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Iot Mag April May 2017.Qxp Layout 1 IoT Now: ISSN 2397-2793 APRIL/MAY 2017 • VOLUME 7 • ISSUE 2 TALKING HEADS Aeris CTO explains why IoT needs and deserves to have security by design INSIDE: The Enterprise Buyer's Guide – Which IoT Platform 2017 SECURE IoT SMART ENERGY INDUSTRIAL IoT TRANSPORT IoT GLOBAL NETWORK How to address the New efficiency for living, The new interconnected Connections for a Log on at growing threat. See our working and playing. manufacturing environment. moving industry. www.iotglobalnetwork.com Analyst Report at See our Analyst Report at See our Analyst Report at Read our exclusive Analyst to discover our new portal for www.iot-now.com www.iot-now.com www.iot-now.com Report inside this issue products, services and insight PLUS: 18 PAGE TRANSPORT INSIGHT REPORT: Unlimit CEO says IoT success in India means focusing on the long tail • HMS Industrial Networks on why it's time to skip the scary stories and focus on what's needed to secure manufacturing IoT • Geolocation in the Port of Barcelona with Actility • AT&T on why IoT platforms must address organisations’ different needs for functionality• Inside Digicel's deployment of Stream Technologies' IoT-X platform with added Starhome Mach technologies in 33 M2M markets • How Vodafone connectivity helps precision manufacturer ensure maximum uptime for machines • News at www.iot-now.com Get to market faster with IoT services 7RƫQGRXWPRUHQRNLDFRPLRW CONTENTS IoT NOW 10 ANALYST 27 TALKING HEADS REPORT 16 50 SECURITY IoT PLATFORMS INTERVIEW TO WATCH IN THIS ISSUE 20 CASE STUDY 58 COMPANY PROFILE Inside Actility, Abeeway, Cisco and Stream Technologies and Starhome 4 EDITOR’S COMMENT Tracktio’s geolocation deployment at the Mach’s IoT platform offering Brands should exercise caution when Port of Barcelona, Spain intruding in consumers’ smart homes 59 CASE STUDY 22 CASE STUDY Inside Digicel’s deployment of an IoT How precision agriculture is being 5 COMPANY NEWS platform in 33 M2M markets transformed by IoT-enabled capabilities Software AG buys Cumulocity, GlobalTop GNSS assets sold to Sierra Wireless, 24 CASE STUDY 61 COMPANY PROFILE Actility raises US$75m Why flexible and reliable data networking Actility’s IoT platform proposition is vital for one telemetry provider 6 MARKET NEWS 62 INTERVIEW AT&T launches three new Partner 27 IoT NOW INSIGHT REPORT Nokia’s Marc Jadoul discusses the Exchange IoT resources for solutions – TRANSPORTATION company’s IMPACT IoT platform providers, Navigant says more than 250 In the latest of an ongoing series of smart city projects now exist specially-commissioned, independent, 64 CASE STUDY analyst-written Insight Reports, Rickard How New Zealand broadband provider 7 PRODUCT NEWS Andersson, a senior analyst at Berg Insight, Chorus has used a horizontal IoT Hapag-Lloyd commits to Inmarsat Fleet explores how the Internet of Transportation platform to drive workforce productivity Xpress, Ctrack launches bespoke tracking Things expands the addressable market solution for express delivery fleets for fleet management. This section also 66 COMPANY PROFILE contains three executive interviews Vodafone Group’s IoT platform offering 8 THE CONTRACT HOT LIST detailed on p29 A round up of the latest Internet of 67 CASE STUDY Things contracts 45 THE ENTERPRISE BUYER’S GUIDE Inside Feintool’s deployment of IoT – WHICH IoT PLATFORM 2017 connectivity to eliminate manufacturing 9 PEOPLE NEWS IoT Now publishes it’s first Enterprise downtime for customers Stone joins Everynet board, McPhillips Buyer’s Guide which explores how to heads to Pangea, DigitalRoute hires select the right IoT platform for your 69 COMPANY PROFILE Lopresti to lead Americas and Renesas deployment Cumulocity’s IoT platform profiled Electronics America announces new US operations president 47 GUIDE INTRODUCTION 70 CASE STUDY Beecham Research’s Robin Duke- Compressor manufacturer uses IoT 10 TALKING HEADS Woolley examines the new role of IoT platform to perform condition monitoring Aeris’ Syed Hosain tells IoT Now why IoT platforms and how organisations can offerings should be secured at the design make a final choice 72 IoT PLATFORMS stage instead of attempting to add security 50 IoT PLATFORMS TO WATCH George Malim explores the core to systems once they’re in deployment Beecham Research’s Saverio Romeo, attributes of IoT platforms assesses which of the current crop of IoT 14 SECURITY platforms are best meeting 75 COMPANY PROFILE George Malim accepts that total security organisations’ needs Wind River’s approach to IoT platforms can’t be achieved but goes in search of the balance between risks, costs and 52 INTERVIEW 76 DEVICE MANAGEMENT liabilities Mobeen Khan, the associate vice Why device management matters in IoT president of IoT Solutions at AT&T, 16 INTERVIEW explains why IoT platforms must be able 78 IoT DEVICE PLATFORMS Tom McKinney warns the security hype to operate at a variety of different levels should not detract from organisations’ Jeremy Cowan reports on Accenture’s efforts to deploy practical security 56 CASE STUDY creation of IoT device platforms measures How the City of Holland used the AT&T IoT Starter Kit to enhance its Snow Melt system Cover Sponsor: Aeris is a technology partner with a proven history of helping companies unlock the value of IoT. For more than a decade, the company has powered critical projects for some of the most demanding customers of IoT services today. Aeris strives to fundamentally improve their businesses by dramatically reducing costs, accelerating time-to-market and enabling new revenue streams. Built from the ground up for IoT and road tested at scale, Aeris IoT Services are based on the broadest technology stack in the industry, spanning connectivity up to vertical solutions. As veterans of the industry, Aeris knows that implementing an IoT solution can be complex and the company prides itself on making it simpler. Visit www.aeris.com or follow Aeris on Twitter @AerisM2M to learn how it can inspire you to create new business models and to participate in the revolution of the Internet of Things. IoT Now - April / May 2017 3 COMMENT Be careful what you wish for or someone might end up telling whoppers Smart home speakers such as Amazon’s Alexa and Google Home appear to EDITORIAL ADVISORS offer useful functionality for consumers but early attempts by advertisers to insert their marketing messages into such personal assistants could be opening up opportunities not to sell to potential customers but to irritate them in their homes, with the possibility of a serious consumer backlash Burger King in the US recently deployed a Google Home now appears to have television advertisement designed to trigger addressed the Whopper trigger so its Google Home smart speakers with the phrase: devices no longer respond to the advert but Erik Brenneis, “OK Google, what is the Whopper burger?” smart speaker users are now faced with an Vodafone The clip was made to prompt the speaker to era in which the media they consume can read out a description of the chain’s Whopper affect their interactions with their digital burger taken from its Wikipedia entry. Aside assistants. Equally, brands will have to figure from the obvious intrusion into personal out the potential for the audio of their space this form of advertising constitutes, it adverts to impact their users. Robin Duke- also is a contravention of Wikipedia policy, Woolley, CEO, which does not approve of organisations Not all interactions are positive and some Beecham using it for overt marketing activity. In could lead to whoppers – a UK colloquialism Research addition, and most importantly, Wikipedia for lies – to be told about a brand. The can be edited by anyone so even though the upside here, in any case, isn’t clear for Burger Burger King advert may direct Google Home King and it appears to be a case of using to read the entry, it can be changed. new technology for the sake of doing Andrew Parker, project marketing something new. Inevitably we will see more director, This could be done maliciously by rivals or of this as IoT continues to penetrate the Connected Living, simply by annoyed consumers and Burger consumer world but let’s hope organisations GSMA King would have little recourse other than to can learn quickly and refrain from marketing engage in an editing war. Journalists from to us in our homes by causing Wikipedia The Verge quickly modified the Whopper entries to be read out spontaneously. entry on Wikipedia and Google Home began speaking the updated text only minutes later. Enjoy the magazine! Gert Pauwels, M2M marketing “Smart speakers keep getting triggered by director, Orange accident,” the devices said in response to the George Malim Business trigger phrase. Contributors in this issue of IoT Now Robert We are always proud to bring you the best writers and commentators in M2M and IoT. Brunbäck, CMO, Telenor In this issue they include: Connexion Robin Duke-Woolley, Rickard Andersson, Saverio Romeo, CEO, Beecham senior analyst at principal analyst Research Berg Insight at Beecham Aileen Smith, Research head of Ecosystem Development, Huawei Technologies MANAGING EDITOR BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT PUBLISHED BY George Malim DIRECTOR WeKnow Media Ltd. Suite 138, Tel: +44 (0) 1225 319566 Cherisse Jameson 70 Churchill Square, Kings Hill, [email protected] Tel: +44 (0) 1732 807410 West Malling, Kent ME19 4YU, UK [email protected] Tel: +44 (0) 1732 807411 David Taylor, EDITORIAL DIRECTOR & PUBLISHER managing Jeremy Cowan DIRECTOR OF STRATEGIC DISTRIBUTION director, M2M, Tel: +44 (0) 1420 588638 PLANNING UK Postings Ltd Telefónica UK [email protected] Charlie Bisnar Tel: +44 (0) 8456 444137 Tel: +44 (0) 1732 807411 DIGITAL SERVICES DIRECTOR [email protected] Nathalie Millar Tel: +44 (0) 1732 808690 DESIGN [email protected] Jason Appleby Ark Design Consultancy Ltd Bill Zujewski, Tel: +44 (0) 1787 881623 SVP, IoT Marketing & IoT Now is distributed free to selected named individuals worldwide who meet the Publisher's terms All rights reserved.
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