicle management, driver management, operations management and regulatory compliance and reporting. Each category includes different subsets of fleet management functionality, some of which are generally applicable for all types of fleet segments while others are specific for certain operations.
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03 May, 2017
How to select the right IoT platform. For an increasing number of businesses, IoT is rapidly moving from a nice-to-have to a strategic necessity. At its simplest, an IoT solution provides the opportunity to save operational costs, introduce new service revenue opportunities, or help to ensure compliance with new regulations, writes Robin Duke-Woolley.
In practice, IoT platforms are therefore becoming more and more a combination of these dressed up in a wide range of business needs, some more urgent than others.
The author, Robin Duke-Woolley, is chief executive of Beecham Research
Decision making in respect of which IoT solutions and platforms to select gets more challenging when successful IoT engagement means processing large amounts of data in real-time to support current business operations. It can be more challenging still to integrate these new real-time data flows with traditional batch update data typical of IT systems already in use. Those challenges increase further when these data flows need to interoperate smoothly and securely across several different business operations, all in real-time.
To cater for these and other challenges and create an IoT solution that will stand the test of time, IoT platforms are increasingly being viewed as the starting point to build on. Put simply, the aim of an IoT platform is to reduce the time and cost of getting new IoT solutions built and implemented by using components already available and being used in other IoT solutions. An IoT platform takes advantage of the fact that the majority of what is needed for most IoT solutions is the same and does not need to be reinvented for every application: it can be predesigned and made available through a platform. The platform then also provides the means for implementing those elements that are specific to the particular application, as well as customising and configuring the solution for the specific need.
So how does a business user, also referred as an adopter, go about choosing the right IoT platform for them?
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03 May, 2017
IoT Now Magazine (ISSN 2397-2793) explores the evolving opportunities and challenges facing CSPs across this sector. Our exclusive interviews pass on the key lessons learned by industry leaders in next gen Machine-to-Machine (M2M) and Internet of Things (IoT) services.
In CEO guide to IoT World 2017 and IoT Evolution Expo 2017:
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10 April, 2017
One of the main challenges in the Industrial IoT (IIoT) is that devices are deployed for long periods of time in environments that cannot be described as classically secure. The access control that is in place for many other types of devices is typically not present in IIoT devices because these end points are exposed to the outside world. IIoT devices therefore need to be protected from the environments they operate in, for a long lifecycle of 10-15 years, and safeguarded from criminals that can attack both the back-end of the IIoT system and the device itself.
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06 April, 2017
With interest in IoT reaching fever pitch, much attention and thought is being focussed on the benefits of having hundreds and thousands, if not millions of connected devices across the world. However, far less attention and thought is being given to how these devices will be managed; an issue that is of paramount importance, particularly to the industrial sector.
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31 March, 2017
As the Internet of Things (IoT) continues to mature, organisations deploying IoT services face many IoT connectivity challenges. On the technical side, coverage challenges include achieving localised indoor coverage in dense urban situations such as urban canyons, providing reliable connections where there are gaps in cellular network coverage in rural locations, and ensuring multi-country and global deployments can be served efficiently and cost effectively.
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20 February, 2017
Although much of the developments in Internet of Things (IoT) have focused on hardware and connectivity – the things and the internet – it’s actually software in the form of applications, management systems and analytics tools that holds the key to unlocking value from the infrastructure.
17 February, 2017
IoT Now Magazine (ISSN 2397-2807) explores the evolving opportunities and challenges facing CSPs across this sector. Our exclusive interviews pass on the key lessons learned by industry leaders in next gen Machine-to-Machine (M2M) and Internet of Things (IoT) services.
In CEO guide to Mobile World Congress 2017:
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15 February, 2017
Optimise performance in manufacturing with industrial IoT.
Global manufacturing faces an increasing set of challenges in growth, innovation and competition. Globally, gross domestic product (GDP) was at US$30.69 trillion in 1995. By 2014, global GDP reached a new peak at US$78 trillion. As a percentage of global GDP, manufacturing dropped its share from 21.4% in 1995 to 14.7% in 2014. In real terms, manufacturing grew, and yet the rate of growth was substantially less than that of the global economy.
The author is Emil Berthelsen, principal
analyst at Machina Research
Industrial IoT (IIoT) has accelerated the pace of innovation and manufacturers are pushed to explore and implement new technologies in IoT while maintaining existing systems and architectures, creating tensions between operational technologies, information technology and IoT implementations. Differences between regions and markets do exist, and globalisation has presented greater competition between markets than ever before. Common to all manufacturers are the continuous needs to reduce costs, improve performance and deliver quality to customers. Combined growth, innovation and competition have the manufacturing industry looking to industrial IoT as a way forward, and as shared in this report, exciting and innovative IoT solutions are reinventing manufacturing.
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