Bob Emmerson
Don’t leave it to IT – Part 2
Part One of this article focused on the need for a clear, defined strategy when adopting an IoT system, which is something that has to come from C-level management. The
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Don’t leave it to IT – Part 1
There was a time when I could focus on and write about a key technology development like wireless data for a few years and then, when the Internet bubble burst,
Read more CEO lifts the lid on EE merger in his book ‘The 4G Mobile Revolution’
A book written by Olaf Swantee, the former CEO of EE “reveals the lessons to take away from the merger of Orange and T-Mobile that led The 4G Mobile Revolution.”
Read more Companies don’t make things
Companies don’t make “things”: that is not how most companies view their manufacturing activities. They make products, which is why I prefer the term “Internet of Smart Connected Products”, even
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Simple, pragmatic response to a high-tech issue
The high-tech issue is the early identification of performance degradation of machinery in production processes.Vibration coming from component wear in the bearings and rotating shafts
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Ultra-small 15×15 cm cells transmitting at 100 Gbps to individual entities in dense groups
A seriously, disruptive low-latency, high-speed, high-density wireless technology known as ATTO is being developed by researchers at iMinds, the digital research center of Flanders, Belgium, and Ghent University.
Read more Smarter cities are evolving, according to iMinds professor
The smart city concept goes beyond the use of information and communications technology to provide better use of resources and minimise emissions.
Read more Eurotech and Hitachi High-Tech Europe partnership delivers innovative Industrial IoT solutions
The partnership, an extension of earlier joint ventures, is based on Eurotech’s device & data management technology and Hitachi High-Tech Europe’s data analytics solutions, which address predictive maintenance requirements.
Read more Microsoft Azure goes open source in IoT, as Eurotech partners with IBM
Microsoft is normally associated with proprietary technology that becomes a de facto industry standard. Therefore, the recent announcement that MS will support Kura and the open source Eclipse community came
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Real-time intelligence: The ultimate IoT prize?
The concept of big data analytics has been around for several years. It has allowed businesses to examine large amounts of historic data in order to uncover hidden patterns, unknown
Read more Enterprise IoT: Two disparate worlds unified in the Cloud – Pt 2
Cloud edge computing Clouds are moving to the edge of the network. That may sound like an oxymoron since the cloud is basically a centralised facility where IoT data transmitted
Read more Enterprise IoT: Two disparate worlds unified in the Cloud – Pt 1
Applications are created and deployed in OT domains. They operate in IT domains, alongside or incorporated in mainstream business processes like ERP. Seamless integration between these disparate worlds is a
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LoRaWAN™ looks good to go: Part 2
Bob Emmerson went to a recent LoRa Alliance event in Rotterdam, The Netherlands to assess the current state-of-play. Part 1 looked at application development, the architecture and KPN’s network. This
Read more LoRa looks good to go
A spread-spectrum, bi-directional technology that transmits sensor data over several miles and through buildings has to be a winner. Bob Emmerson went to a recent LoRa® Alliance event in Rotterdam
Read more Are enterprises behind the curve?
Bell Labs have published an amazing book titled “The Future X Network”. It’s not for the faint hearted, but if you want a hype-free, authoritative view on where we’re heading
Read more How many things? Nobody knows
IoT predictions for 2020 are unrealistic and there are wide variations: Morgan Stanley has 75B, Cisco pegs it at 50B, as did Ericsson, but in June they brought it down
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