What Are the Biggest Barriers to IoT Adoption Today?
The Internet of Things, or IoT, continues to be a hot topic across a range of industries. Highlighting the benefits of adopting this technology, Fortune Business Insights had estimated that the global IoT market will reach $1102.6 billion by 2026. However, the industry is facing various barriers in terms of its adoption and implementation. In […]
Big data for big impact – When digital technologies transform urban planning
Big Data is a valuable tool for 21st century infrastructure projects and the case of Swisscom’s smart city project illustrates how Big Data can help maximize investments, impact lives and improve cities. To complement and enrich traditional methods of gauging traffic flows, which often involve an individual person counting vehicles on the roads, Swisscom engaged in co-creation […]
How Big Data became the precursor to the Internet of Things
If technology is the skeleton of the IoT, data is the brain, distributed. As early as the 1990s Big Data emerged as a concept, but it wasn’t an idea that could be harnessed, leveraged and used for a common good until much more recently. Using the prefix ‘Big’ sometimes has negative connotations, but while Big […]
From IoT to IoE
What you learn from immersing yourself in the Internet of Things is that its pioneers don’t sit still for very long. There isn’t much resting on one’s laurels. Let’s imagine, for a moment, that everything is connected. Or should I say – every thing. Where do the designers, dreamers and programmers of the IoT go […]
US ready to adopt voice control technology, survey argues
A survey from Coldwell Banker Real Estate and Vivint Smart Home has found that Americans are ready to adopt voice control technology, while many are already using the feature. The survey revealed that 72% of Americans who have smart home products, controlled connected gadgets, such as a smartphone, table, computer, or by a separate automatic […]
Is there a danger of there being too much always-on network connectivity in a property to keep it secure?
The consumer sector is becoming increasingly crowded, with new technologies making the promise that our everyday personal lives can be made easier and smarter. The ‘Connected Home’, once the thing of Science Fiction, is fast becoming Science Fact. We now have a huge range of connected devices, each with their own varying capabilities and benefits. […]
Mobility-as-a-Service: How can automotive OEMs monetize quicker with a mobile access solution in 2017?
Two years ago, Gartner predicted that “(…) 37% of enterprise revenue will come from digital business by 2020, more than double the 16% it was in late 2015”. This is very well reflected in the automotive sector today where industry OEMs are focusing all their efforts on generating service businesses that include electric mobility, along […]
The driverless car has become the symbol of the IoT – and it’s going to stay that way
The concept that best symbolises the Internet of Things isn’t the fitness tracker or the smart thermostat (although both of these important developments could make a good case), it’s the driverless car. As one of a few different autonomous vehicles the car by itself is not the solution to our global transport problems, but part […]
IoT Tech Expo North America: A round-up of the two day event in Silicon Valley
Now that we’ve packed the stands away and the myriad speaker sessions have emptied out, it’s time to have a look back at last week’s IoT Tech Expo in Santa Clara, California. To borrow from the strapline of the IoT Tech Expo itself, ‘Where the World Becomes the Web’, the event had the world well […]
New Revenue and Opportunities with IoT Ecosystem
Does your IoT strategy look at what an IoT application can do or what an ecosystem built around it can do?