ARC - Oct 22 - VisionMobile’s Q2 2015 Developer Economics report says that only 21% of developers working in the Internet of Things are focused on wearables, a drop of 7% from a similar study conducted in Q4 2014. The survey, which interviewed 3,150 IoT developers and 670 wearables developers, reports that developers have adopted a cautious attitude towards wearables. The primary concern: a perceived lack of actual consumer interest.
Avanquest Unit Releases IoT Platform
CMS WIRE - Oct 19 - Avanquest's IoT division myDevices released a device agnostic PaaS to connect sensors, appliances, wearables, smartphones, PCs, home products and more.The front end is designed to interface with the end user, while the back end captures and translates critical business data. The platform can also generate data visualization and real time usage insights. It also comes with professional services that structure solutions to suit the specific needs of companies that manufacture, support or sell connected devices.
IoT Group Eyes Japanese Entry
BUSINESS SPECTATOR - Oct 18 - The entry into Japan comes courtesy of a non-exclusive sales and distribution agency deal forged between IoT and Ueyama & Associates. Under the terms of the deal, IoT will see Shu Ueyama, a former Sony and Virgin executive, become the sales and distribution agent for IoT Group in Japan.
Qualcomm To Sell Vuforia AR Business For $65M
MOBILE WORLD LIFE - Oct 14 - Qualcomm Connected Experiences is offloading the business to IoT platform company PTC for $65 million, with the new buyer pledging to continue investment and support for the platform and its developer ecosystem.
GITEX Technology Week 2015 Drives Middle East’s IoT Business Innovation
WAI - Oct 11 - Connected cloud technology such as mobile apps, e-government, drones, 3D printing, and robotics will form the foundation of the region’s rapidly-growing Future Cities – a key spotlight at the landmark 35th GITEX Technology Week, running 18-22nd October in Dubai, United Arab Emirates . More Than 130,000 Global Technology Visionaries and Architects, and Industry Professionals from over 150 countries, with more than 20,000 C-level executives, and more than 3,600 exhibiting brands from 62 countries will Converge at Region’s Largest ICT Event. Mark Brooks, CEO of Kotari & wearable.ai will be in attendance to cover the IOT track.
myDevices Launches New Platform
APP DEVELOPER MAGAZINE - Oct 12 - The customizable IoT platform is combined with professional services to structure tailored solutions for companies that manufacture, support, or sell connected devices. The myDevices platform offers an end-to-end solution that also integrates with existing systems and products from multiple industries. myDevices is device-agnostic and connects to connected device including sensors, appliances, wearables, smartphones, PCs, home products, Raspberry Pis, and Arduinos.
by Richard Harris
See full article at App Developer Magazine
Internet Of Partnerships
ENTERPRISE TECH - Oct 12 - For the IoT to deliver on its promise, enterprises and developers recognize they must partner to create the solutions they need. "Irrespective of a build or buy approach, IoT markets will strategically and tactically require enterprises to build partnerships and collaborations either for product and service development purposes, for creating channels to market, or for adding value to applications and services," wrote Machina Research in "A New Agenda Item for Enterprise Executives: Enterprise IoT."
IoT Spending To Exceed $2.5M Per Minute In 2016
COMPUTER WORLD - Oct 7 - Worldwide IT spending is forecast to surpass US$3.6 trillion in 2016, a 1.5 percent increase from 2015, according to Gartner. In five years, one million new devices will come online every hour, claims Peter Sondergaard, senior vice president at Gartner and global head of Research.
by James Henderson
See full article at Computer World
IoT To Be Used In 1.9B Devices By 2020
VENTURE BEAT - Oct 6 - Tech analyst firm Linley Group believes the IoT market is expected to surpass the number of smartphones in the year 2023, with the biggest growth opportunity in the consumer space and forecast about 10 devices per home in the 2022 timeframe.
Wearables & IoT To Alter Electronic Design Process
EETIMES - Oct 6 - The increasing functionality, tighter cost constraints, and decreasing form factor of IoT and wearables products means that, among other design challenges, components need to be tightly coordinated with each other, pin assignments must be optimized for small size and minimum layer count substrates, and design exploration and productive trade-off discussions be held early in the design process.
Internet Of Things Recent Studies And Trends
TECH.CO - Sep 29 - Tata Consultancy Services has surveyed 800 corp. executives. The survey found that these business leaders view their IoT investments directly responsible for revenue increases of ~16% and 64%. 7% of them plan to spend ~$500M on IoT investments in 2015. (Investors poured $300M into IoT in 2014 - TechCrunch)
IoT Trends
- To support IoT devices and integration, there will be significant growth in the area of cloud-based service provider platforms.
- Security solutions will become more important.
- Half of the IoT activity is focused on consumer applications, transportation, manufacturing, and smart city solutions.
Consumer trends
- 13% of consumers are planning to purchase wearable fitness app within the next year.
- 5% are planning to purchase a smart watch.
- 83% are willing to pay more for a smart smoke alarm, 59% are willing to pay for a smart refrigerator.
Other trends:
- Google, Samsung, Microsoft and AT&T to dominate the space.
- Other new IoT products of interest are in the health and wellness niche.
IoT Group To Become First ASX-listed IoT Company
IBTIMES - Sep 25 - Ardent Resources will acquire 100% ownership of IoT Group for AU$18.5 million. The new company will be known as Ardent IoT. The IoT Group is expected to be listed on the Australian Securities Exchange by the end of 2015. The acquisition will make the Sydney-based wearables manufacturer the first ASX-listed IoT business.
by Rituparna Sengupta
See full article at IBTimes
AT&T Expanding Into IoT
MOTLEY FOOL - Sep 24 - AT&T opened five workshops to connect IoT companies to its networks. These companies include industrial automation giant Rockwell Automation andHydropoint, a start-up that produces smart sprinkler heads for irrigation systems in California. Other projects include connected 3D printers, solar powered radios, and connected cars. AT&T can leverage its strength in telecom services to sell new IoT-based services.
IoT Expands: Billions Of Connected Devices & Dollars
IOT DAILY - Sep 23 - There is now high IoT awareness in more than half (56%) of those in the retail industry, according to a 2,500-person, 15-country survey by IDC. A majority (73%) of companies have deployed, or plan to deploy over the next 12 months, some types of IoT solutions, more than half (58%) say they consider IoT to be a strategic initiative.
BT, Intel Join Launch Of IoT Security Foundation
INFO SECURITY MAGAZINE - Sep 23 - The body of more than 30 firms is making its mission to vet internet-connected devices for vulnerabilities and flaws, and to encourage manufacturers to consider the security of connected devices at the hardware level. This is particularly important for businesses, because IoT devices connected to the corporate network offer ever more attack vectors via which to target organizations.
The Future Of The Internet Of Things In Renewable Energy
PENNENERGY - Sep 9 - According to World Wind Energy Association, cumulative capacity in the wind energy sector has increased from 24 GW in 2001 to 370 GW in 2014. The next wave of innovation will be driven by sensors and data. Today’s IoT data can be analyzed at near real-time speeds due, in part, to the growth of complex event processing systems. 4 growth areas of IoT analytics use in this vertical: Big data, fast data and more analytics, Horizontal integration and vertical application, Decentralization, and Integration of advanced analytics and machine learning.
IoT Speculated To Cost $2.5 Billion By 2020
THE MARKET BUSINESS - Sep 7 - The Juniper Research study notes that by 2020, as much as 70% of purchased IoT hardware won’t be consumer-centric, with the segment driven by business IoT spending pushing the IoT opportunity worldwide to $300B. The data also suggested that the expected explosion to 38.5B IoT-related connected devices in use worldwide by 2020 will prompt "fundamental changes" in cybersecurity to focus on quickly identifying the inevitable network breaches rather than concentrating on prevention.
by Robert Nicholls
See full article at The Market Business
LinkedIn's Kafka Important To The Future Of IoT
FORTUNE - Sep 2 - The open source technology Kafka is processing 1 trillion messages and works by receiving "messages" from one system and sending them to other systems that needs that information, often in real-time. Kafka is now poised to become a major factor in IoT. Both CEOs and consumers will eventually start expecting more information faster from their connected things, and Kafka has already proven its ability to get the relevant data (and lots of it) from Point A to Point B in a flash.
Redesigning Government Work For IoT
NEXT GOV - Sep 2 - Government leaders should start exploring the IoT not by examining new gadgets, but by looking at the core work of their agency and asking what business processes might benefit from eliminating tasks, enhancing capabilities or better engaging partners.
Intel’s Aggressive Push In IoT To Leverage Growth In The Market
TREFIS - Aug 25 - Learning from its short-shortsightedness in the smartphone market, Intel is determined to be one of the early entrants in IoT and has been aggressively investing to gain a wide footprint in the space. The research firm IoT Analytics has recently placed Intel at the head of the top 20 IoT. Intel is at the forefront of developing new generation low-power chips for connected IoT devices. In addition to introducing new platforms, the company has launched a number of products and initiatives in the past year with different fashion, fitness and lifestyle brands, to accelerate its presence in wearables.
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