The author,Syed Hosain, is the chief technical officer of Aeris where he is responsible for the architecture and future direction of Aeris’ networks, development programmes and technology strategy.

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As IoT innovation accelerates and permeates our daily lives, it will have a profound impact on business.

• Innovation will spur new ways to provide customer value, improve service and increase sales
• New revenue and cost savings opportunities will open new markets and reinvigorate old ones
• Competitive disruption will provide threats and advantages to many industries and economies
• Innovative companies will leapfrog others and enter adjacent markets against unsuspecting participants who will get ‘Amazoned’
• Industries and business models will change as more and more hardware products become software-oriented services as ‘Software eats the World’

Whether you’re a software company, a developer of hardware devices or a services business, now is the time to decide how to build and monetize a sustainable business around your technology, IP and IoT innovations.

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Healthcare

Healthcare organizations are seeking to reduce re-admissions; Baby Boomers are choosing to “age in place”; and the call grows louder to increase practitioner accountability while incentivizing health organizations to improve patient outcomes. Tablets with mobile connectivity will play a central role in all of these trends.

Field Services and Repairs

With tablets in the hands of service workers, there is potential to create a visual analog of equipment right on the technician’s tablet. Before arriving on location, he or she would be able to pinpoint exactly what needed to be repaired, and gain assistance during the repair from the tablet’s screen.

Food Service

Tablets working over a cellular network can act as self-serve menus and point-of-sale payment terminals for customer orders. The iPad can make suggestions to the customer, potentially upselling items and increasing sales revenue -- all while improving order accuracy and efficiency.

Cost, complexity, distance, the amount of data that is transmitted, whether or not there could potentially be obstacles in the way of the signal, among others, can present unique challenges to connecting devices over long distances, particularly in rural areas and deep into buildings. That’s why MultiTech offers a variety of embedded devices as well as modems, gateways and routers that address connectivity across a variety of technologies including analog, Ethernet, cellular, PAN and LPWA.

LPWA offers the opportunity to free industrial applications from the consumer-driven cycles of the publick cellular networksThere is no clear winner takes all – each available technology provides unique suitability for particular applications. LPWA networks seek to remove the inherent risk associated with deploying machine communications on consumer-driven networks as well as reducing cost and power draw and offer the promise of blended private and public networks for assets that are required to be deployed and running for many years in order to deliver solid ROI even on low cost assets.

The challenge many enterprises face with an ever-growing network of connected ‘things’ is how to effectively capture and channel the data being exchanged. ‘Things’ in the Internet of Things (IoT) refers to any wire- or wirelessly connected physical object, including transportation vehicles, sensors, mobile phones or even people. This is where Machine to Machine (M2M) technology comes into play - M2M enables the connection of ‘things’.

This white paper explores M2M connectivity, including a definition of the concept and various connection options. It dives into how IoT applications are enabled by M2M, and describes the existing options for IoT connectivity. Next, a business case for global connectivity solutions through a relatively new hardware, Universal Integrated Circuit Cards (UICC), is presented. The case demonstrates how UICC technology could influence and shape both connectivity and business in the future. Furthermore, this paper will address questions of data management and security for manufacturers who are preparing for a global deployment of internet-enabled devices.

As examples, General Electric has pivoted its business to the Industrial Internet, while Rockwell Automation has firmly positioned itself as the Connected Enterprise company. Cisco Systems’ Cisco ONE software program marks a decisive shift in how its portfolio is packaged and monetized.

The paradigm of usage-based billing, initiated by the rise of the cloud and Software as a Service, is extending to all software and software-powered businesses. Stalwart vendors such as Adobe and Microsoft are at the visible forefront of the transition from perpetual licenses to subscription-based billing. The ripples reach deep within the industry; our research finds that three in four software publishers are already offering usage-based pricing options or are committed to adding this option. Figure 1 below shows the story in numbers for how the Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm and software revolution translate into increased investment and revenues for industries.