Exclusive Q&A with Doris Mattingly, Director of Engineering at Lantronix

In the first part of our interview with Doris Mattingly, Director of Engineering at Lantronix, we talk about what inspired her to pursue a career in electronics to begin with and her perception of the burgeoning IoT industry right now.

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New Weightless 2-Way Communication IoT standard launches

The Weightless SIG announced that M²Communication (M2COMM), a provider of industrial IoT connectivity technologies, has joined the Weightless SIG to lead a Weightless Working Group for the development of a new high performance LPWAN Standard.

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The Internet of Things; The New Factor to Consider in IT Security

The technology industry is well known for its love of jargon or ‘buzzwords’, which often seem designed specifically to confuse rather than clarify.

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Etisalat to launch new Internet of Things services leveraging ThingWorx® IoT development platform

ThingWorx, a PTC® (Nasdaq: PTC) business and an Internet of Things (IoT) platform provider, announced that Etisalat, a Telecommunications provider operating in the Middle-East, Africa and Asia, has signed a Group Framework Agreement to deploy the ThingWorx IoT Development Platform to enable new innovative IoT and M2M services throughout the regions that it serves.

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Telit introduces new Pan-European connectivity solution for the Internet of Things

Telit, an enabler of the Internet of Things (IoT), announced the introduction of a Pan-European coverage with enhanced performance, one roaming price for all operators. Features include seamless roaming across Europe as well as Russia and Turkey;

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Building Customer Loyalty using IoT

As we’ve seen through store closures from the likes of B&Q, brick-and-mortar stores have suffered in comparison to e-commerce sites from having limited space for products, high overheads and less personalisation. The result is that these physical stores have to some extent turned into showrooms while orders and transactions are often made online.

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Machine to Machine – where will that leave us?

The growing IoT includes a majority population that is inherently naïve and wide open to the lure of criminal involvement. The risk is not only that one specific function might be compromised – as if an attack on a vehicle tracking system could lead a secure van into an ambush – but also that the

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The Edge of Reason: how IoT needs edge analytics as it expands

Gadi Lenz, Chief Scientist at AGT International, details how analytics must be taken to the edge if we are to truly make the most of IoT applications.

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User experience testing is key to IoT going mass market

The mobile experience has transformed  end-user expectations for good. If an app crashes or acts buggy more than twice, the abandonment rate for that app is higher than 80%. Strategies to meet such high expectations will shape how the IoT and more particularly the wearables market grows.

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Investing in IoT so that end users at both consumer and industrial scales can benefit

The growth of the Internet of Things (IoT) has been accelerating over the last few years and has no slowdown in sight thanks to more and more things/machines coming online.  It is also one that closely leverages the existing Industrial Machine-to-Machine (M2M) topic.

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Is the IoT suffering due to sky-high company valuations?

At its annual PTC Live event in Boston in May, the company announced the acquisition of data analytics firm ColdLight. This USD110 million purchase comes on top of two other very prominent deals in the last eighteen months in the IoT field, specifically the acquisition of ThingWorx (USD112 million) and Axeda (USD170 million).

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Transitioning to SDM – why agility is key

Carriers have been utilising multiple silos to store subscriber data for years. That’s starting to lose its curb appeal. Why? That’s because in today’s fast-paced, ultra-competitive marketplace agility is more important than ever; the ability to be first among competitors, and to rapidly change direction, multiple times, is crucial.

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Recent IoT investments show telecoms operators (gradually) moving up the value chain

In mid-2014, when Analysys Mason reviewed more than 100 Internet of Things (IoT) investments and M&A deals, only 5 involved telecoms operators (and 4 of these were Vodafone investments).

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MultiTech aims to ease financial burden of M2M and IoT for service providers transitioning from 2G

Multi-Tech Systems, Inc. a global manufacturer of M2M and IoT devices, announced a new 2G Cellular Migration Rebate Program. Effective immediately and through March 31, 2016, eligible customers can receive a rebate on the purchase of new MultiTech products to replace expiring 2G GSM-based equipment. The rebate applies to both the replacement of MultiTech or

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Customer service must transform with the rise of IoT

Competition between manufacturers is only intensifying with the rise of IoT, and customer experience is critical to the success of connected products. In this short article we are taking a look at how IoT Customer Service is critical to customer experience and the entire success of a manufacturer’s product.

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The ‘other’ vital SaaS – Simplicity as a Service

There’s always a danger when you get too closely involved in any new technology movement that you can be accused of ‘having drunk too deeply of the Kool Aid’. For the IoT sector of sectors – an accurate term given its huge and continually growing diversity – those early visions are now turning into commercial

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