The
IoT Evolution Expo is in full swing and today opened with a top-tier slate of keynotes from expert industry implementers Alex Brisbourne of KORE, Maciej Kranz of Cisco, and Mary Beth Hall of Verizon. Together, they presented a message of real-world applications designed to take solutions out of the proposal stage and into the field.
The room was packed, but if you missed it, here are some highlights.
KORE
Brisbourne talked about the potentials of emerging IoT technologies like NB-IoT and global subscription management. He specifically focused on e-SIMs, which have been emerging as one of the topics of discussion and debate across the whole show this year. e-SIM implementations deliver benefits with economic, performance security and regulatory implications, he said, in addition to carrying the advantages of being both universal and ubiquitous.
Security toolkits are key developing technologies, he said, but face challenges like the need for thin power draw and resulting low processor capabilities in edge devices. Some solutions might come via SIM and OTA certificates, Brisbourne suggested.
Meanwhile, off-the-shelf technology presents some big opportunities, especially for companies looking for quicker times to market and rich applications. And who isn’t looking for those?
Cisco
Kranz set out to get past the hype and teach the attendees about the IoT industry’s first proven step-by-step plan on how to identify and implement successful IoT projects. He built the plan out of practical lessons learned from dozens of Cisco projects, which helped identify the eight key ingredients for success and four fast payback scenarios for organizations in any market sector that he outlined in the keynote.
One of those strategies was all about leveraging hyper-local solutions that can be tailored to the needs of the specific market and conditions of execution. Meanwhile, he provided deep insight into a solution building equation that requires adding big vision, small projects, well-built business cases, c-suite buy-in, and strategic partners.
Some of the mistakes he’s seen and from which he’s learned came out of building solutions in isolation, focusing on devices not data, using immature tech, focusing on pure science and not production, and going it alone without support from the enterprise.
Verizon
Hall said she sees three broad challenges getting in the way of the development of the IoT: fragmentation, complexity, and lack of standards. To overcome those obstacles, she said that Verizon is implementing and helping partners develop grid solutions, track and trace options, sharing solutions that address shifting market wants from ownership to sharing, smart community, and agricultural technology, specifically in vineyards.
To move forward with any new solution in the IoT, the path is simple to see, Hall said: Dream, Develop and Deploy. Of course the path to your IoT solution is more difficult to travel than to see.
Thanks to these speakers, however, the way down that path seems clearer by the minute.
Edited by
Ken Briodagh
