When you hear the word chief in anyone’s job title, several things come to mind: a senior management role overseeing an important business function associated with strategy and power, profitability and revenue growth. Someone who is leading a function that is critical to the success of a business, writes Dave Hart, the vice president of Global Customer Transformation for field service management specialist, ServiceMax. (more…)
March 17, 2016
Posted by: George Malim
KORE’s announcement today of its acquisition of Wyless has been a while in the making, but hugely significant now it is here, writes Robin Duke-Woolley, the chief executive of Beecham Research. (more…)
March 9, 2016
Posted by: George Malim
The Internet of Things is without question the buzzword in ICT. The 2016 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain took this to a new level, writes Brian Partridge, the research vice president at 451 Research. The high level prioritisation that IoT holds among major ICT suppliers would have the uninitiated believing that IoT is accelerating everywhere. Of course it’s not, as anyone with P&L responsibilities attached to IoT growth in 2015 would attest. (more…)
March 2, 2016
Posted by: George Malim
February 24, 2016
Posted by: George Malim
Forty years ago, I worked on software that monitored and controlled its physical environment, in telephone exchanges, writes Dr. Chris Harding is Director for Interoperability at The Open Group. I have been away from that world for a long time, but am now becoming involved with similar problems, as I work on standards for the Internet of Things (IoT). (more…)
February 18, 2016
Posted by: George Malim
Our counting of IoT platforms has exceeded 300, writes Saverio Romeo, the principal analyst at Beecham Research. There are now more than 300 solutions that identify themselves as IoT platform offering a variety of services, from device management to data management passing by API management. (more…)
February 16, 2016
Posted by: George Malim
The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and Industry 4.0 are becoming two of the most overused industrial automation buzzwords today, writes Dave Sutton a product marketing manager at Schneider Electric. The explosion in domestic Internet of Things (IoT) applications, such as smartphones, wearables and even fridges is a key driver for this, but is there more to it than the surrounding hype? (more…)
February 10, 2016
Posted by: George Malim
The Internet of Things (IoT) has truly begun to take off with enabled devices including smart watches, smart meters and connected cars as well as smartphones and tablets, writes David Watkins, the service delivery director at Virtus Data Centres. However, technology and appliances are not the only industries affected by this growing trend. In fact, IoT’s potential reaches far beyond, and could play a major role in helping disconnected industries re-engage with their customers. (more…)
February 3, 2016
Posted by: George Malim
Andreas Schierenbeck, the chief executive of thyssenKrupp Elevator, discusses how modern IoT developments are bringing one of the world’s oldest industries – construction – into the 21st century. (more…)
January 27, 2016
Posted by: George Malim
Smart home and consumer applications in the Internet of Things (IoT) are seen as huge growth markets. Numerous related products and solutions already exist today however, although these solutions achieve enormous comfort and security gains as well as energy savings, an important component is missing: the user acceptance. The convergence of standards and technologies resulting in seamlessly connected, worldwide solutions will change this situation, write Graham Martin, the chairman of the EnOcean Alliance, and Tobin Richardson, the resident and CEO of the ZigBee Alliance. (more…)
January 25, 2016
Posted by: George Malim
