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CONTENTS
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TALKING HEADS
44
LOW POWER
RADIO AND THE
SMART CITY
IN THIS ISSUE
EDITORS COMMENT
Boundaries of all kinds are eroding and a new universe of
datas emerging so how do we respond?
MARKET NEWS
Huge rise in IoT M&A activity this year; New IoT threat map
now available; Connected Cars could cause mobile network
traffic jams
COMPANY NEWS
SIGFOX continues expansion; Telecom Personal and Jasper
target Argentina; Huawei and Volkswagen collaborate on
connecting cars and smartphones
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PEOPLE NEWS
New names at Cambridge Wireless, Kapsch, Masternaut
and ZigBee
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PRODUCT NEWS
Antenova launches smallest antenna; Samsung announces
new IoT modules; Healthtracking merged with glasses
13
TALKING HEADS
Is Simplicity as a Service the alternative meaning of SaaS?
Mike Coffey, CEO of Wyless, talks to M2M Now
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SMART CITIES
What are best strategies for bringing intelligence and
connectivity to urban spaces?
20 COMPANY PROFILE
Farah Saeed of Frost & Sullivan looks at AT&Ts work in the
U.S. utility sector
22 EXPERT OPINION
Reclaiming the Smart City agenda to create fairer human
outcomes - A personal perspective from Dr Rick Robinson,
IT director for Smart Data and Technology at Amey
24 FEATURE
Infographic on AT&Ts support for next generation utilities
27 M2M NOW ANALYST REPORT
SMART CITIES VS SMART SILOS
In this editions independent Analyst Report, James Brehm,
founder and chief technology evangelist at James Brehm
Associates, looks at the current state of this sector
42 EXPERT OPINION
Defining the Smart City and developing a deployment plan
44 INTERVIEW
Andrew Brown from Strategy Analytics speaks with Will
Gibson, CEO of Telensa, about using low-power radio to
create smarter cities
48 EXPERT OPINION
Andrew Orrock, CEO of Arkessa, explains that the ecosystem
required to create smart cities is already largely here
53 CASE STUDY
Rally drivers in Tunisia race turn to satellite M2M for safety
and tracking in the North African dunes
58 BACK PAGE
An editors perspective on some of the human issues facing
our sector
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COMMENT
EDITORIAL ADVISORS
Olivier
Beaujard,
vice-president
Market
Development,
Sierra Wireless
Erik Brenneis,
head of
Vodafone M2M
Alexander
Bufalino,
CMO, Telit
Andrew Parker,
project marketing
director,
Connected Living,
GSMA
EDITOR
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Dr Rick Robinson
IT director for Big Data
and smart cities for
Amey and UK
Government Smart Cities
Forum member
Gert Pauwels,
M2M marketing
director, Orange
Business
Bill Zujewski,
SVP, IoT
Marketing &
Strategy, PTC
MARKET NEWS
leaders that will focus its scale and reach on key IoT
growth markets led by connected cars. Other acquirers
announcing acquisitions in 2015 include Amazon, ARM,
Brocade, PTC, Silver Spring Networks and British Gas.
While the Internet of Things is still in its infancy in terms
of industry adoption, the deal-making accelerates
unabated, and we see no end in sight. The IT service and
infrastructure leaders of the future will require broad and
deep competencies in IoT and those bets are being made
now," said Brian Partridge, Vice President at 451 Research.
NEWS IN BRIEF
COMPANY NEWS
NEWS IN BRIEF
Arkessa and Nwave
partner to make
connecting to the
IoT easy
M2M and IoT managed
services company
Arkessa is partnering with
Jonathan
Wiggin,
Nwave Technologies, the
Managing
low power, wide area
director, EMEA, (LPWA) wireless network
Nwave
solutions provider. We
are able to rapidly deploy LPWA
networks and solutions, and are excited
to partner with Arkessa on projects as
diverse as smart agriculture, smart
parking, environmental monitoring,
social housing and enabling the smart
city, said Jonathan Wiggin, managing
director, EMEA, Nwave.
Daniel
Bachman, CEO,
IoT Denmark
Harri Rautio,
CEO of Bttn
Cofely Services, a
subsidiary of ENGIE, one
of the worlds largest
energy providers, is
integrating a SIGFOX
solution to expand the
energy efficiency and
metering services it
provides for buildings. It
plans to connect at least
100,000 objects in
France within three
years.
SIGFOX and IoT
Denmark have
announced plans to roll
out the SIGFOX network
in Denmark with network
deployment expected to
be completed by May
2016. Daniel Bachman,
IoT Denmarks CEO, said,
Demand for SIGFOXs
arkessa.com
CONTRACT NEWS
Client, Country
Skagerak Nett, Norway
Broadcom, USA
Novotech, USA
Kii, China
Inmarsat
ServicePower Technologies, UK
Jasco/GE
Adenco, South Africa
Cybervision, USA
Korea Telecom
Volvo Bus Latin America
iNebula, Italy
FAGOR Electrnica, Spain
Harman, USA
TIA, USA
D-Link, Taiwan
Telecom Personal, Argentina
KIB-TEK, Northern Cyprus
Active Telematics, Malaysia
RevX Systems, USA
Price and Fretwell, UK
Highland Council, Scotland
Maritime Transport, UK
Tesco, UK
Confidential
WPG Korea
LBX Company, USA
Hitachi Construction Machinery, Japan
Mybitat, Israel
Peugeot Citron, Europe
Accel Networks, USA
L&T Technology Services, India
T-Mobile, Blue Cell, Czech Republic
Texas Instruments, USA
TALIS, France
Cofely Services, France
Bttn Inc., Finland
Gorizont, Russia
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Cambridge Wireless elections: Two new board members added Stephen Unger and Graham Pink
Stephen Unger,
Ofcom
David Brandauer,
Kapsch
CarrierCom
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Druv S. Prakash,
Masternaut
Mark Walters,
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PRODUCT NEWS
The smallest in the world ? New 2.4GHz
antenna for consumer apps
Antenova Ltd, a UK-based
manufacturer of antenna modules for
M2M, has announced the Weii, a new
ceramic antenna for 2.4GHz,
Bluetooth, WiFi, ZigBee and ISM.
Designed specifically for the IoT and
M2M markets, and measuring just
1.00mm x 0.5mm x 0.5mm, the
company believes it could be the
smallest antenna in the world.
Samsung launches
ARTIK a new open
module platform for
the IoT
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platform
initially offers
three types of
modules for
companies
building
connected
devices from
wearables to
industrial
applications.
The smallest
module, ARTIK 1, measures 12mm by
12mm and uses Bluetooth LE
connectivity plus a nine-axis sensor for
low power connectivity. The ARTIK 5 has
a 1GHz dual-core processor, on-board
DRAM and flash memory to connect
home hubs, luxury wearables and
drones. Finally, the high-end ARTIK 10
has an eight-core processor, full 1080p
video decoding and encoding, 5.1 audio,
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OPINION
SPONSORED COLUMN
Alexander Bufalino,
CMO, Telit
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TALKING HEADS
Mike Coffey,
Wyless CEO
Theres 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 reality at a rate thats
startling even to industry veterans. But, as we move out of that early adopter phase
and begin to extend the reach and depth of IoT-supported insights, applications and
business models, we ourselves need to develop new ways of doing business and new
products and services if were to help our customers achieve their own ends.
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TALKING HEADS
Delivering
simplicity also
means
implementing
innovative
technologies
to drive that
customer
simplicity
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SMART CITIES
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Developed
countries too
face their own
problems as
urban economies
react to
globalisation
through the
offshoring of
large industries
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SMART CITIES
Dr John Lewis,
Telensa
Gadi Lenz,
AGT
Graham
Colclough,
Urban DNA
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Saverio Romeo,
Beecham Research
Upendra
Dharmadhikary,
Tech Mahindra
FIWARE
The Open and Agile Smart Cities (OASC) initiative, signed earlier this year by 31 cities from
Finland, Denmark, Belgium, Portugal, Italy, Spain and Brazil, aims to kickstart the use of FIWARE
standards in smart city applications and solutions. Theyll be adopting an open-licensed standard
API implemented in FIWARE that provides a lightweight means to gather, publish, query and
subscribe to context information describing what happens in the city at any time. Theyre also
collaborating in the definition of common standard open data models with the first set of these
being based on the results of the CitySDK project developed in Europe. Telefnica, Orange,
Engineering and Atos have agreed to join forces towards the adoption of FIWARE standards for
Smart Cities, while Korean operator KT Corporation will also be using it.
HyperCat
HyperCat is an open, lightweight JSON-based hypermedia catalogue format for exposing
IoT assets over the web. Using HTTPS, REST and JSON, each HyperCat catalogue may
expose any number of URIs, each with any number of resource description framework-like
(RDF-like) triple statements about it. There are already over 70 strategic partners in the
HyperCatCity project including: Accenture, Arkessa, ARM, Arqiva, Arup, BAE Systems, BIS,
Bristol is Open, BSI, BT, FlexEye, Fujitsu, Future Cities Catapult, Huawei, IBM, InnovateUK,
Gartner, KPMG, Milton Keynes, NESTA, Neul, Rolls Royce, Symantec, techUK, the University
of Surrey, the UKTI and Verisign.
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COMPANY PROFILE
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Reducing Complexity to
Implement Smart Grid
Capitalising on Changes
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Reference Design for
Internet of Things
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A healthy competitive environment has kept the
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uninterruptible power supplies (UPS), DC power systems and alternative energy storage
solutions including flywheel, rotary, ultracapacitors and fuel cell based UPSs.
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OPINION
Dr Rick Robinson,
Amey
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ANALYST REPORT
SMART CITIES
SMART SILOS
Examining the building blocks of the smart city
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ANALYST
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COMPANY
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BUILDING
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COMPANY PROFILES
AT&T, Telensa and Aeris offerings in this market
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OPINION
Contributions from Digi International and Machina
Research examine smart city planning issues
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INTERVIEW
Will Gibson, CEO of Telensa, a company at the
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Smart Cities or
Smart Silos
Towards the end of the last decade, our planet achieved three remarkable feats. First,
human population crossed the seven billion mark. Second, over 50% of the worlds
population is living in urban areas. And third, there are now more connected devices
than humans. Analyst report by James Brehm & Associates.
To achieve and sustain this level of growth, to
take advantage of the technological
infrastructure, and to account for the recent
urbanisation and climate-change trends,
governments must plan for and manage
resources differently. And this is leading us to the
advent of smart cities.
What is a Smart City? The term Smart City seems
to be ambiguous and often times misleading. And
it seems that if you ask ten people what the term
means, you may get eleven different answers.
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ANALYST REPORT
Smart grid
The smart grid is a modernised electrical grid that combines
the use of sensors, networking equipment and communication
networks to gather and act on information and automate the
process to improve the generation, distribution, and use of
electricity.
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ANALYST REPORT
Cellular
Unlicensed Short Range
Wireline, Metro and Fixed WAN
Satellite
Low Power WAN (Sigfox, Neul, LoRA, Telensa, etc)
Consumer Devices
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Smart transportation
As transportation and logistics has become one
of the worlds largest industries, IoT and machineto-machine solutions have been implemented to
connect and monitor a wide range of industry
segments. Led by an ever-growing global supply
chain and increasing customer demands for
dependable and efficient distribution of
shipments, the transportation and logistics
industry is rapidly becoming an interconnected
network of machine-to-machine technologies.
Whether transporting goods via land, sea, or air,
the implementation of M2M solutions lead
companies to develop more efficient supply
chains, deliver goods safely and on time, and
reduce overall operating costs.
Transportation is defined as the movement of
people, animals, raw materials, or finished goods
from one location to another by air, rail, road,
water, cable, or pipeline. Logistics incorporates
the procedures of planning, implementing, and
controlling transportation and storage of goods,
services, and information in an effective and
efficient manner. As transportation and logistics
encompasses the movement, process, and
efficiencies of inbound, outbound, internal, and
ANALYST REPORT
Connected car
With the automobile the primary mode of transportation in
the US, the personal uses of the connected car include
reduced traffic, improved safety and security, information
transmission improving the in-vehicle experience, and
capabilities to connect car to home and in the future vehicle
to vehicle. Many cars are implementing safety features that
warn of upcoming traffic hazards, notify drivers of violated
safety laws, provide lane merging and lateral collision
assistance, and automatically call the nearest emergency
center in case of extreme wrecks or injuries. This improves
traffic flow and by connection, quality of life.
Integrations like OnStar that monitor physical security of the
vehicle while enabling hands-free calling, navigation, and
automatic contact of emergency centres provide a greater
peace of mind and reduce major costs for connected car
users. Other benefits of the connected car to the consumer
include maintenance updates, mileage tracking, and the ability
to connect with the home, saving energy and increasing
convenience. By linking a vehicle to a home, systems can be
set up to turn off lights, turn off the thermostat, and other
electronic devices when the car leaves the premise, and return
back to normal functioning upon return to the home.
Connected fleets
Fleet management within the space refers to the
management of commercial motor vehicles, cars, planes,
ships, vans, trucks and rail cars. Companies in the fleet
business are able to utilise IoT solutions to help create
strategies that enable them to use vehicles in the most
efficient manner. Fleet owners today are utilising fleet
management systems to manage vehicle performance and
maintenance, optimise route efficiencies, and meet regulation
compliance.
Fleet owners also benefit from route optimisation solutions
which drastically improve transportation time by gathering
location data and assigning routes more efficiently.
Consolidation of shipments and route optimisation cuts fuel
costs, reduces mileage and idling, and maximises vehicle
utilisation. This reduces total traffic on roadways and improves
quality of life within the smart city.
M2M management systems draw on accurate GPS locations,
pull IoT data from weather and traffic reports, and even
gather crowd-sourced real-time traffic flow information,
communicating to the driver the best possible route, taking
into account mileage, accessibility of the road, and potential
traffic hazards and delays. The implementation of GPS and
routing capabilities into the larger supply chain of the
company allows the vehicle to make multiple deliveries along
the same route. This reduces the number of fleets deployed
within the same geographic region, reducing overall costs of
fuel, physical assets, and necessary payments to the operator
of the vehicle. Improved routing cuts overall costs, maximises
the use of vehicle assets, and allows for employees to focus
on other projects within the organisation.
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ANALYST REPORT
Bicycle sharing
Pollution, traffic, and rising oil costs are just a few
of the reasons why urban transportation needs a
facelift. Next-generation bicycle sharing systems
are alternatives to fossil fuel driven
transportation.
What are next-generation bike sharing systems?
In laymans terms there are bicycle stations
around the city where you can swipe your credit
card, grab a bike, and get to where youre going.
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You pay for the time you used the bike and return
it to any sharing station. They use connectivity to
process the transaction, location based services
to know what stations have inventory needs and
analytics to understand where and when services
are used.
Public transport
By definition, public transportation is a network
of shared passenger transport services available
ANALYST REPORT
Smart parking
According to Streetline, a leader in smart parking, parking is a
$25 billion industry. And aside from adding a few spaces for
electric vehicle recharging, it has seen little innovation in
decades. In the smart city, parking spaces can either
communicate with a smartphone application or directly with a
vehicles navigation system, allowing for a reduction in
gridlock, a better use of resources (parking spaces and gas to
find them), and higher consumer satisfaction from an
improved quality of life.
Environmental sustainability
The primary focus of smart city projects moving forward
must be on sustainability. Between 2015 and 2050, the
number of people living in cities is expected to grow from
around 3.5 billion to over 6.25 billion. While the majority of
this growth is expected to be in developing countries
including India, China, Korea, and others, many of the worlds
major cities including New York, Seoul, Tokyo, Cairo, Shanghai,
Amsterdam, Singapore, Dubai, and others have embarked on
smart city projects. The rise in the number of people
migrating to urban areas is resulting in overpopulation in
modern cities, thus, causing social, political, environmental
and energy instability.
Water
The World Health Organisation reports that for the first time
ever, the majority of the world's population lives in a city, and
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ANALYST REPORT
Waste
With the total volume of waste generated
globally expected to increase by nearly 50% over
the next decade, the adoption of innovative
technologies will result in more integrated waste
management solutions that move beyond the
traditional use of labor, diesel trucks and
conventional landfills.
Whether it is sensors on dumpsters tied to fleet
management systems on refuse trucks, using
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Air quality
What sensors can do for water and waste, they
can also do for air quality. Sensors can measure
pollution in the air and as seen in pilots in the UK,
traffic can be diverted at time to improve air
quality and reduced CO2. But as you can see, air
quality monitoring directly ties to traffic and
smart transportation initiatives.
ANALYST REPORT
the market all at the same time. For one, cities have reduced
budgets, requiring them to become more efficient, yet lacking
the capital to do so. So instead of a full-on smart
transportation initiative, fleet management is the first step for
many. You now have the ability to track the vehicle, optimise
the route and conserve fuel. It's terrific for public works crews
and first responders, and the cost savings can be passed on
to other initiatives.
The desire for Smart Cities is not a fad that will pass any time
soon.
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COMPANY PROFILE
Company Summary
Enterprises, M2M Integrators, resellers, and MVNOs all require ubiquitous wireless coverage in
the markets in which they deploy. By using GSM, the most widely available technology, AT&T
customers benefit from a wider range and lower cost of solutions and devices, smoother
network migration path, and easier integration with new and emerging technologies from
legacy GPRS/EDGE to HSPA/HSPA+ to 4G LTE and beyond. Moreover, AT&T facilitates
deployment with easy to understand billing, a single carrier/single SIM solution, and a global
service management platform.
When it comes to smart cities, AT&Ts vision is to see
every city delivering more value to their residents through
highly secure connected and innovative solutions and
products. Cities around the world are already realising
tremendous cost savings by implementing such solutions,
whether it be for improved water management, intelligent
street lighting, energy conservation, or enhanced public
safety and faster emergency response -- many on AT&Ts
network.
AT&T is committed to helping savvy city managers
prepare for the coming population boom indicated by
millenials preference for urban living. To become a trusted
advisor for smart cities, AT&T has developed relationships
beyond the network, embracing an end-to-end view of the
problem that the customer is trying to solve, and develop
ecosystems that engage vendors, including component
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COMPANY PROFILE
Company Summary
Originally founded in 2005, Telensas flexible, bi-directional Ultra Narrow Band (UNB) network
can be deployed on any scale, ranging from the tens to hundreds of thousands of devices,
and can improve a citys waste disposal and management, security, road and highway repairs,
event planning, fleet management, and efficiently heat and cool city buildings. Now, with
more than 9 million devices deployed in over 30 countries, Telensa offers customers a series
of globally vetted applications, including its PLANet and PARKet solutions.
Telensas PLANet central management system (CMS) is
one of the most widely adopted lighting CMS in the world;
a bi-directional radio-enabled system that provides cities
with the full ability to control and monitor streetlights
across the grid. The ultra-scalable platform can work
across multiple networks, both public and private, and is
currently being used in more than one million streetlights
worldwide.
Its PARKet smart parking solution can help drivers find
available parking by detecting cars, monitor parking
availability in addition to providing drivers with
information on how to find available parking in real time.
By deploying PARKet, cities can greatly reduce congestion
and CO2 emissions due to idling; for instance, Moscow has
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COMPANY PROFILE
Company Summary
Aeris Communications, Inc., works in the M2M market, seeing it as an integral part of the
wider IoT vision, and is both a technology provider and a cellular network operator delivering
comprehensive M2M/IoT services to leading brands on a global basis. Aeris connects
M2M/IoT businesses around the world, currently supporting nearly four million devices which
record more than eight billion events per day. Ranking in the top 10 worldwide M2M
operators, Aeris customers include Hyundai, Acura, Rand McNally, Leica, and Sprint. The
global headquarters of Aeris are in Santa Clara, California, while its European headquarters
are near London, UK.
Company credentials
As a specialist M2M provider, Aeris mobile core network is
built exclusively for M2M applications. Whether supporting
smart meters to distribute water and power more
effectively within communities or smart parking solutions
that mitigate city congestion, Aeris creates the IoT
backbone for connected cities technology, using both
CDMA and GSM technologies. Customised M2M solutions
from Aeris delivers cost savings, improved efficiencies,
flexibility, and increased reliability to utilities and business
in a rapidly changing environment.
Marc Jones, Aeris CEO, explains, Our part of the industry
the platform and connectivity providers and enablers
has a vitally important role to play in trying to keep some
kind of consistency and trust while the wider landscape
continues to change. But ultimately, our customers dont
care whether connectivity is done by 2G, 3G, 4G, 5G, WiFi, or the newer long-range, low-power options that are
now emerging it could be carrier pigeon, as long as they
get the actionable information that they need for their
business ends.
Key differentiators
Aeris aims to deliver the lowest cost of ownership to its
customers across the whole service lifecycle. This extends
to making it easy for customer to integrate their own
operations with M2M/IoT deployments, using the Aeris
management portal to access and display in flexible ways
real-time device information such as provisioning states,
billing rate plans, network locations, and other data; plus
traffic information on the number of SMSs sent, number of
bytes used, and more.
With a purpose-built infrastructure, Aeris claims its
network provides greater than 99.999% uptime, while
Competitive pressures
According to Jones, It still takes far too long and is far too
difficult for many businesses to get to grips with the
complexity of all the options open to them in what we
might call first-generation IoT. Right across the value chain
from device enablement and integration issues through
connectivity to the management and business process
integration areas these factors have, so far at least,
stifled the truly widespread application of IoT innovation.
Combating these difficulties, Aeris is able to provide a
complete solution for IoT programmes from connectivity
to application platform. In addition to CDMA, GSM, and
LTE networks built for the unique needs of machines,
Aeris offers an application enablement platform called
AerCloud. The tight integration between AerCloud and the
rest of the Aeris stack has proven to reduce development
time by 70%. With custom rate plans suited to each
businesss needs, Aeris customers report that, on average,
their operational costs are $2,000/month less per 10,000
devices deployed. In total, an Aeris customer can realise a
2x reduction in the total cost of their IoT program compared
to a similar solution from a mobile network operator.
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OPINION
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OPINION
The concept of a Smart city is not new, ever since movies like
Blade Runner and Minority Report, people have had a vision of
what a futuristic city should look like.
The numerous smart city applications and services that are
available at the moment are steps in the right direction. The
problem that city managers face is where to start: there is a
lot of difference between having ambitions to be a smart city
and the practicalities of achieving it. Machina Research has
been delving deeply into numerous deployments around the
world, seeking to understand what makes a successful smart
city deployment. Some trends have emerged that can help a
city manager on how to best proceed.
Saving on lighting
The biggest item on each citys monthly bill is electricity for
street lighting, so its logical that Smart Lighting is on the top
of the wish list for city managers. By just switching to a more
energy efficient light bulb it can save up to 30% of the
electricity consumption. If the city were to add connected
intelligence to the service, where the streetlight can be
controlled, adapting to environmental conditions as they
change, a further 20-30% saving can be achieved.
The beauty of this service is that the saving from it can be
invested into other smart projects, making it easier for future
services to get off the ground. However, as the saying goes
no pain, no gain. In order to achieve this enormous saving,
upfront capital investment is needed, from swapping out HID
bulbs for LEDs, to installing new network infrastructure for the
added intelligent management. This upfront cost has deterred
many from pursuing it. However, the barrier is slowly being
lowered as the price of LED light bulbs are dropping due to
maturity of the technology. Similarly, the cost of connectivity
and the maturity of connectivity solutions are also falling.
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INTERVIEW
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INTERVIEW
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AB: What are the greatest barriers to growth for smart city
applications and what challenges do you see in areas where
youre highly active - such as smart street lighting and parking?
AB: What are your plans for expansion? Are there other areas
that you think may benefit from your approach to the IoT?
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EXPERT OPINION
Their solution helps drive down global vehicle thefts and lets
consumers work with the appropriate authorities if their car is
stolen. The device can be retrofitted into any vehicle and can
remotely track, safely disable, and retrieve the stolen auto.
Within the next 10-15 years, autonomous cars and street-side
infrastructure will be increasingly commonplace. In these early
years, worldwide auto manufacturers are forming strategic
positions on autonomous vehicles. At the same time, trials and
demonstrators are showing the potential and stimulating user
demand. Earlier this year at the Freescale Technology Forum
in the US, Arkessa's communications helped Freescale
demonstrate their Connected/Autonomous Car solutions both
within the exhibition halls and on the streets of Austin, TX.
Air pollution is still a major issue in many cities, with the
European Environment Agency stating that nine in every ten
European city dwellers breathe bad air. Managing traffic flow
by optimising travel times in peak hours and implementing
optimised driving can cut carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by
as much as 60%.
Energy supply
Centralised energy distribution networks currently tend to be
huge, inefficient grids. They lose power in transmission and
are ill-equipped to cope with unexpected surges in use.
During the England v Uruguay match of the 2014 football
World Cup, the UKs National Grid anticipated a surge of
around 1,300MW at half time. That's equivalent to the
capacity of a large gas-fired power station. Surges are a
manageable challenge when planned for, but cannot always
be anticipated.
Energy distribution will be further complicated by electric
cars, home generation, feed-in and storage. CGIs smart grid
experts are working with utility companies across the
Americas, Europe and Australia to help them understand and
leverage this complex and fast-changing segment of the
energy supply chain.
Imagine a future where energy bills go down and not up!
Energy generated at home can be stored and used when
needed, with any surplus sold into the grid. Electric cars in
turn can become part of the supply solution not part of the
demand and distribution problem.
Energy efficiency
Around 40% of the world's energy is consumed by buildings,
and this could be reduced by an estimated 15-25% by using
building analytics to optimise building performance in areas
such as lighting, ventilation, temperature, and air-quality.
In the streets, local authorities can meet their energy saving
targets by upgrading their existing lampposts with LEDs. If
the Humble Lamppost - an Integrated Infrastructures and
Processes Action Cluster (IPAC) initiative from the EUs Smart
City project is adopted, then municipalities can also benefit
from a range of built-in components including CCTV, Wi-Fi,
security, air quality measurement and transport monitoring.
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DATA
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Analysis in real-time
In aerospace, real-time analytics already plays a huge role as
Rupak Ghosh, vice president of engineering services company
Cyient, explains: The IoT is revolutionising the aerospace
industry. Airlines can translate vast volumes of data into
meaningful business information that can then be applied to
determine the status and performance of aircraft systems and
subsystems. Sensors are now distributed throughout the
aircraft to monitor key performance parameters, such as fuel
burn in the engine. On landing, this information can be
analysed, with action taken to correct any minor faults and
Ben Parker,
Guavus
Puneet Pandit,
Glassbeam
Brian Gilmore,
Splunk
Tom Gilley,
wot.io
Robert Bates,
Wipro
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CASE STUDY
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A friend in orbit
Tunisian satellite solutions specialist, VMD, a
Globalstar VAR operating in Africa, was
entrusted with the task of implementing a
solution that would assure the safety of the
participants, and enable communications even
when participants were deep in the desert.
When it was
mooted that the
race might be
resurrected in
2015, government
departments leapt
into action to do
everything
possible to
increase the
likelihood that the
race would get the
green light
The security
solution included a
rescue helicopter
manned with a
crew who could
pinpoint the
location of the
distressed racer
rapidly and
precisely
Coordinated aid
The security solution included a rescue
helicopter manned with a crew who could
pinpoint the location of the distressed racer
rapidly and precisely. The helicopter was kept
busy during the race as land-based rescue
vehicles and ambulances could not reach deep
into the dunes, and the helicopter intervened
in multiple SOS rescues. One of the main
benefits of the system was that the helicopter
crew could pinpoint the location of all
competitors from a single screen view.
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EVENT PREVIEW
WEARABLE EXPO
- Wearable Device and Technology
Tokyo
January 13th 2016 will see the appearance of the second WEARABLE EXPO - Wearable Device and Technology
event, an exhibition specifically focused on wearable devices and their supporting and enabling technologies.
Running over three days and taking place at Tokyos Big Sight venue, there will be around two and half times more
exhibitors than at the 2015 event, with more than 250 exhibitors expected.
Right from its launch, the exhibition has attracted a wide variety of visitors from
the automobile, medical, IT and other industries nearly 70% of whom had
purchasing authority. Last year, negotiations for business deals there were intense,
with visitors from other Asian countries such as China, Taiwan, Korea and Hong
Kong as well as Japan.
Next years exhibition will be divided into five specialised zones:
The Device Zone is for companies to show their latest wearable devices such as
smartglasses, smart clothing, wristbands, smartrings and other smart accessories.
The IoT Zone is for IT companies who provide connectivity solutions that support
the wider wearables market.
The Development Technology Zone is for companies who provide the technologies
that underpin wearable devices, such as batteries and sensors.
The Business Solutions Zone focuses on companies who provide wearable-enabled
solutions, such as in factories to increase production, improve logistics and facilities
management in the distribution sector, and efficiency and patient care in the
medical and healthcare world.
Finally, the AR/VR Zone specialises in Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality related
systems and services.
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With two U.S. shows high on the agenda for the M2M/IoT community over the next two months IoT Evolution
and CTIA Super Mobility M2M Now thought that wed take a specific look this issue at the forces at work in the
country. With research from International Data Corporation (IDC) suggesting that the worldwide Internet of
Things market will grow from $655.8 billion in 2014 to $1.7 trillion in 2020, you can be sure that a major part of that
will be generated by U.S. companies both as vendors and as consumers of IoT products and services.
In this supplement, we provide overviews of what to expect at both conferences, regional news roundups and our
usual mix of industry insight and comment.
S6
S4
U.S. NEWS
Recent significant
developments in the U.S.
market
S10
INTERVIEW:
MARC JONES
WEST COAST
ROUNDUP
S16
FEATURE
S12
INTERVIEW:
ALEX BRISBOURNE
S18
EAST COAST
ROUNDUP
M2M Now contributor
Guy Daniels on the East
Coasts continuing role in
industrial leadership, plus
a review of PTCs Boston
LiveWorx event
S20
EVENT PREVIEWS
Get an insight into whats
going to be hot at the two
major U.S. shows of the
late summer and whos
going to be leading the
debate there
S3
US NEWS ROUNDUP
S4
Google announces
Project Brillo
Google is taking a new approach to IoT
platform development. At the
companys I/O developer conference,
Google announced its Brillo project,
which it describes as the underlying
operating system for the internet of
things. Brillo is derived from the
Android M OS but has been optimised
for IoT environments, and will also
support Wi-Fi and Bluetooth Low
Energy (BLE). A developer preview is
expected during Q3 of this year. Google
appears to be positioning Brillo as a
smart home platform, in competition
with Apples iOS-based HomeKit. It is
likely that Google will use the Nest
Learning Thermostat, acquired as part
of its $3.2bn Nest purchase last year, as
the central home hub, in a similar way
to how Apple is positioning its Apple
TV. In addition, Google announced
Weave, a cross platform common
language that will let Brillo devices
communicate with each other.
US NEWS ROUNDUP
president of Qualcomm,
and, as such, were
utilising our expertise as
the leader in mobile
technology to deliver
in-car experiences
comparable to the ease
and convenience of
smartphones. Aberle
also said that
Derek Aberle,
Qualcomms wireless
president,
broadband chips have
Qualcomm
been installed in 20m
cars as of May.
S5
INTERVIEW
S7
INTERVIEW
S9
MARKET PERSPECTIVE
David Friedman,
CEO, Ayla
Networks
Gary Marks,
President,
Opengear
Jahangir
Mahammed,
CEO, Jasper
David Freeman,
Ayla Networks
S10
Few manufacturers
possess the
sophisticated
software
engineering and
user-interface
design expertise to
develop mobile
applications that
meet end users high
expectations for a
mobile app user
experience
S11
INTERVIEW
Vikrant Gandhi
Vikrant is industry director, Mobile & Wireless Communications at Frost & Sullivan
North America. He has over eleven years of product marketing, research, and
consulting expertise, which includes supporting clients needs through more than
120 syndicated market research deliverables and consulting assignments. He has
particular expertise in the IoT, digital advertising, enterprise mobility management
and next-generation wireless network infrastructure and services markets. He holds
an MBA from the Symbiosis Institute of Telecom Management, Pune, India.
S13
INTERVIEW
KORE is rolling
out an awareness
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help educate the
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about LTE and
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starting in the
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August 2015
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ADVERTISING FEATURE
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Additional Services
Once all of that data is aggregated, companies
face the issue of how to best analyse it in order to
extract maximum business value. The nxFAST
solution uses the industry standard tools of Big
Data analytics, including Apache Hadoop,
Apache Hive, and Amazon Web Services. This
allows companies very efficiently to store and to
find value from large data sets and, in turn, to
Security Is Paramount
Finally, companies require data security in the era
of Industrial IoT. For years, Numerex has been an
industry leader in protecting the data assets of its
customers. Using authentication, encryption, and
virtual private network (VPN) technologies to
protect customer data, Numerex remains
committed to designing, building and
implementing highly secure Industrial IoT
solutions. Numerex addresses security at every
stage of the solution, with full security integration
across all five layers of the technology stack
including the application, platform and web
services, network connectivity, data transport,
and the data centre or ecosystem layers, ensuring
that all security measures work together.
Deploying an Industrial
IoT Solution
Companies considering deploying their own
solution would be wise to investigate providers
who have the scope, scale and expertise to
implement a full, end-to-end approach in
delivering an Industrial IoT business solution.
Solutions that are built on the Numerex nxFAST
Industrial IoT platform are based upon a set of
proven, time-tested building blocks. As a result,
the customisation required to meet a companys
specific needs is minimised and paves the way for
rapid deployment, saving time and money.
Whether a company needs an end-to-end
solution or assistance with a portion of an
Industrial IoT deployment, Numerex stands ready
to enable them to achieve their goals.
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MARKET PERSPECTIVE
Chris Lowery,
President,
Wyless
Jeff Kelly,
Wikibon
Jeff Immett,
CEO, GE
S18
GE is a global leader
in numerous
industries, including
energy, aviation and
of course lighting,
and has been
trading since 1878
Supported by a presentation from Harvard Business School guru Michael Porter, was
a forensic examination of how enterprises must change their own structures to
respond to this data-centric manufacturing model. On one hand, analytics disciplines
must include four key functions: descriptive, diagnostic, predictive and prescriptive.
On the other, theres a need for companies to appoint a chief data officer to manage
the growing Data Lake, fed by both internal and external sources. PTC also
announced a number of further acquisitions including ColdLight, a big data machine
learning and predictive analytics specialist, intended to serve as PTCs core data
analytics platform.
S19
EVENT PREVIEW
S20
Speakers
IoT Evolution features over 100 speakers from the
entire M2M and IoT Ecosystem. Keynotes this
year will be coming from Marc Brungger, CEO of
Spireon and Mike Troiana, VP Industrial IoT
solutions at AT&T, while Joe Gibbs, famous as a
coach and team leader across the worlds of
American football, NASCAR and Hot Rod racing
will be inspiring the audiences visions with
another keynote on A Winning Mindset.
The industrys most renowned analysts, thought
leaders and researchers will be present including,
ABI, 451 Research, Machina Research, ILS
Keynote speakers:
Mike Troiana,
VP Industrial IoT
solutions, AT&T
Exhibitors
IoT Evolution Expo is supported by Diamond
Sponsors AT&T, Spireon and IBM; Platinum
Sponsors Eurotech and onstream; Gold Sponsors
KORE, Safran Morpho, Systech and Telit;
Corporate sponsors are Gemalto and Phononic
and sponsors are Accelerated Concepts, Axis
Communications and MERA.
Marc Brungger,
CEO, Spireon
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EVENT PREVIEW
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Event Listings
Event Name
Event Venue
Event Date
Connected Cars
http://connectedcarsworld.com/
Berlin, Germany
Jakarta, Indonesia
Washington, USA
Barcelona, Spain
Boston, USA
Berlin, Germany
California, USA
TU-Automotive Japan
http://www.tu-auto.com/japan/
Tokyo, Japan
Vienna, Austria