Field Mobility News Weekly – Week of December 9, 2012

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

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Magellan has developed a GPS car kit that adds a more powerful antenna, speaker and charging for Apple’s iPhone and iPod Touch.  Read Original Content

GolfLogix is a smartphone application that transforms your phone into a GPS device and more.  Developed for multiple devices, including iPhone, BlackBerry and Android, the app enables golfers to sync rounds of golf with the GolfLogix.com website and access their statistics.  Read Original Content

It is necessary to test barcodes to avoid problems and potentially huge liability.  John Nachtrieb of Barcode-Test describes how to test a barcode in this article featured in The Barcode News.  Read Original Content

ILS Technology provides ready-to-use cloud based platforms to implement and manage M2M (machine to machine) and embedded wireless devices that connect to SAP.  ILS Technology simplifies deployments and offers unparalleled security to protect company and customer data and to ensure regulatory compliance. This newsletter is sponsored in part by ILS Technology.

Westcoast and Wasp Barcode Technologies have formed a partnership to offer inventory control, assets tracking, time and attendance, barcode scanners, and POS solutions to help small businesses improve profitability.  Read Original Content

ScanLife reports 270,000 scans on “Black Friday” 2012, over 50 percent more than the daily average, and 75 percent of the codes scanned were QR codes rather than UPC codes.  Read Original Content

Taiwan’s ADLINK Technology has unveiled the IMX-2000 rugged handheld computer for logistics management, transportation and factory automation.  The Android device features integrated Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GSM, GPS, and AGPS.   Read Original Content

New analysis of the European RFID retail market from Frost & Sullivan reveals the market earned revenues of 289.6 million in 2011 and predicts revenues will reach 3,206 million in 2017.  Read Original Content

Mark Forrest of Trimble discusses how investment in today's field service management technology can help streamline business processes to lead to long-term efficiency, profitability and customer retention. Read Original Content

Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly – Week of December 9, 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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Researchers from the University of Sydney in Australia are working with partners in India to utilize mobile phone technology to combat disease and malnutrition in remote areas of India, using mobile phones to provide information and counseling to rural families.  Read Original Content

Research from IDC shows the security appliance market in the Asia/Pacific region excluding Japan grew to $344.5 million in revenues in the second quarter of 2012, and customer revenue is predicted to reach $2.6 billion by 2016.  Read Original Content

China Unicom and China Merchants Bank have teamed up to offer mobile payments services using NFC technology.  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.

The Commonwealth Bank of Australia is developing a number of technology features for launch in 2013, including SmartSign technology to allow asset finance customers to execute loan documents electronically from anywhere in the world, and CommBiz Mobile, a real-time business banking app “dedicated to meeting the needs of medium to large enterprises”.  Read Original Content

The enterprise mobility market (excluding devices) in India is currently $244 million and predicted to grow to $964.4 million by 2015, with penetration of better devices and increased acceptance of the majority of mobile platforms key factors driving the growth.  Read Original Content

Singapore-based real estate agency ECG Property has reduced manpower requirements by 50 percent by improving the way it handles paperwork.  Agency executive Shawn Tan offers five tips to increase productivity, including giving employees mobile access to data and digitizing workflow.  Read Original Content

According to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the number of mobile phone users in China has reached 1.095 billion as of the end of October, with 109.2 million users added in the first 10 months of 2012.  Read Original Content

The Role Big Data Plays with the Real-Time Enterprise, Mobile Strategies and Field Services

Time-Space Compression

I have been engaged in a lot of research and writing of late on business transformation made possible by the advent of the real-time enterprise, Big Data, mobile strategies and field services.  I could have added social and cloud as well, but you have to stop somewhere.  I find these subjects fascinating, because we can see their impact on both our personal lives and our businesses daily.

On Tuesday, December 18th at 11 AM EST I will be sharing this research in a live webinar along with Mike Karlskind, VP of Service Optimization Strategies at ClickSoftware.  I invite you to join us! Registration information can be found here - http://go.clicksoftware.com/role-big-data-plays-with-real-time-enterprise-mobile-strategies-and-field-services.html?utm_source=December18thWebinarKB.

The topics I will be covering are:

Business transformation

Real-time enterprises and Big Data

Data driven decision making

Location based services

Predictive analytics

Time-space compression

Dromology (the science and logic of speed in field services)

Chronostrategies - time strategies in field service

Revolution in Commercial Affairs - collecting data, analyzing data and communicating data

The value of infonomics

I believe we are seeing an intriguing transformation today in business.  Time-space compression enabled by mobility, social networking and real-time business analytics have forever changed the way business will be conducted.  I look forward to exploring this subject with you on December 18th.

  
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Kevin Benedict, Head Analyst for SMAC, Cognizant

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Full Disclosure: These are my personal opinions. No company is silly enough to claim them. I am a mobility and SMAC analyst, consultant and writer. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.

Smart Grids, ERP, Big Data and Mobility

Every Tuesday I publish a newsletter entitled M2M News Weekly.  I try to find all the interesting data that is reported on The Internet of Things and M2M (machine-to-machine) each week and then share it with a link to the original article.  This week one of those items was Cognizant's Smart Meter Management Platform (SMMP).  This platform enables utilities, using a smart grid, to turn on and off the utilities remotely for homes and businesses based on their status, plus a lot of other interesting things.  I am the Head Analyst for SMAC (Social, Mobile, Analytics and Cloud) for Cognizant, so this news was particularly interesting to me. There is a PDF available on this topic here.

The SMMP solution utilizes an industry standard called MultiSpeak for integration between the smart grid, SMMP and a utility's ERP.  Here is the clever part, the ERP is remotely turning on and off electricity based on information in the ERP.  However, this is only the start.  The vision for smart grids is much larger.  Here is how Wikipedia explains it, "A smart grid is an electrical grid that uses information and communications technology to gather and act on information, such as information about the behaviors of suppliers and consumers, in an automated fashion to improve the efficiency, reliability, economics, and sustainability of the production and distribution of electricity."

Once you have a smart grid in place you have access to massive amounts of data from all the smart meters.  The next question is what to do with the data?  Going back to Wikipedia's description you would:

• improve efficiencies
• improve reliability
• improve utility economics
• improve the sustainability of production and distribution

That is great for the utilities, but the vision is also to make this Big Data available to customers as well.  That way end customers can more effectively manage their own energy consumption.  Smart grid data can be analyzed and made available to end customers through web portals and even mobile applications that enable people to look at real-time energy consumption.  Once the real-time data is available, the next step is to enable end users to access their facilities management software and/or home automation systems and to be able to adjust energy consumption remotely.

Utility companies are also interested in looking at the overall smart grid data.  They may want to adjust their prices based on the Big Data analysis and charge more for peak hours than off peak hours with the intent of influencing the consumption and behavioral patterns of their consumers.  If they can motivate consumers to reduce their energy consumption during peak hours, then the utilities can support more customers without developing more energy generation capacity.  This has the potential of saving utilities billions of dollars.  Now that is an ROI!

I have also read about companies allowing utilities to manage the operations of large numbers of irrigation pumps in California, so they schedule them to run at different times rather than all at once.  This enables the utility to even-out the energy consumption rather than having such high peak consumption times.

The challenge, however, is that many utilities have used stimulus money to implement smart grids, but they have not completed the solution by connecting remotely to the smart meters and then integrating the smart grid with analytics and their back office solutions.  Without communication and integration the smart grid is not smart.  

Big Data and business analytics play a big role in the smart grid vision.  Once a smart grid is operable, real-time analytics need to be watching it for signs of meter tampering, communication problems and effectively managing the distribution of electricity.  This is the role Cognizant's Smart Meter Management Platform plays.

I have this vision of using gamification so neighborhoods could compete for lowest average energy consumption per residence in order to win awards.  That would be very cool!

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Kevin Benedict, Head Analyst for SMAC, Cognizant

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Full Disclosure: These are my personal opinions. No company is silly enough to claim them. I am a mobility and SMAC analyst, consultant and writer. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.

Mobile Health News Weekly – Week of December 2, 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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Massachusetts General Hospital has developed the world's smallest cancer diagnostic system, leveraging a smartphone that has proven to be "game changing technology" for the detection and spot diagnosis of the disease. Read Original Content

Slightly more than half of adults with cell phones have smartphones, and a new report from Pew Internet indicates the mobile health market has increased: one in three cell phone users have used their phone to look for health information. Read Original Content

Three million people in England are set to get access to telehealth by 2017, under government plans to firmly push the NHS into the digital era and become a global leader in the field. Read Original Content

Antenna Software provides a complete cloud-based enterprise mobility suite that enables both IT pros and business executives alike to create and manage mobile apps, websites and content across the entire business.  This newsletter is sponsored in part by Antenna Software.

Recently Spyglass Consulting conducted in-depth interviews with more than 100 nurses to determine smartphone adoption and usage among the group. About 69 percent of the hospitals interviewed for the survey had nursing staff using smartphones on the job that the facility’s IT department were not willing to support on the hospital’s network. Read Original Content

A surgeon in Indiana performed the first operation in the state Tuesday with an iPod-based navigation system that allowed him to check his surgical incisions and decisions, doing more accurate and less invasive work. Read Original Content

A new charge-capture feature in ADP's AdvancedMD iPad app allows doctors' practices to streamline their workflow by tracking billing on a mobile device. Read Original Content

The 2nd Annual HIMSS Mobile Technology Survey, released this week, examines the trend towards the integration of mobile technology in the clinical setting.  Results indicated that 93 percent of physicians use some sort of mobile device daily, and 80 percent use the technology to directly influence and improve patient care. Read Original Content

According to market research firm GlobalData, the worldwide mobile health market will reach $11.8 billion by 2018, up from just $1.2 billion in 2011. Read Original Content