IT

Machines and objects that communicate with each other (machine-to-machine) are now standard in many areas of business. Up to now, equipping a product with this capability has been very costly for companies in terms of time and IT resources. With the cloud-based Application Enablement Platform, Swisscom is creating the basis for connecting products to the

Openwave Mobility, a software innovator enabling operators to manage and monetise mobile data, has announced that the CTIA has named its operator app, MOTIFY, a winner at the MobITs Awards for Customer Experience Management (CEM).

The ZigBee Alliance, a global ecosystem of organisations creating wireless solutions for use in energy management, commercial and consumer applications, has announced the ratification of the ZigBee Remote Control 2.0 standard. The standard is now available for product development and can be downloaded for free from the Alliance website.

If you were to set out to design a geographical region that was optimised for the development of M2M services, it would probably look a lot like Scandinavia, according to Jeremy Green.

Maingate Solutions was founded in 1998 as an M2M service provider (a mobile virtual network operator) offering machine-to-machine communication services to enterprises and utilities in the Nordic region, while also serving industrial, domestic security and point of sale verticals. In 2008 it began to focus on how to handle the huge quantities of data produced. Maingate now supplies

There are major growth opportunities for utility companies through smart meters and smart home platforms, provided they address quality and consumer driven issues.

The Internet of Things is changing the dynamics of how corporate management works. One example of this, writes Oozi Cats, CEO at Telit Communications PLC, is allowing the older style, traditional graphs and charts – based on months-old data – to be replaced by dynamically assembled dashboards of business context, synthesised in real time with interactive, big data analysis

Although the scope for meter data management (MDM) in Europe is currently limited, the market is expected to take off in the foreseeable future. The main driver for the adoption of MDM solutions is the need for utilities to manage and use the growing volume and variety of data created by widespread smart meter installation.

The arrival of wearables, from glasses to smart clothing, will bring great opportunities to the industrial and corporate setting – but they will come with challenges, so companies need to come to the party prepared!

Industrial automation systems take advantage of remote monitoring and diagnostics for process optimisation and operational efficiency. Increasingly industrial equipment such as robots and plant controllers are being shipped with embedded cellular connectivity. Analyst firm Berg Insight forecasts that M2M connections in industrial automation applications will grow at a CAGR of 23.2% to 7.1m connections by 2018.

Boulder, Colorado, USA, (Business Wire) – Utilities have long used IT solutions in their businesses  for customer billing, for outage responses and for protection and control functions. Only recently, however, has the industry recognised the critical role that IT will play as the one-way network of old evolves into a far more complex system –

Lantronix announced it has signed a distribution partnership agreement with Ingram Micro Europe, a division of Ingram Micro, a global wholesale provider of technology products and supply chain management services.