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M2M News Weekly – Week of December 9, 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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The number of smart meter deployments across 35 emerging market countries in 2013 will be more than double the number of deployments in 2012, according to Northeast Group's annual Emerging Markets Smart Grid: Outlook 2013 study. Read Original Content

With growing risk of cyber attack on grids and substations, the market for smart grid ICS cyber security is expected to reach $608 million by 2020 rising from $369 million in 2012, according to a new report by Pike Research. Read Original Content

Smart meters are considered to be the first step towards smart grid implementation. The smart meter rollout in Europe is well underway, boosted by the European Union legislation to achieve 80 percent coverage by 2020. Sweden and Italy had full-scale penetration in 2010, while Finland, Norway, and Denmark are likely to achieve their targets by 2016. Read Original Content

Founded in 1979, DSI is a global provider of Enterprise Mobility Solutions®, helping companies worldwide increase productivity and profitability regardless of data source, device type, operating system or network connectivity. DSI serves clients globally through its offices in Australia, Canada, China, France, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Singapore, the United Kingdom and the United States. This newsletter is sponsored in part by DSI.

Carriers such as Vodafone, Deutsche Telekom , AT&T, Verizon, China Mobile, and France Telecom are betting M2M will be a significant source of growth as the number of connected devices climbs to 12 billion or more by 2020. Read Original Content

The number of M2M connections worldwide is expected to more than triple by 2016 compared to the figure in 2011, according to a new report from IMS Research, as carriers look to M2M for growth opportunities. Read Original Content

Global M2M revenues will soar from $200 million in 2011 to $1.2 trillion in 2022, according to new research from Machina Research. The revenue explosion will occur as the number of M2M connections rises from 2 billion at the end of 2011 to around 18 billion by the end of 2022. Read Original Content

Worldwide smart meter shipments surpassed 15.4 million units in the third quarter of 2012, representing year-over-year growth of 126.9 percent and a 58.6 percent increase over the second quarter, according to the IDC Energy Insights Worldwide Quarterly Smart Meter Tracker. Read Original Content

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

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

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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Mobile Health News Weekly – Week of December 2, 2012

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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

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Google's Android and Apple's iOS continued to pull away from the competition in October 2012, combining to control 87.9 percent of the U.S. smartphone market according to a new report issued by digital research firm comScore. Read Original Content

The mobile phone market is a growth industry, but according to the latest IDC report growth for 2012 is predicted to be only 1.4 percent compared to last year. More than 1.7 billion mobile phones will ship this year with the number expected to reach 2.2 billion in 2016. Read Original Content

The bad blood between Apple and Samsung is turning into a classic tech battle.
That Apple fights on with Samsung, but settled with HTC makes sense. In stores Samsung is without a doubt the single biggest threat to Apple, according to Ben Wood, director of research at CCS Insight. Read Original Content

Founded in 1979, DSI is a global provider of Enterprise Mobility Solutions®, helping companies worldwide increase productivity and profitability regardless of data source, device type, operating system or network connectivity. DSI serves clients globally through its offices in Australia, Canada, China, France, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Singapore, the United Kingdom and the United States. This newsletter is sponsored in part by DSI.

According to Research and Markets, the global Smartphone industry is highly concentrated such that the combined revenue share of Apple and Samsung is expected to have reached around 60 percent and the combined profit share around 95 percent in 2012. Read Original Content

Based on SMB Group market survey, smartphone use in the Philippines has grown tremendously by 316 percent in 2012 since it was introduced in the market just a few years back. Read Original Content

Nokia’s flagship smartphone is a remarkable handset, which runs Microsoft Corp.’s Windows Phone 8 software, has got to be the best $100 phone you can buy, with an excellent camera, a big, beautiful video screen, and snappy 4G LTE data downloads. Read Original Content

HTC said it will not bring its mid-range Windows Phone 8S device to the U.S. market, and will instead put all of its marketing efforts behind the high-end Windows Phone 8X. Read Original Content

Taiwan's HTC Corp. remains the fifth largest mobile phone maker in the United States but has lost market share to Samsung Electronics Co. and Apple Inc., according to data compiled recently by the research firm comScore. Read Original Content

Max Katz of Tiggzi brings his perspective to the native vs. web apps topic, stating there are advantages to each, and hybrid apps offer many of the advantages of both approaches. Read Original Content

NonStop Games' Henric Suuronen feels some of the recent criticisms of HTML5 were deserved and some were not, and states that despite its bad publicity, HTML5 is still a viable platform for games. Read Original Content

Microsoft has been working with a number of companies to optimize select HTML5-based sites to function better on Internet Explorer 10 and Windows Phone 8. Read Original Content

Men’s magazine GQ has given their British site a new look – the new gq-magazine.co.uk is built in HTML5 and includes new features and updated sections. Read Original Content

In dotMobi’s “Ten Questions to Answer Before Developing Mobile Web Tactics”, marketing manager Martin Clancy addresses whether businesses should just concentrate on native apps by stating that a mobile app is not a full mobile strategy. “Right now, the mobile web is the only way to reach your entire audience in one fell swoop and updating your site is seamless.” Read Original Content

With an estimated 60 percent of corporations implementing BYOD strategies, multiple types of mobile devices may be in use within one corporation. As it may be too expensive to build native apps for all devices, HTML5 and jQuery Mobile technologies enable developers to build mobile cloud apps once for use on many different devices. Read Original Content

Knitd, an HTML5-based web app planned for launch in the U.K. in 2013, will offer readers the chance to buy individual articles via a micropayment system. Read Original Content

Online music streaming service Grooveshark has launched a mobile website coded in HTML5 that offers its music library online for free. Read Original Content

Ben Savage, founder of Spaceport.io, explains why he feels HTML5 didn’t meet the high expectations set in 2011 in “Why HTML5 Provided More Tricks than Treats in 2012” featured in VentureBeat. Read Original Content

California-based startup Famo.us has developed a new approach to developing HTML5 apps to work on varied devices including tablets, cars, televisions and smartphones. Read Original Content and Read More Original Content

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Notes from the Enterprise Mobility in Defense Conference

I spoke at my first military oriented mobility conference today. It was located in Washington DC, and while attending the other sessions I was able to fill seven pages of notes. I will refrain from posting all seven pages and just give you the highlights here.

Companies don't own brands any longer, their consumers do. Their consumers can do whatever they want with your brand in the social media space - freedom of speech. Companies need their consumers to protect and promote their brands since companies can't control the message any longer. That means a completely different brand strategy. I credit Fred McClimans, Managing Director, McClimans Group for this insight.
Generals today must learn about mobile technologies and social networking from their young enlisted men and women. The younger generation has a more complete understanding of these technologies.
Americans, unlike many countries, raise soldiers accustomed to independent thought and action. In many countries and cultures people won't think or act independently. They only follow commands. This is a cultural and environmental competitive advantage for Americans. Even in disconnected environments, the US Military can expect their warfighters to continue to act and follow through on a mission without additional communications or commands.
Our mobile capabilities and our country's competitive advantages are limited by the amount of frequency spectrum available. We need to eliminate congestion and open up more spectrum to maintain our competitive advantages. This is a long term problem and will take time to solve.
Military pilots are using more and more tablets. These tablets must be small enough to be worn without injury during emergency ejections. If the tablet is too big, it can break the pilot's leg during ejection (they are strapped to a pilot's right leg).
The army is currently using the following categories of mobile apps: training, inventory, medical, mapping, command and control and language translation.
Modern warfare, as conducted in Afghanistan, is more like gang warfare than wars of the past. Mobile apps that help intelligence personnel diagram and understand human networks are important today.
The army divides mobility into four areas, 1) governance, 2) centralized app library, 3) development frameworks and 4) app certification.
Social networking on mobile devices causes problems for the military. Facebook wants to use geo-location to reveal the location of soldiers in the field. Military commanders might click a "Thumbs-Up" symbol to like a comment and suddenly they are being publicly quoted as supporting political parties and views that cause problems.
The Pentagon wants to support a BYOD strategy, however, this means the Pentagon can tell BYOD users when they must buy a new device to stay compliant. Yikes! There is still much work to be done before this becomes a reality.
The DoD (department of defense) believes they will save tens of millions of dollars by moving toward a BYOD strategy for non-classified use cases.
The DoD today has secure smartphones but they cost $8,000 USD each. Ouch! I see their motivation for wanting to support a secured BYOD environment.
Random information - the Pentagon receives 8 million emails per day, but only sends 1 million. I am sure there is some sort of interesting insight here, but not from me.
The Pentagon believes Big Data is the next big wave. As you can image, the volume of data coming into the Pentagon is mind boggling. Only about one percent is analyzed today, and the other 99 percent is quickly scanned and archived. However, Big Data promises to be able to help find additional trends and patterns in the 99 percent fast enough to be useful in the near future.
The Pentagon believes Big Data will force companies to re-engineer and rearchitect many of their systems in order to take advantage of it.
The Pentagon really only started to get serious with enterprise mobility in 2012. Now many pilot projects are underway.
Securing the data is really the object not securing the mobile device. This may require some kind of data tagging so the data can be protected for its entire life cycle. Data may be tagged with different levels of security in the data properties so only the appropriate users can view it and apps integrate it.
The biggest enterprise mobility challenge in the military today is how to respond to the "consumerization of IT" trend in a secure environment.
There are two high level areas of mobility in the military, 1) garrison mobility (non-classifed, not warfighter oriented apps), and 2) tactical warfighter apps for the battlefield environment.
The Marines are wanting to drop BlackBerry support in favor of BYOD strategies for non-classified users and apps to reduce costs.
The Marines, for legal reasons, want a smartphone that has separate partitions for personal and military use. The Marines want to control and own the apps and data in their portion, but not in the personal partition. They are still looking for an ideal smartphone that meets these requirements.

There you go! I saved you a trip and a long day listening to mobile secure lecture after security lecture. You are welcome :-)

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Kevin Benedict, Head Analyst for SMAC, Cognizant

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Kevin Benedict Ponders the Future

M2M News Weekly – Week of December 9, 2012

Field Mobility News Weekly – Week of December 9, 2012

Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly – Week of December 9, 2012

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

Smart Grids, ERP, Big Data and Mobility

Mobile Health News Weekly – Week of December 2, 2012

Mobility News Weekly – Week of December 2, 2012

Kevin Benedict’s What’s New in HTML5 – Week of December 4, 2012

Mobile Commerce News Weekly-Week of December 1, 2012

Notes from the Enterprise Mobility in Defense Conference

Interviews with Kevin Benedict

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