Verizon Identifies Key Enterprise-Technology Trends for 2014

Cloud, Security and M2M Connected Solutions Give Individuals Greater Control Over Innovation and Business Success.
Enterprise users will gain unprecedented control over their technology environment in 2014, according to Verizon Enterprise Solutions’ list of top enterprise technology trends for 2014. The new year will see a sharp focus on how enterprises and governments use technology to enhance the customer’s experience and enable innovation.
“We are experiencing the democratization of enterprise technology,” said David Small, Verizon Enterprise Solutions’ chief platform officer.
“Mirroring what has happened in the consumer technology space, enterprise technology users look for services to be delivered on demand, to a time and place of their choosing, and in the way that they want. In 2014, enterprise success will be measured by how well organizations are able to use technology to meet user expectations and harness individual innovation.”
Here are the key trends Verizon believes will drive change for enterprises and government in 2014:
1. The Customer of One Comes of Age
The ability to tailor a customer’s experience to best meet personalized, individual needs will increasingly be a brand differentiator. In 2014, enterprises will refocus on customer touch points, recognizing that integrated omnichannel connections – across online, mobile, broadcast and in-store – can make customers feel valued at every step of the purchase and experience lifecycle. These integrated systems will be the key to opening up new routes to markets by enabling businesses to engage directly with the individual on demand, and build trusted connections to simplify transactions. Insight provided by big data analytics will create new, individualized marketing opportunities that will transform and focus the customer engagement model.
2. M2M ‘as a Service’ Simplifies Path to the Connected World
Ubiquitous 4G LTE wireless service and the availability of machine-to-machine (M2M) solutions “as a service” – on demand, over the Internet and ready to use – coupled with strong security will overcome the issues that have previously prevented many organizations from fully embracing M2M. By leveraging third-party expertise, organizations will be able to quickly transform the conversations of intelligent endpoints into unprecedented insights – and unprecedented business opportunities. As M2M adoption accelerates, manufacturers, dealers and business partners will be able to realize the full potential of new revenue streams and increased operational efficiencies, while better meeting the needs of their customers.
3. The Shortage of Security Expertise Forces Changes to Cybersecurity Management
Continued targeted attacks and high-profile security breaches impel corporate boards of directors to demand substantial increases in security investments in 2014 – and rethinking of traditional approaches to cyber security management. As enterprises increasingly adopt mobility, big data, cloud and broadcast solutions, the complexity of effective cybersecurity programs far exceeds both the availability of human capital around the world and the capability of any one enterprise to execute alone. Enterprises will develop and execute hybrid cybersecurity-management models that combine an agile staff of in-house security-minded business experts with trusted managed security services across a broad range of capabilities such as identity management, security analytics and cyberintelligence, and governance, risk and compliance.
4. IT Decentralizes
Organizations embracing the new information technology world of cloud, mobility and M2M will see IT increasingly decentralized. IT will be core to every business function. As a result, IT will work more closely with individual business units and focus on developing tools for seamless process enablement that empowers employees and customers. The C-suite (e.g., CFO, CMO, COO), lines of business and staff functions will increasingly take the lead role in engaging and deploying in the cloud, because of the immediate deployment speed, flexibility, control and cost value they see in cloud, as well as advantages in big data analysis. IT will be integrated into financial performance planning, and the lines between the IT department and finance will continue to blur as technology becomes the valued enabler, rather than the end game.
5. Providers Add Gravity to the Cloud
In a world where mobile is the norm, and rich media content is a given, the cloud will come into its own as the only location where growing data volumes can be stored, accessed and analyzed on demand. In 2014, adding software and services to the cloud will be a key focus for cloud providers seeking to attract customers – adding gravity and encouraging user stickiness. Integrated cloud offerings will increasingly enable mashups of fixed and mobile networks; systems, ideas and solutions; people and things; and intelligence and information. Providing systems and tools to transform these data into insights in the cloud and on demand will transform the customer experience.
Small concluded:
“Verizon Enterprise Solutions brings together an unparalleled set of assets with the objective of driving open a connected world of opportunity for our clients. Whatever their industry or sector, in 2014 our clients will look to invest and innovate so they can more rapidly and securely deliver their products and services where, when, and how their users want them. Our focus is on offering powerful answers to business challenges by harnessing the power of our advanced technology platforms to deliver industry-specific solutions that unlock productivity and value for our clients, their customers and society.”
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ORBCOMM and Telefonica to Provide Wireless Connectivity for M2M Solutions

Strengthens cellular footprint worldwide and expands network service options.
ORBCOMM Inc. (Nasdaq:ORBC), a global provider of Machine-to-Machine (M2M) solutions, today announced an agreement with Telefonica Digital (Telefonica), one of the world’s largest telecommunications companies, that enables ORBCOMM to offer Telefonica’s GSM cellular communications service for ORBCOMM’s M2M applications across multiple vertical markets worldwide.
Through this agreement, ORBCOMM will expand its connectivity for its end-to-end cellular and dual-mode solutions targeted in the transportation & logistics and heavy equipment industries by leveraging Telefonica’s operations in 24 countries as well as roaming agreements covering more than 150 countries.
Marc Eisenberg, ORBCOMM’s Chief Executive Officer, said:
“We are building the world’s most comprehensive offering of both satellite and cellular network services, and our agreement with Telefonica strengthens ORBCOMM’s lead as the largest and most diverse multi-network provider in the M2M industry.”
“Telefonica’s reliable cellular connectivity will increase our global reach and round out our cellular footprint in key markets.”
“This joint service offering will provide ORBCOMM’s customers worldwide with versatile connectivity options tailored for their best-of-breed M2M asset tracking and monitoring solutions,” said Christian Solomine, Telefonica’s Global Partner Sales USA General Manager. “We look forward to leveraging ORBCOMM’s expertise and market dominance in M2M to connect even more mobile and fixed assets in every corner of the world.”
ORBCOMM will also provide a secure and scalable online platform to simplify satellite, cellular and dual-mode device management, including provisioning and messaging capabilities. With 24x7x365 access to near-real-time data, ORBCOMM’s customers can use this platform to increase visibility over their network, improve customer service and promote device reliability and longevity. In addition, this full-service platform, which is built and hosted by ORBCOMM, enables its customers to reduce the complexity, time to market, cost, and risk of developing and deploying their complete M2M solution set.
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Sierra Wireless Files with European Commission and U.S. Federal Trade Commission against Nokia for Abuse of Dominant Position in GSM and 3G Essential Patents

Sierra Wireless today announced it has submitted a complaint with the European Commission (EC) against Nokia for anti-competitive behavior and a request for the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to start a formal investigation.
The EC complaint says Nokia is discriminating against Sierra Wireless and abusing its dominant position as a GSM and 3G standard essential patent (SEP) holder. Sierra Wireless alleges that Nokia applies widely different, and therefore unfair, royalty rates for the same SEPs to make identical GSM wireless modules; that Nokia is imposing unfavorable and unreasonable royalty terms that put Sierra Wireless at a competitive disadvantage; and that Nokia has refused to license 3G SEPs for wireless modules in spite of its clear obligation and repeated requests from Sierra Wireless to do so.
Sierra Wireless believes that Nokia is in breach of Article 102 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union and Nokia’s obligation to grant SEP licenses on fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory terms (FRAND) as required by the European Technology Standards Institute (ETSI).
Sierra Wireless has been seeking a mutually acceptable resolution of the royalty rate issues and a license to use Nokia’s 3G SEPs. With no clear response from Nokia, Sierra Wireless believes the best way to resolve this matter and clarify royalty discrepancies is to file a complaint with the EC. In addition, Sierra Wireless has notified the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) of the complaint and requested the FTC open an investigation into Nokia’s breach of FRAND rules and U.S. laws on fair trade and monopoly practices. The company has also requested the ETSI to investigate Nokia’s behaviour in breaching its commitment to the FRAND rule with another ETSI member.
Pierre Cosnier, Senior Director, Legal Affairs for Sierra Wireless said:
“We are acting to protect our customers and ourselves from the unreasonable actions of some standard essential patent holders, which result in unresolved patent license disagreements that we want to remedy on fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory terms.”
Sierra Wireless is urging the EC to investigate and require Nokia to reveal the pricing for 2G and 3G SEP licenses with other licensees, end the breaches outlined in the complaint, sanction Nokia, and require these patent licenses to be granted on FRAND terms.
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Vaica Employs Telit Cellular Technology in Cloud-connected Medication Management Device – SimpleMed+

GC864-QUAD V2 to Provide Reliable Cellular Data Connectivity for Innovative Medication Compliance Device & Service.
Telit Wireless Solutions, a global provider of high-quality machine-to-machine (M2M) solutions, products and services and Vaica, Israel-based provider of cloud-based medication compliance and telehealth solutions for chronic patients, today announced that Vaica’s flagship product, SimpleMed+ is to employ Telit’s GC864-QUAD V2 for mobile connectivity. The product and the company’s cloud-based service portal aim to provide effective, easy-to-deploy-and-use solutions to curb healthcare spending treating chronic conditions believed to represent 90% of all healthcare costs.
Targeted at hospitals, health management and delivery organizations (HMOs, ACOs), –seniors living facilities, and other care organizations, SimpleMed+ addresses a real need these organizations have of lowering the high hospital readmission rates and healthcare costs attributed to medication non-compliance. The product will start selling initially in the United States, Canada, Brazil, New Zealand and Australia.
With government statistics showing that compliance with prescriptions by chronically-ill patients declines to 50% after six months; and to 33% in five years, the pharmaceutical industry is also looking for solutions like SimpleMed+. And since the average chronic patient takes over five medications daily, -pharmacy chains in the U.S., Canada and the UK are now designing customer programs to monitor and improve patients’ medication adherence, with the help of the device and its associated service, which have shown in clinical trials to improve medication compliance to 95% over extended periods of time.
The Quad-band 850/900/1800/1900 MHz GSM/GPRS GC864-QUAD V2 is designed for applications like SimpleMed+ needing a compact package and a board-to-board connector. The module also allows a SIM holder to be mounted on the back of the module and is used in the Vaica product. This option reduces footprint and integration costs. The xC864 Unified Form Factor family includes GSM/GPRS, UMTS/HSDPA and CDMA 1xRTT air interfaces in cellular modules featuring a common 30

Tele2 launches global M2M solution

Tele2 AB (Tele2), is making a global launch within the rapidly growing machine-to-machine (M2M) sector.
Initial markets for this launch are Sweden, Norway and the Netherlands, but Tele2 M2M Global Solutions is already able to serve customers globally.
Tele2 has made investments in personnel and IT to become a competitive player on the M2M market. With an advanced technical platform, a dedicated M2M support function and a highly skilled team, Tele2 will be able to provide a simple, flexible and customer oriented M2M alternative. As always when it comes to Tele2, the price will also be highly competitive.
Mats Granryd, President and CEO of Tele2 AB, comments:
“The potential of M2M is great and we believe that now is the time to make a dedicated move. The market is ready for a broad roll-out, as more and more companies see how they can connect IT and communication services with their business processes – with cost savings and new revenue streams as a result”.
Mats Granryd continues:
“Even if we will have our M2M customer base in parts of the Tele2 footprint, the M2M business is global in its nature. Our customers’ activities are increasingly international in character – almost regardless of size. Hence, it is natural for us to offer them our services wherever they go”.
For more information about Tele2 M2M Global Solutions, visit: www.m2m.tele2.com
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Machine-to-Machine Intelligence (M2Mi) Corporation Announces the M2M Intelligence® v5.0 Platform

Simplifying the Delivery of Secure M2M and Internet of Things Services.
Machine-to-Machine Intelligence (M2Mi) Corporation is pleased to announce the launch of the latest version of M2M Intelligence®, an industry recognized M2M and Internet of Things platform. With integrated worldwide telecom bandwidth as well as a large collection of certified industry applications, the enhanced M2M Intelligence® platform makes it significantly easier to rapidly deploy secure, value added M2M and IoT services – on-premise or as an enterprise PaaS offering.
Deploying M2M and IoT services are enabling organizations to increase efficiency and drive revenue within their businesses. However, the challenge is to move up from today’s siloed and custom solutions with repeatable, flexible and rapidly deployable offerings that can quickly scale to enable significantly larger value. In addition, cyber security is becoming an increasingly critical consideration for enterprises looking to build M2M and IoT capability. To address these challenges, the M2M Intelligence® v5.0 platform enables organizations to rapidly deploy M2M and IoT services in a secure, scalable and repeatable way. M2M Intelligence® enables secure interoperability of devices through networks to cloud data centers.
Geoff Brown, CEO, Machine-to-Machine Intelligence (M2Mi) Corporation, says:
“Today’s connected solutions are too siloed and inflexible. Therefore, expanding an existing service or developing a new offering becomes resource and time intensive.”
“Our enhanced M2M Intelligence® v5.0 platform provides enterprise cloud support, flexibility, integrates global bandwidth as well as enables a large collection of existing industry applications, thereby allowing organizations to rapidly deploy valuable M2M and IoT services.”
The enhanced M2M Intelligence® platform provides the following benefits:

Integrated global bandwidth – Includes worldwide telecom bandwidth and data services as well as large collection of telecom-certified applications ready for deployment
Enhanced contextual intelligence – Analyzes the inherently dynamic M2M and IoT ecosystem to provide contextual intelligence – enabling intelligent analysis and response to the current state
Enterprise cloud support – Delivers the industry’s leading M2M and IoT enterprise cloud PaaS to address complex cloud orchestration, messaging, connectivity, security and deployment of enterprise connected applications
Lockbox secure messaging support – Policy driven and integrated security addresses both critical cyber-physical infrastructure protection and secure information exchange from device through telecom networks through to the cloud datacenter
Modular platform architecture – Today’s M2M and IoT solutions are inflexible and stove-piped. M2Mi’s modular, building-block architecture enables repeatable and rapidly deployable solutions across industries. This enables telecom providers, cloud providers as well as system integrators to deploy repeatable solutions across organizations

M2Mi provides the M2M Intelligence® platform, which includes M2M Automation and M2M Cyber Security, as the essential technology foundation for M2M and IoT offerings. By bundling global telecom bandwidth and data services with the M2M Intelligence® platform, M2Mi provides an integrated solution to enable enterprises to rapidly deploy revenue-generating M2M and IoT services.

About Machine-to-Machine Intelligence (M2Mi) Corporation
Machine-to-Machine Intelligence (M2Mi) Corporation delivers M2M Intelligence®; the essential platform for the M2M & Internet of Things economy. M2Mi reduces the complexity of connecting, provisioning and automating M2M services, as well as securely integrating edge devices through network providers to the cloud data center, thus addressing requirements for both critical cyber-physical infrastructure protection and secure information exchange.
Machine-to-Machine Intelligence (M2Mi) Corporation is headquartered at NASA Research Park, Silicon Valley.
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New IHS Automotive study forecasts more than 150 million connected cars on global highways by 2020

Growth in the automotive industry’s highly integrated and highly saturated connected car systems will yield approximately $14.5 billion in revenue from automotive data assets by 2020, according to a connected car study from IHS Automotive, driven by Polk.
In the study, Emerging Technologies: Big Data in the Connected Car, IHS Automotive forecasts there will be 152 million actively connected cars on global roads by 2020, a fraction of the estimated 18 billion Internet of Things (IoT) devices on the planet. The study estimates $14.5 billion of value from the OEM connected car landscape from a variety of Big Data assets found in the connected car – diagnostics, location, user experience (UX) /feature tracking, and adaptive driver assistance systems (ADAS)/autonomy. Significantly, the technology growth will drive sales, value-added services and customer experience in the sector for years to come.
“Traditionally Big Data has focused on the ‘4 V’s’ – volume, velocity, variety and veracity,” says Mark Boyadjis, senior analyst of infotainment and Human-Machine Interface (HMI) at IHS Automotive.
“But without understanding the fifth ’V,’ value and the value proposition, the collection of data from the connected car is literally a waste of time. It is important to understand how data from intelligently designed systems will drive billions of dollars of annual revenue between data assets, analytics, and end-user services.”
IHS Automotive estimates conservatively that more than 480 terabytes of data will be collected from the OEM connected car landscape in 2013 through millions of small data transmissions sent through more than 26 million connected cars. A combination of increased connected car sales and a growing scale of information coming from connected cars will result in the collection of some 11.1 petabytes of connected car data by 2020.
The rate at which the data are flowing from the connected car landscape is also growing dramatically. The study says that about 30 terabytes of data would be collected each day from the 152 million connected cars on the road in 2020, or about 350 megabytes per second, compared to about 15 megabytes per second in 2013.
At present, the majority of connected car data that is collected is used internally for diagnostics, location, speed, and vehicle status. By 2020, the IHS Automotive study expects four core categories of data to be most important to automakers, suppliers, third parties and end-users — diagnostics, location, user experience/features, and adaptive driver assistance systems/autonomy data. Because they will require so much more volume and variety, ADAS/Autonomy is expected to be the largest and most expensive data category in the future.
Boyadjis said:
“The most important challenge this industry has in front of it is organizing systems and defining roles in Big Data from the connected car. Who owns the data, the pipe, and the analytics is still yet to be determined, and will have to be before connected car data can be put to work efficiently.”
More info at www.ihs.com
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New XBee® Wi-Fi Cloud Kit by Digi International Brings the Internet of Things to Everyone

Add cloud connectivity to any device or sensor–create your own Internet of Things ASAP.
Digi International today released the XBee® Wi-Fi Cloud Kit, a development kit that allows anyone to build, connect, and control their own Internet of Things. The kit recently won an Editor’s Choice ribbon at World Maker Faire New York 2013.
Built around Digi’s new XBee Wi-Fi module, which wirelessly connects devices to the cloud, the kit integrates with Device Cloud by Etherios™ using a sample internet-based application, and includes a new development board with sensors, actuators, a USB cable, and a variety of electronic prototyping parts for creating custom circuits.
“The new XBee Wi-Fi Cloud Kit is the fastest and easiest way to explore and develop devices and circuits that connect to the Internet of Things,” said Rob Faludi, chief innovation officer and author of Building Wireless Sensor Networks.
“Through its straightforward integration with Device Cloud by Etherios, makers, educators, electronics engineers, software designers, and innovators of all kinds can now create their own Internet of Things through easy-to-use web applications.”
The XBee Wi-Fi Cloud Kit features a sample web application that lets users remotely activate various outputs on the development board including LEDs, a vibration motor, a bar graph gauge and an audio buzzer.
In addition, users can build their own circuits on the development board to sense temperature or light, switch on and off other devices via a relay, turn on and off additional LEDs and more. The web application code is open-source, available for anyone to download and use as a learning tool.
The XBee Wi-Fi Cloud Kit is now available for $149 MSRP. For more information or to buy your kit, visit:http://www.digi.com/xbeecloud. See examples here and take part in the conversation on Twitter with the hashtag #IoTASAP.
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M2M Connections to hit 2.9 Billion by 2022

Healthcare, Utilities and Automotive show greatest growth.
A new study from Strategy Analytics, “M2M Connections by Industry Vertical and Bandwidth” predicts machine-to-machine (M2M) connections will grow from 368 million in 2013 to 2.9 billion by 2022. Of those connections, 78 percent will be on 3G or faster networks by 2022.
Key factors such as M2M platform evolution, application and analytics developments, regulation as well as the creation of new business opportunities and avoiding obsolescence are all factors driving M2M to an expected growth in connections of 23 percent CAGR growth between 2013 and 2022.
M2M service platforms that increasingly support connectivity, as well as application development for building “turnkey” customer solutions, remain critically important in offering affordable solutions. Regulations remain a driver of M2M, with the Affordable Care Act (ACA, “Obamacare”), eCall compliance in 2015, and the European Energy and Efficiency Directive all helping to drive M2M deployments going forwards.
“Regulation has always been a key driver pushing M2M forward, whether it’s the emergence of the ACA (“Obamacare”), or smart metering initiatives in Europe or China,” said Andrew Brown, Director of Enterprise and M2M research at Strategy Analytics and author of the study.
He added:
“However, it is also the investment from industrial giants like GE and pressure from “kick-starter-funded” companies pursuing “over-the-top” initiatives for the “Internet of Things” that are providing the impetus and competition that will also help customers find an increasing range of relevant, tailored solutions.”
“The 2G sunset in the US, shift to LTE, and the long lifecycles in many M2M markets, will see an accelerated shift towards 3G and 4G connections in the next few years. This will only be enhanced by richer applications such as streaming video and digital signage, culminating in 78 percent of M2M connections being 3G or faster networks  by 2022.” added Gina Luk, Senior Analyst Enterprise Research and M2M at Strategy Analytics.
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