Manufacturers across a wide range of product sectors are exploring how to adopt sensors and networked services to improve their products, customer experiences, and business processes. Harbor Research found some 4.3B devices came online in 2015 alone, signaling activity, investment, and adoption in the Internet of Things is at an all-time high. But despite this…
What once seemed far-fetched, niche, even space-age is now central to the immediate roadmap of just about every automotive manufacturer in the world. In reality, connected cars aren’t all that new: sensors, telemetry, even performance data have been part of automotive DNA for years. Yet suddenly, the very notion of the car—its function, the business…
Although the automotive industry isn’t particularly new to data or telematics, competitive forces are placing huge pressure on manufacturers to figure out how to actually use all these data. What’s new is the imperative for manufacturers to, in real-time and even predictively, analyze data and leverage it meaningfully and in ways that drive value. Access…
Industry practitioners in the IoT and Smart Systems space suffer no shortage of conferences and events to attend. There are dozens of events each month around the world, some taking a broader brush of the space and others focusing on specific markets, technologies, demographics, or aspects. Below is a list of conferences to check out…
Newsflash: Security in the Internet of Things calls for a completely different approach than that used for “traditional” web-centric IT. Connecting more things changes the way we secure things As objects, people, infrastructures, and environments in the physical world around us grow more digitized, the approach to security requires a shift, a shift from…
The strength of a system is beholden to its weakest point. This concept is the reason that security in the Internet of Things is an altogether different brand of security than in the past. In a world where objects and environments are digitally connected and placed onto networks, objects themselves become windows of data transmission…
Recently I had the pleasure of joining Mike Kavis, VP & principal architect of Cloud Technology Partners and Forbes columnist, for a lively podcast discussion on some of the key trends impacting both consumer and industrial IoT in 2016. This conversation grew out of a report we at Harbor Research wrote about the top 18…
There is certainly no shortage of buzz surrounding the Internet of Things. Thanks to sharp declines in the costs of sensing technology and data processing, we saw momentum grow more last year than ever before. According to Harbor Research, some 4.3 billion new devices (excluding laptops and PCs) were connected to the Internet in 2015…
2015 was a huge year for the Internet of Things space—not just in hype, but in growth, movement, and development. From our perspective, 2016 is ripe for continued evolution—not just around the application of sensors on ‘things,’ but around the myriad of forces and entities inherent in the entire ecosystem driving a more connected world.…
Some may argue that the Internet of Things has more advanced applications on the industrial side than on the consumer side. Machine-to-machine (M2M) connectivity has indeed been around for years, particularly in traditional industries such as manufacturing, energy, and control and automation. The consumer world, by contrast, is just waking up to what many are…
