New report analyzes blockchain as the foundation for autonomous products & ecosystem services What is missing from the Internet of Things? Enterprises might say revenues. Consumers might say utility. Virtually everyone agrees interoperability, security, compliance, privacy, and reliability are all barriers to IoT growth. But the paramount challenge for ubiquitous connectivity, never mind device autonomy,…
What does it mean to interact with the digital realm? The input-only days of desktop and laptop are long gone; we are entering an era in which interactions are seamless, voice-enabled, even predictive, and sometimes entirely invisible. As the so-called Internet of Things, characterized by pervasive sensing technology and networked services, infuses every realm of…
According Harbor Research, some 4.3B new devices (excluding laptops and PCs) were connected to the Internet in 2015. Based on current installations, our modeling forecasts there will be some 36B devices in just four years (by 2020). But one central question is how and where will these devices come online? This post was originally posted…
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…
The IoT vendor ecosystem is a confusing, quickly evolving, and already crowded space. To say the least… The ‘IoT’ vendor landscape– like its ‘umbrella term’ of a name: the Internet of Things (IoT)– is hardly a single field of basically similar competitive providers. Rather, it is comprised of multiple strata of various types of providers. Providers of…
The defining difference between a connected world and the offline world as we know it is the presence and role of data. We won’t find data on sandy beaches, floating around in our soup, or growing inside our planet’s vast flora and fauna. But when we embed connectivity into the worlds objects, systems, animals, plants…
