M2M News Weekly – Week of February 13, 2012

Welcome to M2M News Weekly, an online newsletter that consists of the most interesting news and articles related to M2M (machine to machine) and embedded mobile devices.  I aggregate the information, include the original links and add a synopsis of each article.  I also search for the latest market numbers such as market size, growth and trends in and around the M2M market.

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Frost & Sullivan's report, European Smart Meter Markets, finds that the smart meter revenue in Europe is expected to grow from $318.4 million in 2010 to $1.93 billion in 2017 at a compound annual growth rate of 29.3 percent. Read Original Content

According to ABI Research the compound annual growth rate of global insurance telematics subscribers will grow by 90 percent from 2010 to 2017. That's an increase from 1.85 million telematics users to a whopping figure of 89 million. Read Original Content

ABI Research has predicted that the market for smart appliances will grow to reach 24 million shipments during 2017. Read Original Content

ClickSoftware is an SAP mobility partner and the leading provider of automated workforce management and optimization solutions for every size of service business.  This newsletter is sponsored in part by ClickSoftware - http://www.clicksoftware.com/.

Recently there have been a number of bold predictions for the M2M market. Cisco predicts there will be 50 billion devices by 2020, and IBM has recently predicted that by 2015 there will be 1 trillion devices connected. Read Original Content

Eight out of ten executives believe overall utility smart grid investment will continue to rise in 2012 according to a new study by Zpryme. Zpryme surveyed 312 executives in the U.S. energy, smart grid and utility space on their overall 2012 smart grid sentiment. Read Original Content

According to GBI Research, the cumulative number of smart meter units installed in Europe is expected to grow from 7.6 million units in 2010 to 105.99 million units in 2020 at a compound growth rate of 30.2 percent. Read Original Content

Mobile Health News Weekly – February 13, 2012

The Mobile Health News Weekly is an online newsletter made up of the most interesting news and articles related to mobile health that I run across each week.  I am specifically targeting information that reflects market data and trends.

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The worldwide mHealth market will grow to a revenue opportunity worth $23 billion by 2017, according to a new report conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers. Read Original Content

The global market for mobile health applications for smartphones is expected to nearly double in 2012, rising to $1.3 billion, according to a new report. Read Original Content

AT&T has launched a beta version of the AT&T Developer Center ForHealth, a cloud-based platform designed to help mobile health app developers create integrated applications. Read Original Content

Webalo technology eliminates the need for traditional mobile application development tools and custom programming to provide in hours, instead of weeks or months, mobile access to the specific enterprise data and functions that smartphone and tablet users rely on to do their jobs.  This newsletter is sponsored in part by Webalo, www.webalo.com.

Auburn Community Health Clinic is now offering a new online appointment registration feature through a partnership with iTriage, a free mobile healthcare app that lets patients access medical information online and from their smartphones. Read Original Content

Google allegedly is planning to unveil a medical category for apps in the Android Marketplace, according to iMedicalApps.com. Read Original Content

Bristol City Council Housing and Mobile Field Services

Bristol City Council Housing

The Bristol City Council owns 28,000 homes that need to be maintained and repaired.  For those of us that own even one home, we recognize how much maintenance is required.  These homes, however, are rented and come with the added challenges involved with maintaining rentals.  In fact it takes 300 field service technicians full time to keep up with the work load.

In order to efficiently complete all the work needed, they sought to improve productivity, document and manage worker's skills, identify the tools required, and provide optimized routing between jobs.  They also needed to figure out a way to improve scheduling to optimize productivity.  They worked with their systems integrator Capgemini to come up with a solution that would save them £2.7 million per annum in operation costs.

One of the biggest challenges was communication with 300 mobile field service technicians that were on the move and working in remote locations.  Capgemini solved this part of the puzzle by deploying ClickSoftware's enterprise mobility solution.

Councilor Anthony Negus, Cabinet Member for Housing, Property Services and Regeneration, said, "We will be able to better response to tenant needs, for example by offering  greater chic and certainty about appointment times, and by making sure that the majority of jobs are successfully competed on a first home visit.

Today, the field services industry is experiencing some incredible advances in business strategies that are made possible through mobile technologies.  I have written a number of articles on this subject that you may find useful:

• Velocity in Field Services
• Mobility and 4D Field Services
• Mobile Strategies and Situational Awareness
• Mobile Strategies, PIOs, Optimized Intersections and Patterns of Life, Part 1
• Mobile Strategies, PIOs, Optimized Intersections and Patterns of Life, Part 2
• Conjecture, Enterprise Mobility and Mobile Strategies

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Kevin Benedict, Independent Mobile Industry Analyst, Consultant and SAP Mentor Volunteer

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Full Disclosure: I am an independent mobility analyst, consultant and blogger. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.

Mobility News Weekly – Week of February 13, 2012

The Mobility News Weekly is an online newsletter made up of the most interesting news and articles related to enterprise mobility that I run across each week.  I am specifically targeting information that reflects market data and trends.

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Global mobile data traffic will increase 18 times between 2011 and 2016, to 10.8 exabytes--a billion gigabytes--per month, according to the latest report from Cisco's Visual Networking Index Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast.  Read Original Content

Global smartphone shipments grew sharply last year (61.3 percent) as mobile handsets increased in capability and were made available at lower prices, according to International Data Corp.'s latest report. Read Original Content

U.S. and European regulatory agencies have approved Google‘s acquisition of Motorola.  Specifically, Google is acquiring the smartphone and set top box assets and, the vital intellectual property Google needs to protect its Android smartphone licensees.  Read Original Content

ClickSoftware is an SAP mobility partner and the leading provider of automated workforce management and optimization solutions for every size of service business.  This newsletter is sponsored in part by ClickSoftware - http://www.clicksoftware.com/.

According to Gartners's Q4 report, Apple finished 2011 as the world's top smartphone vendor by market share (19 percent), thanks to a Q4 that saw the company grab 23.8 percent of the market.  Read Original Content

More than two thirds of India SMBs (companies having greater than 1000 employees) own at least one smart phone or tablet, and almost half plan to purchase more devices in the next year.  Read Original Content

Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly – Week of February 13, 2012

Welcome to Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly, an online newsletter that consists of the most interesting news and articles related to enterprise mobility in Asia.  Asia is predicted to be the fastest area of growth for enterprise mobility between now and 2016.

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English Premier League football club Manchester City is launching a website in Japan.  The club’s website will be developed for Japan’s i-mode mobile web.  Visitors to the website will be able to access the football club’s news, data, and merchandise in Japanese. Read Original Content

With the mobile apps industry providing nearly 500,000 jobs in the U.S., a new apps store is coming to the Philippines.  The new store, MyAppsMall, is the product of a partnership between Philippines telecomm provider Globe and Sing-Tel in Singapore.  The app store will be free of charge, and providers hope to encourage local developers to create and distribute their apps through the platform. Read Original Content

China Unicom Beijing and China Telecom will be working with Waterloo firm ClevrU Corp. to provide mobile online teaching programs for up to 250 million people.  The learning platform is designed to reach students via smartphones and tablets. Read Original Content

Online retailer Flipkart, currently with five offices in India, has announced plans to acquire another Indian online retailer, Letsbuy.com.  Flipkart, launched in 2007, has over 2 million registered users. Read Original Content

Announcing plans to double the number of cities in India selling its smartphones, BlackBerry provider RIM is taking advantage of the significant growth potential.  Smartphone shipments to India set a record high in 2011, with over 15 million sold in the month of November. Read Original Content