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1. As a child what job did you want to have when you grew up? I wanted to program computers. My uncle was studying computer science I was a kid and it seemed like a lot of fun.

1. As a child what job did you want to have when you grew up? I really wanted to be a stuntman, movie magic intrigued me (now I practice and teach a martial art, Choi Kwang Do). Being an astronaut overtook that ambition as I got older and is still achievable!

Eran Eshed is the vice president of worldwide marketing and sales at Altair Semiconductor. Here, he tells Christopher Taylor, the director of analyst firm Strategy Analytics’ RF and Wireless Components advisory service, how the company is progressing following its acquisition by Sony earlier in the year and how he views the prospects for single-mode LTE

Michele Mackenzie, principal analyst at Analysys Mason, talks to Jason Collins, the vice president of Internet of Things marketing at Nokia, to discuss the company’s approach to IoT from technology to ecosystem and business models

Stephan Gatien, the general manager for the Telecommunications Business at SAP, talked to Tom Rebbeck, the research director at Analysys Mason, about SAP’s approach to IoT and how it is trying to help telecoms operators grow their IoT business

As the focus turns to securing the Internet of Things (IoT), Michele Mackenzie, an analyst for Analysys Mason’s IoT and M2M Solutions research programme, interviewed Andreas Haegele, the senior vice president of IoT at Gemalto, to explore the issues organisations face and how Gemalto is addressing the IoT security challenge

IT infrastructure challenges are changing as a result of the rapid growth of the IoT. Various developments are enabling more effective operational technology (OT) integration as well as easier development, deployment and usage of innovative solutions deployed in the field. Roberto Siagri, the chief executive of Eurotech, talks to Bob Emmerson about the company’s plans

Sri Ramachandran is chief technology officer of Numerex. He joined the company at the start of 2016 and is responsible for driving the company’s technology strategy with a focus on product development and engineering execution. He most recently served as CTO of Utilidata, an IoT and data analytics company driving energy efficiency in the electric

Mohsen Mohseninia is vice president of market development for Europe at Aeris. With more than 18 years of experience in the telecoms sector and an early pioneer of the machine-to-machine market, Mohseninia joined Aeris in 2013. Prior to that he was head of M2M for Logica in the UK, having worked for the company in

As OEMs and service providers look to increase consumer IoT adoption, a seamless customer experience is vital, with simple exploration, registration and activation as the aims. Yuval Mayron, the general manager of the Amdocs Internet of Things business unit, tells Antony Savvas about how service providers and OEMs need to work together to deliver the

Of all the challenges presented by IoT, device management is one of the most complex. In the industrial IoT sector, for each of the widelydiffering device types connected to an IoT network, the device management platform must provide what is in effect a lifecycle management function, from activation to decommissioning.

Among the multitude of attention and discussion that surrounds the Internet of Things (IoT), the subject of antenna performance is not always properly considered. Sometimes, this lack of attention is driven by certain interpretations of IoT, based on which of several low cost devices are close to each other with no need for powerful transceivers.

1. As a child what job did you want to have when you grew up? Lord High Master of the Universe

In July Actility, a provider of low power wide area (LPWA) networking and the company behind the ThingPark LPWA IoT platform, launched the ThingPark Approved programme. Actility also welcomed the first partners to achieve ThingPark Approved status. Here, Jeremy Cowan of IoT Now asks Christophe Francois, the vice president of Ecosystem at Actility, how to

Global players in many industries such as telecommunications, medical, industrial and manufacturing, and transportation are changing their business models to create new offerings and to capture their share of the trillion dollar Internet of Things (IoT) market.

IoT user organisations are moving towards a data driven strategy where deployments are utilised for multiple applications, writes Kate O’Flaherty.