M2MAPPS: Ned: The VGo telepresence robot is an amazing high-tech / high-touch product. When and why was the decision made to create it?
NED SEMONITE: VGo was founded in 2007. The early years were spent raising money and starting the design. The people behind the company came out of the videoconferencing and robotics industries. (more…)
December 13, 2013
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M2MAPPS: Wyless Connect seems to have to have two main activities. Backup services for business continuity and the deployment of wireless devices. Let’s start with continuity. Is that your core competence?
BENNETT ALPERT: I’d prefer to describe the company as having a single expertise in wireless networks and a core competence to configure, deploy and support the hardware that’s needed to run them. But business continuity is definitely a key activity. (more…)
November 5, 2013
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M2MAPPS: Insurance telematics (UBI) for commercial fleets is a very new area. There are globally approximately 4.6 million vehicles and owners that use some sort of an insurance telematics solution, but not so many in the commercial fleets. Can you talk about what can be done to make UBI more attractive to fleet customers?
CHRISTOPHER CARVER: There are two points. First, the programs really need to be simple. They have to be easy to implement. Complex systems and processes get in the way of doing business, they make adoption more difficult, they reduce the likelihood that the telematics are going to be used. (more…)
October 25, 2013
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M2MAPPS: Can you summarize Quake Global’s core competence and its key activities?
SERGIO RAMOS: QUAKE provides communications systems that enable global monitoring, tracking and control of corporate assets. We’re the market leader. (more…)
September 18, 2013
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M2MAPPS: Can you summarize Axeda’s core competence?
BILL ZUJEWSKI: We’re a cloud based service company that focuses on m2m solutions. Our software collects data from devices in the field, transmits to a server where it is processed into real-time information. (more…)
August 9, 2013
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M2MAPPS: Can you start by outlining how you started?
ARNOLD AGEMA: I entered m2m via the back door. I’d been running an IT company in the Netherlands that specialized in industrial automation and in 2008 I was approached by a Dutch OEM that had been operating worldwide since 1985. (more…)
August 5, 2013
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M2MAPPS: Sigfox has employed license-free spectrum to create a cellular network that is dedicated to M2M and the IoT. The obvious question is why? What is wrong with cellular technology?
THOMAS NICHOLLS: I’d like to start with a reminder that M2M and IoT applications come in numerous sizes and shapes. Those that need relatively high data rates work well with existing connectivity technologies, but many others only need to exchange small messages every so often. (more…)
May 13, 2013
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M2MAPPS: You have been giving M2M talks, together with Dr. Mischa Dohler, all around the globe for the last two years. Which are your main research activities in this field?
JESUS ALONSO-ZARATE : Yes, we started off in December 2010 at the international conference IEEE GLOBECOM 2010. Since then, we have been giving a series of Machine-to-Machine (M2M) tutorials around the globe in different events, universities, and companies. (more…)
May 3, 2013
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M2MAPPS: eDevice is involved in products, solutions and services and you cover a lot of bases. Can you indicate your core competence? Where do you focus your activities?
MARC BERREBI: The company is focused on health care, where we’re involved in every link in the value chain. Historically our core competence is based on the development of low-cost, very-efficient software stacks that enable connectivity to the Internet. (more…)
March 25, 2013
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M2MAPPS: Ericsson is the leading provider of networking equipment to the world’s carriers. Last year revenues were over 26 billion Euros. When and why did the company decide to enter the relatively small M2M area?
MIGUEL BLOCKSTRAND : The decision was made in 2009 as part of a strategy review that looked at the way society was heading. We came up with the vision of a networked society in which 50 billion devices will be connected to the Internet by 2020, driven by products such as smartphones and the increased use of wireless communications in M2M verticals. (more…)
February 18, 2013
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