New editors to lead global titles IoT Now, VanillaPlus and The Evolving Enterprise

June 29th, 2023. West Malling, Kent, UK – There will be some new faces to connect with at the market-leading global media brands covering Telecoms IT and the Internet of Things (IoT) from Monday, July 3rd, 2023. Jeremy Cowan, co-founder and editorial director of the four titles VanillaPlus, IoT Now, IoT Global Network and The

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floLIVE thinks globally and acts locally to simplify and ensure IoT connectivity

As volumes of connected devices grow, and device manufacturers and OEMs expand their business operations overseas, simplified access to global connectivity is a must. IoT service providers and mobile network operators need to take new approaches to support the global nature of their enterprise customers’ business, by providing them access to seamless, simplified global connectivity.

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Digitisation takes IoT connectivity into a new era of choice, sustainability and customer support

As IoT matures, customers are looking for connectivity from providers that are easy to work with, can offer rapid onboarding, flexibility and excellent support. Digitalisation and automation are the keys to enabling this, but customer priorities also include security and sustainability. Wrapping these capabilities together with a comprehensive portfolio of IoT connectivity technology and then

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Simplicity, scale and security accompany coverage and control on IoT organisations’ target list as the mass market arrives

As the IoT industry continues to accelerate, deployment volumes are growing rapidly bringing greater complexity and putting previously minor challenges under the magnifying glass. George Malim, the managing editor of IoT Now, interviews David Traynor, head of Operations at Velos, to understand how IoT organisations can mitigate their growing pains while achieving greater simplification and

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Simplifying Cellular IoT Connectivity for Enterprises: Driving the Data Revolution

IoT is a global industry, and will increasingly rely on 5G network capabilities to deliver low latency, high quality connectivity to fuel the data revolution. However, enterprises aren’t telecoms experts, so providers that can assemble, manage and secure global connectivity play a vital part in enabling profitable IoT activity. Nir Shalom, the chief executive officer

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Killed off by NTT DoCoMo: NB-IoT still kicking globally, but for how long?

Japan’s telco, NTT DoCoMo, shut down its NarrowBand-IoT (NB-IoT) network on March 31st. Coming barely a year after NTT’s services were launched,  Jeremy Cowan editorial director of IoT Now turned to industry watchers for their views on the decision and what lies ahead for NB-IoT.

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CPaaS must provide IoT businesses with a flexible platform to build their propositions on

Communications platforms as a service (CPaaS) have lots of different names depending on what the service providers and vendors choose to call them but the principle of offering a standardised, global connectivity platform that is composed of network access and a management system is of appeal to IoT service providers, writes George Malim.

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You are the weakest link, goodbye

George Malim worries that, as automation gathers pace, the single point of failure might turn out to be himself

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IoT Now Magazine December-January 2018

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 December-January issue: TALKING HEADS: Tele2 IoT’s Rami Avidan on plans to orchestrate a flexible, agile and scalable ecosystem

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Dude, where’s my car?

With live commercial consumer connected car offerings, called Telia Sense, in Sweden and Denmark, enabled by partner Springworks, Telia is making substantial commitments to IoT applications and services. Jens-Peter Meesenburg, the head of global IoT verticals at Telia, tells George Malim why it has targeted connected cars and how he sees the company developing further

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Simple solutions create complex connectivity choices for IoT service providers

Too much choice can be a dangerous thing but, the vast diversity of IoT applications and business models depend on appropriate functionality being available at varying price points. George Malim examines the options.

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Do cloud processing and communication costs put you on edge?

For years technology marketing has revolved around the central principle of centralising intelligence in the cloud and rolling out commodity hardware at the edge. This has seen the costs of operating enterprise IT and telecoms networks start to fall as deployed devices get cheaper and cloud delivers on its efficiency promises, writes George Malim.

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Organisations must control access and manage identities to secure IoT

Identity and access management (IAM) is now recognised as a capability that providers of Internet of Things (IoT) services need to address if they are to offer secure services. After all, finds George Malim, if you can’t control access to a device or service, you can’t secure it.

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Connected cars are prepared to play their part in a wider ecosystem of federated data and apps

Rakesh Kushwaha is the head of the IoT Product Unit within Nokia’s Applications and Analytics business group. Here he tells George Malim how he sees the connected cars ecosystem developing as the market moves on from retrofitting point solutions to traditional vehicles using long-established technologies to one where many services utilise the same, flexible platform

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Edge computing powers devices to process before transmission

Mike Bell is the executive vice president of IoT & Devices at Canonical. He joined the company in October 2016 from car maker Jaguar Land Rover’s connected car and in-car entertainment business. This background gives him great familiarity with embedded devices as Canonical focuses its IoT and devices efforts on the mobility, industrial, networking and

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One platform does not fit all IoT operations so organisations will mix and match

What an IoT platform is and what it should do plagues the greatest minds in IoT. In short, a platform is simply something to base something else on but that doesn’t necessarily help organisations looking to decide which platforms to use, writes George Malim.

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