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oday, we can see drastic improvements in wireless technology and mobile infrastructure. Mobile technologies are getting increasingly sophisticated in the term of data rates, modulation techniques, coverage, reliability, and capacities. This is creating a lot of space in the progress in the sector of the Internet of Things (IoT) and its applications. Higher data speeds and improved network coverage have resulted in the increased accuracy and utility of IoT devices. Emerging technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) are becoming more popular as AI based devices work independently using predictive analysis and IoT architecture.

One of the top application of IoT is the Autonomous Vehicles as they are utilizing IoT for their unmanned operation. They demand a high quality of reliable mobile infrastructure, sensors, and AI for smooth functioning. At present, autonomous vehicles are in testing phase by big giants. So, in the near future, this autonomous vehicle will allow us to do some other creative work or get relax and let the car drive itself throughout our entire journey.

IoT is gaining more popularity in areas such as Transportation, Artificial Intelligence, Smart Cities, Smart Homes, Healthcare, Security, Traffic Control, Education, Parental Care, Military Operations, and many more. Today, many gadget companies are continuously introducing their highly competitive IoT devices with advanced feature. This may include devices such as wearables, and drones among many others.

Telecom service providers are also introducing their own Machine to Machine (M2M) solutions through their networks. IoT is now becoming an unavoidable for the human lives as it is simplifying it to a very high extent. In our daily lives, though we are making use of IoT consciously, most of the times we are

implementing unconsciously. This increased advancement and utilization of IoT has created lots of opportunities for the IoT solution providers to showcase their innovations to transform IoT to the next level.

Now, we can say that IoT is becoming an integral part of human beings to make their lives more simple and comfortable. This increased popularity and adoption of IoT to the human life has made us introduce the issue, “The 10 Most Promising IoT Solution Providers 2018.” In this issue, we have especially highlighted the companies, which are revolutionizing the IoT world with their unique solutions.

On the cover of this issue, we have Tech Mahindra: Unlocking Experiences with IoT. As a solution led System Integrator and a leader in IoT Consulting and Technology Services, Tech Mahindra understands the challenges better than the most in the industry. The company has already demonstrated the possibilities of IoT with marquee implementations for industry leaders across industries such as aero, auto, manufacturing, telecom, healthcare, and others. As a Consulting focused IoT Services company, Tech Mahindra offers their customers invaluable insight into creating far-reaching business change with technology.

As a solution led System Integrator and a leader in IoT Consulting and Technology Services, Tech Mahindra understands the challenges better than the most in the industry. The company has already demonstrated the possibilities of IoT with marquee implementations for industry leaders across industries such as aero, auto, manufacturing, telecom, healthcare, and others. As a Consulting focused IoT Services company, Tech Mahindra offers their customers invaluable insight into creating far-reaching business change with technology.

Karthikeyan Natarajan is the Senior Vice President and Global Head of Engineering, IoT & Enterprise Mobility at Tech Mahindra. Karthik leads the IoT business and he comes with more than two decades of experience in Product Development, Globalization, and digital transformation strategies. He has been instrumental in building the organization as one of the fastest growing global engineering service providers. Over his career, Karthik has successfully transitioned global engineering strategies for several Fortune 500 clients and has built global development centers across the regions. He has led and transformed businesses, challenging engineering needs of customers across western markets as well as emerging markets.

After doing in-depth research and studies we have enlisted; C.N.W.Corporation: Providing Innovative IoT Controllers and Applications, cc2GO: The Next-Generation of Wireless & Wearable Digital ID Solutions, FOGHORN SYSTEMS™: Advanced IoT Solutions with Strong Analytics, Libelium: Powering the IoT Revolution, NetObjex: Powering the Internet of Things, and Trility Consulting: A People-first Solution Company.

While going through our magazine, you must not miss out the masterly written articles by our in-house editors such as Fog Computing On a Surge, IoT Technologies Contributing to the Renewable Energy, and How can IoT Decelerate the Climate Change? from the Editor’s Pick. Innovative Wearables for Health Benefits, Connecting Dark Data with IoT, and IoT Business will boost the Economy in the Next Decades from the View of some of the Successful Leaders.

Hope this edition of ours will create a mark on your mind.

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Unlocking Experiences with IoT

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Karthikeyan Natarajan Senior VP & Global Head - Engineering, IoT & Enterprise Mobility

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oT is getting a lot of attention from enterprises. It promises immense change across industries and value chains. The hype is not unfounded – millions of new devices are being connected every year, more enterprises are trying IoT, digital capabilities are evolving every day.

But, there are an enormous number of challenges before IoT can make a tangible difference to large enterprises.

As a solution led System Integrator and a leader in IoT Consulting and Technology Services, Tech Mahindra understands the challenges better than the most in the industry. The company has already demonstrated the possibilities of IoT with marquee implementations for industry leaders across industries such as aero, auto, manufacturing, telecom, healthcare, and others. As a Consulting focused IoT Services company, Tech Mahindra offers their customers invaluable insight into creating farreaching business change with technology.

Tech Mahindra’s leadership in IoT is the result of its expertise in diverse areas. The company has a strong Engineering pedigree, with over two decades of expertise in multiple industries. It also holds a strong position in the Communications space. This synergy of strengths in Enterprise and Communications positions Tech Mahindra as an important player in IoT, with its solution led System Integration approach. The company even had an early start in Industrial IoT, being the first Indian SI to be part of a test bed at the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC).

Tech Mahindra: Experiences as Currency Today, many enterprises struggle to build digital ecosystems, instead allowing consumers to orchestrate their own digital experiences by choosing apps, finding websites, or opting in for messaging. The future will be different… blending experiences from an ecosystem of developers and vendors, building on shared data to address mobile moments. Tech Mahindra believes experiences will be the currency of the future, tethering users to products and services. Great experiences will not come from a great app or by simply putting sensors everywhere.

Tech Mahindra harnesses a strategy called DAVID Digitalization, Automation, Verticalization, Innovation, and Disruption - to help enterprises understand and unlock the potential of IoT to craft unique experiences. DAVID offers a framework for enterprises to understand their products, their customers, and how their customers use their products.

DAVID is how Tech Mahindra designs orchestrated experiences, cutting across functions and value chains.

Karthikeyan Natarajan (Karthik) is the Senior Vice President and Global Head of Engineering, IoT & Enterprise Mobility at Tech Mahindra. Karthik leads the IoT business and he comes with more than two decades of experience in Product Development, Globalization, and digital transformation strategies. He has been instrumental in building the organization as one of the fastest growing global engineering service providers. Over his career, Karthik has successfully transitioned global engineering strategies for several Fortune 500 clients and has built global development centers across the regions. He has led and transformed businesses, challenging engineering needs of customers across western markets as well as emerging markets.

Karthik has been responsible for building market expansion strategies, partnerships, domain expertise and capabilities across the engineering industry verticals including Digital business transformation with Industrial Internet. He is also a Co-chair at the NASSCOM Engineering Services Council, the industry’s apex body in India and he is part of the Smart Cities IT Sub-Committee of FICCI and Technology Leadership Council of Mahindra Group.

“We believe that only those companies that deliver unique, connected experiences will thrive in the digital world. To achieve that, we need a holistic approach to IoT,” says Karthik.

The future is not just going to be about IoT; it is about bringing a powerful technology stack, collectively called Digital Engineering, together to deliver extraordinary experiences. While all companies, small or large, have access to the Digital Engineering stack, the companies that are able to harness this stack – IoT, Engineering Physics, Data Sciences, Analytics, and Artificial Intelligence – to identify business problems and address them will differentiate themselves. Tech Mahindra stands out in its ability to address business problems with technology, bringing together platform capabilities from its ecosystem of partners across the spectrum and crafting compelling experiences for their customers.

Tech Mahindra’s solutions in Industrial IoT, such as CATS, are examples of this synergy of strengths. CATS is more than an IoT solution… it puts the immense power of Digital

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The Importance of Validated Use Cases Another important distinction in Tech Mahindra’s approach to IoT is their focus on validated use cases. As part of their DAVID strategy, Tech Mahindra has built solutions and use cases that they can present to CXOs who have their own transformation targets. Most of their solutions are proven and already deliver value, both within shop floors and elsewhere.

As a consultant, creating comprehensive digital programs with the power to disrupt is a constant ask from customers. While the short-term goal is always to implement programs that deliver results, the long-term is about helping the enterprise thrive in a digital world. Often, Tech Mahindra’s IoT solutions play critical roles in transformation goals, such as creating new Services revenue channels, enabling new efficiencies, and creating new ways to engage customers.

But, this approach is not without its own challenges.

The company no longer has to grapple with convincing decision-makers about the potential of IoT. However, they still have to convince customers about how Tech Mahindra’s use cases and solutions can make a difference to their business. Security is another point of discussion. There are far greater threats and ramifications when IoT security is compromised.

It’s About Scale Today, Tech Mahindra, with its marquee IoT implementations, is having next-level discussions with their customers.

Discussions are about scaling IoT to entire plants and to facilities around the world. It is about helping customers deploy and delivering managed services for their facilities around the world.

Karthik sums it up well:“IoT opens up many possibilities, so it is easy to get carried away and create piecemeal solutions that deliver small gains. This is where IoT solution integrators and service providers must take a holistic view of customer businesses and encourage Consulting teams to create unique, connected experiences for customers across the value chain – from Sales and Marketing to Engineering to production to end users – even while enabling new revenue opportunities and reducing operational costs across the board.”

Importantly, Digital Engineering is also ushering in a cognitive world, where systems respond to real-time stimulus autonomously. Technologies such as text, speech, and image recognition are adding to the levels of automation possible, beyond conventional and big data analytics. The premise of big data -enabled, AI-driven data analytics applies to almost any product or industry - aircrafts, medical devices, smart cities, smart mobility/transportation, and others.

It is left only to the imagination to use Digital Engineering for creating the far-reaching change that is within our grasp.

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C.N.W.Corporation cnwcorp.co.th

Kavin Chinawong MD

C.N.W.Corporation is the leader in the real-time Internet of Things (IoT) controllers and applications for the tourist attraction and theme park businesses with the ability to seamlessly integrate to the Point-of-Sale (POS) system as well as the RFID, barcode, sensor technologies.

cc2GO Wireless Technologies cc2go.com.au

Christian Kazamias Founder

cc2GO Group is an Information Technology and Services company pioneer in the development of Smart Operating systems, wireless technology drivers/applications and IIoT/IoT and Wearable hardware.

FOGHORN SYSTEMS foghorn.io

David C. King CEO

FogHorn is a leading developer of “edge intelligence” software for industrial and commercial IoT application solutions.

Globetouch globetouch.com

Riccardo Di Blasio CEO

Globetouch offers access to a cloud-based global ecosystem for M2M and IoT devices.

Libelium libelium.com

Alicia Asín CEO & Co-founder, David Gascón CTO & Co-founder

Libelium is one of the leading global IoT solution provider company, which designs and manufactures IoT tools to deploy wireless sensor networks to create fast and reliable solutions for the Smart Cities and Internet of Things market.

NetComm Wireless netcommwireless.com

Ken Sheridan CEO

NetComm Wireless connects, communicates and creates successful solutions for real world problems.

NetObjex netobjex.com

Raghu Bala CEO

NetObjex is a Decentralized Digital Asset Management Platform uses IoT and Blockchain Technologies.

Tech Mahindra Limited techmahindra.com

Karthikeyan Natarajan Senior VP & Global Head

Tech Mahindra represents the connected world, offering innovative and customer-centric information technology experiences, enabling Enterprises, Associates and the Society to Rise™.

Tibbo Technology tibbo.com

Dmitry Slepov Managing director, Co-founder

Tibbo Technology focuses on designing, manufacturing, and marketing programmable IoT modules, boards, and controllers for the IoT, IIoT, and automation applications.

Trility Consulting trility.io

Matthew Edwards Founder & CEO

Trility Consulting is a full-spectrum solution company who understands the economics of building and delivering continuous value.

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orld is growing at a fast pace and so is data.

Agility and flexibility of big data applications are gradually taking the form of the Internet of Things (IoT). Internet of Things brings more than an explosive escalation of endpoints. It is unconventional in several ways. The surge and escalation of IoT gave rise to a colossal increase in the volume of digitally generated data.

The limitations of current cloud computing is a subject of broader discussion. To the answer to these emerging challenges new computing technologies have arrived.

Introduction to Fog Computing A simple definition of fog is ‘cloud closer to the ground,’ which gives us an idea of functioning of fog computing.

Fog computing is now positioned as a layer to reduce the latency in hybrid cloud scenarios. The terminology refers to a new breed of applications and services, particularly when it comes to data management and analytics. It is a layer in

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the middle of cloud and the hardware. In cloud computing data needs to be accessed to the central mainframe. Fog Computing offers local and faster accessibility to edge devices.

There are two planes in a fog computing network. The ‘Data Plane,’ also referred as forwarding plane, and the ‘Control Plane.’

If anything happens to the data packets, it is determined by the data plane. The computing resources can be placed anywhere in the network with the help of data plane. The distribution can be done on the edge of the network.

A critique of the network is provided by the control plane, functioning with the routing protocols which run in the architectural control element. IoT data can be undertaken in a data hub or smart device which are closer to the sensor with the help of fog computing.

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Fog Computing On a Surge

The data in fog computing can be accessed in between devices locally without any help of the cloud repository.

This will help to boost accessibility, and collaboration among devices and data centers.

Fog Computing Under IoT Fog computing is an archetype that extends cloud computing and services to the edge of the network. The distinguishing fog characteristics are its proximity to the end users. Fog infrastructure redistributes the data and compute, so that much of the action takes place on the edge devices right on your ďŹ nger tips. The application services are hosted on the network edges.

The data from the things where sensors are attached on the object of interest is transported to the services to the edge of network (a fog network). From the fog network the data is transported to the remote services hosted on the internet to store, manage and process data (cloud network).

The goal of fog computing is to improve the eďŹƒciency and reduce the amount of data that needs to be transported to the cloud for analysis or processing or storage.

Emergence of Fog Computing

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The world is marking a colossal rise in terms of digitally generated data from IoT and connected devices. The growth of smartphones and applications is enabling more users to access data, computation power as well as control and manage their end devices in real-time. A littlest data is required by conventional cloud architectures to send to the central cloud through edge fork devices for computation and analysis, which eventually adds latency. Fog computing allows the edge node devices to carry out some local data processing, cache data management, local resource pooling, local device management, dense geographical distribution, load balancing, latency reduction for better quality of service and edge node analytics. It results in enhancing overall user experiences.

Functioning of Fog Computing The cloud is becoming congested due to more and more devices connecting to the internet. In fog computing, most of the processing takes place in data hub or on the edge of the network. The implementation of fog computing separates the data obtained from the closest IoT devices on the most biting aspect which is time.

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prevention of major damage before it may even occur. Time-critical data can consist of alarm status, device status, fault warnings and much more.

For a persistent or periodically storage less time-critical data is sent to the central mainframe. It can be retrieved as and when required. Less time-critical data includes files, device logs, reports for analysis and much more.

How it is Beneficial for Business The bottom-line impact adds instant value to business. Fog computing makes the production of revenue-generating products and services more efficient and therefore is more cost-effective. It helps in acceleration of rollout cycles, reducing costs and broadens revenue bases.

The new revenue streams creates value for IoT. The streams will come from both IoT and Embedded AI and 5G. It will foster the development of long-awaited revenue-generating applications and services.

With the help of shred-and-spread nature of the fog architecture, the business will run more efficiently and costeffectively. Fog provides highly functioning internal business services.

It also provides a common framework for collaboration and communication. It helps IT and OT business teams to enable work together and bring in cloud capabilities closer.

Advantages of Fog Computing Fog computing have several advantages over its ancestor, cloud computing. Basic cloud computing technology is utilized by fog computing at its core. It helps to boost usability and accessibility in different computing environments.

The advantages that fog computing offers are as follows• Globally distributed network helps minimal downtime • Place data close to the end-user • Load balancing • Create dense geographical distribution • Maximize network bandwidth utilization • Adopt numerous verticals • Optimal operational expense • Business Agility • Support mobility and IoT • Better Interconnectivity • Enhanced Quality of Service (QoS) • Latency Reduction Cloud computing is going out-of-date and is relevant when it comes to Internet of Things. In the near future, fog computing will take over and cloud will be pushed to the side lines. Fog computing will be handling all critical work.

The way the IoT is growing, it needs a special infrastructure base that can handle all its requirements. At present, fog computing is on a surge and it seems to be the most feasible option available.

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C.N.W.

Corporation:

Kavin Chinawong Managing Director

C.N.W.Corporation is the leader in the real-time Internet of Things (IoT) controllers and applications for the tourist attraction and theme park businesses with the ability to seamlessly integrate to the Point-ofSale (POS) system as well as the RFID, barcode, sensor technologies.

CNW’s mission is to provide the opportunities for their customers to obtain the most-recent technologies. Just as CNW constantly updates itself to continually evolve and be a part of the new technologies to better serve their customer’s business.

Customized, Robust and Reliable Real-time Solutions CNW’s IoT solutions are mainly designed for the places of tourist attraction, theme parks, hospitality, and entertainment businesses. CNW provides IoT solutions for controlling customer and vehicle access control, sound and lighting effects, automatic camera and video capturing, electronic locker, traffic controlling, and various automation in an automatic manner. With IoT solutions, CNW also provides data collection and analytic reports to customers to understand their customer behaviors.

The strengths of CNW’s IoT solutions are that they have continuously developed the robust and reliable real-time controller hardware that can support 24-7 service operation and reliable firmware that can manage information and make a decision in real-time by itself or by the

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Providing Innovative IoT Controllers and Applications

“We are the leading IT software company in the field of IoT, automation, and point-of-sale (POS) systems with data analytics and business intelligence services”

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controller/control server which enhances the flexibility and increase scalability for the application.

Driving Force of C.N.W. Corporation Kavin Chinawong, Managing Director, of C.N.W. Corporation has been working exclusively in missioncritical and real-time business applications for the past 10 years.

CNW started their IT division in 2002, focusing primarily on consultancy and technology design for projects that require maximum precision, security, and integrity, and accountability. CNW has started introducing IoT solutions to their customers in 2012 after expanding its IT services to the hospitality sectors by integrating to the IoT hardware with the Point-of-Sale (POS) system for the automatic entrance access control.

Inspired to Fulfill the Customers’ Demands with Futuristic Solutions CNW has started developing IoT solutions to satisfy their customers’ needs for their day-to-day operation.

By integrating, controlling, and monitoring all the systems using IoT technology, it is not only helping their customers to better manage their facility, but also increases their productivity especially improving customer experience which is crucial for their business.

In 2012, CNW’s first IoT project was started which were about the automatic entrance access control which their customer required the seamless integration to their ticketing POS system in real-time automatically.

CNW team developed the firmware for the controller board which is able to verify the ticket code with the data stored in the external database. Later, they have developed the firmware and

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controller board to work with other’s systems and partners to provide the solution to control their devices, such as for sound and light effect, people counting, traffic controlling and monitoring, electronic door and cabinet locks, and various applications using RFID, barcode, and sensor technologies.

Extraordinary End-to-end IoT Solutions CNW is a renowned and trustworthy company for the real-time IoT controller boards and applications.

CNW team applies their IoT controller boards and applications in various systems. For example, entrance access control system, electronic locker system, automatic photo and video capturing and management system, automatic water slide traffic and monitoring system, automatic sound and lighting effect control system, and smart home & smart building IoT automation. CNW also develops the custom IoT hardware and applications to answer their customers’ requirements.

Benefits for Clients CNW is the leader in IoT solutions for the tourist attraction and theme park businesses. CNW uses industry best practices and works with various partners to build and provide the best solutions to meet the customers’ requirements with safe, reliable, and high-quality standard together with the world-class support. The company renders its services to various tourist attractions, theme parks, and water parks, such as Cartoon Network Amazone waterpark, zoos, libraries and museums falling under the government and private sectors.

business analysis and consulting services to our customers to assist them to achieve their business goals”, Kavin added.

Overcoming Challenges with Innovative Approach The wireless telecommunication plays a vital role as a foundational infrastructure for IoT technology.

CNW's IoT VPN gateway and 3G wireless connection enabled its customers to control their IoT devices in the various locations which is difficult to access or difficult to provide the wired network with affordable price.

For CNW team, it is a challenge for their business to use artificial intelligence (AI) technology in predictive analytics, and deep optimization. CNW plans to work with various partners to use AI for adaptive learning and decision making to enhance their automatic system in the future.

Future Prospects CNW invests in its future through research & development and continuous improvement. “Our aspiration is to design and make new innovations to respond to the growing demands for tourist attraction, theme park, water park, hospitality, and entertainment businesses which is both our strength and key-differentiator,” asserts Kavin.

The company has applied IoT technology for smart homes, smart hotels, and smart theme parks and plan to work on other interesting projects in the near future.

“The company’s extensive knowledge and experience allow it to contribute

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cc2GO: Christian Kazamias Founder

The Next-Generation of Wireless & Wearable Digital ID Solutions

cc2GO Group is an Information Technology and Services company pioneer in the development of Mobile Technologies including Smart Phone and other Device Operating systems and wireless technology drivers and applications. cc2GO Group was incepted in 2000 as a startup called cc2GO Wireless Technologies (cc2GO WT), a pioneer Australian Start-Up business in the Mobile Wireless arena. cc2GO WT quickly built a name for itself as a smartphone pioneer and is credited for building the world’s first GPS enabled Smartphone and First GSM enabled Smartphone and First Bluetooth Human Interface Device (HID) Drivers enabling Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) and Smartphones in 2003 to control input via Bluetooth keyboards, mice and game controllers instead of the then stylus input using cc2GO’s Bluetooth stack and drivers. Since then cc2GO WT has been involved in cutting-edge technologies including: Machine to Machine telemetry and telematics, Connected Car, Wearables, Mobile Payments and Identification, Mobile Telephony and Messaging communications, and IoT and Industrial IoT. cc2GO WT was split into Sales and RnD and a separate RnD company was formed to conduct IoT/IIoT focusing on Vending, Digital Signage and Mobile Payment devices and a recent company was formed to manage Roaming SIMs for Specialized Global IIoT/IoT and Wearable solutions and Mobile Payments and ID checks. Today these companies fall under the cc2GO Group of Companies.

“We Innovate for Smarter Efficient Operations”

Architect behind cc2GO Christian Kazamias is the Founder of cc2GO Group and has been the visionary at cc2GO Group. Christian is a Mobile Evangelist. He has been in ITC for over 30 years and has worked in all facets of the ITC

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value chain from technical to sales roles ranging from Vendor to Distributor to OEM and sales in retail, wholesale, Corporate/Government, OEM, Online, and Vendor sales.

He had led his small start-up company from Sydney, Australia in late 1999 and has created some world firsts in technology innovation, including building the world’s first GPS enabled GSM and GPS enabled Smartphone OS (turning a Palm OS organizer into a Smartphone), led team to build first Bluetooth Input Stack And was one of the FIRST to recognize Content covers everything we assume today by making it one of 4 categories on the World’s First GPS and GSM enabled Smartphone in 2000.

Christian is recognized as a Mobile Smarts evangelist whose innovations have been adopted and referenced in patents by Microsoft, Nokia, and Blackberry. His vision has led the cc2GO Group to lead in its core areas of expertise, including expanding and disrupting Wearables, IoT/IIoT and Digital ID onboarding.

that was flexible to support all sorts of sensors and reporting and included wearable and other device input. As the cost of IoT communications and wearables became less expensive, cc2GO started to build vertical segment targeted solutions including solutions for Vending machines, Digital signage, Irrigation/farming, security and vehicle/user safety and tracking.

Most recently cc2GO identified a unique numbering system designed for Digital IP that they integrated as their front end for IoT and IIoT IDs. It is called Universal Personal Telephone (UPT) Numbers and we believe this ITU standard (ITU provides the telephone numbering across the world) will become the default IoT/IIoT and M2M SIM Telephone numbering system adding a layer between IoT and the user (improving security). cc2GO has trials with global clients who are applying UPT numbers to many vertical segments, including the latest segment – mobile payments. cc2GO customize the operating system drivers, add additional functionality and control to Smartphone and Smart Wearables’ OS to better manage battery, access, reach and security and improve security and data updates on IoT hardware. Adding UPT numbers also allows cc2GO to securely provide updates and limit access to unauthorized users.

Inspiring Journey with Flexible Approach cc2GO Group has been supplying M2M solutions since 1998. In 2000 cc2GO built the first GPS enabled Smartphone Operating system and enabled Emergency notification smarts showing location and SOS trigger based feedback. In these solutions, wireless connectivity using RF, Bluetooth and other means were used to transmit data to a host with Mobile data transmission capabilities between M2M hardware and mobile smartphones.

Distinctive Offerings from Experts cc2GO’s IoT solutions are the only solutions that include UPT Numbers that are fully integrated into the Smart hardware, back-end portal and hide the IP address from common hackers.

Today IoT and IIoT solutions require the same functionality, it is just easier to do with WiFi and a host M2M device and managed via the web and/or mobile or wearable apps that all fit into the IoT solution category. A few years ago cc2GO built a web portal platform

cc2GO’s solutions and services cover a number of verticals including: Vending Machines: Full remote management and payment control using industry standards with customized controllers and hardware with custom software.

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Mobile Wallet and POS / Loyalty Card Payments: Applied to vending, retail and soon mobile travelers.

Telemetry and Telematics in Connected Cars: cc2GO’s solutions include in the car hardware and software and monitor driver behavior and manage accident prevention and post-accident/traffic infringement management.

Back-end customizable portals and access: Designed to manage IoT/IIoT, Forms input, ID, Payments, Reporting and customized logins using UPT as input.

Home and Industrial / Building Automation: Integrating Door Access/Security within the building / Home access and management using Smart devices and wearables.

Digital Identity: cc2GO is preparing to become Australia’s first Digital ID front-end provider working closely with Government standards and issuing ID providers. This will impact ALL its Vertical segments, improving authenticity and security while retaining improved anonymity access to devices and user’s credentials.

Wearable Integration: cc2GO is working with some Asia’s largest Wearable providers to build a Home/Industrial Automation platform that will allow integration with Security systems, Entertainment, and telephony with secure payment integration with wearables.

Future Plans cc2GO will continue developing and promoting their unique UPT Numbers designed for Digital IP in such hardware deployed in cc2GO’s IoT/IIoT solutions with their unique value-added features in key verticals. cc2GO is expanding their portfolio of mobile hardware, including the work on waterproof smart watches/wearables and phones and looking at specific vertical segments these can be used in conjunction with IoT including Surf Life Saving, boating, Specialized Trade areas and in the home.

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Leader’s Opinion

Innovative Wearables for Health Benefits

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nnovative wearables that are user-friendly and unobtrusive offer efficient care, while reducing costs and stress. These wearable medical devices are “connected” devices, with features such as wireless data transmission, real-time feedback, alerting mechanism, and more. The miniaturization of wireless communication and sensor technology, combined with more power efficiency and greater computation capabilities, all of which GTX Corp has been at the forefront both in technical development and patent filings, has enabled the shift of clinical monitoring beyond facilities to personal at home caregiving. Wearable medical devices will also become helpful to pharmaceutical companies for conducting efficient clinical trials to gather data remotely, and for insurers to provide outcome-based reimbursement.

As the global wearable devices market continues to gain momentum and is projected to reach US$4.5 billion by 2020, innovative wearable devices such as the GPS SmartSoles are helping drive that growth.

- Patrick Bertagna, Chief Executive Officer, Founder and Chairman, GTX Corp

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The rapid growth rate can also be attributed to the fact that roughly six million elderly Americans are currently living with Alzheimer’s or Dementia and over 100 million people require oversight due to various forms of memory impairment that includes Alzheimer, Dementia, Autism, and Traumatic Brain Injury. According to “The 2013 World Alzheimer’s Report”, this number is expected to increase to 277 million by 2050 with 70% of the memory impaired becoming lost three or more times.The biggest challenge for most caregivers has been the ability to keep track of an individual’s whereabouts on a daily basis and prevent a patient from wandering off and getting lost. When a memory impaired person wanders, it can create havoc for caregivers who are ultimately responsible for the safety of their patient or loved one. Typically, 46% of wanderers who are not found within 24 hours are at a higher risk of death.

With new strides in wearable technology advancements being made every day; the ability to track a person has become easier and less cumbersome; ultimately resulting in less deaths.

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FOGHORN TM

SYSTEMS : David C. King CEO

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ithin the next few years, the Internet of Things (IoT) market is expected to reach $1.6 trillion for industrial industries, $1.2 trillion for commercial industries, and $1 trillion for consumer industries. Although this suggests a positive outlook for the market, companies are struggling to generate intelligence from operational data collected by connected machines. For example, McKinsey & Company reported that less than one percent of the data being generated by 30,000 sensors on an offshore oil rig is currently being used to make decisions. Edge computing solves this problem with the help of big data, streaming analytics, and machine learning by processing data locally and in real-time.

FogHorn is a leading developer of “edge intelligence” software for industrial and commercial IoT applications. FogHorn’s software platform brings the power of machine learning and advanced analytics to the on-premise edge environment, enabling a new class of applications for advanced monitoring and diagnostics, asset performance optimization, operational intelligence and predictive maintenance use cases.

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Advanced IoT Solutions with Strong Analytics

“FogHorn’s breakthrough technology uniquely combines real-time analytics, powerful machine learning and real-time stream processing into a high-performance edge computing platform, delivered in the industry’s smallest processing footprint. This approach is enabling innovative new IIoT applications and efficiency for industrial customers around the globe today.”

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FogHorn’s solutions are ideally suited for OEMs, systems integrators and end customers in markets such as manufacturing, power and water, oil and gas, mining, transportation, healthcare, retail, as well as smart grid, smart city and smart car applications.

Navigator of FogHorn Systems David C. King is the CEO of FogHorn Systems. Currently, King supports FogHorn’s global customers and partners as they roll out a broad range of powerful edge intelligence solutions for industrial and commercial systems. He also continues to design and develop innovative, new capabilities and extend FogHorn’s leadership in a fast-changing market.

Prior to FogHorn, King led AirTight Networks, a technology leader in secure cloud-managed Wi-Fi, through four successful up rounds of VC funding as co-founder and CEO. David also served as President and CEO of Proxim, a pioneer in WLANs and the first publicly-traded Wi-Fi company.

Innovating in the IoT Space Up until the advent of edge computing, industrial players had no way to reconcile the mass quantities of IoT data in real-time. Transporting data to the cloud for processing is expensive and slow, which is unsuitable for the real-time needs of industrial process manufacturing, where thousands of sensors constantly send data at the rate of every 20 or 30 milliseconds.

FogHorn’s technology enables businesses to identify the data that matters at the network edge or sensorlevel – the anomalies or patterns unearthed through analytics – and

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transfer it to the cloud for further processing. This data is only a tiny fraction of the total amount other practices would capture.

systems monitoring airbag failure, and more.

Benefits Gained by FogHorn’s Customers

Industry Readiness Almost every notable hardware vendor has a ruggedized line of products promoting edge processing. This indicates that the market is prime for Industrial IoT (IIoT) adoption. With technology giants announcing software stacks for the edge, there is little doubt that this momentum will only accelerate during 2018. Furthermore, traditional industries, like manufacturing, that have been struggling to showcase differentiated products, will now embrace edge analytics to drive new revenue streams and/or significant yield improvements for their customers.

The Solutions That Set FogHorn Apart FogHorn’s principal advantage stems from their unique, high-speed, tiny footprint compute and machine learning engine. FogHorn designed the CEP (complex event processing) engine from scratch rather than shrinking down existing “big data” engines developed for resourceunlimited cloud environments. This enables FogHorn to run the complete IoT edge analytics software stack immediately next to machine data sources. Because of this, connected cars and autonomous vehicles, for example, will be able to process data from its instruments and sensors locally, in-car in real-time, which will enable critical safety developments such as accident avoidance, emergency braking, as well as mission-critical

FogHorn’s Lightning™ software platform allows businesses with distributed operations to derive actionable insights as close as possible to IoT-connected machines and the operations technology (OT) control systems and sensors attached to those machines. Using Lightning, businesses can accelerate their digital transformation projects by spending less time and money on bandwidth costs and end-to-end integration tasks, and focusing more on the delivery of next-generation applications to optimize machine performance, increase total output, improve process yield, and reduce both production and energy consumption costs.

Future Roadmap FogHorn has pioneered a global shift to edge intelligence, comprised of realtime analytics and machine learning deployed on virtually any device in industrial and commercial operations.

The FogHorn team already sees the transformational results the technology has deployed across a wide range of industries. They believe the continuous push for innovation will result in the adoption of FogHorn’s software in a large percentage of the projected billions of connected devices in the years to come.

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Go Green

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Climate Change?

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he relation between technology and the environment of our planet is very old. The time has come to turn everything in the surrounding eco-friendly. IoT (Internet of Things) products can be tailored to combat with the climate change and its consequences. Whether it is a disaster like ood or an issue like deforestation, this technology is capable to protect us and our environment in several ways. Have you ever wondered how technology could save our natural resources?

Yes, IoT has the potential to resolve such problems as it involves animals and plants in our connected world.

IoT business owners are getting encouragement from the governments and corporates to build smart and intelligent devices that help us Go Green. In order to keep our environment safe, the IoT makers must come up with the good ideas that satisfy the current demands of the ecosystem. Innovative products would be incorporated for domestic as well as industrial use.

Energy Saving IoT products are aimed to save energy using automated systems. For instance, smart lighting can sense sunlight and is able to maintain constant lighting level. The smart home appliances implement energy management. Smart buildings use solar energy and other renewable energy sources to minimize environmental impact.

Animal Tracking With IoT, it is becoming easier to track rare species. Animal tracking helps scientists and conservationists to know their location and their tendency towards migration. The micro-sensors paired with IoT enable multiple devices to connect together for the purpose to collect, transmit, and store data. Animal tracking is also important to maintain the way our ecosystem works.

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Reduce Pollution It is very interesting to see how IoT fight with the pollution. The real-time data is used for forecasting pollution parameters and measuring the elements of air and water quality. The technology focuses on keeping pollution to a minimum. Air pollution can be detected and evaluated across all the industries to ensure that they stick to the air quality policies.

Water Management IoT devices can transform the way we manage the most precious resource—water. With the advanced water sensors, these products make decisions and produce data analytics about the amount of water we use. It allows us to save money and to minimize water usage for its conservation.

Smart Farming Smart farming is shaping the future of agriculture, which impacts on the environment positively. These small devices automate the process of farming using harvesting and irrigation. The technology can be used to choose fertilizers in accordance with the conditions of the soil. Drones can play the crucial role in monitoring the whole cultivation.

Prevent Deforestation Deforestation is one of the major causes of climate change. According to a study, there is a need to implant a billion trees a year to recover, which can only be possible if an automated system is used. IoT and drones are assembled and deployed to perform this task efficiently. It reduces manpower requirements and cost and uses agriculture techniques for planting and maintenance.

Waste Management When the IoT technology was introduced, it was predicted that it would increase e-waste. But this problem was mere a part of the solution. IoT provides a great way to manage waste and recycle. The sensors installed in chips would be able to notify consumers when it is ready to repair or recycle. They also inform the users which component can be reused so that they do not go trash early. For the management of other wastage, IoT products can be designed to automate disposal system timely.

Natural Disaster Detection Notably, natural disaster is a dreadful outcome of climate change. IoT products can be used to detect natural disaster at the early stage and to minimize the damages. Earthquake and flood sensors send out the signals to the cloud-based servers connected with the internet. In the case of detection, residents of that area get warning signals. Internet of underwater things is used for monitoring activities of oceans and rivers.

There are hundreds of ideas to think upon and hundreds of solutions to work on. For example, traffic control reduces carbon production by saving gasoline and food security assists in balancing the ecosystem. Undoubtedly, climate change is the biggest challenge of our time and it is our concern to give healthier environment to the next generation. Other technologies such as artificial intelligence can be associated with the IoT to get better insights and success in combatting with this problem.

The connectivity among things (instead of devices only) can make our everyday life more sustainable. But, the efforts made till yet to decelerate climate change are insufficient. The future demands a planet where all the living things get safety against it. There is no exaggeration in saying that IoT enabled systems can make climate change turn back. IoT products make us more organized, more sustaining, safer, and greener.

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Libelium: Alicia Asín CEO & Co-founder

Powering the IoT Revolution

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he fragmentation of the Internet of Things (IoT) market is the only way to manage the whole value chain at any point of time, from hardware sensors to data analytics, both in geographic areas and business development opportunities. There is a big mess due to the lack of standards and clear roles in companies. This fact is evidenced that we are diving in a fast evolving market where game rules are constantly in motion. In this sense, there is a rising demand of horizontal perspective for a market that needs interoperability, not only related to the hardware devices but also in the communication protocols, cloud services and the applications developed in any IoT project.

Libelium is one of the leading global IoT solution provider companies, which designs and manufactures IoT tools to deploy wireless sensor networks to create fast and reliable solutions for the Smart Cities and Internet of Things market. Waspmote, the wireless sensor platform, created by Libelium, is a modular, open-source system that can be integrated with any cloud platform for storing and processing data in the cloud through any communication protocol. Libelium’s wireless sensor platform is active in projects of great economic and social impact to address the great challenges humanity faces in this century.

In fact, Libelium sensors are helping to prevent pests and improve productivity in agricultural crops. It is helping to reduce pollution and traffic in several intelligent cities. Libelium has been involved in projects to predict volcanic activity. It is also helping to universalize

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“We are delivering such solutions that making IoT real, impacting the whole globe”

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access to a health system to populations far from hospitals.

Libelium has even arrived in space on board a satellite to study solar storms.

Meet the Dynamic Duo of Libelium Alicia Asín is CEO and Co-founder of Libelium. Alicia is a computer engineer focused on how the IoT can change our world. She is a frequent speaker at international conferences on issues related to Smart Cities, the Democracy of the IoT based on the big data and the importance of security and privacy in the new IoT era.

Alicia has been awarded for her entrepreneurial merits and technological innovation. She is the first Spanish woman to receive the National Young Entrepreneurs Award in 2014. Recently, in October 2017, Alicia Asín has received the Award “Rey Jaime I” from His Majesty the Queen of Spain, the highest distinction for scientists, researchers, and entrepreneurs.

David Gascón, Co-founder and Chief Technical Officer of Libelium, is a Computer Engineer from Computer Engineer by the Polytechnic Center of Zaragoza. David’s main research areas are the Wireless Sensor Networks (now commonly named as the “Internet of Things”), Mesh Networks and the Self Emergent and Auto organizational Complex Systems as show his development in the creation of two protocols for the Internet based on the ant colony and other swarm insect behaviors (Marabunta, Enjambre). He has been awarded by the MIT with the TR35 prize as the most important innovator fewer than 35 in Spain (2012).

Distinctive Offerings from Libelium There are always three common elements in every IoT project: sensors, communication protocols and cloud services and hence, Libelium have a big problem for interoperability. That

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is exactly the problem team Libelium is solving in the IoT value chain. They have developed a horizontal IoT platform able to offer different solutions for the main current markets and productive sectors. Their wireless sensor platform enables to connect more than 120 sensors to any cloud platform through 20 radio communication protocols including long, medium and short range and, of course, the latest LPWAN radios. It is very difficult to find another platform in the IoT market with this horizontal approach and with so many interoperability capacities.

Benefits for Clients Libelium’s solutions are very well positioned in terms of quality and price in the IoT sector. The company offers the widest certified platform in the market and its sensors have obtained a high performance in precision tests.

This fact adds capillarity, for example, to smart cities projects where the sensors are able to complement other professional devices like special sonometers or gas sensors that offer the highest precision but not enough coverage due to their expensive prices.

Libelium’s Message to the Policy Makers and Business Leaders “Do not wait for the ultimate technology as it will never happen. We feel that frozen investments in digitalization will never see the light if decision makers stay stopped waiting for the last cutting edge novelty. The key is being resilient and interoperable enough.”

Future Plans Libelium and its team is firmly convinced that the potential of the IoT market is infinite and the development is going to be exponential in the near future. The Internet of things will affect all markets: cities, logistics, security, agriculture, health, home automation, energy... Any process can be optimized if its variables can be measured,

David Gascón CTO & Co-founder

analyzed and used in decision-making processes. The opportunities are endless, it takes a whole legion of companies and entrepreneurs that are dedicated to create sensors, install them and create applications for a smarter world.

In this sense, Libelium’s strategic growth plan is based on the construction of a solid IoT ecosystem for mutual collaboration, especially with startups and big system integrators to develop new smart solutions. “We want to continue betting on generating an ecosystem of innovative and technological companies around Libelium. For this reason, we have an international network of more than 100 companies”, says Alicia.

Libelium is extending its IoT value chain developing a complete ecosystem of partners that are joining their platform not only as cloud service providers or system integrators but also as hardware device partners or radio communication manufacturers. The aim is to offer interoperability in the whole value chain, from sensors and devices to data management in the Cloud.

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Expert’s Predictions

IoT

BUSINESS

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ECONOMY IN THE

NEXT

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-By José Antônio Scodiero, Director & Founding Partner of FAST COMPANY BRAZIL

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he world of the Internet of Things promises to be the main engine of the global economy in the next years. In developing countries, such as Brazil, the opportunities will be even bigger. Considering the size of the local market and the pressing need that Brazil has in increasing the innovation rhythm, technology usage and development, the country can already be seen as a big global player by companies from this sector. In this moment, the more accurate motto for companies that want to act or are acting in Brazil is “Innovate or Die.” After a cycle of more than 10 years of continuous growth, that put the country in evidence on the global landscape as part of the select group of so-called BRICs (Brasil, Russia, India and China) and that stressed even more its leadership in Latin America, Brazil is now entering, in the past two years, a moment of political tension that has reflected directly in the economy. The moment now is of reviewing and restructuring. But in spite of the perception of some foreign executives and entrepreneurs that this is not a good time to invest in the country, it is clear that Brazil had a virtuous cycle of many years and reached a higher level. All

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this indicates that, for sure, not all is lost. Far from it. The time is for opportunities.

With the stabilization of the smartphone market, there’s a great potential for the technology industry - especially in the semiconductors area - in business involving connected cars, agriculture, livestock, smart cities, among others. To fully use this opportunities, it is necessary to understand in which ways it is possible to develop the best technological solutions to different regions. And the solutions to problems from different countries can only be found locally.

Investing in the right time and in the right moment Despite the low participation of Brazil in the semiconductors industry, the country has a great potential to use the Internet of Things and to develop in this sector. It is a field in which no one has the advantage yet: we are, theoretically, in the same level as United States and China.

Besides that, a chip to a sensor for IoT is cheaper and easier to develop than one made for smartphones. Therefore, it is less costly to invest in IoT.

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José Antônio Scodiero Director - Founding Partner of FAST COMPANY BRAZIL With over 30 years of experience in areas like information technology, personal computing, semiconductors, entrepreneurship and startups, José Antônio Scodiero has already acted as a high level executive in several big and successful international corporations like: IBM; Apple Computer; OkiData, where he was president of the Brazilian subsidiary, and more recently; AMD, leader in the semiconductors segment, where he held the position of Vice-President for the Latin America region. José Antônio Scodiero is graduated in Electronics Engineering with specialization in hardware and microelectronics and has an MBA in Corporate Administrations by Fundação Armando Álvares Penteado (FAAP).

As an entrepreneur, he founded lots of startup companies since the 90’s, having created his first company when he was only 24 years old. In 2009 he founded Fast Company Brazil, with the objective of catapulting multinational organizations, from sectors like digital technology, semiconductors and software that are seeking to install subsidiaries in the Brazilian and Latin American markets. In 2010 he obtained the certification of Corporate Governance from the Brazilian Institute of Corporate Governance (IBGC) and started acting as a consulting advisor in companies in 2011. In 2012, he became president of the task force of semiconductors of AMCHAM - American Chamber for Brazil and USA. Still in 2012, Scodiero was also elected Director of SBMICRO - Brazilian Society of Microelectronics, where he remains until the end of 2016.

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In the technology world, the innovation chain has inverted itself recently, with the large domain of big multinational companies giving space to startups and new entrepreneurs. This movement creates a pulverization of opportunities. It is no longer something concentrated, in the domain of few big players like it used to be. There is space for companies from outside the country and also for the appearance of new local players that can learn and develop their own systems and foment the industry.

The technology giants, that lost a wave of opportunities that emerged with the mobile business (smartphones, tablets and M2M), now are moving rapidly so they don’t miss out on the opportunities that the IoT segment will bring. There are several examples in this direction and IBM is one of them, since its announcement, in December of 2015, to return to the consumer electronics market, ten years after selling its computer division to the Chinese Lenovo. The problem is that there are a lot of companies, big and small, repeating the same strategies in the search of its own space in the technology market. This needs to change. The motto “Innovate or Die” also needs to be applied in the planning.

IoT as a transforming agent of an economy As well as in great transformations of the past, the revolution caused by IoT will change the entire landscape of the career scenario. It is estimated that in time, it will be possible to see 20 to 30 million jobs migrate, and some functions might disappear, thanks to robotics, intelligent machines and artificial intelligence (AI), that will infiltrate in new corporate areas and automate the positions that are repetitive and transitional.

But what it seems like bad news is in fact a readaptation, from work stations focused on operational to opportunities in areas that demands data analysis, ability to solve problems, think creatively, innovate and work within a team. Nothing too distant from the profile that today is comprehended as a good professional. It is an evolutionary movement, driven by technology.

If the job openings in operational work stations tend to drop, the opportunities to professionals that seek qualification and even reinvention will grow a lot. It is a market that, according to IDC, will grow about US$1, 7 trillion until 2020. This amount needs, and will be, shared among the professionals that manage to keep up with the demands of the market.

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NetObjex: Raghu Bala CEO

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oday, organizations both in the private and public sectors, are beginning to leverage the Internet of Things. A far greater number of companies are graduating from proof of concept projects to wide scale production releases of IoT enabled systems.

NetObjex is a Decentralized Digital Asset Management Platform that uses IoT and Blockchain Technologies.

NetObjex focuses on four vertical markets including Smart City, Transportation/Automotive, Supply Chain & Logistics, and Manufacturing/Industry 4.0. The platform enables tracking and tracing of assets, improving asset performance, optimizing asset utilization, and reducing asset shrinkage/waste/ineďŹƒciencies.

The platform works with all major communication protocols; includes features such as rules engine, alerts and messaging, enterprise integration, blockchain integration, and more. Solutions that have been developed using the NetObjex PaaS range from smart electricity meters, dynamic wireless electric vehicle charging, smart parking, smart media, eet management of kiosks, powering smart medical devices, and more.

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Powering the Internet of Things

We are helping enterprises to bridge the gap of connecting the physical world to the virtual world

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Architect behind NetObjex Raghu Bala is the CEO of NetObjex Inc. Prior to NetObjex Raghu has worked with Yahoo, Infospace, PwC, and three successful startups. He has completed his MBA in Finance from Wharton and MS in Computer Science from RPI. Raghu has also worked as an Adjunct Lecturer at the Columbia University, and currently conducting online courses on MIT’s Artificial Intelligence: Implications for business strategy program. Mr Bala is a published author, and has spoken at major conferences, including IoT India Congress, Google IO, and more.

Present research interests include decentralized computing, Blockchain, IoT, AI, nand cryptocurrencies.

“It was born out of a business need.

I was working for a media company that used to spend several million dollars on managing retail racks at major outlets nationwide. At that time, I proposed the use of IoT powered racks even before IoT was a commonly used term like it is today- this was in the 2010/11 time period. Once, I realized all of the things the technology was capable of, I realized this was a space I wanted to spend more time on and that led to the genesis of NetObjex,” says Raghu about the motivation behind the inception of NetObjex.

Distinctive Services from NetObjex At present, most enterprises are using IoT within the confines of their own organization. However, as devices evolve, the need to communicate with other devices across organizational boundaries becomes a necessity.

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shortcomings such as the lack of a universal device ID construct, inability of devices to authenticate, communicate, and transact with one another.

By combining IoT and Blockchain technologies, NetObjex has a force multiplier in leveraging these leading edge capabilities in the field of digital asset management. It overcomes current limitations of traditional IoT systems by providing • A Universal Blockchain ID • A decentralized ledger for device authentication and device discovery • Support for short range protocols to facilitate interdevice communications; • Optional digital wallets in devices (e.g. your car has a wallet) for transactions Benefits for Clients The NetObjex platform consists of 4 distinct layers – Instrumentation, Compute, Integration, and Monetization. NetObjex considers every object a digital asset – in the form of a hard asset, such as a refrigerator, or a soft asset such as an MP4 recording of a song.

Data acquisition often happens through the instrumentation of assets, which is then processed by the cloud platform resulting in multiple outcomes – actuation, alerts and notifications, enterprise integration, ecosystem sharing through blockchain, data visualization, machine learning, and more. The sheer range of functionality enables NetObjex to better serve its clients to help them improve asset performance, utilization, efficiency, tracking, and traceability. This has a significant positive business impact to NetObjex clients’ top and bottom line.

Successfully Adapting and Utilizing Advanced Technologies Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a technology that requires a lot of data and IoT dovetails well with it because the latter is an excellent data acquisition mechanism for the former.

Improvements in telecommunications such as DSRC and 5G are exciting to team NetObjex, because they open new pathways for communications. The challenge in AI is the sheer volume of data that needs processing, and the NetObjex team embraces new more efficient means of storing, retrieving and analyzing data. NetObjex also develops technologies for smart edge devices that enable localized intelligence and processing power at the periphery of IoT networks.

Future Goals Customer Success is at the core of the NetObjex mission as a company.

NetObjex wishes to focus on guiding and assisting clients achieve their objectives of improving their asset utilization, performance, and efficiency. These have a material impact on a company’s top and bottom lines, while creating opportunities for achieving competitive advantage.

On the technology front, NetObjex will continue to invest in R&D to strengthen its platform by judiciously selecting technologies that provide a competitive advantage to NetObjex and its installed base. NetObjex believes it can impact certain key business metrics.

“We believe we can improve the topline and bottom-lines of companies, in our market segments, anywhere from 10-20% through better asset utilization and efficiency. This is our primary objective,” says team NetObjex.

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Industry Concern

IoT Technologies

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he Internet of Things (IoT) represents a modern reality. IoT has been encircled by the services that are associated with the things like hardware, embedded software, and communication services. IoT solution is integrated with one-to-one services or with multiple products.

wide range of vertical markets like industrial control and energy where devices functions in domains. Especially for energy companies, this can be the great flexible move to accommodate new energy source, better management of assets and operations, greater reliability, enhanced security, better customer satisfaction and innovations of new business models and services.

How Internet Of Thing Functions on Energy?

Internet Of Thing tenaciously insights to pursue from new Internet-connected devices which can be used to develop new services, enhance productivity and efficiency and develop to prove real-time decision making and decode the critical problems. In today’s technical world, as we all are adjoined by the devices, energy companies have escalated interoperability and security challenges. It also delivers an amalgamation of scalable hardware and software solutions specifically to meet the market needs. The real end-to-end security that IoT necessarily requires has been integrated by the expertise.

Since the tool enabled the smooth combination of two-way power flows from fragmented distributed resources like wind or solar, IoT technologies are relevantly contributing to the renewable energy. Behind-the-meter processes such as on-site energy storage or electric vehicle charging. IoT technologies have been successfully established as a fundamental platform that justifies an ensuing Energy Cloud, which leads to the more distributed, and increasing intelligent grid.

Internet of Thing is integrated with these energy themes• Performance Optimization

Since decades, when innovation and control expertise were drawing intersections between information technology and devices, the companies jointly supervised to deliver interoperable end-to-end solutions. The energy companies are also evolving pretested and per-validated IoT products and solutions such as a gateway, to provide building blocks.

With an extreme temperature and safety requirements, these solutions will incorporate the capabilities that support a

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• Storage & Analytics • Renewable Energy • Remote Monitoring & Reliability • Energy Optimization • Safety and Security • Decrease Downtime • Predictive Maintenance

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Empowering Innovations Smartphones and apps are becoming main user interface on IoT. The IoT addresses the consumer electronic market as well as the B2B industry. Depending on analysts, the value of IoT is essential to be from $300 B to close $2000 B in 2020 depending upon on what is accounted in IoT market.

Connected LED lamps are expected to be the largest by far in IoT energy services. The incremental cost of hardware and embedded software is relatively small, whereas the service and analytics opportunity is much larger. To build awareness of their products, almost all companies tried different approaches and feature sets. So primarily, many of the suppliers focused on the IoT market on the goods of hardware and software.

According to the business models, however, the market will increasingly be driven by the services. There will be service opportunities, that are associated with coordinating and managing the multiple things that typical consumers will interact on an average day. The value chain for IoT for devices and services will come up with a multilayered, understanding the brief measure of analytics software which is designed to pull out the usage trends for further product and service marketing initiatives. IoT generates a heavy data that address the analytics to transform huge volumes of data into a small quantity of operational information.

Comfort Benefit The flair benefits of IoT in the energy efficiency market sector is huge for end-users and integrators. IoT will permit end users to measure, check as well as adapt the installation according to the requirement of the market within no time.

For energy efficiency system integrators, IoT will exceptionally improvise their capability to distinguish the customer requirements for integration and commission. By utilizing remote diagnostic, the integrator will make a correction to the maintainability??? their systems and also fix the capability of signified products.

However, this market is dominated by large players who have historically protected the highly beneficial market by maintaining an extremely high level of required investment to develop complex solutions while implementing specific standardization at the same time.

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The IoT promises to break the two entry barriers by offering low-cost flexible new communication solutions coming from the internet world. As a consequence, new players are being attracted to this market. SME’s and startups may offer low-cost solutions, at least for a full set of niche applications, while large players from the Internet world may also enter as enter as direct competitors of the traditional large players. The opportunity provided by a large, new potential market is counterbalanced by the risk of these new players entering their traditional market. However, this risk may be balanced by the opportunity to partner with these new players, creating a completely new open ecosystem.

Future Directions through IoT on Energy The future of the energy industry will be distorted with the Internet of Things. As energy management experiences other connected devices being developed, it will then gain a greater control, data and energy savings. It’s an exhilarating and challenging time for energy management, and time to harness the opportunities opened by the IoT. Iot-based technology solutions across the globe, associated services foresee to bring tremendous value to the energy sector in future. Hereafter, it will aid the companies to be more flexible in adopting IoT solutions to predict asset performance and swiftly integrate all sections of energy in the system.

Conclusion No matter we are at home or at the workplace, IoT will redeem the complexity of managing energy consumption from different places and provide an all-in-one stop. Devices like smartphones, laptops, and tablets can have access to other smart devices like air conditioner, or washing machine for enhanced usability. IoT will now extend to more convenience of lower bills from the devices like remote-controlled households, and home security.

IoT-based technology and solutions are expected to raise the immense value to the energy sector. In the coming days, IoT is expected to climb the market hills to grow the energy market from $7.59 billion in 2015 to $22.34 billion by 2020.

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Trility Consulting: Matthew Edwards Founder & CEO

A People-first Solution Company

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ew companies, devices, and services are coming and going at such a high speed, it is truly marvelous to consider how many things can today be controlled, mixed together, managed and monitored. And then big companies enter the mix seeking to stay competitive by introducing their own innovations, investing in or purchasing small companies, their teams and IP, or watching on the sideline as they wonder where this is all going and how they were just passed by a company born yesterday. The industry is changing as fast as the imagination and today’s technology solutions and practices enable change nearly as quick as customers can change their minds.

This makes it especially challenging for industry standards, and particularly information security, to be created and/or evolved at the pace of publicly available innovations. It makes it even more challenging for companies and consumers to stay current, let alone fully realize what has value and quality and what does not. It is a spectacular and wonderfully disruptive time of change.

Trility Consulting is a full-spectrum solution company who understands the economics of building and delivering continuous value.

The company is transforming the industry with their out-of-the-box solutions in areas including: secure enterprise cloud adoption, PaaS, SaaS, and test-driven Infrastructure as Code, Internet of Things, TestDriven Development, Continuous Delivery and more. The team at

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Trility spends their time looking to understand a client’s aspirations, strategic goals, tactical needs and even whims; and then they take all of the technologies, practices, and buzzwords relevant to the task at hand and distill it all down into a deliverable solution that the customer demands. The Trility team excels at simplifying the complex.

Distinctive Offerings Customized for Customer Demands Trility solutions are simple and can be implemented quickly, allowing the client to get straight to building the IoT platform/ecosystem of their vision instead of waiting for technology groups to figure out tools, tool chains, compatibilities, processes, procedures, etc. Everything the Trility team does from the beginning is designed with test-driven, software-defined infrastructure already baseline compliant for today’s information security standards and performance requirements. Trility solutions are designed and built with information security and performance capability from day one. To date, the Trility team has worked with Fortune 50, 100 and 500 companies to startups, one person consulting firms to “Big 5” consulting enterprises, and in every single case they are left with the same theme people are hard; technology is easy.

This forces Trility team members to rigorously simplify and to deliver value now, not produce presentations discussing future value.

his clients, a constant thirst for knowledge and understanding. While he continually works to understand new technologies, he if often most interested in discovering how these technologies benefit different people in different ways and at different times.

His diverse interest in understanding technology and the value it brings to people is best illustrated in the fact that, while he is working in the cloud engineering/IoT space, he is concurrently working with a nongovernmental organization he started named Teach People (https://teachpeople.org) designed to enable autonomous, sustainable living opportunities for people in developing nations through access to knowledge and data.

Technology Expert transforming the IoT Space In addition to full-stack software development and cloud engineering experience, most of the members of the Trility team have embedded, cable, cellular and/or satellite infrastructure backgrounds. These backgrounds gave them a head-start understanding the complexities and challenges of many to many architectures and operational environments. While they were already working with micro-services based, ephemeral and elastic cloud solutions coupled with very large amounts of data and automation, adding in the aspects of many to many vendors, vendor clouds and device portfolios for IoT related projects seemed a pretty natural activity for the Trility team.

one of an idea simply because it is new and has a great press. In terms of making decisions that increase customer value, revenue and return on investment, the Trility team believes that all benefit by taking the time to understand problems, goals, and needs prior to getting caught up in the conventions, swag, sales pitches and fear of being left behind. Choosing which innovation wave to surf is a moment by moment decision and must be discovered by each company, in each context. Know your problem, then discover the solution path.

Future Prospects The team at Trility spends their time figuring out how to automate everything in software-defined, testfirst methods so that customers can get straight to making money rather than waiting until they can start. Working with Trility is an exercise in accelerating the time to market, time to revenue window. Trility clients want to gain market share and revenue now, not when technologists can get to it.

Every single thing Trility team does every day is calibrated for helping the client realize success now. “What you will continue to see from us is a smaller and smaller time to revenue/time to the operation window.

Vision casting leaders imagine worlds where anything can connect to anything, associative data is leveraged in real-time for automated decisioning and throughput is king. We enable it,” says Matthew about their future offerings.

Designer of Trility Consulting Technological Challenges Observed Matthew Edwards is the Founder and CEO of Trility Consulting. He has a wide array of interests and most importantly to Trility Consulting and

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All new technologies go through iterations of value, and clients need to overcome the desire to be on version

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Professional’s Observations

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y Adrian Hinrichsen, Marketing & Business Development Director of Datumize

The above infographic is astonishing when you really delve into the numbers. The last few years have been quite interesting when it comes to the IoT space.

I have personally taken a back seat and watched how the industry has sprouted, from an embryonic platform to an early catalyst for possibly becoming the next “Skynet” (no pun intended). For some time now pundits have been predicting great things for the Internet of Things (IoT), from smart cities and smart homes to smart energy grids, driverless cars and autonomous robots. What is in no doubt are the number of “things” that now have “connected capability”, and it is rising fast; according to one leading analyst, 6.4billion connected things will be in use by the end of this year, an increase of 30% from last year, meaning 5million new things are being connected up to the internet every single day. The term internet of things (IoT) was coined round about the turn of the millennium and is widely held to mean the connection of “things”. There are a number of factors driving IoT. First, consumers are demanding greater convenience, speed of delivery and personalisation of the goods and services they consume.

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There are also other drivers for the IoT explosion we are witnessing. The costs of infrastructure are on a downward trajectory. Sensors are becoming smaller, cheaper and more energy efficient and battery life is improving. The further innovation of cloud computing platforms and the emergence of specialised IoT services on them mean that the data collection and analysis necessary for wide scale deployment are more accessible.

Here you can see one infographic from Deloitte in 2014 that shows the value they analysed for smart homes and smart cars. Interestingly enough these percentages have not differed too much till now.

Is IoT Fact or Future?

IoT is right at the top of the “hype” cycle and firmly perched to what everyone is talking about. Mckinsey & Co predict that the economic impact of the IoT could be between $3.9tn and $11.1tn per year by 2025. That is a huge industry considering it was only born 16 years ago.

One of the main question I get asked a lot is “where do you see IoT making the most advantage”? Currently the top industries are domestic/leisure, utilities/energy and transport/automotive. At Datumize we are seeing traction in

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all these sectors with each project very much different to the next.

Our everyday environment is changing, sometimes without us even noticing, however our lives are being made easier for it.

Although we are moving quickly to an IoT environment, we are also facing “Barriers to connection”, where businesses and consumers do not share the same vision of IoT. One suspicion is the concern for security and how IoT technology could be hijacked and manipulated by those for ill intent. Other factors are more technical in nature, and seem to be around operating systems, pricing and current offerings. All of these factors will have to be overcome if we are to achieve the holy grail of “smart Cities” and connection of things.

In Conclusion IoT is a concept which is no longer discussed only by technical scientists, it has very much moved into the mainstream. Certain industries have embraced IoT more than others, for example domestic/leisure, utilities and transport are leading the way. We are all consumers and citizens, and a great deal of education needs to occur before the reality of IoT is understood and accepted by us at large. Data is the key to IoT and organisations seems to want to get their hands on that “Dark data”, but do not know what to do with it once they have it, or how to turn it into a value for their business. It is here that obstacles occur in our everyday business environment as the resources needed have currently not been implemented into the infrastructure and this will not happen until businesses understand the value that is passing them by on a daily basis within their organisation.

IoT is potentially the most exciting technical revolution to have happened in a long time, and if we are able to help businesses and consumers connect in a smarter way, help build the resources and infrastructure to support this new environment, then the way we live and work will change forever, in a very positive way.

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