The 10 Most Innovative IoT companies to watch 2018 [ Business Magazine ]

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COMPANIES TO WATCH 2018

Maestro’s opinion Develop Your Innovation Culture for a Future-ready Organisation

Expert’s Talk How Startups Can Capitalize on IoT's New Co-Economy

Allied Telesis Delivering Secure and Reliable, Next-Generation IoT & SDN-Ready Networks

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oday, we are going through the era of digital transformation. Most of the information or data is now available in digital form and can be easily extracted from anywhere through the internet. Data may be stored in self-owned data infrastructures or third party data centers or clouds.

This data may contain personal information, the organization’s information, books, videos, critical secret information, and many more. This huge data is giving birth to lots of opportunities and solutions such as Big Data & Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, and more. Moreover, it demands high-speed internet for this huge data transfer. This has made humans to constantly innovate and improve internet infrastructure so that there should be less time lag in data sharing. As an effect, we can see the rapid advancements in wireless technology today.

IoT Connecting the World with Innite Possibilities

Wireless technology has improved lot within the last two decades and has totally changed our lifestyle.

Next-generation technologies such as 4G and 5G are providing internet facilities at very high speed in addition to effective utilization of resources. Easy availability of high-speed wireless internet and technologies such as GPS are vastly simplifying daily human life. Routine human activities such as; shopping, traveling, banking, marketing, etc. have become so easy and can be performed on the fingertips. This huge technological shift is largely carried out by technology called Internet of Things (IoT).

IoT is connecting humans with humans, humans with machines and machines with machines in real time using the internet so that everything can be tracked, controlled and operated remotely. IoT is eliminating

the physical human presence to perform any specific task or inspect that specific task. IoT is easing the way of doing business for industries such as transportation, marketing, manufacturing, medical, agriculture, tourism, and more. Smart Homes, Smart Cities, Smart appliances, Autonomous Vehicles, Drones, etc. are mainly based on IoT. In addition to that, it is also helping to track pets and wild animals, especially; it will assist to preserve wild-life. Introduction of smart voice controlled devices by big technological giants are also using IoT and analytics for their effective working.

Now, IoT has become one of the important parts of human life that making IoT solution providers to innovate more and introduce more effective solutions and products. Many IoT solution companies are responsibly transforming the IoT space with their unique offerings and products. We have highlighted many such companies in our special issue, “The 10 Most Innovative IoT companies to watch 2018”. On the cover of the issue we have, Allied Telesis: Delivering Secure and Reliable, Next-Generation IoT & SDN-Ready Networks.

Leveraging experience of over thirty years, Allied Telesis has been at the forefront of serving the needs of the network communications industry. The company delivers intelligent technologies such as AMF (Autonomous Management Framework) to manage and control networks – both large and small – that simplifies the deployment of networks. It also reduces the burden of on-going management which is particularly important as the number of connected devices rises with the growth in IoT deployments. These technologies are embedded within the firms’ portfolio of networking and communications products that are used in a broad range of embedded systems. These systems can be found everywhere from manufacturing facilities with collections of connected PLC’s and other sensors to Smart Buildings and Smart Cities where everything throughout the building or across the city is connected.

Takayoshi Oshima founded Allied Telesis, a subsidiary of Telesis Holding K.K in March 1987 and has been its Chairman and CEO since 1987. Prior to the establishment of Allied Telesis, he held technical, marketing and managerial positions with companies spearheading the growth of the high-technology industry including ITT, Fairchild Camera Instruments, and Advanced Micro Devices. He was recently elected to the Mineta Transportation Institute Board of Trustees.

Also, we have interviewed Christian Götz, Co-founder and CEO of dc-square. He has given his insightful views about the current IoT developments. He also shared many important details about how dc-square helps companies to gain a competitive advantage by connecting their products over the internet.

After doing in-depth research, we have enlisted some special companies from the globe who are successfully fulfilling the world’s IoT demands exclusively. EDRMedeso: Assisting Clients in Attaining Perfect Engineering, and MultiTech: Industrial Communications Hardware for the Internet of Things. While going through our magazine don’t miss out highly informative articles such as Blockchain Technology is Boosting the Prospects of ‘Smart Contracts’ and Advanced ‘Content Streaming’, How Startups Can Capitalize on IoT's New Co-Economy, and more.

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EDRMedeso Assisting Clients in Attaining Perfect Engineering

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Expert’s Talk How Startups Can Capitalize on IoT's New Co-Economy

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Interview with Insights Success

Maestro’s Opinion Develop Your Innovation Culture for a Future-ready Organisation

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Expert’s Viewpoint How to innovate an industry: the telecommunication sector and the software dened network revolution

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Business Insider dc-square The MQTT Expert

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Ultra-Broadband Fixed Wireless Access with Point-to-Multipoint at 28 GHz

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Allied Telesis Delivering Secure and Reliable, Next-Generation IoT & SDN-Ready Networks

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government, education and critical infrastructure customers, Allied Telesis is the smarter choice

Takayoshi Oshima Chairman & CEO

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oday, we can observe the rapid transformation in the business world with continuous advancements in technologies and increased customer expectations. Organizations are changing at an ever-increasing rate and businesses are facing an uphill battle to adapt to change, and to stay ahead of the competition. At the same time, cities are increasingly becoming populated; and with this growth, issues such as demand on resources and public safety become a key focus for government and civic leaders. Today, more than any other time, organizations need a technology partner that has both the vision and the capability to take network communications to where they need them to be.

Leveraging experience of over thirty years, Allied Telesis has been at the forefront of serving the needs of the network communications industry. They deliver intelligent technologies such as AMF (Autonomous Management Framework) to manage and control networks – both large and small – that simplifies the deployment of networks. It also reduces the burden of on-going management which is particularly important as the number of connected devices rises with the growth in IoT deployments. These technologies are embedded within the firms’ portfolio of networking and communications products that are used in a broad range of embedded systems. These systems can be found everywhere from manufacturing facilities with collections of connected PLC’s and other sensors to Smart Buildings and Smart Cities where everything throughout the building or across the city is connected.

Today's IoT devices are increasingly connected by wireless services and Allied Telesis has an extensive array of both

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wired and wireless products, which means organizations can have a supplier relationship with one organization that is able to meet all their networking needs.

Unyielding Industry Roots The name Allied Telesis is taken from the Latin allied (united) and Telesis (progress) which makes it an organization that is moving forward continuously. The firm has been delivering networking and communication solutions to support embedded applications and systems for over thirty years, even before the term Internet of Things or IoT was ever used.

Today, the firm is engaged in some of the most advanced and innovative next-generation network research, focusing its efforts on development and production of more intelligent, autonomously controlled and managed systems that are required to meet the demands of the Internet of Things and tomorrow’s networks.

A Tech-Centric Leader Takayoshi Oshima founded Allied Telesis, a subsidiary of Telesis Holding K.K in March 1987 and has been its Chairman and CEO since 1987. Prior to the establishment of Allied Telesis, he held technical, marketing and managerial positions with companies spearheading the growth of the high-technology industry including ITT, Fairchild Camera Instruments, and Advanced Micro Devices. He was recently elected to the Mineta Transportation Institute Board of Trustees.

Oshima founded Allied Telesis with a vision to transform the emerging data networking industry with highly reliable, standards-based connectivity solutions that deliver value for their customers. Today under his leadership, the corporation is a global success story, supplying an expanding international customer base with ever more sophisticated hardware, software, and services solutions needed to build, operate and secure the data networks that make business possible.

A Reliable IoT Provider The firm is a one-stop IoT solution provider and takes responsibility for the services it delivers. Its base is strong in all its three domains: i.e. Hardware, Software, and Customer support.

These three stiff bases build the trust within their customers who know there is one organization on which they can

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depend for all their requirements - they know that the responsibility lies with Allied Telesis when it matters most.

Customer Oriented Approach The firms' focus has always been about smart networking and delivering technology that helps to simplify the process of deploying networks while maintaining a high degree of security. An example of this is delivering technology that can automate or continuously optimize a wired or wireless environment which frees human resources to focus on other activities while at the same time improving consistency and reducing human error.

In term of security, the company’s UTM firewalls deliver a high-performance, fully featured security platform with a powerful firewall and threat protection capability that is ideal for today's converged and IoT environments.

Not only does Allied Telesis deliver cybersecurity solutions through their array of UTM firewalls and security appliances, but they have also integrated other innovative security solutions such as Active Fiber Monitoring (AFM) into their portfolio of products. AFM allows an alert to be generated upon tampering or interception with fiber infrastructure which is critical given the volumes of data being transmitted today and the increasing reliance on fiber for transmission.

One of the other benefits of partnering with Allied Telesis is the service and support that is delivered by its professional

services team ensuring customers make the most of their investment in technology from the firm.

Accounting For Industry Needs According to the firm, as IoT devices are increasingly being connected wirelessly, wireless technology has become a particular area of importance. While the wireless standards such as IEEE 802.11n and IEEE 802.11ac deliver more speed for a single user or device, they do not overcome today's underlying challenges of cell-based wireless technology. As such, Allied Telesis has developed an innovative range of wireless products and technology that helps to overcome the challenges of cell-based wireless technology by using single-channel architecture. It delivers seamless roaming and far greater reliability than traditional cell-based wireless solutions.

In addition, for organizations that need to use a cell-based architecture, the firm delivers a hybrid wireless solution where a cell-based architecture can be used for some applications and a single channel architecture, which means organizations do not need to compromise when it comes to performance and reliability.

The firm is also observing organizations that are embracing convergence. Previously, an organization would deploy separate networks for SCADA, CCTV, IP telephony and corporate applications, however, today organizations deploy a single converged network to support all of their Information Technology (IT) and Operational Technology (OT) systems.

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opportunity to gain more from whatever deployment of change is being undertaken”. Earlier, closer engagement can see organizations like Allied Telesis to provide practical and valuable advice that can potentially reduce costs, increase functionality or decrease risk or possibly all above mentioned.

Networks for Today and Tomorrow With the rise of Big Data and Cloud Computing, organizations will continue to see the size of speeds and feeds increasing. Where 40G and 100G in the past would have seemed like almost limitless in terms of capacity, tomorrow the industry will see these as commonplace within the backbone of many networks.

Guiding New Entrants

The firm believes that while the port density and bandwidth of devices will continue to increase, the truly interesting developments in the future in terms of features and functionality will come from software features that will help in solving real-world business challenges. These challenges may revolve around agility and flexibility and ensuring that the network can change and adapt to different traffic patterns or as organizations need it to change or they may be around the cost and complexity of managing technology infrastructure.

The firm strongly advises treating the customer like partners in business rather than just suppliers to business. In order to maximize the benefits, a good sharing of knowledge both backward and forwarded between organizations must exist so that everyone can make the most of every opportunity.

The firm states that “All too often we see organizations that hold their suppliers at arm's length and treat them as just that – suppliers. And in many cases, this results in a missed

Allied Telesis also expect closer coupling of applications and the underlying infrastructure so the pipes that carry information or data around an organization have a better understanding of what that data is and can make smarter decisions about that data. This all leads into the realm of Intent-Based Networking (IBN) along with Software Defined Networking (SDN), which have the ability to redefine the benefits that the technology can deliver.

With people, devices and other things being increasingly connected and the value of the information being collected growing, security needs to be given greater emphasis than it currently is. Allied Telesis has a range of innovative products and technologies that have been tailored for use with embedded applications and IoT environments.

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oday, Internet of Things (IoT) is transforming the whole world by making many of our day-to-day tasks so simple and easily controllable without physical presence. Some of the examples of current trending IoT solutions are; connected cars, smart homes, autonomous vehicles, drones and many more. IoT solutions companies are becoming popular and valuable with their futuristic approach and unique solutions. dc-square is one of the most innovative companies in the IoT space and leading expert in connecting products (e.g. devices, machines, devices, and apps) with MQTT, the de-facto communication standard protocol for the IoT. In an interview with Insights Success, Christian Götz, Co-founder and CEO of dc-square, gave his insightful views about the current IoT developments. He also shared many important details about how dc-square, helps companies to gain a competitive advantage by connecting their products over the internet.

Q. Brief us about your company. What kind of IoT solutions offered by dc-square at par with the current industry standards? dc-square is a software company, which helps businesses around the globe to connect their devices and application over the internet and transform into digital businesses Our main product is the data movement platform HiveMQ. HiveMQ makes it easy to move data to and from connected devices in an efficient, fast and reliable manner. It is an Enterprise-ready solution, which is based on the MQTT protocol, the standard protocol in IoT. We have over 100 customers using HiveMQ and recently we have been awarded the 6th place in the Technology Fast 50 list by Deloitte Germany.

Q. Tell us something about you.

I’m the CEO at dc-square and particularly responsible for the success of our current and future customers. With a technical background in computer science, I have the necessary technical qualification to understand our customers on a deeper level and additionally clearly identify their business challenges and drivers. This enables me, as well as our whole team, to be an expert when it comes to helping customers to connect with their products. This is really what IoT is about, we enable our customers to use their existing or new products, in a totally different way as before.

Q. What is the present state of the IoT solution industry? How are you positioning your company?

Currently, there are a lot of different offerings available and a huge market opportunity as well. The key to success in IoT is the movement of data in an efficient, fast and reliable way. Often solutions do not have these characteristics, especially bearing in mind the constraints of IoT devices. We are not a very generic platform as 16

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the most are; we are a trusted partner of more than 100 customers solving their specific challenge to enable their products to exchange data instantly. We integrate easily in all common enterprise systems.

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• Enable new business models due to the push-based and constant connection.

dc-square is the company behind HiveMQ, the data movement platform that makes it easy to move data to and from connected devices in an efficient, fast and reliable manner, making it possible to build connected products that enable new digital businesses.

Q. How did you get inspired to become an IoT Solution provider?

We started building HiveMQ in 2013, there was no IoT industry yet, it was called M2M (machine-to-machine communication). We have seen that connecting machines is totally different from connecting people over the internet via websites. Therefore other solution and protocols are needed. We wanted to offer a solution that incorporates a new and lightweight technology enabling new business models by having a lightweight and push-based connection between the devices and the cloud.

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Accelerate market entry of IoT projects by handling the most critical and important component the data movement from and to IoT devices in a fast and reliable fashion.

Q. With the introduction of new technologies like AI and vast improvement in wireless technologies & telecom infrastructure, what are the scopes and challenges coming with it?

All the new technologies like AI are still in the very beginning, so there will be a lot of new possibilities for companies to use these technologies in order to provide a better product for their customers. One of the challenges will definitely be to transfer and process the large amounts of data, which will rise up exponentially.

So having a reliable, efficient and highly scalable solution to exchange the data is the foundation for leveraging the potential of these technologies.

Q. What can be expected from your company in near future?

We are currently getting ready for the next challenges our customers are facing and solving them before they have them. We are on our journey to enable even more businesses to connect their products by providing new versions of our product HiveMQ and expanding the ecosystem around it with additional products and tools, to make it easier than ever to deploy IoT solutions with 10.000.000+ devices. Also starting 2019 we will be expanding our business in the US, with the help of the German Accelerator Tech, where we have been one of 14 companies selected to participate in.

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nternet of Things (IoT) is one of the key technologies in the Fourth Industrial Revolution which promises to transform and disrupt our current business. It’s like a “do or die” thing. Even though Kevin Ashton have coined the term “IoT” in 1999, it’s only four to 5 years ago that we see a sudden increase of renewed interest in IoT due to multiple factors such as the price of hardware becoming cheaper, communications becoming more pervasive, software development becoming more easier, Moore’s Law doubling the computing power and the impact of Metcalf’s network effects.

We are also seeing a transformation in the business model. Initially, it’s all about technology-based, product-based or service-based business model. However, with IoT, we can offer a new business model based on outcome. For example, I will pay your solution if it can guarantee to reduce my electricity bill by 30% or pay me this amount if I can guarantee you that your healthcare costs reduce by 50% this year.

The new business posed great challenge since it requires enough data or information to make a particular decision.

These data can come from various sources including the sensor data. Building an IoT solution requires many parties to be involve since every part of the IoT value-chain requires specialization such as chipsets, devices, connectivity, middleware, applications, data analytics and system integration.

Below are the main key factors how Startup can capitalize on IoT’s new co-economy: 1. Leverage their agility – Startup work faster than many bigger companies. They are more innovative and have faster decision process. Successful Startup will be normally acquired by bigger companies to be part of their whole ecosystem.

2. Specialist in their own areas – Startup is excellent in one or two things. They have the knowledge depth in specific area. They can be a very good partner and to fill the gap required by a bigger project.

3. Capturing the immature market – IoT is still at an infancy stage but have great potential. With the use of cloud, IoT services can be reach worldwide. A smart building or smart parking solution can have their IoT middleware resides across the world.

4. Think big but start small – IoT have four maturity phases. In many IoT implementation journey, we can start with as simple as monitoring and later towards control. As we include more sensors and actuators, we can reach the phase of optimise and finally the ultimate phase of making the solution autonomous.

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About the Author Dr. Mazlan Abbas is the CEO and Co-founder of FAVORIOT, a Malaysian IoT Start-up that focuses on providing a peace of mind solu on called RAQIB for the pilgrims and their family members during performing their Hajj. Favoriot also offers RAQIB to monitor the elderly's health, safety, and loca on. Both solu ons above comprised of Smart Wearables connected to FAVORIOT IoT middleware.

The middleware is now being used by more than 20 organiza ons to build their own IoT solu ons.

Dr. Mazlan Abbas CEO & Co-founder

5. IoT DNA – Startup should capitalize the journey of an individual organization’s digital transformation journey from the beginning. Understanding their pain points and providing the IoT solution is similar to a doctor prescribing medicines for their patient until they recover from their illness. Only the regular or the “house” doctor know the patient well enough – thus, be their IoT DNA. IoT has taken a long journey and now it has become an integral part of Fourth Industrial Revolution and beyond.

It will be very pervasive and will change the landscape of current business whether you like it or not. It is no longer a monopoly economy due to multiple technologies and specific talents required. Startups have to take quickly leverage and capitalize the opportunity now.

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here was a time when a desktop-based application was considered as a popular choice for managing the on-line business. However, with the advent of cutting-edge mobile technologies, deeper penetration of internet across the globe and affordable mobile devices, no one can imagine running a profitable business without having a mobile app.

There are reports which clearly indicates that having a mobile app can prove a boon for your business. According to Techcrunch.com, Black Friday sales done through mobile devices last year touched over 35%.

This impressive percentage was 16% more as compared to the sales done a few years ago, according to IBM Holiday Benchmark Reports.

In fact, in a famous case study, it was revealed that when Domino’s Pizza launched their mobile app, they witnessed an astonishing surge of over 28 percentage points in half-year pre-tax profits in the UK alone.

You can also witness an upsurge in profits by crafting an alluring fast pace mobile app. Let’s check how a mobile app can turn your fortune for a good.

It Crafts a Brand to Remember According to one prominent study it is found that nearly threequarters of Americans check their mobile phones at least once per hour. This study revealed that mammoth 90% of that time, American spends while working on mobile apps. Interestingly, Americans now spend more time on their mobile phones as compared to watching Television.

Therefore, the presence of your app is crucial in the gallery of your targeted audience. Missing such can only prove fatal in long run. Your app can create a brand value for your business and let your business to get recognized to the entire world. In fact, in marketing, there is the

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one saying- ones a brand is created, money start filling into the company's coffers sooner or later. Your mobile app can create a brand for your business and increase your outreach to the even untapped territory. By crafting it stylish with the addition of informative and functional features, you can connect with the hearts of your targeted customers. Once your customers get involved with your app, the probability of buying your product becomes high.

In advertising this is popularly called the “effective frequency”: as a rule of thumb, hearing and/or seeing your brand approximately 20 times is what will get you truly noticed.

Instant Notifications Humans love instant gratification and attract very easily towards anything that can give them instant benefit.

According to some prominent studies, when you offer a discount and other offers, more customers are likely to turn towards your business. However, not everyone gets informed in advance about the discounts, special offers and other packages that can benefit them. Having a business app for the mobile platform can assist you to attract more consumers towards your services by sending an instant notification. Such notifications can inform your targeted customers about the different deals, discount, and other events in advance without any hassle (in fact on-the-go) and result in boosting your revenue.

For best results, schedule your push notifications at the right time. Everyone nowadays lives a hectic life schedule, and thus no one wants to get disturbed while at work or while sleeping. The promotional messages thus need to get triggered after work hours or on weekends to get read by most of your targeted audience.

Social Referrals Referral programs are a great hit these days. Every business is expanding its business footprint with intriguing marketing techniques. Your loyal customers can run your marketing campaign that can prove a boon not only for your business but for your customers as well. With the reward of bonus points or instant cash, they can share your app with others (family, friends and other). Such campaigns can increase the visibility of your business to even untargeted category and assist in building a new customer base. Thus, you can increase sales with minimal extra effort!

Easy Orders Many humans are ‘lazy’ by nature who tries to avoid doing even a minuscule task if it is not at all on high priority.

Your services might be exceptional, but will people come to your shop for buying that thing is a million-dollar question. Having a business app, you can turn those prospects into customers who otherwise happy to compromise on mediocre stuff due to long-distance constraints. Your business app can empower such customers to place an order just within a few clicks in a hassle-free manner. Easy order, real-time tracking, and secure payments options provides a great benefit to customers and are the prime reasons behind the stupendous growth of many ecommerce giants like Amazon, Alibaba, FlipKart, e-Bay and more.

Moreover, your app can assist in analyzing your customer preferences, feedback and suggestions that too in realtime, which ultimately assist you in optimizing your services for serving them better in the future.

Mobility is the on-going trend. If you still don’t have brought your business on the mobile platform, then we urge to do so. Not leveraging the benefits of mobile technologies can only help your counterparts to outpace you. Since the race is tight, profit margins are shrinking, and competition going fierce. It’s time to take a decision!

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EDRMedeso

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primarily comprising of engineering, and construction, and consultants and specialists at smaller engineering organizations.

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imulations assist users with practical feedback when designing real-world systems. Designers determine accuracy and efficiency of a design before fabricating the actual method. This simulation is helping every industry, notably the manufacturing one.

Coupled with the latest technology trends like IoT and additive manufacturing, corporations are drawing the pre-production phase of products to new heights. One such firm which is serving its clients in conquering the perfect engineering is EDRMedeso. While leveraging thirty years of experience, the company offers a personalized combination of leading simulation software to identify problems and flaws in the design process. It also carries out design changes from both performance and cost perspective at an early stage. EDRMedeso presently has eight offices in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, and the UK. Among its clients are many of Northern Europe’s leading companies in the industry 26

Niklas Lindwall is the CEO of EDRMedeso. With a Masters in Mechanical Engineering, Niklas started his career as a Support Engineer with Engineering Data Resources–EDR, (part of EDRMedeso now). He was primarily into providing training and consultancy, and later moved on to the sales where he served on EDR’s Sweden and Finland global production prospects. After his fruitful work at EDR, he left behind the position and carried out as Product Manager at Det Norske Veritas, where he concentrated on shipbuilding systems and managed global work in its sales department. Soon after, he returned to EDRMedeso as its Sales and Country Manager to look after the firm’s regional operations and took over as its CEO in April 2016.

Leading the Industry with Exceptional Services With its establishment in the Nordics region and the United Kingdom, EDRMedeso provides exceptional services through its digital lab and virtual fabrication processes. The firm’s digital lab is based on physics-based simulations, which provides customers valuable product insight both in the concept and prototype phase helping them reducing the waste of time and money on physical prototypes.

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Recounting his contribution to the firm, Niklas asserts, “My personal milestones are very much the same as the company’s. I live and breathe for the company. If the company succeeds, I succeed too”.

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physics-based prototype models and create digital twins of the products. By such, they can predict the product’s requirements including its future, next service, etc. By such, the company helps their customers simulate and manufacture products that they have calculated for decades.

competencies and services

The firm has raised its profits with double digits from the last three years. It has reached profit margins that are of the top segment in the industry. Additionally, EDRMedeso is recognized as the global leader in the simulation and BIM industry. The enterprise has experienced every aspect of the industry and has attracted the best clients from all over the world. The firm also feels proud of its recent partnership with PTC, which has proliferated its name in the IoT sector, and more clients are now proposing to be its partners.

and running away with distractions can lose focus, which will ultimately result in losing the deliverables and the clients,” says Niklas.

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Future Simulations

The digital twin side of the firm aid customers in opening new revenues. The clients can use the simulated data from the live product and feed that back into the product’s development phase. Clients can further predict the product’s future with the embedded sensors from the IoT and then use a combination of physics-based simulation and big data analysis to come up with scenarios based on that. The corporation further believes that technologies like additive manufacturing and 3D printing open the opportunities for enterprises to take a broader segment of profit margin.

EDRMedeso will continue to provide simulations to its customers and help them gather insights into how their clients use their products. Sometimes clients use products a little differently than they were intended. With these new insights, the firm will aid customers in modifying the existing products. It will also continue to enclose more trending technologies to its Digital Twins and BIM to support design through its phases, allowing stronger analysis and control than manual processes. When executed, these computer-generated models will contain precise geometry and desired data to aid the construction, fabrication, and procurement activities through which the design is realized.

Guiding Budding Entrepreneurs “The most critical part is to establish the customer value and based on that define a Strategy and connected plan with clear goals. The procedure should not be complicated and must match the objectives of the business. Start-ups must stick to the agenda and execute it very carefully. The focus should be the center of attention December 2018|

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About the Author Natalie Turner is a Keynote speaker and Author of the book Yes, You Can Innovate. Discover your innovation strengths and develop your creative potential which was selected as book of the month in both the UK and Singapore earlier this year.

She is the Founder and CEO of The Entheo Network, a global innovation company and has exemplary expertise in the eld of marketing, business strategy, and leadership development.

Under her leadership, the company provides a suite of innovative products and services to help individuals and organizations create new sources of value whilst building innovation skills, capabilities and culture.

She is also the inventor of the 6 ‘I’s® Innovation which measures innovation strengths of individuals and teams to unlock the innovation culture in an organization. www.6-i-innovation.com.

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s the digital landscape continues to change at a rapid pace, dismantling and disrupting the way that we do business, how can we ensure that our leadership and organisational thinking evolves at the same rate? The CEO is ultimately responsible for the success or failure of the company that they lead, which, in today’s world, means ensuring an organisation can adapt to this fast rate of change. To do this, leaders need to know how to innovate with agility and speed. This means, on the ground during day-to-day work, that each employee has a clear understanding of how they contribute to creating value out of new ideas and a common language to enable them to work together. As a CEO, part of your role is to foster a culture of innovation that can harness the often disparate skills and mindsets required to successfully innovate. The key is to understand that innovation is a journey, which includes spotting trends and discontinuities and generating new ideas, through to investing and implementing those ideas that can potentially have the most impact. The skill is to know how to match people’s strengths to the right part.

How do employees currently react to innovation conversations?

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novelty. Innovation, truly deep and sustainable innovation, combines both creativity and discipline, which are curious bedfellows. It is a considered process that requires a raft of different skills and ways of thinking, combined towards creating a common outcome. In fact, the innovation journey is more like a cycle that can start at any point, not just in the playful and curious spaces.

There are probably many employees in your organisation who do not identify with this sense of curiosity, or think that they have light bulb moments, but who are nonetheless crucial to the success of innovation as an outcome. You will not embed an agile innovation culture without showing employees of all stripes and skillsets where they fit in. The innovation culture needs a common framework and language. Within this shared understanding, different styles are more likely to interact with, and appreciate, the contribution of others. Creating the best environment for each stage of the journey, so that people are empowered to contribute their strengths will improve the likelihood of success.

Understanding the innovation journey Start with aligning teams around PURPOSE, what are they trying to achieve and why? Then move to how they can identify opportunities through understanding trends and patterns, often related to changes in human behaviour. Then move to the creative space where people ignite ideas, through practices such as brainstorming and value proposition design. After you have an array of ideas, submit them to analysis and experimentation, separating the good ones from the bad, investigating whether they are useful, not just novel. The interrelationship between these three spaces is often where you see design thinking processes in action. Now, if you have a few really good ideas that have a high chance of working, start to think through how to best make them work. If not, revisit the original-identified opportunity or generate alternative ideas and solutions.

When ready for investment, innovation leadership is really critical. This is often the graveyard of ideas. Here demonstrate courage; assign resources, whether it is people, time or money. Once ideas are funded, find people who are great at implementation and getting things done. Once the idea is starting to get traction and have an impact, harness the skills of improvement and optimisation to scale and leverage the ideas into other areas of opportunity.

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you have to harness diversity towards an often unknown outcome. Creating the best environment for each stage of the journey, so that people are empowered to contribute their strengths, will help to create a successful outcome.

This means teaching people when to contribute and when to pass the baton on to someone else. This is true collaboration, anchored in a clear purpose that is focused on the success of the idea.

Give each of your employees a proactive role in the innovation journey Culture could be termed “how we do things around here” and part of what contributes towards this is how leaders act and behave towards the people that they manage and lead.

Even more so when it comes to innovating. If people understand their contribution, they will have the confidence and courage to start thinking of themselves as innovators.

They will also understand when they will have the most impact. The innovation journey needs a different culture at different points; a culture that allows for ideas to be generated is not the same as one needed to investigate those ideas.

Innovation and the CEO Lead by example. Understand the part of the innovation journey that you are best at, and be aware of the bias that you will have because of that. Increase the awareness of yourself and others,so that you can empower everyone to cultivate environments that allow their strengths to flourish.

Ensure that every skillset and its contribution to innovation is respected and rewarded. This can only be done by understanding the whole of the innovation journey, end-toend. Diversity is key, if you have a lot of people who are good at generating ideas, you may end up with very little that actually gets done. If you have a lot of people who are good at implementation, you may end up dealing with today’s work very well, but not have the culture of a future-ready organisation that can adapt to fast-paced change tomorrow. In empowering your leaders and employees to develop their creative potential, in the broadest sense of the word, innovation will start to seep through the whole of your organisation, embedding a culture that will increase the likelihood of you creating impactful value out of new ideas.

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lockchain technology is an impressive breakthrough in the field of science and technology. Its popularity has skyrocketed over the years due to its extensive and far-fetched capabilities and promise of making business process smoother, faster, and secure. Smart Contracts and Content Streaming are the new trends that are benefitting immensely by this new age technology. These new facets are toppling established market leaders and creating newer opportunities for new-age start-ups entrepreneurs.

Smart Contracts Contracts are the most vital part of any business operation and no business can achieve its ultimate objective without following the contractual guidelines. While we have seen traditional contracts been a popular method of framing contracts since ages, Smart Contracts have now pulling everyone’s attention towards it. The reason behind Smart Contracts’ immense popularity is its fascinating features like: It does not take days to build a contract; in fact it does that in minutes. Unlike traditional contracts where escrow, physical presence and lawyers are necessary; Smart Contracts do not require any such things and thus provides a much smoother and faster way to craft a contract. Apart from these, the most interesting feature behind its rising popularity is that it takes only a fraction of the cost to craft the contract as compared to traditional contracts. But at the crux of all, what is making all these things possible. The answer is blockchain technology.

Due to blockchain, Smart Contracts can create airtight agreements bypassing third parties. Many industries are now looking towards Smart Contracts as a mean to lay out business transactions. It has plenty of applications in all sorts of industries ranging from finance, real estate, and logistics to recruitment. In fact, any industry that relies on agreement to function can benefit immensely with Smart Contracts.

These contracts offer transparency and security while simultaneously speeding up the whole business process.

While smart contracts have the potential to become legal contracts, they should not be confused with legal contracts accepted by courts. In the near future, we will probably see a fusion of legal contracts and smart contracts as the technology becomes more mature and scalable.

Content Streaming Streaming content online is the new trend this world is witnessing these days. Whether to watch a movie, song or a famous TV-series, more and more people are using online services. According to one prominent survey, a whopping 61 % of respondents aged between18-29 primarily use online streaming services to watch television. But the current technology consumes large amount of processing power, and make the maintenance of all data, servers and December 2018|

networks significantly costly, thus resulting in to the increased maintenance cost of traditional video-streaming technology. Blockchain technology process large amount of data and charge significantly lesser as compared to the traditional technology for streaming videos. Moreover, this technology provides better content independence, content monetization, and censor-free content distribution.

Independence of Content: The present day content distribution is done through centralized hubs and the power of distribution is left in the hands of centralized corporation.

And since the distribution is limited to these hubs, the creators are also limited in contact with the viewer.

Although, with the arrival of blockchain technology, content creators can use peer-to-peer distribution channel effectively by removing the centralized hub and can use a system where independent content creators can market and distribute their contents directly to the viewers.

Content Monetization: The traditional centralized method provides creators only paltry ways to earn money with their creative content like: AdSense allows YouTube publishers to earn money from advertisements that are linked to video itself, but this method is not at par with the current times as it strips value from the content itself, effectively reduces the true content creators to taking maximum benefits from advertising revenue. Blockchain technology provides an innovative technique known as tokenizing content for users to monetize their contents directly. Enterprises use tokens through initial coin offerings (ICO), which can be used by creators to promote their content, or by consumers to access and consume content. With tokenizing, blockchain makes it possible for users to choose what to offer while gaining monetary gain directly from the content itself.

Censor-free Content: Today, we have many video sharing platforms, which contain considerable level of censorship and creators are not allowed to produce/distribute their content without following stringent guidelines. Censorship is a requirement of content distribution but not always it is essential. Many times the authorities do the censorship, which is not at all required and impact the revenue of creators and also disappoint the viewers. Blockchain technology uses P2P systems and thus allows for censor-free content distribution and empower both the creators and viewers. It allows creators to promote their content directly to those who want to consume it.

The applications of blockchain technology is immense, this makes it popular. The profound impact of this distributed ledger technology is far greater than anyone can realize.

This technology has the potential to change the landscape of economics, business and society at large. We are just at the beginning of its technological adventure.

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ultinational enterprise today are facing a huge range of challenges as digitization, globalization and new IT solutions call for innovative network solutions.

According to Gartner, around 80% of employees and customers are served in branch offices. And a survey done by research company Populus shows that even 41% of small and medium companies say, they do business in countries outside their own.

Enterprises thus need to interconnect sites and workforces around the globe with greater flexibility and agility than ever before.

In addition, new cloud-based applications are driving demand for greater connectivity and higher bandwidths with premium network performance and security. According to a survey done by Gartner, the worldwide public cloud service market grew by 18% in 2017. And market researchers from Cisco see an increase of global business IP traffic by 21% until 2021. Thus, enterprises need new data connectivity services to cope with the increasing network requirements.

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worldwide operations. Most of the time they are relying on several service providers to deliver the needed services. But this procurement set-up often makes e.g. the addition of new sites or changes to an existing network connection complicated and slow.

Instead of having to negotiate, obtain, and manage disparate connectivity from various providers, it would be much better, if one trusted partner could manage and operate the complete data connectivity services as a “one-stop shop” for all global network needs of a company. And this is exactly, why we have initiated an alliance of leading service providers and founded ngena. ngena stands for »Next Generation Enterprise Network Alliance« and is an alliance of global telecommunications providers that are joining forces in a shared economy model to offer a solution that can overcome the customer challenges described above.

Founded in early 2016, ngena has seen more than 17 strong international partners around the globe joining the alliance. Founded by Deutsche Telekom, CenturyLink, Reliance Jio and SK Telekom, the alliance has now grown to include several new telecom partners such as A1, Altice with SFR and Portugal Telecom, Expereo, KPN, MTN, Neutrona, Starhub, Telus, PCCW Global and VEON plus technology partners Cisco, Comarch

and Equinix.

Software-define networks – much more than a hype From a technology perspective, the alliance provides a central cloud platform that merges the local networks of all alliance partners, forming a single global Software Defined Wide Area Network (SDWAN). The architecture is based on sharing the local network assets using cloud and virtualization technology to provide hybrid VPN services with additional service options (e.g. network optimization services, security services etc.). Thus, all local partners can deliver performant and secure data connectivity services to their end customers on a global scale.

Enterprises benefit from this approach in many ways: on the one hand they get a global network service which is secure, stable, scalable and easy to use; on the other hand, they profit from the local access and local care of their regional telecommunication provider.

One of ngena’s technology partners is US technology giant Cisco. Cisco has been working with the alliance from the start to design and build the service delivery platform behind ngena. The platform is powered by technologies that feature high-performance cloud infrastructure, layered orchestration for end-to-end seamless automation, service assurance, virtual network December 2018|

Expert’s Viewpoint functions, and customer premise equipment portfolio. Combined with Cisco’s newly acquired Viptela SD-WAN technology, this platform enables ngena to offer enterprises cost-effective and reliable business network services. The ngena solution is designed to meet customer requirements for single sourcing of service providers for global enterprise network services, faster service roll-out at any location in the world, and predictable end-to-end service level agreements.

What is also special about this model is that the Cisco technology integrates with a third-party Business and Operations System (B/OSS) developed by software company Comarch. With the help of this cloud platform, all alliance partners can configure and manage the global networks of their customers centrally. Thus, they can change network configurations, add new accesses or make fast changes to existing networks with a tip of a mouse click.

The transformation has just begun The potential power of the ngena approach is really impressive. It’s a transformative initiative that combines an innovative business model, strong industrial partnerships, a cloud-first, software-based technology platform, and a high degree of process automation. Together those attributes enable ngena and its alliance partners to uniquely address the needs of multinational enterprises and leapfrog the classic competition.

About

e Author

Dr. Marcus Hacke, Founder & Managing Director ngena Gmb Marcus developed the idea and concept for ngena and is the Managing Director of ngena since its foundation in February 2016. He has worked for T-Systems since 2004, holding a number of managerial positions in Delivery, Sales and Product Management. In these roles, his responsibilities included global provisioning and operations of telecommunications solutions as well as the development of a global telecommunications portfolio.

Before joining T-Systems, Marcus spent seven years as a business consultant with McKinsey & Company, focusing on the IT and telecommunications industries. He holds a doctorate in physics.

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MultiTech

Industrial Communications Hardware for the Internet of Things

deliver enhanced value. Company’s commitment to quality and service excellence makes its customers to satisfactorily rely on MultiTech products, while the company’s history of innovation ensures its customers to stay ahead of the latest technology in data communication space.

Stefan Lindvall CEO

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he IoT market has been growing steadily for many years and will continue to do so at a double-digit CAGR for the foreseeable future. Interestingly, as the marketplace becomes more mature, the focus is shifting from discussion of the enabling technologies to a discussion of the business value being enabled. This is a good development, but it can create some confusion about all the different pieces of the stack required to develop, deploy and manage a complete solution. MultiTech, an innovative data communications equipment provider company addresses this issue and provides the actual connectivity hardware to fulfill all communication needs. In addition, the company is committed to helping its customers navigate the entire ecosystem through collaboration with service providers across the entire value chain.

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Driving Force of MultiTech Stefan Lindvall is the CEO of MultiTech. Stefan brings more than 20 years of high-level experience in the wireless industry to MultiTech. Lindvall founded Connected Development, one of the leading wireless design services companies in the U.S. Prior to Connected Development, Stefan served as President of the Americas at Wavecom and before that held various leadership positions at SonyEricsson and Ericsson including, Vice President m2m Sales, Americas. Lindvall received his MSc in Industrial Engineering and Management from the University of Linkoping, Sweden.

Customer Oriented Extraordinary Offerings Superior Quality: From US-based manufacturing plant to countless product and process certifications, MultiTech is committed to the utmost quality in everything they do.

That’s why there are more than 22 Million MultiTech products performing essential duties for businesses around the globe.

Service Excellence: From a comprehensive portfolio to the extensive reach of the distribution network, MultiTech is easy to choose and easy to buy. Thanks to their in-house manufacturing and custom design services; broad-reaching expertise and fast, agile development company delivers customization and flexibility.

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years. “We have no intention of slowing down. We’re continuing our legacy of firsts with the world’s first commercially deployable LPWA suite of communications devices,” asserts Stefan.

Benefits for MultiTech’s Customers Sensor data, machine-to-machine (M2M) communication and data analysis are rapidly converging, and MultiTech is one of the few IoT companies that has brought these technologies together for decades. Their experience has taught them how to accurately capture and communicate real-time data for optimized business processes in a wide range of industries, in order to: Make money • Create new service offerings by leveraging remote, new and on-demand data • Open up new product categories not available before due to lack of timely information • Easily improve and optimize your customer experience for repeat sales • Reduce reliance on labor-intensive solutions by utilizing device data to identify new revenue-generating opportunities.

Save money • Enhance predictive and preventative maintenance by optimizing site visits • Improve process optimization by having the right part at the right time • Further automation by leveraging intelligence at the edge • Implement exception monitoring by leveraging intelligence at the edge where your assets reside The company’s goal is to help customers to increase efficiencies wherever possible. Rather than hiring new employees or settling for time-consuming processes, customers can rely on MultiTech to cut their operating costs significantly.

Comply • Improved worker safety with predictive modeling • Easier tracking and reporting on industry-specific regulations • Receive peace of mind.

With MultiTech, customers can be certain that their devices are 100% compliant with network regulations.

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Our Products transform the way we live and work

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IoT

COMPANIES TO WATCH 2018

Growing with Advancement in Technology The Internet of Things (IoT) has set the IT world on fire with innovative technologies and astonishing growth levels.

The rate of data collection has also accelerated markedly in recent years: an IBM Marketing Cloud study claims 90% of the total data in the world was created in just the past two years, at a rate of 2.5 quintillion bytes of data per day.

To support this exponential growth in data collection, new smart connected sensors and assets are being deployed every day. This, in turn, calls for innovations in the machine-to-machine (M2M) and IoT networks which carry the vast flow of data, in order to mitigate the cost and inefficiency of handling data centrally in the cloud. IoT networks of the future must adopt a decentralized architecture in which processing of raw data begins not in the cloud, but at the network edge.

To respond to this need, MultiTech has embedded intelligence into their edge devices to support on-site data processing and response, as appropriate. Even with the potential bandwidth improvements promised by 5G, the combination of AI and IoT will require additional processing overhead and more intensive edge intelligence to manage real-time decision making for industrial applications.

Future Roadmap MultiTech will continue to be innovation focused on solving our customer’s biggest IoT pain points through a combination of product enhancements, targeted support services and tailored bundled solutions.

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he coming years will spectate a time when the entire work place would look different. Half of the world has already been infused by Artificial Intelligence. In this technology driven life, people seldom have time to waste. Today there is an alternate to every problem that linger humans. Let it be about automated or smart cars being used to move around, or taking help of “Siri” ‒ the personal assistant to help with directions, make a call or for any kind of service. The auto generated texts that is received from banks, Facebook wishing birthdays, reminders or events set in calendars, email filtering spam messages are all performed through automation. Thus, AI has its influence in every aspect of one’s life.

ON THE

VERGE TO DROP THEIR JOBS?

The world today is moving in a swift manner and there is a shift at how we live, move and communicate. Time seems to be barrier here as everyone is in rush to adapt to the changes. As humans, communicating to another being is very important. There are automatic secretaries that help in arranging such gatherings with all the necessary information. Everything out in the world is just at finger tips away. Scheduling meetings, ordering grocery, making dinner plans, ordering food at work or at home anything is possible. Technology has opened up infinite opportunities and the growth of technology in such a small span of time is commendable. How much easier can life be with the help of these technologies? The answer lies in future.

Considering the changes that have occurred in past few years, it can be assured that AI is growing and the scopes are infinite.

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to make their lives easier. It doesn’t need a genius to know that the drastic change in every ones lives and the implementation of AI is the outcome of human thinking and hence it won’t be startling if robots would actually live amongst humans. If such a thing happens then the work load on humans would be reduced to minimal. Is that a good thing or bad? However from the outside this new world that would emerge seems like effortless. Most of the hazardous tasks like defusing a bomb, working at coal mine, using heavy and dangerous machines and even at war field would become less of a nightmare. Among other things AI is playing a major role in business and other work

fields which give a possibility of robots replacing workers in the market.

As a coin has two sides, this initiation could have drawbacks, but there is brighter side too. If workers are being replaced with robots then there would be higher productivity and lesser time consumption. There would be a change in the graph of economic growth too. For example automated surveillance can be a boon to the entire mankind. Improved machine tools like 360 degree video cameras, sensors that can cover all kinds of images that pass by will bring a massive change. It might even put the jobs of security guards at question but this change will December 2018|

be a turning point. It can reduce the risks of thefts and other incidents.

There is another masterpiece of AI that can be called as the game changer. AI robots are replacing receptionists. Handing multiple clients can be tiring and can at times even create confusions and thus replacing humans with robots is both impressive and time saving. Imagine how it would feel like when you are entering a museum and you are welcomed by a robot who gives you a quick, precise and clear tour of all the things in that museum. How wonderful is that? Robots can even be replaced by workers at factory. This brilliant step has lots of advantages. Workers at coal mine sites or any such mineral sites are always prone to danger, the replacement of humans by robots can reduce this risk and also it will be helpful in increasing productivity. Similarly AI robots can take over works of a driver, data analyst, delivery boys, advertising salesperson, telemarketer, bookkeeping clerks and many other such strenuous and boring jobs. That is not all they can be also be useful in other high intelligent jobs like that of an accountant.

A robot will never go wrong with calculations and numbers.

Are humans ready for this change?

The biggest fear that lingered humans since years was what will happen to humans if robot takes over? Seems like humans are about to get their answers. AI robot is not a dream anymore rather it is the hard truth that the coming generation has to face. According the reports released by McKinsey & Company, 800 million workers would be replaced by robots worldwide by the year 2030. The report also stated that the countries with advanced economies like U.S and Germany up to one-third of work force might be replaced by robots by the year 2030. Does this suggest that the workers would have to learn other skills and find other jobs? The future looks both scary and impressive and what does it has in store can only be unfolded with time.

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Ultra-Broadband Fixed Wireless Access with Point-to-Multipoint at 28 GHz

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ixed wireless access (FWA) is a solution that has been around for more than a decade as an alternative to xDSL, fiber and other wired broadband access technologies. Used to provide access to the underserved, usually in sub-urban or rural areas, it is also utilized as a complementary solution by WISPs or CLECs to provide competitive services. FWA is more applicable to the residential or small-business markets that constantly use bandwidth hungry applications.

Ÿ Scalability of CPE The higher the number of Customer Premises Equipment that can be served in a sectorized area, the faster the ROI. Increase in demand should not obligate additional spending on equipment infrastructure at the hub sites.

High sector capacity is also an important factor to consider, combined with the spectrum efficiency of the deployed system. Ÿ Cost of infrastructure

Challenges of FWA Networks

Ÿ Technology selection Fixed line networking -with fiber, cable access or even xDSL/vectoring technologies- provides high capacity and reliability but at a significant CapEx. Moreover, typical copper-based xDSL technologies cannot offer high capacities. Modern wireless technologies are already field-proven and operators invest in related solutions to deliver residential broadband access services as efficiently as possible. Ÿ Fast rollout

Deployment time is also important in the fiercelycompetitive telecom market. As a result, operators have to consider wireless technologies for such a solution, as they have a significant advantage over fixed line networking in terms of the time it takes to reach the end customer, and also generate CapEx savings. Ease of installation and commissioning is also critical for the OpEx of large deployments.

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The FWA market and especially the residential access applications are price sensitive as far as the CPE is concerned. Wireless ISPs that plan to deploy fixed wireless broadband networks and offer attractive monthly packages need to select equipment vendors that will provide low CapEx solutions and generate profitable investments.

High-capacity FWA does not have to wait for 5G The current FWA sub-6GHz technologies offer maximum throughputs in the order of tens of Mbps per user. Everyone is waiting for the holy grail of 5G access and its fiber like performance. The question is why does it take so long to mature? In the past, mobile standards were designed to improve on previous ones in one or two ways, such as voice or mobile broadband. 5G, however, has a much broader scope. From its conception, the creators of 5G wanted the network to handle several different functions, including enhanced mobile broadband, massive machine type communications, also called IoT, and critical, ultrareliable December 2018|

Business Insider and low-latency communications.

The demand for broadband services both in the enterprise and the premium residential user segments is constantly growing.

Despite good fiber availability in large cities, the deployment of microwave access links (28/39 GHz) can be quicker and cheaper in many cases. Analysts are projecting double digit growth rates in the FWA market in the forthcoming years. This is seen by many WISPs and CLECs as an opportunity to deploy highcapacity FWA services today and not wait for 5G to happen.

Advantages of Area-Licensed Spectrum with FWA

Pantelis Trakas Senior Product Manager, Wireless Network Systems, Intracom Telecom

About the company Intracom Telecom is a global telecommunication systems and solutions vendor operating for over 40 years in the market. The company has become the benchmark in fixed wireless access and it successfully innovates in the 5G/4G wireless front haul, backhaul and small-cell SON backhaul international arena.

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Many operators already possess, or consider acquiring, area-licensed spectrum and would like to take advantage both of their investment and the extra assurance offered by licensed spectrum with respect to interference, in order to deploy FWA in these frequencies.

Owning area-licensed spectrum (as opposed to per-link licensed spectrum) enables the use of PtMP systems and offers the advantage of not requiring a separate licensing procedure for the planning and installation of each link, which is a consideration if one has to deploy, and potentially re-deploy, multiple links within a short period of time.

Licensed spectrum for the bandwidthrich, area-licensed 10.5/26/28 GHz bands, is ideal for dense FWA deployment in residential applications.

The benefit of using licensed spectrum is the assurance of avoiding interference from competing operator systems using the same bands.

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