Netcomm Wireless Signs Distribution Agreement with Kanematsu Communications, Japan

NetComm Wireless Limited today announced the signing of a wireless Machine-to-Machine (M2M) distribution agreement with Kanematsu Communications Ltd, wholly owned by Kanematsu Corporation.
Kanematsu Corporation is one of Japan’s largest trading companies with 41 global offices, 113 affiliated companies and a market capitalization of USD $657 million as of the end of March 2014. Kanematsu Communications is the distributor for Japan’s major telecommunications carriers including NTT Docomo, Softbank and KDDI.
The distribution agreement involves the delivery of wireless M2M products to Kanematsu Communications’ major export and telecommunication carrier customers. With the expansion into the Japanese market, NetComm Wireless is set to open a branch office in Tokyo to support market development within the region.
The partnership marks NetComm Wireless’ entry into the Japanese M2M market which is seeing rapid growth as carriers accelerate the deployment of economical M2M solutions designed to connect and control assets such as vending machines, parking stations, Point of Sale terminals, digital signage, security systems and medical equipment throughout Japan.
The information and communication technology (ICT) industry is the largest industry sector in Japan with its market value expected to double from USD 1.2 trillion in 2011 to 2.4 trillion by 2020[1]. Much of this growth will be driven by the uptake of wireless M2M communications as Japanese network operators develop partnerships with foreign device manufacturers to provide domestic and export customers with cost-effective M2M solutions.
Mr David Stewart, CEO and Managing Director, NetComm Wireless, said:
“This partnership strategically positions NetComm Wireless’ M2M products in the Japanese market and presents tremendous new expansion and growth opportunities for the company as Japanese carriers focus on offering economical and efficient M2M solutions for domestic and international asset management.”
“Japan leads technological innovation in terms of electronics and national connectivity, and is now on the cusp of significant M2M growth. Our relationship with NetComm Wireless will play an important role in our strategy to capitalise on Japan’s rapid M2M market growth in partnership with our carrier and enterprise customers,” said Mr Koji Nishimaki, Corporate Officer & General Manager of Corporate Sales Division, Kanematsu Communications.
NetComm Wireless’ M2M devices meet the requirements of wireless M2M communication to effectively address the need for reliable and cost-effective communications. The industrial-strength devices also feature an open Linux (non-proprietary) platform with Software Development Kit (SDK) to enable custom M2M application (App) development for specific business requirements.
[1] Japan IT Week, Spring 2014
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Wind River Adds Security Boost for the Internet of Things to Its Market-Leading Linux Platform

Wind River® has announced Security Profile for Wind River Linux, a software offering certifiable to the Common Criteria General Purpose Operating System (GPOS) Protection Profile up to Evaluation Assurance Level 4 (EAL 4).
Highlights:
++ New Security Profile for Wind River Linux addresses growing security vulnerabilities as more devices become connected and intelligent.
++ Updated Carrier Grade Profile for Wind River Linux includes support for the latest Linux kernel 3.10 LTSI release.
++ Both software profiles are compatible with the Yocto Project, which allows improved cross-platform compatibility and component interoperability.
With increasing connectivity among devices, using a well-established, standards-based approach such as Common Criteria during development can help address security concerns around the Internet of Things (IoT). Additionally, Wind River has released the latest version of Carrier Grade Profile for Wind River Linux, a turnkey platform for customers to meet Carrier Grade Linux (CGL) requirements.
Security Profile is a high value add-on software profile for Wind River Linux that delivers new security capabilities to help developers combat against future threats arising from the growth of IoT. Key features—including a hardened kernel, secure boot, a security-focused user space, and the Yocto Project Compatible Wind River Linux base—seamlessly integrate with validation tools, documentation, and hardware support.
“With the Internet of Things, the needs around device connectivity and security are growing more complex, yet companies are under pressure to keep to tighter development schedules and budgets,” said Dinyar Dastoor, vice president of product management at Wind River.
“Our new Security Profile for Wind River Linux provides a secure and reliable industry standard computing platform that allows customers to shorten development lifecycles and get to market faster with the security, performance, and user experience required for today’s increasingly intelligent and connected devices across a range of industries.”
“With rising movements like the Internet of Things, developers are facing new complexities as they work on projects that demand higher levels of security, intelligence, and performance,” said Mike Woster, chief operating officer at The Linux Foundation.
“Wind River has long been an open source champion and continues to pave the way for developers to take advantage of the latest Linux innovations and overcome new hurdles.”
Using Security Profile, customers can leverage the breadth and depth of multi-industry security best practices incorporated into the Common Criteria protection profile. In addition, where Common Criteria evaluation is necessary, Security Profile reduces the cost and schedule of developing, certifying, and maintaining a full-featured Linux distribution in the Common Criteria evaluation scheme. Security Profile includes certification evidence for the functional and assurance requirements to become certifiable. By demonstrating that their products work on a certifiable platform from Wind River, developers can work through the traditionally complicated and expensive certification process much faster. With help from Wind River, customers can achieve faster time to market and meet the security needs of a diverse range of industries such as aerospace and defense, automotive, industrial and networking.
Wind River commercial support, including flaw remediation evaluated to Common Criteria EAL 4+, extends across the Wind River Linux product portfolio, including the new Security Profile. This provides customers with extremely responsive issue resolution, which is especially key as security issues are often well underway before a public announcement is released.
Separately, the updated release of Carrier Grade Profile includes support for the latest Linux kernel 3.10 LTSIrelease and expanded silicon support for a variety of hardware architectures. The profile also includes virtual routing and forwarding (VRF) with containers to seamlessly provide carrier grade functionality in a virtualized environment. As data traffic pushes the limits of the carrier network, and the industry is evolving towards network functions virtualization (NFV), it is critical to uphold carrier grade reliability and maintain the strict service level agreement (SLA) performance and security requirements that carriers already guarantee their customers today.
Wind River Linuxdelivers a commercial-grade Linux platform and easy out-of-the box experience with a rich set of capabilities based on the latest open source technologies, fully integrated development tools, worldwide support and maintenance, and expert professional services. Developed from the Yocto Project development infrastructure, Wind River Linux allows greater cross-platform compatibility and component interoperability.
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Numerex Announces Definitive Agreement to Acquire Omnilink

Merger Expands Product Portfolio in Core and Emerging Markets, Increases Recurring Service Revenues.
Numerex Corp, a leading provider of on-demand and interactive machine-to-machine (M2M) enterprise solutions announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Omnilink Systems Inc., an award-winning M2M company providing reliable and intuitive tracking and monitoring solutions to businesses, consumers, and government agencies. With Omnilink’s technology, product offerings, and strategic alliances, Numerex expands its position in the fast-growing security and safety, tracking and monitoring market segments. Omnilink enables consumer solutions offered by the top tier-one wireless network operators, including mobile personal emergency response systems and child tracking services. According to a 2012 Frost & Sullivan market analysis, the 10-year U.S. data consumption forecast for the Security and Safety Segment totals 28.4% CAGR with connections growing from 2.8M in 2013 to 4.8M by 2018*.
The transaction is expected to be accretive to the Company’s non-GAAP earnings per share in 2014 and beyond, and to significantly improve its competitive position, while enabling a number of synergistic growth opportunities in the commercial, government, and consumer markets. Omnilink, founded in 2004 and based in the Atlanta metro area, is a leading provider of offender electronic monitoring, asset tracking, personal tracking, and lone worker safety solutions. Omnilink offers a SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) recurring revenue model selling to and through market leaders across many industries. Its SaaS-based recurring revenues of $11 million account for the majority of the nearly $13 million in total sales recorded in calendar year 2013.
Kelly Gay, President and CEO of Omnilink said:
“We are very pleased to be part of Numerex, a company well-regarded for delivering interactive and on-demand M2M products and services along with innovative enterprise solutions, and that shares our core belief that M2M technology can change the world that we live in. We couldn’t be more excited to be part of the Numerex family and work with some of the best M2M technology leaders in the world.”
Commenting on the pending acquisition, Stratton Nicolaides, CEO and chairman of Numerex said:
“We welcome Kelly Gay, Omnilink’s CEO, and our new associates to the Numerex family. We are combining two highly talented and seasoned teams who have been addressing the needs of the M2M and Internet of Things (IoT) marketplace since the industry’s inception. We are excited by the prospects of utilizing Omnilink’s robust M2M platform, technology, deep domain expertise, and strong industry relationships to drive opportunity in both existing and adjacent markets. We see the combination of Omnilink and Numerex as unique in that it creates significant growth opportunities through product enhancement and channel expansion.”
“We expect this transaction will strengthen our development roadmap in key enterprise verticals and will serve as a foundational step in our long-term growth strategy to be the market leader in select M2M solutions.”
The definitive agreement provides that Numerex will pay $37.5 million in cash for the business. Both parties expect to close within 30 days. The transaction will be funded through cash-on-hand and a $25 million term loan to be provided by Silicon Valley Bank.

*Frost & Sullivan 2012, US M2M Communications Markets: Data Consumption and Connection Forecasts in the Security and Safety Segment, United States, 2009-2018.
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Connected cars, already a reality

On the market side, in 2018, 420 million automobiles will be connected; representing a 57% CAGR on the 45 million connected vehicles in 2013.
In its latest report, IDATE analyses the connected car strategies of manufacturers, mobile carriers and application providers.
A ‘connected car’ is one equipped with access to the Internet (the network of networks) whereby it can communicate with the outside world. This allows the car to share Internet access to other devices both inside and outside around the vehicle.
Samuel Ropert, Project Leader of this report, says:
“The strategy of most manufacturers is to make their cars connected. The main driver here is based on the regulation related to safety issues in Europe and the underlying revenue opportunity for them. In the USA, the recent GM announcement to embed 4G modules in all new cars is seen as a key trigger for market take-off.”
Three main technical solutions exist. The embedded module system (in the car itself) is the most technically advantageous system as it has a dedicated system for connected services. The next option consists of the use of the smartphone for connectivity tethering, with the technical limitation (use of the miniature antenna). The last model is a combination of the first two other models (use of embedded system for telematics and smartphone tethering for entertainment (mobile Internet-like services). Ultimately, it is an opportunity for a fundamental shift from a largely capex model to a more opex-oriented one, even potentially shifting the focus of manufacturers’ core businesses to embrace a new focus on car-based products and services.
For telcos, the revenue opportunity could be interesting as the connected car will generate traffic that telco will charge indirectly (through the automobile manufacturer). All main M2M mobile carriers are involved in the connected car space, as the connected car represents one of the major markets in volume. In a context where their traditional mobile revenues are flat and even declining in some regions, providing mobile connectivity in cars is a key business opportunity for telcos. Beyond car-related applications in driver assistance, from the perspective of a telco, the car can be seen as an additional cellular device, with a potential high-consumption service profile with such usage as the mobile Internet, entertainment on demand and mobile hotspot features.
The prime business model remains the traditional wholesale relationship (B2B2C), even though AT&T unveiled a retail data plan for Audi A3 in early March and AT&T is expected to announce a new version of its share plan by the summer 2014 which includes the connected car.
For Internet players, the strategy here is clear: the automobile is an additional connected device just as smartphones, tablets and laptops and needs to be addressed. However, Apple and Google do not have really the same approach. Indeed, whereas Apple aims to introduce its technology to interface with its products, Google is promoting the embedment of its technology into the car as a regular device. Google also wants to collect data to provide the most accurate advertising as possible, such as a related point-of-interest, based mainly on location.
On the market side, according to IDATE, in 2018, 420 million automobiles will be connected; representing a 57% CAGR on the 45 million connected vehicles in 2013. Nevertheless, this growth is not homogeneous for each category of connected cars. The embedded systems will lead the market with 222 million units by 2018.
In 2018, the connectivity revenue for connected cars will exceed 8 billion EUR. This encompasses direct connectivity through embedded systems but also the indirect revenue related to smartphone usage. The major issues to be raised here are on the real willingness of the user to pay for such services. To encourage users to subscribe, telcos and manufacturers are already contemplating different revenue models including share plans. All the same, adoption is likely to remain limited over the next five years.
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Savi Insight Brings the Power of Sensor Analytics to the Internet of Things

First-Ever Cloud-Based Sensor Analytics Solution Creates Operational Intelligence from Sensors and Machine-Generated Data.
Signaling a new era in big data analytics, Savi® today launched Savi Insight™, the first-ever cloud-based sensor analytics solution for the Internet of Things (IoT). Savi Insight gives executives, line managers and business analysts immediate and unprecedented access to sophisticated, powerful analytics that transform sensor and other machine-generated data into real-time operational intelligence. Savi Insight’s innovative combination of predictive modeling and visualizations accelerate decision-making, identify and help mitigate unforeseen risks, and improve operational performance and profitability.
Savi Insight collects and correlates vast amounts of sensor and machine-generated data and mashes it with information from enterprise systems and independent data sources such as weather, traffic and social media. With easy to understand visualizations, Savi Insight makes every individual in an organization a ‘knowledge-worker’ without the requirement of being a data scientist or business analyst.
Bill Clark, President & CEO of Savi, said:
“Savi Insight gives organizations an immediate and clear understanding of their operations that is based on real-world facts.”
“Savi Insight recognizes relationships between assets and actions by combining the very complicated and unstructured world of sensor data with enterprise systems and 3rd-party data. It examines and explores those associations to create operational intelligence that organizations can use to improve efficiency, reduce risk and solve new problems.”
“Savi Insight gives us unparalleled ability to understand what’s happening in our business in real-time and to use that information to make better decisions, optimize productivity and offer our customers a better product and experience,” said Ralph Harris, President of Decade Products, manufacturer of a complete line of reusable plastic containers and pallets for industrial, agricultural and food processing applications worldwide.
“Savi’s ability to capture data from any sensor was a clear differentiator and allows us to leverage our existing sensor investments. With Savi Insight we are able to test different ‘what if scenarios’ and use predictive analytics capabilities cost effectively.”
Sensors Key Driver in $16B 2014 Market
A recent compilation of industry research found that sensors are the largest and fastest growing segment of connected devices, more than twice number of smartphones worldwide. By 2020, sensors will account for approximately half the predicted 50 billion connected devices in the Internet of Things.
“The rapid proliferation of connected, sensor-enabled devices (Internet of Things) is one of the significant drivers for Big Data technology and services, a market that will top $16B in 2014, growing at a compound annual growth rate of 27% over the next five years. Savi Insight delivers value via predictive analytics leveraging sensor data to help optimize real-time decisions on materials in motion,” said Henry Morris, Senior VP of Worldwide Software and Services at IDC.
Bill McBeath, Chief Research Officer, ChainLink Research, said:
“Many are talking about the Internet of Things, but don’t realize how tricky it is working with wireless devices in real-world settings. You have to deal with dead zones, intermittent connectivity, long latency, and other vagaries, especially in remote places. Further, it takes time to learn what the different data patterns really mean.”
“Savi has decades of experience and hundreds of deployments for logistical applications across the most extreme of environments and has continually refined their platform and solutions. They are one of the most prepared and well-positioned companies to take advantage of the growth of sensor-oriented IoT applications.”
Revolutionary Architecture Combines Deep Analysis with Real-Time Transaction Processing
Savi Insight is powered by the innovative Savi Hybrid-Lambda Architecture™, which provides all the analytic benefits of the “Big Data” Lambda Architecture without sacrificing the mission-critical consistency of real-time online transaction processing. By combining the best of relational database, complex event processing and schema-less data technologies, Savi’s Hybrid-Lambda Architecture can perform streaming analysis of data in motion, manage real-time transactional response by end users, explore historical patterns, learn from itself and predict future outcomes – at scale, all from one architecture.
“Savi Insight combines Big Data technologies in a novel approach that helps to uncover and visualize patterns occurring in a multitude of data sources, and it gives organizations new advanced analytical capabilities to play high level business scenarios with low-level, high-volume sensor data,” said Dr. Tom Dybala, founder and principal at Exprentis, a knowledge engineering and data mining company.
“The diversity of data that Savi can process and convert into business knowledge-driven visualizations is breathtaking.”
3-6 Week Deployment with Savi Scenarios
Savi Insight utilizes unique, pre-packaged, state-of-the-art analytics called scenarios that address specific business conditions or challenges by combining business logic, data science and expertise. Scenarios identify specific events, activity sequences or related attributes among disparate data. Unlike time-consuming and costly platform approaches that use generic big data tools and lack sensor domain expertise, Savi Insight scenarios get organizations up and running in as little as three to six weeks, generating results in a fraction of the time and cost typical of other vendors’ big data initiatives. Savi Insight includes several scenario categories including Assets in Motion, Static Assets, Commodities and Consigned Assets, Risk Management and Compliance, Risk Maps, and Operations Excellence.
Dynamic visualizations in Savi Insight simplify decision-making for all types of users through paired tables, interactive sorting, filtering, and highlighting capabilities. Organizations can use a wide variety of visualizations including tree maps, histograms, geomaps, comparative bars, time series and heat maps to quickly extract insight and share findings internally.
“As someone who has followed Savi since its beginning, I have always viewed the company as a major innovator and visionary,” said Rick Morgan, editor, SCAN: The DATA CAPTURE Report.
“Today, that view is as strong as ever. Savi’s new cloud-based sensor analytics solution comes at a time when major players are all focusing on cloud services and the Internet of Things (IoT). Once again, the company has demonstrated great timing for meeting an emerging major market need.”
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ThingWorx Continues to Expand Global Partner Network

Select Value Added Resellers and System Integrators to Provide Connected Solutions and Services for Internet of Things.
ThingWorx™, a PTC (Nasdaq: PTC) business and leading Internet of Things (IoT) platform provider, today announced new Value Added Resellers and System Integrators in the United States, Canada, Europe and Malaysia. The addition of these partners adds connected solutions and services to the ThingWorx partner network in order to support the increasing demand for complete, connected Internet of Things (IoT) solutions.
The ThingWorx partner network offers a multitude of applications, pre-integrated software components, and skills providing the necessary building blocks required to rapidly design, build, deploy and manage IoT and M2M applications. Comprised of components that are built by ThingWorx, ThingWorx partners, third party developers, and independent hardware and software vendors, these offerings add value to all members of the IoT/M2M value chain by delivering the technology, tools and expertise to implement IoT solutions.
Russ Fadel, president, ThingWorx, said:
“The acquisition of ThingWorx by PTC enables us to better respond to strong global demand through the expansion of our partner network.”
“Our partner program is an essential part of creating great customer value and driving the adoption of innovative, powered-by-ThingWorx solutions. We’re confident our customers will be well served by the expansion of our partner network in all the global markets we serve.”
Recent additions to the ThingWorx global partner network include:
Europe, Middle East, Africa:
iQuest – A large system integrator in Europe with a special focus on delivering an extensive portfolio of professional services and customized software solutions for M2M applications.
VASS – A system integrator based in Spain focusing on different kinds of projects delivering their services to help ThingWorx customers building M2M and IoT applications.
Telecompro – ThingWorx reseller based in Poland with great network and industry insight to address strategic initiatives of ThingWorx customers in Central and Eastern Europe.
Asia Pacific:
Commaxion – Based in Malaysia, Commaxion specializes in rapid solution deployment of M2M and Internet of Things technologies and solutions, including M2M devices, internet-enablement modules & terminals, connectivity, M2M platform and application development.
Micro Technology – Based in Tokyo, Micro Technology will combine its M2M solution, Remote Integrated Network and Quantum System, with its expertise in research, design and manufacturing services for embedded systems, with the ThingWorx® application development platform to deliver customizable applications and connected solutions in the M2M and IoT space. This will provide customers with a comprehensive strategic system that connects sensors and devices to firmware, network and other applications.
North America:
SignalCraft – A Canadian turnkey solutions company with M2M products and strong engineering design capabilities. They have successfully deployed solutions in the oil and gas, agricultural and industrial communications industries.
nSight Systems – A systems integrator offering support of SAP solutions, analytics and mobile technologies. nSight offers solutions for mobility and closed-loop analytics that enable customers to leverage clean data to gain better insights to become more customer-centric using a wide spectrum of mobile technologies.
“Commaxion supports a wide range of customers with various applications and telecommunication devices which ranges from telemetry, telematics and industrial automation across a wide range of horizontal markets in the electronics and data acquisition industry,” said Ivan Sam, director, Commaxion.
“After an exhaustive search for an extensive, purpose-built Internet of Things and Machine to Machine application development platform, we chose to partner with ThingWorx for their completeness, simplicity, flexibility, and ability to drive rapid time to value.”
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M2Mi Brings Industry Leading M2M and Internet of Things Enterprise Cloud Platform to the IBM Cloud Marketplace

M2M Intelligence® provides cyber security and intelligence from the platform to enable enterprises to rapidly build valuable M2M and IoT solutions. This industry leading platform is now available for trial and purchase from the IBM Cloud Marketplace.
Machine-to-Machine Intelligence (M2Mi) Corporation, a leader in enterprise cloud platforms for M2M and Internet of Things (IoT), today announced that its industry leading M2M Intelligence® platform is now available from the new IBM Cloud Marketplace.
The M2M Intelligence® platform enables organizations to rapidly build secure M2M and IoT solutions. M2M Intelligence® hides the complex technology required to establish global telecom and device connectivity, embed cyber security, enable secure information exchange, dynamically adjust for QoS, integrate networking, and message protocols. Applications can therefore focus on business logic while M2M Intelligence® platform enables secure access to intelligence and data from the various devices – thus helping organizations to rapidly build out complete offerings.
The IBM Cloud Marketplace offers clients access to more than 100 SaaS applications, IBM’s Bluemix platform-as-a-service with its suite of composable services, the powerful SoftLayer infrastructure-as-a-service and IBM’s rich intellectual capital and deep industry expertise. This single online destination with a suite of cloud services delivers a new buying experience for clients that enables line of business professionals to deploy new services faster; allows developers to build them with greater speed; and offers IT departments more creative, efficient and lower-cost ways to deliver these services.
Geoff Brown, CEO, Machine-to-Machine Intelligence (M2Mi) Corporation, says:
“We are excited to provide our leading M2M Intelligence® platform through the IBM Cloud Marketplace. Our unique secure Lockbox technology and intelligent infrastructure automation is custom designed for the scale, security, privacy and data requirements of M2M and IoT environments.”
“By enabling rapid deployment of secure M2M and IoT offerings, enterprises will benefit from the integration of M2M Intelligence® and IBM cloud technologies such as IBM SoftLayer.”
The M2M Intelligence® platform is the first M2M and IoT enterprise cloud offering on the IBM Cloud Marketplace – and leverages IBM technologies such as IBM SoftLayer and IBM Message Sight. M2M Intelligence® 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.
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ILS Technology, a Telit Company, and Jasper Collaborate to help Mobile Operators Deliver Innovative IoT Applications

ILS Technology, a Telit company, and Jasper today announced their expanded collaboration to help mobile operators deploy successful IoT initiatives on the Cloud-based Jasper Platform and the deviceWISE Application Enablement Platform (AEP) from ILS Technology.
Ken Laversin, Global VP Sales, Jasper, said:
“IoT is transforming industries, enabling companies to build stronger relationships with their customers, deliver rich service models, and generate new and sustainable sources of revenue. Having the right software and systems to capitalize on these opportunities is critical.”
“Today more than 1,000 companies manage millions of connected products and devices on the Jasper Platform and we’re delighted to be deepening our relationship with Telit and ILS Technology as part of our commitment to enabling enterprises to launch, manage and monetize successful IoT service businesses.”
The Jasper and Telit platforms help operators to reduce risk, time-to-market, complexity and cost of commercializing IoT solutions for their enterprise customers. The platforms can be configured to meet the needs of enterprises across industries and market segments, enabling high-value services like remote monitoring and control, industrial automation, asset tracking and field service operations management.
“We are pleased to expand our long-standing technical relationship with Jasper by working together on a compelling commercial go-to-market solution for MNOs,” said Fred Yentz, President and CEO of ILS Technology, a Telit company.
“Together we remove all the technical risks and complexity and make it easy for operators to get started with turnkey IoT services. We offer a simple and cost-effective three-step engagement plan – Crawl, Walk, Run – for evaluation and trials, initial commercialization, and full-scale deployments with millions of connections.”
Jasper delivers the real-time visibility and control that companies need to launch, manage and monetize a successful IoT service business, all in a single, turnkey, cloud-based solution. An increasing number of industries are choosing the Jasper Platform to manage their IoT initiatives and enable capabilities critical to their business success, including mobile service management, real-time engagement, support diagnostics, billing and business automation.
ILS Technology provides the popular deviceWISE Application Enablement Platform (AEP) for standards-based Cloud connectivity and integration across any remote device, any network and any enterprise application in the back office. The developer-friendly platform is preferred among leading organizations – large and small – that rely on mission-critical connectivity, security, scalability and carrier-grade performance.
M2M services and applications “powered by deviceWISE” leverage the thriving deviceWISE ecosystem consisting of an ever-expanding network of recognized M2M experts and innovators across all steps of the M2M value chain. Network operators and their customers benefit from instant access to certified hardware and software, integration services and support, tailored solutions and applications, as needed. Being part of Telit Wireless, ILS Technology offers unmatched global reach with local representation in over 80 countries and access to millions of deviceWISE-ready Telit wireless modules embedded in over 5000 M2M/IoT-enabled devices.
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Multi-Tech Systems and ILS Technology announce that the Multi-Tech MultiConnect OCG router is now DeviceWise ready

Integrating deviceWISE software into the OCG gateway makes deployments easy using the ILS M2M platform.
Multi-Tech Systems, a leading provider of machine-to-machine (M2M) technology, and ILS Technology (ILST), a Telit company, today announced that they have collaborated on making Multi-Tech’s MultiConnect OCG open communications gateway “deviceWISE Ready” by embedding the deviceWISE agent directly into the OCG firmware. This new integrated offering further reduces the risk, time-to-market, complexity and cost of deploying complete end-to-end M2M solutions.
“The deployment of M2M applications doesn’t need to be complex”, said Rod Landers, CEO of Multi-Tech.
“Multi-Tech and ILS are partnering to make it easier for people to deploy their M2M applications on the deviceWISE platform. Our goal is to make this truly plug and play and we will continue to expand our offerings through working with other companies toward similar implementations.”
deviceWISE is the world’s leading ready-to-use, off-the-shelf cloud platform to connect enterprise IT systems to the devices and machines on which businesses depend. With this deviceWISE Ready OCG it is easy to monitor remote devices without the need for months of complex programming or development. Plus, it offers unparalleled security to protect company and customer data in transit, stored in the Cloud and on the back end.
“Multi-Tech is a valued ecosystem partner of ILS Technology and Telit. Our customers have been relying on Multi-Tech gateways for M2M and IoT deployments across different industries and markets for years,” said Fred Yentz, President and CEO of ILS Technology. “Having deviseWISE integrated on the OCG gateway simplifies the entire process – from initial technical evaluations to large scale commercialization.”
The MultiConnect OCG open communications gateway comprises an open Linux development environment and a fully certified hardware platform that includes multiple interfaces (serial, USB, Ethernet and SD card) and internal peripherals (including a cellular modem and a GPS receiver) in one application-ready end user solution.
The MultiConnect OCG brings together a cellular hardware development environment, built around wireless M2M modules from Telit, and Multi-Tech’s CoreCDP, a distribution version of the Linux operating system and complete Linux build environment, to create custom applications in a very short period of time. The Multi-Tech MultiConnect OCG provides a flexible, quick and cost-effective way to bring your solution to market.
The deviceWISE Application Enablement Platform (AEP) delivers standards-based Cloud connectivity and integration across any remote device, any network and any enterprise application in the back office. The developer-friendly platform is preferred among leading organizations – large and small – that rely on mission-critical connectivity, security, scalability and carrier-grade performance.
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Cisco and Roxen are joining Swedish M2M Service Enablers (SMSE)

The Swedish M2M Service Enablers alliance welcomes internet and content management pioneer Roxen as new member.
Swedish M2M Service Enablers was founded in March 2012 to educate the market of the importance of M2M Service Enablement, to promote Sweden as the place to look for IoT solutions and to promote the members of the alliance in Sweden and abroad. With today’s expansion the SMSE alliance has 26 members.
SMSE is also announcing Cisco Systems as new Sponsor to SMSE. Magnus Melander, founder of SMSE says:
“Cisco is the company that built the internet and to now have them as sponsor of SMSE makes us proud. With Cisco’s participation we ensure that we do not just connect machines, we actually start to move towards the vision: Internet of Everything.”
“Building the Internet of Everything require partnerships across industries and I hope to see all leading ICT companies in Sweden follow Cisco’s example becoming sponsors of our alliance before summer.” continues Mr Melander.
The message promoted by SMSE is that Service Enablement is the key to a prospering Internet of Things industry and that Service Enablers need to be specialized in the increasingly competitive and international market.
The alliance has been involved in events in Stockholm, Gothenburg, Berlin, Düsseldorf and Barcelona this year and is involved in Internet of Things events in Milan, Eindhoven, London, St Petersburg and Stockholm before summer. “We are constantly trying to find new marketing and sales opportunities for our members and by collaborating under the name of our alliance we save money and time, we’re easy to find and deal with and we enable and grow partnerships and friendship in the alliance”, says Mr Melander.
“At Internet of Everything for Real 2014 in Stockholm June 18 we hope to have all our members and sponsors participating to show the depth and breadth of what our alliance brings”, concludes Mr Melander.
After the most recent expansion the alliance has 26 members and 8 sponsors:
Kombridge, Info24, Possio, Maingate, Crossbreed, Springworks, Episcope, Tritech, Infracontrol, Fridat, Vinnter, WSI, CSL Connect, Connode, Evothings, CNet, B3IT, FYM, Imagimob, Expektra, H&D Wireless, Combain, Shortcut Labs, Yanzi Networks, Roxen, Wbird
Sponsors of Swedish M2M Service Enablers:
Net1, Tele2, Telenor Connexion, TeliaSonera, Business Sweden, Ericsson, Cisco Systems, Swedish Mobile Association (SMA)
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