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Libelium: flexibility a key strategy for IoT startups
I’ve been fixated recently on venerable manufacturing firms such as 169-yr. old Siemens making the IoT switch. Time to switch focus, and look at one of my fav pure-play IoT firms, Libelium. I think Libelium proves that smart IoT firms must, above all, remain nimble and flexible, by three interdependent strategies:
avoiding picking winners among communications protocols […]
Siemens’s MindSphere: from automation to digitalization
Perhaps the most important component of a successful IoT transformation is building it on a robust platform, because that alone can let your company go beyond random IoT experiments to achieve an integrated IoT strategy that can add new components systematically and create synergistic benefits by combining the various aspects of the program.
A good starting […]
Siemens’s Mobility Services: Trains Become IoT Labs on Wheels
As those of you who know rail history understand, with Stephenson as your last name, you’re bound to have a strong interest in railroads! Add in the fact that I was associate producer of an award-winning documentary on the subject back in the early 70’s, and it’s no wonder I was hooked when I got a […]
Game-changer! AR Enables IoT merging of physical and digital
Several months ago I wrote about an analogy to the world of business prior to the Internet of Things, in which a metaphorical illness called “Collective Blindness” affected every human for all time, so that we were unable to peer inside things. We just accepted that as an inevitable limitation, creating all sorts of work-arounds […]
Live Blogging from SAP’s SCM CRM IoT 2016 – Day 2
Greg Gorbach, ARC Advisory Group, Industrial Internet of Things:
ARC is an analyst firm, in Boston.
new service models
new products
new production techniques
new business processes
new competitors
new partners
new workers
new business opportunities.
innovation improves competitiveness: value-based competitiveness raises value of output.
Drivers:
reduced machine or asset downtime
more rapid service response
improved process performance
improved personnel productivity
reduced machine or asset lifecycle costs
improved asset utilization/RoA
opportunity for business […]
Why Global Warming Must Be IoT Focus for Everyone
I want to offer you six great reasons — five of them are seated with my wife and me in this photo — why we all should make global warming a primary focus of IoT projects for the foreseeable future.
There simply is no way to sugar-coat the grim news coming out of the Paris climate talks: […]
The IoT Will Reinvent Replacement Parts Industry
Of all the Internet of Things’ revolutionary impacts on industry, perhaps none will be as dramatic as on replacement parts, where it will team with 3-D printing to reduce service time, inventory and costs.
I came to that realization circuitously, upon noticing Warren Buffett’s blockbuster purchase of Precision Castparts, the major precision parts supplier to the aeronautics industry. Having read last […]
I Have Seen the Future of Agriculture & It is the IoT (Grove Labs)
Agriculture is a passion of mine, partially because of environmental concerns, and also because I love veggie gardening. There has been an encouraging trend in the US recently, with the advent of Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) and the localvore movement. However, that’s counterbalanced by the terrible continuing California drought, and the sobering realization that, worldwide, […]
