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Are we as an industry comfortable excluding all human intervention from IoT-enhanced business processes and allowing machines to control end-point devices? Or are we incapable of giving up this control?

While at SAP SAPPHIRE 2014, SAP’s customer and partner event in Orlando, Florida, MachNation was delighted to hear about Bosch’s enterprise connected glasses solution.

The Internet of Everything (IoE) is the evolution of technology, business strategies and human-to-technology engagement in ways that re-invent how organizations deliver value.

Analytics is a critical enabler of IoT solutions. Being able to aggregate, store, manipulate and analyze data from connected devices yields value to the public and private sector organizations adopting these types of solutions.

MachNation expects the evolution of platforms and applications in the Internet of Things and Internet of Everything ecosystem to follow a similar evolution to that followed in the application server space and the MEAP/MADP space. This article focuses on the importance of the flexibility and extensibility of the platform.

At the end of an industry event, we at MachNation like to reflect on some of the insights generated by event participants. In this environment of weekly IoT/M2M events it is not easy finding unique nuggets of wisdom, but occasionally we do. Let’s discuss a few insights from discussions and presentations on 6 May at Axeda Connexion 2014.

Over the last 4-5 years operators have hired high-quality dedicated M2M teams, stood-up platforms, built critical partnerships, segmented the market for opportunities and refined their branding and advertising to incorporate their new digital services offerings. And now we are seeing a new group of operator entrants launching in these market. In this article we take a look at these challenger operators, and we profile one of these recent entrants into the IoT/M2M ecosystem, Tele2 M2M […]

With two new enterprise clients – PSA Peugeot Citroen and SIA – Orange continues to show flexibility in bringing IoT solutions to market with strong reference accounts in the automotive and retail/finance sectors. This article describes Orange’s solution for these two enterprise clients.

KPN has launched MySafeGuard, one of the first IoT healthcare solutions for KPN. For us this is an indication of a refined segmentation and solution strategy being executed by the Netherlands-based operator. KPN has had an ongoing, strong effort to bring IoT/M2M solutions to the market to fill unmet customer demand.