Strategy and Business Innovation for Connectivity and Digital Economy Markets

Much has changed over the last 10 years that I have published this annual review of corporate initiatives in the IoT sector. I do not track ...

Early in my career, I had the good fortune to work on several research and innovation projects on the topics of AI and ML. These project u...

Earlier this month, the publications team from Mobile Europe hosted their Smart IoT Connect event in London [1]. This is one in a regular ...

IoT Analytics, the German market research firm, recently published a customer satisfaction assessment of IoT platforms [1]. It covers 50 ven...

What are the more common justifications for smart city investments? Citizen-centred service needs, political priorities and a positive retur...

I recently attended the Smart Cities Connect conference in Kansas, MO. There, I moderated a panel on data marketplaces and collaborative app...

Last week, I attended ETSI's IoT Week, an annual event to explore the IoT standardization landscape and to see how industry and academic...

The IoT industry seems deeply preoccupied over ideas for IoT reference architectures, cloud-based platforms and edge computing technologies....

A few weeks ago, I commented on a LightReading article [1] on the topic of IoT prospects for wireless operators. I received positive feedbac...

I have recently been consulting on the topic of IoT Platform strategy with a particular focus on the recently issued oneM2M standard. As par...

Following several years of rapid growth, the 141 corporate initiatives in 2014 almost matched the 147 events that occurred in 2013 . In 2...

One of the implementation challenges that historically acted to restrain the M2M market is the issue of vertical-specific requirements. Each...

The topic of personal data has interested me for a number of years because it is at the heart of new approaches to marketing and service dev...

Companies offering services based on connected devices will increasingly have access to significant amounts of highly granular data about co...

Connected device applications are not all equal. Consumer-oriented devices may have a revenue generating life of 2-3 years while cars and in...

(published in RCR Wireless - 26 Nov 2012) A previous article in RCR Wireless magazine highlighted the topic of new M2M business m...

This note will be updated in light of new alliance announcements.  In July of 2012, seven mobile operators announced a cooperation agreem...

A ‘business case’ for a particular business venture quantifies its financial profile and net present value taking account its inherent ...

In 2008, the mobile industry started to pay serious attention to new types of connected device. Amazon's Kindle played an important rol...