Pangea Hires Telefonica’s Head of IoT Wholesale
21 March 2017 - Pangea, a leading global M2M and IoT connectivity and solutions provider, have announced that Bernie McPhillips is set to join their organisation in April, marking the next phase in their Partner Programme strategy. McPhillips has achieved incredible success during his 11-year tenure with Telefonica, delivering great results in several senior level roles within O2 as Head of Wholesale Partners and more recently as Head of Telefonica’s IoT Authorised Distributor Channel.
McPhillips joins Pangea as Sales Director across the group and will have a key influence in supporting the rapid growth seen to date. Pangea will benefit from Bernie’s immense experience as well as his leadership qualities to deliver and accelerate the future growth of Pangea.
Dan Cunliffe, Managing Director of Pangea, explains “We are at a point within the IoT market opportunity, where exponential growth for our partners is upon us. Bernie’s understanding of the IoT market as well as his unprecedented record in working with partners will be a key driver in strategising and creating new valued opportunities for Pangea and our partner channel. Bernie has the critical experience of working closely with partners, so he’s perfectly placed to make certain that our partners are getting the best possible service and the most from their partnership with Pangea.”
Bernie commented “I am genuinely excited by the opportunity to join Pangea and help drive the business on to the next level. I was completely sold on the vision; Pangea’s incredible revenue growth and partner acquisition have exceeded the expectations for a start-up. Really importantly for me, Pangea’s success has been underpinned by a set of core brand values that governs everything that they do. They only operate through Channel, so there is zero conflict with a direct sales team and they put the Partners at the heart of everything that they do. The sales team works ruthlessly to these values to ensure that they go above and beyond to make certain that their partners are getting a world class experience from every interaction with Pangea.”
Cunliffe went on to add, “Pangea have accelerated from being a start-up to a fully-fledged global IoT ecosystem provider with a near six-fold increase in revenue and acquiring over 80 valued partners. In an ever-expanding world of data we believe that everything should be connected, whether it’s devices, appliances, vehicles, and perhaps most importantly, people. With a combined 55 years’ experience in partnering within the telecommunications industry, our award winning ecosystem of connectivity, devices, and solutions make us the channel’s choice for IoT.”
Source: Pangea
Soracom’s Mission: The Democratisation of IoT
Parag Mittal, Chief Commercial Officer, SORACOM
“Our focus is the democratisation of IoT. For me, the measure of success would be that Soracom is recognised not just for excellent commercial performance, but also for the work it has done to support the industry.”
Interview by Abraham Joseph, Editorial Director, IoT Insights
What is the origin of Soracom?
Soracom was founded in Japan in 2015 by three experts in telecommunications and cloud technologies, our CEO, Ken Tamagawa, our CTO Kenta Yasukawa and our COO Daichi Funato. We launched our service in Japan on 30 September 2015. From the onset, our objective was to develop a communications network that was optimised for IoT, with the performance and scalability to serve all customer groups. One year after launch, we had over 4000 clients. Today we have over 5000 clients. (Read more...)
SORACOM Launches in Europe
22 February 2017 – SORACOM, a leading Japanese IoT connectivity provider today announced the launch of its advanced IoT connectivity platform and services in Europe.
Widely recognized as one of Japan's leading IoT technology providers, SORACOM is breaking down technical barriers to IoT/M2M deployment with a cloud-based connectivity platform that is both technically advanced and affordable. The company uses a unique approach and architecture to provide secure data transfer at low cost, and brings this technology to users globally across all industries in convenient new forms.
“SORACOM aims to use its platform to contribute to the overall growth of the IoT industry,” said Ken Tamagawa, Chief Executive Officer (above). “Current IoT connectivity providers do not offer secure and swift delivery of services that are affordable and available for everyone in a democratized way. Connecting devices to the internet or the cloud is the easy part. Securing devices and data is the most critical. If it’s on the public internet, it’s hackable. Our customers connect their devices directly to the cloud, using a private network provided by SORACOM instead of public internet.”
SORACOM's initial solutions were based on cellular connectivity, but earlier this month the company launched a solution based on LoRaWAN (Long Range Wide Area Network) that provides gateways to customers as a service.
Devices and services can be managed through APIs and a web console that allows convenient activation/deactivation of SIMs, traffic monitoring, network configuration and visualization, storage and management of data, and many more detailed operations, in real time.
The company has built a global ecosystem of over 250 partners through its Soracom Partner Space (SPS). Through this programme, the company continues to deliver both technical innovation and business value to partners and their customers. The company now welcomes new partners from Europe into SPS to further expand the ecosystem.
SORACOM’s SIM cards are available on Amazon’s European sites for small volumes and via user consoles for larger volumes.
SORACOM’s launch event will be held on 27th February at 12.00 (GMT+1) at Fira Montjuïc, at the 4YFN event at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
About SORACOM
SORACOM was founded in November 2014 by a team of cloud and telecommunication veterans and launched in Japan in September 2015. From the beginning, the company's objective was to develop a communications network for IoT innovators across industries with the tools they need to connect, protect, control and coordinate their IoT deployments at speed and at scale. Today, the company serves over 5000 business clients, from start-ups to SMEs and blue-chip corporations. With headquarters in Tokyo and offices in, Singapore, Copenhagen and Palo Alto, the company is committed to providing IoT/M2M innovators everywhere with the tools they need to create a more connected world.
For additional information, please visit www.soracom.io.
Source: SORACOM
Siren Marine and Morey Partner for Connected Boats
19 December 2016 - IoT hardware solutions provider Morey announced today it has been named the hardware partner for Siren Marine’s next-generation boat monitoring, tracking and security product. Designed by boaters, for boaters, Siren Marine’s suite of monitoring products allow boat owners, fleet operators and boat builders to track a boat’s location, receive alerts when critical events occur, access engine metrics and control onboard devices remotely.
“The Siren Marine team has been working nonstop to introduce a new, IoT-enabled monitoring and tracking solution for boaters,” said Siren Marine Founder and CEO Dan Harper (above), who spent more than 20 years as a professional yacht captain. “As pioneers of the ‘Connected Boat,’ Siren Marine is revolutionizing the boat ownership experience by providing boat owners with remote access to critical and timely information about their boats. Our goal at Siren Marine is to bring boaters peace of mind and more time on the water.”
Siren Marine’s monitoring device connects to sensors around the boat and sends alerts to phones, tablets or computers when critical conditions occur, such as water in the bilge, high/low temperature and unauthorized access to name a few. Onboard devices, including lights or air conditioning can be controlled remotely; and the built-in GPS tracks the position and movement of the vessel. New features include wireless sensors, fleet management, video capture, satellite connectivity, and a National Marine Electronics Association (NMEA) interface.
Morey is supporting the project through design engineering, production readiness and manufacturing services to bring prototype product designs to market via its innovation center and manufacturing facility in suburban Chicago. The ruggedized hardware and GPS technologies will work together to reliably analyze and transmit data to a user’s mobile application to provide security, protect the owner’s investment and protect passengers.
“Morey stands on the promise of bringing innovation to industry and this product line is going to revolutionize the boating experience,” said Morey President Dana Morey (left). “We find it incredibly rewarding to partner with Siren Marine, combining their first-in-market technology offering with our 20 years of wireless hardware expertise.”
Source: Morey Corporation and Siren Marine
Greenwave Systems and Nuance Deliver Voice-Powered IoT
12 December 2016 – Nuance Communications, a leading provider of voice and language solutions and Greenwave Systems, a global Internet of Things (IoT) software and managed services company, today announced the integration of Nuance’s technology into Greenwave’s IoT Platform.
Greenwave has integrated the Nuance Mix voice and AI-powered natural language understanding (NLU) technologies into its award-winning AXON Platform for managed service. Working together, Nuance and Greenwave will provide communications service providers with the ability to create new conversational Internet of Things (IoT) services, devices and experiences in enterprises, industrial settings and in the smart home. The union brings deeply integrated voice capabilities to the IoT.
Greenwave’s AXON Platform already powers millions of advanced networks. It is used by leading telecom, cable and utilities service providers to power their managed services for audio, video, broadband and energy management systems. Integrating Nuance’s technology gives service providers the ability to offer seamless connectivity between IoT devices and services, allowing things and services talk to each other and people to converse with their apps, services and devices.
Integrated solutions made incredibly intelligent through data-driven AI let service providers maximize a frictionless experience between humans and their technology. Within the smart home or the enterprise, this collaboration between Greenwave and Nuance will deliver bespoke virtual personal assistants that are conversational, intelligent and easily integrated into any IoT environment.
“Voice control and activation is the most natural and intuitive interface,” said Christos Lagomichos, Chief Operating Officer, Greenwave Systems (above). “With several products, services and standards making their way into the home, we found that adding the multi-language capability from Nuance to be the solution that helps us meet the demand from our global operators providing IoT to their consumers. The same is true of industrial use cases and complicated enterprise IoT applications. Voice-based interfaces ease engagement. Together with Nuance, we’re empowering service providers with the ability to deliver unique yet powerful IoT experiences that are intelligent, conversational and deliver on the promise of ubiquitous connectivity.”
Nuance Mix combines Nuance’s voice recognition, text-to-speech, wake-up word, voice biometrics, signal enhancement and AI-powered NLU into a single scalable and customizable platform. The platform is data-driven and leverages user speech data to quickly learn and understand human language. Service providers have access to that data to drive new innovations or features.
“Service providers have a clear opportunity to lead the smart home market with services already central to today’s connected home,” said Dan Faulkner, Senior Vice President, Communications Service Providers, Nuance Mobile (left). “What’s long been missing is a flexible and scalable platform that isn’t closed or proprietary. One that makes it possible for a variety of smart home systems to talk to each other. Our collaboration with Greenwave changes all of that. It gives service providers their opportunity to create and deliver unique home automation and IoT offerings that are conversational and customizable.”
For more information on Greenwave’s AXON platform and managed services for the IoT, please visit www.greenwavesystems.com.
For more information about Nuance and Nuance Mix, please visit www.nuance.com.
Source: Greenwave Systems & Nuance Communications
IoT Summit at CeBIT 2017 Exhibitors and Sponsors
We have an exciting line up of companies participating in IoT Summit 2017 Expo and showcasing the latest products and services. They include:
Industrial Internet Consortium
IoT Summit 2017 Speakers
As with IoT Summit 2016, we . For 2017 we have an even greater number of exciting speakers from across the globe. Speakers include:
- Ray Anderson, CEO, Bango
- Pilgrim Beart, CEO, Device Pilot
- Emil Berthelsen, Principal Analyst, Machina Research (Now part of Gartner)
- Paul Copping, Chief Innovation Officer, Digital Greenwich
- Juergen Hase, CEO IoT Business, Reliance Group (India)
- Aviva Hekscher, Vice President Structured Finance Telecom Media & Technology, ING Commercial Banking
- Jim Hunter, Chief Scientist, Greenwave
- Marc Jadoul, Nokia
- Abraham Joseph, Founder, IOT Insights
- Roberto Siagri, CEO, Eurotech
- Dr. Holger Schlüter, Head of Competence Centers IoT-Solutions, Lufthansa Industry Solutions
- Senior Executive, Multos
- Senior Executive, ThingWorx
- Senior Executive, Thyssenkrupp
IoT Summit 20017 Agenda – Day 3
DAY 3 - FRIDAY 24 MARCH 2017
Education, Innovation and Entrepreneurship
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10:00 Welcome and Recap of Days 1 & 2
Education and Entrepreneurship
10:10 Panel – Education and Entrepreneurship for the New Economy
Participating companies include PTC, Microsoft, Intel, Samsung and ARM
1:50 IoT Education & Research Pitches
11:40 Expo Break
11:50 Pitch Winners Presentation
12:10 Final Panel - IoT Research and Innovation: Towards Future Horizons
13:00 Close
IoT Summit 2017 Agenda – Day 2
DAY 2 - THURSDAY 23 MARCH 2017
Technologies and Implementation
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10:00 Welcome and Recap of Day 1
Platforms & Applications
10:10 Analyst Panel – IOT Platforms and Applications
Some analysts estimate that there are thousands of IoT platforms. But just what is an IoT Platform? What are the minimum requirements of an IoT platform? What are the benefits of an IoT platform? When does an organisation need/not need an IoT platform?
We have assembled an expert panel to answer these questions and more.
Panellists include xx, yyy, ThingWorx,
IoT Vision
11:00 Keynote: IoT and VR
11:30 Keynote: IoT, Intelligent Machines and Machine Intelligence
12:00 Expo Break
IoT Global Perspective
12:20 IoT Panel: Communications Infrastructure for IoT
13:00 Lunch/Expo Break
Management and Integration
14:00 Panel: Device Management for IoT
14:40 Panel; IoT Development and Integration
Speakers include:
- Dr. Holger Schlüter, Head of Competence Centers IoT-Solutions, Lufthansa Industry Solutions
15:20 Refreshment/Expo Break
Designing and Securing the Future
15:40 Panel: Tools Testing and Certification
16:20 Panel:Designing and Engineering Future Smart Industries
17:00 Panel: IoT Security Managgement
Speakers include:
- Timo Thräm, Security Consultant, Lufthansa Industry Solutions
- John Moore, Managing Director, IoT Security Foundation
IoT Summit 2017 Agenda – Day 1
DAY 1 - TUESDAY 21 MARCH 2017
Industries, Applications and Markets
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10:00 Welcome
IoT Business Intelligence
10:10 Analyst Panel – Forecasting the Future
There have been varying estimates of the direct value of the IoT market as well as the value of transformation that IoT will unleash. This panel brings together a panel of leading experts to discuss market value, likely winners and losers and opportunities and treats in the years ahead.
Panellists include:
- Emil Berthelson, Principal Analyst, Machina Research (Now part of Gartnter)
- Johan Fagerberg, CEO, Berg Research
- Saverio Romeo, Principal Analyst, Beecham Research
Business Transformation
11:00 Keynote: Driving Business Value through IT-OT Integration
Roberto Siagri, CEO, Eurotech
11:30 Keynote: IoT and the Consumer
EVP, Nuance
12:00 Expo Break
IoT Global Perspective
12:20 IoT Panel: Global Perspective
13:00 Lunch/Expo Break
Real-World IoT
14:00 Panel: IoT Stakeholder CEOs
14:40 Panel; IoT Investment, Financing and Monetisation
Speakers include:
- Ray Anderson, CEO, Bango
- Aviva Hekscher, Vice President Structured Finance Telecom Media & Technology, ING Commercial Banking
15:20 Refreshment/Expo Break
IoT and the Citizen
15:40 Panel: Smart Cities
Speakers include:
- Paul Copping, Chief Innovation Officer, Digital Greenwich
16:20 Panel: Personal and Wearable Technologies
17:00 Panel: IoT Policy, Regulation and Governance
One of the greatest challenges players in the IoT ecosystem face, is the seer speed of development and innovation. Within this environment regulators and policy makers face the tricky task nuturing and encouraging markets whilst protecting the interests of market participants, including consumers.This panel brings together key stakeholders to discuss the current status and likely future developments in policy and regulation as they pertain to the IoT ecosystem.
