IoT Evolution World Week in Review: IoT Time, Verizon, HP

Hello, my faithful IoT Evolution World readers. We’ve had a real lighting round of a week over here, so there’s a lot to cover this time on your Week in Review. I will get to it in just a moment, but first: IoT Evolution Expo has announced the agenda for our second IoT Certification Series, so if you want to be able to prove your IoT bona fides, this is the time to get signed up before all the spots are full. If you want to get in on the action as a sponsor or exhibitor, hook up with Matt Gleeson, our Biz Dev maestro.

But now: the news.

Rich Tehrani, Group Editor-in-Chief for IoT Evolution wrote a column for us this week in which he posits that IoT is not a single technology but a convergence of devices with wireless networks leveraging the processing power of the cloud. He writes that it is changing how businesses operate, how wars are fought, how crops are watered and how goods and services are transported. Few industries are able to claim responsibility for ushering in the next Industrial Revolution, but the IoT can.

Verizon announced this week that its LTE network now makes the value proposition for connecting Cat1 IoT applications on LTE in the U.S. as affordable as alternative technologies while taking advantage of LTE reliability.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has announced a new IoT systems and networking solutions suite, designed to enable customers to more efficiently collect, process and analyze IoT data by delivering business outcomes quickly and securely through real-time intelligence.

IoT Time is back again, in full force, and we dropped three new episodes on you this week. First up, I fill you in on Amazon’s Prime Air prototype announcement, some news from Korea and the Lemonbeat communications protocol. In the second episode, I present the thesis that there are two IoTs: consumer and industrial. And in the third, I can barely speak intelligibly (let alone intelligently), but I croak about Smart City and issue a call to action for urban connectivity and new, purpose-built solutions, because I hate tacking new ideas onto old tech.

Finally, we’re still bringing you our dispatches from the recent IoT Editor’s Day in Silicon Valley. This week, we had stories about Sierra Monitor, Waygum, Aeris, and Ayla.

There’s plenty more to read, so visit us on IoT Evolution World for all the IoT news, my friends. Keep the IoT Evolution Expo in January in Fort Lauderdale in your calendar. Also, please get in touch with us when you have stories. As always, if you have questions, comments, input or abuse, please send it to our editorial director, Ken Briodagh at [email protected] or on Twitter @KenBriodagh.