M2M Now Magazine Feb/Mar 2015 edition

M2M Now Magazine explores the evolving opportunities and challenges facing CSPs across this sector. Our exclusive interviews pass on some key lessons learned by those who have taken the first steps in next gen Machine-to-Machine (M2M) services.

In this issue:

  • TALKING HEADS:  How do you successfully connect the enterprise to the edge? Yosi Fait, Telit’s president and finance director talks to M2M Now
  • EXPERT OPINION: Andreas Thiel, executive director at u-blox, introduces the concept of the ‘Internet of Things That Really Matter’ and its importance to industry
  • EXPERT OPINION: Oracle’s Dave Hofert, head of IoT strategy, explains how
    merging IT and Operational Technology can transform Industrial Automation
  • CONNECTIVITY SUPPLEMENT: Articles and interviews from Gemalto, Stream Technologies, Link Labs and Telit explore the impact of recent developments in radio technologies such as LTE-M and new long-range low-power options
  • M2M NOW ANALYST REPORT: Industrial Automation and the IoT

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Breadth of Vision: an increasingly key asset in IoT

Alun Lewis, Editor
The editor of M2M Now Magazine, Alun Lewis

Stepping into Jeremy Cowan’s footsteps as the new editor of M2M Now magazine has given me many fresh insights into our exciting sector’s evolution. In my career I’ve been involved with many of the changes that now underpin our deeply interconnected societies, from the first analogue-digital switchovers, through fibre-optics, cellular, IP, OSS/BSS and so on, as well as a number of ‘wild cards’, such as Virtual Reality.

Over the last few weeks, I’ve had a number of fascinating discussions with some leading innovators in the M2M/IoT world that go far beyond just the basic enabling technologies. Drawn from both traditional industries as well high-tech, these people represent the best of ‘joinedup’ thinking, recognising that technology must be understood in wider contexts if it’s to be successfully applied across our personal, social and work lives.

This edition’s M2M Now Analyst Report on the Industrial Internet of Things provides a good example of this (pages 27-39). Brian Partridge, VP at 451 Research, analyses how M2M/IoT are changing the manufacturing environment – but also examines the all too human cultural issues that hold some companies back. Also from an ‘organic’ perspective comes a proposal from Tim Taberner of B+B SmartWorx who suggests that lessons can be learned from colonies of social insects (pages 40-41). People issues additionally resonate with Telit’s Oozi Cats, who argues on pages 45-48 that human organisational factors are critical in securing the M2M/IoT value chain. Another highly original take comes from Allen Proithis and Tom Gilley of wot.io, who propose that human pattern recognition skills need to be enhanced with powerful tools if we’re to exploit the data now streaming into our systems (pages 49-52).

Finally, in a separate supplement, we take a quick preview of this year’s MWC. At the risk of being thought mildly eccentric, I’m actually looking forward to the event for the first time for some years. The reason? Putting faces to some of the people I’ve enjoyed working with during this issue and continuing what seems like the infinitely open-ended conversation that is at the heart of the Internet of Things vision.

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