IoT Now Magazine (ISSN 2397-2807) explores the evolving opportunities and challenges facing CSPs across this sector. Our exclusive interviews pass on the key lessons learned by industry leaders in next gen Machine-to-Machine (M2M) and Internet of Things (IoT) services.
In Apr/May 2016 issue:
- TALKING HEADS: Shu Gan, new CMO at Numerex, talks about how his company has been going through a major restructuring to adapt itself to the challenges and opportunities ahead
- INTERVIEW: Ingrid Wistrand and Rami Avidan, managing directors at Tele2, on partnering as a critical strategy
- CASE STUDY: Aeris shows how it provided a connectivity and monitoring solution to Isotrak, the leader in grocery retail and food distribution, for Europe and beyond
- IoT Now Analyst Report – FLEET MANAGEMENT: In this edition’s independent Analyst Report, Rickard Andersson, senior analyst at Berg Insight looks at the state of the fleet management market and its solutions around the world
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Making the IoT journey…
As someone who’s lived and worked through probably five or six technology transformation cycles, going back to even before the term ‘paperless office’ arrived in the late 1970s, it can be easy to get firstly jaded – and then disappointed by the eternal rush to the ‘new’. A lot of the change that’s happened through the introduction of various technologies over the last few decades has been relatively slow and incremental. It’s already becoming clear that the impact of the IoT is almost certainly going to be faster and deeper than anything we’ve seen before.
Many people I spoke to at Mobile World Congress this year commented that this year seemed to be different – see page 50 for our review of the event. What was clear was that a number of different technologies had reached a point of both maturity and critical mass and were coming together with exponential effects.
Some industry sectors, like fleet management and telematics, explored in this issue’s analyst report by Rickard Andersson of Berg Insight, are already relatively mature, at least within the limits of the technologies that they’re currently using. Look a bit deeper – such as in the interview with Telit about their use of 3D dead reckoning-enhanced GPS, enabled by recent advances in MEMS technologies – and it’s easy to see how a development in area one can change the game in another.
Deep change crops up in this issue in a number of other contexts as well. Shu Gan of Numerex explains how that company is reconfiguring itself for the future after a long and successful history. Other articles on the application of technologies like augmented and virtual realities and blockchain and the IoT highlight some of the other opportunities now emerging.
Finally, we thought that the whole issue of change and transformation was worth committing an entire supplement to. In this, you’ll find a perspective from SAP on the role that they’re playing – as well as the IoT Now Guide to Business Transformation. For this we approached a number of leading players, both large and small and all involved in some aspect of IoT-enabled change, for their take on the many different issues that have to be addressed during a strategic project. These include rapid prototyping, the emergence of servitisation as a new business model and, as ever, security.
