IoT Now Magazine (ISSN 2397-2793) explores the evolving opportunities and challenges facing service providers 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.

Device manufacturers who have not yet moved their products towards being connected are facing an increasingly challenging future. Not only are they losing out on the high value software and data-driven service opportunities that connectivity creates, but they are also positioning themselves to lose market share to their competitors who have made this move and

As deployment volumes for IoT devices scale up and services enter the mainstream, organizations are challenged to construct solid business cases for their propositions because of variables in connectivity pricing. What’s needed is a simple, clear proposition that provides them with a flat rate fee, per device for the lifecycle of a service.

Global providers of testing, assurance, analytics, and security solutions, Spirent and National Instruments the leaders in automated test and measurement systems, describe how their partnership is a breakthrough approach to 5G device performance testing.

Ayla Networks, the leading provider of edge connectivity, device management and application enablement for the IoT, speaks to IoTNow about the key trends and challenges facing service providers, what they’re doing as an IoT solutions company to address consumer and commercial needs and their recent success in digital transformation case studies. Russ Keveryn VP of

Eseye, a global provider of Internet of Things (IoT) services, is partnering with African mobile network operator (MNO) MTN. MTN has joined forces with Eseye and the AnyNet Federation, a new association of MNOs established to meet the complex management and enhanced resilience requirements of the rapidly expanding global M2M IoT customer base.

The IoT is a deceptively simple concept – collect data from remote devices in the field, process it centrally as part of an application, then distribute to whoever needs the data, potentially in real time. In practice, though, it is not so simple because there are an almost unlimited number of different IoT applications in

Smart City IoT projects are becoming fundamental for city development. The EIP-SCC (European Innovation Partnership for Smart Cities and Communities), for example, is spending up to €1bn to develop 300 smart cities in Europe by the end of 2019. The opportunity is evident for IoT solution vendors – Smart City is now the #1 implementation

Interview with Charles Towers-Clark who is not only CEO of Pod Group, he’s the author of ‘The W.E.I.R.D. CEO’.

Bernd Gross is the newly-appointed chief technology officer of Software AG, having joined the company as part of its acquisition of Cumulocity, of which he was chief executive. Now, as the Internet of Things continues to mature, he explains how organisations can access common foundational technologies and tools to accelerate their deployments, while still keeping

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Location data is necessary in a wide range of industries. But is the value of location data for innovation, operations, compliance, security, and profitability fully understood?

People talk about smart cities. But interconnected services are not just for Cities are they? How do we ensure a joined up approach, that avoids siloed services for parking or waste management?

Competition requires that industrial companies embrace the journey of digital transformation through the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). Nexus Integra enables that journey. IoT Analytics interviewed Salvador Herrando, the chief operations officer and co-founder of Nexus Integra, to discover how the Spanish company is helping industrial companies, water utilities and others to embrace the digital

In these days of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Analytics, Augmented Reality (AR), Digital Twins, Edge Processing, Hybrid Clouds, and so on — all of which are part of the IoT conversation — many companies, including OEMs that manufacture machines and other high value assets, have yet to offer connected versions of their products.

George Mulhern is CEO and chairman of the board at Cradlepoint, a provider of cloud-delivered LTE network solutions for business, service providers and government organisations that was established in 2006.