Microsoft has joined the IoT M2M Council (IMC), a trade group that fosters a community of 25,000 qualified IoT users. The Microsoft Azure IoT Engineering group will use the IMC as a platform to stay in closer contact with enterprise users and product makers that are deploying IoT technology.
“Microsoft joins the IoT M2M Council to speed Internet of Things adoption”
Trilliant, a global provider of revolutionary smart communications solutions in the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), smart energy and smart city space, has agreed to partner with 1NCE to deliver low-cost cellular connectivity. This is designed to make last mile connections for low data IIoT and smart meter applications.
“Partners offer ‘cost-effective cellular’ coverage of IIoT’s last mile”
The Board of Governors of the IoT M2M Council (IMC) has elected Sara Brown of MultiTech and Kim Bybjerg of Tata Communications as their new chairman and vice chairman, respectively. “IMC Governors elect Brown and Bybjerg as new chair and vice chair”
SPONSORED INTERVIEW: Bruno Jacobfeuerborn is chairman of the supervisory board of 1NCE, the provider of simplified flat rate connectivity for the Internet of Things (IoT). “We’re the go-to-guys for IoT customers who need simple and reliable connectivity for their solutions”
IoT Now Magazine (ISSN 2397-2793) explores the evolving opportunities and challenges facing service providers 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 this issue:
Going from millions to billions of connections with the Internet of Things (IoT) will see deployments with massive, multi-region footprints. However, each of these connections will need to be managed with capabilities installed, activated and maintained. The challenge here is that traditional connectivity is not sufficiently automated, is inflexible and, often as a result of management complexity, too costly to be used in support of many IoT business cases. “Embedded IoT connectivity reformulates and enables new business models”
Companies using or offering IoT-based products and services don’t want to be IoT network managers. Their focus is on digitally transforming their businesses, harnessing new capabilities and adopting new business models enabled by IoT. Time spent learning how to manage connectivity is a distraction that could also cause cost increases, delayed service introduction and lost competitive advantage. “Why companies should choose easy-to-deploy IoT connectivity”
Online giants such as Google, Amazon and Facebook talk in terms of being webscale as if that is the largest possible market size that can be imagined. Yes, in comparison to traditional, physical markets, webscale is enormous. It certainly dwarfs the market for consumer connections such as cellphones or home internet connections which have a top end customer base limit of the world’s entire population of almost eight billion people. “What it means to be IoT-scale when webscale just isn’t big enough”
The number of IoT connections has been routinely projected to be in the billions during the early 2020s and, at last, momentum appears to have arrived with the millions of devices rolled out to date forming the basis for billions in the not too distant future. However, there is room for confusion within these predictions which stems from what constitutes an IoT connection. Research organisations routinely report IoT connections in the billions but these go back into the past of machine-to-machine (M2M) connectivity, encompassing all forms of devices and all forms of connections. “Do IoT growth projections demonstrate 2020 vision or are they just counting connections?”
As deployment volumes for IoT devices scale up and services enter the mainstream, organizations are challenged to construct solid business cases for their propositions because of variables in connectivity pricing. What’s needed is a simple, clear proposition that provides them with a flat rate fee, per device for the lifecycle of a service. “Flat rate IoT connectivity means one less moving part for your IoT business case calculation”
IoT Now Magazine (ISSN 2397-2793) explores the evolving opportunities and challenges facing service providers 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 Q1 issue:
INTERVIEW: Bernd Gross explains why quick-start programmes are required to democratise IoT
The world’s population is 7.7bn people and that’s the total addressable market for providing mobile or fixed connections to human customers. It’s a big market and it focuses on relatively high value services with at least reasonable margins per month. That margin availability underpins the ability to sell to, configure and bring customers on-board in processes that involve only partial automation.
“How will connectivity cope in a market that’s larger-than-webscale?”
At the dawn of the Internet of Things, it was routinely projected that IoT would be a market of billions of devices. In fact, most predicted there would be tens of billions of connections live by the dawn of next decade. Back in 2011, Ericsson’s then-CEO Hans Vestberg estimated that there would be 50 billion connected devices by 2020.
“2019 is showtime for IoT as today’s thousands of devices become millions”
IoT Now Magazine (ISSN 2397-2793) explores the evolving opportunities and challenges facing service providers 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 Q4 issue:
INTERVIEW:1NCE CTO Younes Allaki explains the technology behind the company’s headline offering of the 1NCE Lifetime fee: connectivity for B2B applications for the pre-paid price of 10 Euros for 10 years of the device lifetime (10-10-Flat).
(Sponsored News) In the short time since their connectivity offering went to market, 1NCE has gained global recognition for pushing boundaries in the IoT sector, by addressing the need for simple and affordable connectivity.
“Addressing the need for simple and affordable IoT connectivity”
(Sponsored) Realising the potential of the Internet of Things and the often-quoted promise of 50 billion connected devices by 2020, relies on the very tangible challenge of enabling affordable connectivity to low-bandwidth use cases. “Realising the growth potential of low-bandwidth IoT use cases”
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