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CONTENTS

3M2M Now - July / August 2015

4 EDITORS COMMENT Boundaries of all kinds are eroding and a new universe of datas emerging so how do we respond?

5 MARKET NEWS Huge rise in IoT M&A activity this year; New IoT threat map now available; Connected Cars could cause mobile network traffic jams

6 COMPANY NEWS SIGFOX continues expansion; Telecom Personal and Jasper target Argentina; Huawei and Volkswagen collaborate on connecting cars and smartphones

8 CONTRACT NEWS & HOT LIST The latest deals for Cyan, ORBCOMM and many more

10 PEOPLE NEWS New names at Cambridge Wireless, Kapsch, Masternaut and ZigBee

11 PRODUCT NEWS Antenova launches smallest antenna; Samsung announces new IoT modules; Healthtracking merged with glasses

13 TALKING HEADS Is Simplicity as a Service the alternative meaning of SaaS? Mike Coffey, CEO of Wyless, talks to M2M Now

16 SMART CITIES What are best strategies for bringing intelligence and connectivity to urban spaces?

20 COMPANY PROFILE Farah Saeed of Frost & Sullivan looks at AT&Ts work in the U.S. utility sector

22 EXPERT OPINION Reclaiming the Smart City agenda to create fairer human outcomes - A personal perspective from Dr Rick Robinson, IT director for Smart Data and Technology at Amey

24 FEATURE Infographic on AT&Ts support for next generation utilities

27 M2M NOW ANALYST REPORT SMART CITIES VS SMART SILOS In this editions independent Analyst Report, James Brehm, founder and chief technology evangelist at James Brehm Associates, looks at the current state of this sector

42 EXPERT OPINION Defining the Smart City and developing a deployment plan

44 INTERVIEW Andrew Brown from Strategy Analytics speaks with Will Gibson, CEO of Telensa, about using low-power radio to create smarter cities

48 EXPERT OPINION Andrew Orrock, CEO of Arkessa, explains that the ecosystem required to create smart cities is already largely here

53 CASE STUDY Rally drivers in Tunisia race turn to satellite M2M for safety and tracking in the North African dunes

58 BACK PAGE An editors perspective on some of the human issues facing our sector

IN THIS ISSUE

As we move deeper into the IoTera, the role of this AliceThrough the Interface worldcan only rise in importance and its impact will resonatethrough our lives, bothindividual and social. Already,most of the things thatsurround us also have apresence on the other side ofthe dark mirror of our

computer screens. Anyone whos recently hadan X-Ray, CT or MRI scan will already have asimulacrum of their physical selves lurkingsomewhere on a server or, more nebulously, inthe growing planetary cloud domain.

How these digital versions of ourselves andour wider environment and the analytictools we use to peer into the Looking Glass will play out is an implicit theme of this issuesfocus on smart or possibly not so smart

cities. In this context, were lucky to have acontribution from Ameys Dr Rick Robinson, awell known thinker and writer in this area,sharing his thoughts on how to reclaim thesmart city agenda to create fairer humanoutcomes. Adding to the debate are piecesfrom Telensa and Arkessa, while WylesssCEO, Mike Coffey, explores the wider andmore generic need for simplicity in ourM2M/IoT offerings.

Finally, weve also taken a quick look at whatsunderway in the U.S. in our supplement aseditions of M2M Now will be distributed at thetwo major shows IoT Evolution and theCTIAs Super Mobility event with bothhappening in Las Vegas, slightly later thisyear.

Alun Lewis,editor, M2M Now Magazine

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Erik Brenneis,head of

Vodafone M2M

OlivierBeaujard,

vice-presidentMarket

Development,Sierra Wireless

AlexanderBufalino,

CMO, Telit

Robin Duke-Woolley, CEO,

BeechamResearch

Andrew Parker,project marketing

director,Connected Living,

GSMA

Gert Pauwels,M2M marketing

director, OrangeBusiness

RobertBrunbck, CMO,

TelenorConnexion

David Taylor,managing

director, M2M,Telefnica UK

Bill Zujewski,SVP, IoT

Marketing &Strategy, PTC

EDITORIAL ADVISORS

The theme of this issues comment page struck me while I was attendingPTCs excellent and thought provoking LiveWorx event in Boston in May. With

a heavy focus on the virtuous use that can be made of live data streamingback in from sensors to products that themselves were first born in the digitalrealm though CAD/CAM, some presenters spoke of the digital twins that now

bridged the physical and virtual realms.

Contributors in this issue of M2M NowWe are always proud to bring you the best writers and commentators in M2M and IoT. Inthis issue they include:

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to rise yet again ..

Alun Lewis,editor, M2M

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Andrew Brownexecutive directorof enterprise andIoT research atStrategy Analytics

Farah Saeedprincipal consultantwith Frost &Sullivans NorthAmerica Energy andPower Systems

Dr Rick RobinsonIT director for Big Dataand smart cities forAmey and UKGovernment Smart CitiesForum member

According to analyst firm BergInsight, wireless IoT devices inautomation networks will grow at acompound annual growth rate(CAGR) of 27.2% to reach 43.5million by 2020. 802.15.4 basedstandards such as WirelessHARTand ISA100.11a suit field level inprocess automation networks whileWi-Fi and Bluetooth are the mostwidespread in factory automation,

with cellular connectivity used forremote monitoring and backhaulcommunication between plants. Theincreasing popularity of Ethernetbased networks here is one of thekey drivers for the popularity of Wi-Fi in such applications. Increasedusage of tablets and smartphones inmobile HMI solutions is also animportant driver, as well asBluetooth in automation equipment.

TWO NEW REPORTS FROM BERG INSIGHTWireless IoT devices in IndustrialAutomation reached 10.3 million in 2014

Third party IoTplatforms will showsolid growth in thenext few years, withtotal revenuesforecast to grow at aCAGR of 32.2% from 450 million in 2014

to 2.4 billion in 2020. Thesesolutions normally required longdevelopment cycles and high cost,

with little scalability and flexibility tohandle a growing number of devicesand evolving functionalrequirements. Awareness of theproduct category is increasing atthe same time as companies arerealising the value of using a thirdparty platform rather than re-inventthe functionality in-house, saidAndr Malm, Senior Analyst at Berg.

IoT platform revenues will grow to 2.4 billion worldwide in 2020

According to 451 Research, IoT mergers andacquisitions continue to shatter records withbuyers so far this year spending $14.8bn topurchase 39 IoT-related companies,surpassing the $14.3bn spent for 62 suchcompanies in all of 2014. Semiconductor-related acquisitions have driven the bulk ofspending so far in 2015 with ARM, Intel andNXP each announcing two or more deals.

The largest, NXPs $11.8bn acquisition of FreescaleSemiconductor, was positioned as a consolidation of

leaders that will focus its scale and reach on key IoTgrowth markets led by connected cars. Other acquirersannouncing acquisitions in 2015 include Amazon, ARM,Brocade, PTC, Silver Spring Networks and British Gas.

While the Internet of Things is still in its infancy in termsof industry adoption, the deal-making acceleratesunabated, and we see no end in sight. The IT service andinfrastructure leaders of the future will require broad anddeep competencies in IoT and those bets are being madenow," said Brian Partridge, Vice President at 451 Research.

Machina Research, in a report commissioned by networkassurance and analytics company TEOCO, suggests thatrush hours could push certain cells to experience a 97%increase in data traffic over the next ten years. Connectedcars will be the key driver of this sharp increase innetwork usage. Connected cars, as with other M2Mdevices, dont behave like smartphones, says MattHatton, founder and CEO at Machina Research. Theyrepresent a very diverse set of challenges to operatorsthrough highly varying network traffic patterns atdifferent times of the day. The report outlinesa number of areas that operators mustprioritise to cope with the uptake in M2Mconnections.

MARKET NEWS

Synched lifestyles drivewearables say consumers Consumers see fitness tracking andfaster payments as the mostimportant uses for wearables saysnew research from WPP mediaagency Mindshare and Goldsmiths,University of London. Almost a thirdof respondents were interested inwearables to order goods in advanceto save queuing; 38% saw wearableschanging heating or lightingpreferences on entering a room; and29% wanted to use wearables toopen car doors. Fitness trackers haveimproved the lives of 76% of currentusers according to the research, with50% of smartphone users interested inthe prospect of wearables measuringand analysing sleep patterns.

New IoT ThreatMap showsextent ofchallengesThe latest IoTSecurity Threat Mapfrom BeechamResearch is nowavailable, highlighting

the key areas where attacks mightoriginate and where the industryneeds to provide better security.The Map was unveiled at an IoTSecurity Summit run by the NMI(National Microelectronics Institute)at Bletchley Park, home of UK WW2codebreaking. Wherever there is anew interface between devices,networks, platforms and users,there is the potential for a newweak link. For example, usingDifferential Power Analysis (DPA) tolisten to very small changes inpower consumption when differentcalculations are performed in a chip,its possible to work out an encryptionkey, says Professor Jon Howes,Technology Director at Beecham.


Connected cars to causemobile network traffic jams

Andr Malm,Berg

NEWS IN BRIEF

Brian Partridge,451 Research

IoT-related M&A so far this year eclipses all of 2014

Jon Howes,Beecham

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Telecom Personal, the largest mobilecommunications company in Argentinaand Jasper, the global IoT platformcompany, have announced a combinedsolution to deploy, manage and

monetise IoT services. Jasper partnerswith 25 mobile operator groups, soArgentinian business can grow their IoTservices beyond Argentina, or foreignbusinesses can expand into Argentina.

Telecom Personal and Jasper announceavailability of IoT in Argentina

L&T Technology Services will establish aLegato Lab, a centre of excellencedesigned to support customersworldwide in developing their IoTapplications with the Legato open-source embedded platform built on

Linux from Sierra Wireless. The twocompanies will jointly market theirrespective products and services tocustomers in the automotive,transportation, and industrial markets.

Sierra Wireless and L&T TechnologyServices join forces for IoT

COMPANY NEWS

Arkessa and Nwavepartner to makeconnecting to theIoT easyM2M and IoT managedservices companyArkessa is partnering withNwave Technologies, thelow power, wide area(LPWA) wireless networksolutions provider. We

are able to rapidly deploy LPWAnetworks and solutions, and are excitedto partner with Arkessa on projects asdiverse as smart agriculture, smartparking, environmental monitoring,social housing and enabling the smartcity, said Jonathan Wiggin, managingdirector, EMEA, Nwave.

IoT specialist Actility gets$25 million funding led byGinko Ventures, KPN, Orange,Swisscom and Foxconn

The investment will allowActility to accelerate itsgo-to-market strategy forThingPark, its openstandard IoT networksolution. ThingPark is aLow Power Wide Area(LPWA) radio networkbuilt on the LoRaWANstandard. ThingParkprovides the technology

to connect both long range and lowpower sensors over unlicensed ISM bandspectrum, allowing low cost and fastroll-out of IoT networks for a wide rangeof IoT applications, said Olivier Hersent,founder, CEO and CTO, Actility.

KORE partners with ActiveTelematics to expand into AsianM2M market

The partnership will helpfacilitate connectivity toboth satellite and cellularnetworks on ActiveTelematics GPS trackingdevices betweenSingapore and Thailand,with expansion into otherparts of Asia forecast forthe future.

Director of KORE Asia Pacific, ThomasMooney said the partnership willpromote the growth of ActiveTelematics tracking products into newSouth East Asian markets: Our globalconnectivity and experience in fleettracking has KORE positioned as a worldleader. Working with growing companiessuch as Active Telematics means that wecan help locally-based businessesexpand their footprints and offerings tomeet the growing demands of M2M.

NEWS IN BRIEF

JonathanWiggin,Managingdirector, EMEA,Nwave

Olivier Hersent,Founder, CEOand CTO, Actility

Thomas Mooney,Director, KOREAsia Pacific

Cofely Services, asubsidiary of ENGIE, oneof the worlds largestenergy providers, isintegrating a SIGFOXsolution to expand theenergy efficiency andmetering services itprovides for buildings. Itplans to connect at least100,000 objects inFrance within threeyears.

SIGFOX and IoTDenmark haveannounced plans to rollout the SIGFOX networkin Denmark with networkdeployment expected tobe completed by May2016. Daniel Bachman,IoT Denmarks CEO, said,Demand for SIGFOXs

low-cost, energy-efficient connectivityis very strong in Denmark, and we are indiscussions with several future partnerswho are eager to begin using thenetwork.

T-Mobile, Blue Cell Network andSIGFOX are bringing an IoT network tothe Czech Republic. After a pilotproject, the three partners will decidewhether to roll out a SIGFOX networkacross the entire Czech Republic.

Bttn Inc. has chosen SIGFOX to expandthe reach of its internet buttons,supplementing past GPRS and WiFitechnologies. SIGFOXs network allowsus to build buttons that have betterbattery lifetime and a much lower cost,said Harri Rautio, CEO of Bttn. SIGFOXalso has a strong presence in countrieslike Spain and France, where we alreadyhave transportation, elderly care,security and manufacturing customers.

SIGFOX expands its global footprint

DanielBachman, CEO,IoT Denmark

Harri Rautio,CEO of Bttn

Huawei and Volkswagen plan tocooperate on car connectivity,integrating smartphone functions withvehicle-mounted systems to allowdrivers to use those functions safelywhile driving.

At the International ConsumerElectronics Show Asia in Shanghai, thecompanies jointly demonstrated aseries of apps that allow drivers to useGPS navigation systems, play music,send and receive messages, and makephone calls while behind the wheel. Theapps support MirrorLink, an open

technology standard designed tomaximise interoperability betweensmartphones and vehicle-mountedsystems. They cover multiple servicesincluding phone calls, SMS, navigation,multimedia, and payment that are allcentred on smartphones.

The first locally produced Volkswagenmodel equipped with MirrorLink is theLamando, followed by the also locallyproduced Golf 7. More models willfollow. All imported Volkswagenproducts from the model year 2016 willbe equipped with MirrorLink.

Huawei and Volkswagen collaborate toconnect cars and smartphones

Enabling Global IoT Connectivity

CONNECTING THE SMART CITYSECURE ENTERPRISE CONNECTIVITY

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Cyan, specialists indelivering mesh-basedflexible wirelesssolutions, has beenselected by AdencoConstruction, theelectrical constructioncompany, as preferredsupplier for smartmetering, lighting

solutions and emerging, related IoT

applications in South Africa. Thecompanies will collaborate to deliversmart energy solutions that enablethe measurement and control ofenergy consumption, helping toincrease energy security and reducesupply costs in the country.

John Cronin, Cyans executivechairman, said, The US Trade &Development Agency has forecast

that South African utilities will spend$11 billion on grid modernisation overthe next decade. Cyan is focused ondelivering smart metering andlighting technology to nextgeneration economies, providingenergy companies with thetechnology to support demandmanagement, as well as enablingconsumers to manage their energyconsumption effectively.

CONTRACT NEWS


Cyan broadens South African horizons with Adenco

Vendor/Partners Client, Country Product / Service (Duration & Value) AwardedAidon Skagerak Nett, Norway Smart metering 6.2015Avago Broadcom, USA Acquisition 5.2015B+B SmartWorx Novotech, USA Industrial wireless M2M/IoT 4.2015Brightstar Kii, China IoT focused partnership 5.2015Cobham SATCOM Inmarsat Type approval for terminal 4.2015Concirrus ServicePower Technologies, UK Partnership for IoT 5.2015CSR Jasco/GE Smart lighting 5.2015Cyan Adenco, South Africa Smart metering and IoT 5.2015Econais Cybervision, USA WiFi for IoT partnership 5.2015Ericsson Korea Telecom IoT and 5G partnership 6.2015Ericsson Volvo Bus Latin America Intelligent Transport Systems 6.2015Eurotech iNebula, Italy Smart objects platform partnership 4.2015Globalstar FAGOR Electrnica, Spain Satellite tracking 4.2015HortonWorks Harman, USA Connected car analytics 6.2015IFAST TIA, USA Application Identifying Registry 6.2015Ikanos Communications D-Link, Taiwan LTE chipsets 5.2015Jasper Telecom Personal, Argentina IoT platform 6.2015Kamstrup KIB-TEK, Northern Cyprus Smart meters 5.2015KORE Active Telematics, Malaysia Global connectivity services 6.2015KORE RevX Systems, USA Billing and revenue management partnership 5.2015Masternaut Price and Fretwell, UK Telematics services 5.2015Masternaut Highland Council, Scotland Telematics services 5.2015Microlise Maritime Transport, UK Transport Management System 6.2015Microlise Tesco, UK Journey Management System 5.2015NEXT Biometrics Group ASA Confidential 34,000 fingerprint sensors 5.2015NEXT Biometrics Group ASA WPG Korea Supply of fingerprint sensors 6.2015ORBCOMM LBX Company, USA Satellite IoT connectivity 5.2015Quake Global Hitachi Construction Machinery, Japan M2M devices 5.2015Samsung Mybitat, Israel Smart homes for elderly 5.2015Sierra Wireless Peugeot Citron, Europe Connected car device to cloud modules and services 6.2105Sierra Wireless Accel Networks, USA Acquisition 5.2015Sierra Wireless L&T Technology Services, India Joint centre of excellence 4.2015SIGFOX T-Mobile, Blue Cell, Czech Republic IoT connectivity 6.2015SIGFOX Texas Instruments, USA Sub-1 GHz RF transceivers 5.2015SIGFOX TALIS, France Smart city fire hydrant monitoring 4.2015SIGFOX Cofely Services, France Smart building monitoring 5.2015SIGFOX Bttn Inc., Finland IoT connectivity 5.2015Telensa Gorizont, Russia Smart parking 5.2015Telit Agnik Connected devices collaboration 6.2015

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Key: AIS = Automatic Identification System

EV = Electric VehicleM2M = Machine-to-Machine

PaaS = Platform as a ServiceRFID = Radio Frequency Identification

SIM = Subscriber Identity ModuleTTM = Time-to-Market

John Cronin,EC, Cyan

ORBCOMM Inc., globalM2M satellite solutionsprovider, has beenchosen by LBXCompany, the maker ofLink-Belt hydraulicexcavators, to providesatellite datacommunications for itsOriginal Equipment

Manufacturer (OEM) telematicsapplication. LBX will use ORBCOMMssatellite network to enable its

customers to track and monitor theirheavy machinery worldwide throughits RemoteCARE equipmentmanagement tool.

LBXs selection of ORBCOMM forsatellite connectivity affirms ourposition as the network of choice forheavy equipment telematics, saidMarc Eisenberg, ORBCOMMs CEO.LBX joins other major global heavyequipment OEMs already usingORBCOMM throughout the world

that are unlocking significant valuewhen they equip their assets with ourM2M network.

With ORBCOMMs reliable globalsatellite coverage, our customerscan obtain mission-critical data fromtheir Link-Belt excavators, whileoperating nearly anywhere in theworld, providing real and immediateRoI savings, said Rod Boyer, vicepresident of Customer Supportfor LBX.

Global satellite connectivity for LBX from ORBCOMM

Marc Eisenberg,CEO,ORBCOMM

Smart city applicationsthat deliver hugesavings for local authorities

Our Ultra Narrow Band networks mean local authorities can:

Halve energy consumption in their street lighting Double their parking revenues or slash enforcement costs Implement shared utility monitoring schemes Connect consumers with business in innovative ways

Today Telensa is delivering the largest parking bay sensor systems in the world, and we are the recognised industry leader in smart lighting.

Our Aptos platform is the most widely adopted integrated smart city system with more than 9 million devices delivered across the world.

It is the only solution that provides the applications that top every smart citys wish list smart lighting and smart parking.

For more information contact: Jon Lewis on +44 1799 533200

[email protected] telensa.com

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Theyll be joining Peter Whale, director of productmarketing at Iotic Labs, who was re-elected for afurther three years, along with William Webb,CEO of the Weightless SIG and current presidentof the IET; John Haine, innovation coordinator ofWireless Technology at u-blox AG; Paul Ceely,head of Network Strategy for EE; and Raj Gawera,VP head of the Samsung Cambridge SolutionCentre. The Board is chaired by CW foundingdirector, Dr David Cleevely CBE.

Steve Unger has been with Ofcom, the UKsregulatory body, since its inception and has held avariety of senior roles, including Ofcoms chieftechnology officer. Prior to joining Ofcom, Unger

worked for several Cambridge-based start-upsand has a Physics MA from Cambridge Universityand a PhD in Astrophysics from Jodrell Bank. Aswell as his CEO role at Orbitil, Graham Pink is alsovice chair of the UKESF Strategic Advisory Boardand was a co-founder of CSR. He has a degree inEngineering Science from Oxford University.

Over the last eight years, CW has grown from 70to over 400 members from all over the world andruns some 19 industry driven Special InterestGroups (SIGs) covering almost every aspect ofcommunications related technologies and theirapplications as well as supporting areas likeacademia and big data.

PEOPLE NEWS

Cambridge Wireless elections: Two new board members added -Stephen Unger and Graham Pink

Stephen Unger,Ofcom

David Brandauer,Kapsch

CarrierComNorth America

Kapsch CarrierCom has appointed DavidBrandauer as VP Public Transit CarrierCom NorthAmerica. Based in Austria, Kapsch deliversintelligent transportation systems andtelecommunication networks for rail operatorsworldwide and has hired Mr Brandauer, who hasmore than 25 years of experience in publictransportation, to develop business in the publictransit sector in North America.

Mr Brandauer was most recently COO at BLIC Inc.,a leading intelligent transportation systemsconsulting firm focused on public transportation,and is active in several industry associations,including APTA (American Public TransportationAssociation), CUTA (Canadian Urban TransitAssociation) and ITS America (IntelligentTransportation Society of America).

David Brandauer appointed VP Public TransitKapsch CarrierCom North America

Masternaut, a pan-European provider of fleettelematics solutions, has appointed Dhruv S.Prakash as CEO. He joins Masternaut fromCapstone, a group of executives that worksclosely with portfolio companies of Private Equityfirm KKR & Co., and will focus on leveragingMasternauts Connect technology platform tobring innovation and value to the commercialfleet market through the adoption of telematics.

Commenting on the opportunity, Mr Prakash said,The telematics industry is in the early stages of amajor trend in connected vehicles and Masternaut

is uniquely positioned to lead the market intechnology and service innovation. TheMasternaut team and our 247 mission criticalproduct support play an important social andenvironmental role in helping our clients achievetheir social responsibility goals. Improving driverand road safety as well as minimising fuel wasteand emissions are core to our mission.

He holds Bachelors degrees in MechanicalEngineering and Industrial Engineering, as well asa Masters degree in Industrial Engineering, allfrom the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Druv S. Prakash joins Masternaut as CEO

Druv S. Prakash,Masternaut

Ex-chairman of the Z-Wave Alliance, MarkWalters, has been appointed as ZigBee AlliancesVP of Strategic Development Mark Walters.Walters plans to develop the current brandingand standards to increase awareness andunderstanding of ZigBee technology, focusingstrongly on the approaching launch of ZigBee 3.0,a release that aims to help reduce marketfragmentation and further promote the suitability

of ZigBee standards for the IoT. In addition, he willcraft partnerships and agreements with otherorganisations to increase interoperability acrossthe IoT. The ZigBee Alliance says that Waltersextensive experience working in a standardsorganisation from inception to market adoptionmakes him the ideal candidate to help guide thecontinued adoption of ZigBee standards acrossthe IoT industry.

Mark Walters named ZigBee Alliances VP of Strategic Development

Mark Walters,ZigBee Alliance


LTE represents the future for MNOs and this versatile technology has the potential to deliver significantbenefits for the Internet of Things. The efficient use of spectrum reduces the cost of delivering services

and LTE future-proofs solutions against earlier generation networks being discontinued.

LTE MTC defines a new, low-complexity userequipment category. The only downside is thehigher cost of the modules, which is the inevitableresult of the cost and complexity of the chipsets.

Vendors will continue to focus on the consumermarket, but the announcement that LTE Category 0has become a 3GPP standard changes the equation.This low data-rate category looks set to create asignificant market opportunity for chipset vendors,helped by the fact that the design is significantlysimpler, as are other elements of the module.

It will be some time before the new chipsets andmodules are certified and devices are ready for

deployment, but Telit is tracking this developmentvery closely and the company is ideally placed toleverage the Cat 0 opportunity.

In the meantime, the company has introduced aflat-price, pan-European connectivity service thatprovides seamless roaming across Europe for amonthly fee of 28. In addition there is acomprehensive range of value-added services.

The low fee removes a historic barrier for SMEs.Its a cost-effective way to enter the market andthe functionality of the full service offer will allowthem to compete on a much bigger stage. Thatsgood for the economy and Telit.

The Path to LTE machine type communications

Alexander Bufalino,CMO, Telit

SPONSORED COLUMNOPINION


The ARTIKplatforminitially offersthree types ofmodules forcompaniesbuildingconnecteddevices fromwearables toindustrialapplications.The smallestmodule, ARTIK 1, measures 12mm by12mm and uses Bluetooth LEconnectivity plus a nine-axis sensor forlow power connectivity. The ARTIK 5 hasa 1GHz dual-core processor, on-boardDRAM and flash memory to connecthome hubs, luxury wearables anddrones. Finally, the high-end ARTIK 10has an eight-core processor, full 1080pvideo decoding and encoding, 5.1 audio,2GB DRAM with 16GB flash memory andconnects using WiFi, Bluetooth LE andZigBee.

PRODUCT NEWS

Samsung launchesARTIK a new openmodule platform forthe IoT

VSP Global has announced thedevelopment of the first wearable techprototype to integrate health-trackingtechnology into a pair of glasses. Itfeatures sensor technology housedwithin a pair of frames that tracks

steps, calories burned, activity timeand distance travelled. The devicesyncs via Bluetooth to a customapplication which the wearer can useto monitor their activity in real time.

The company is currently working withmajor academic institutions and isopen to partnerships with othercompanies and start-ups inside andoutside the industry. Additional testingand development is already underway,with newer versions of the prototypeincluding more frame designs andadditional sensors.

Eyeware and healthtracking combined

Infineon Technologies has announcedits 3D magnetic sensor TLV493D-A1B6,featuring highly accurate three-dimensional sensing with extremelylow power consumption in a small 6-pinTSOP package. Magnetic field detectionin x, y, and z directions allow the sensor

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Theres always a danger when you get too closely involved in any new technologymovement that you can be accused of having drunk too deeply of the Kool Aid. Forthe IoT sector of sectors an accurate term given its huge and continually growingdiversity those early visions are now turning into commercial reality at a rate thatsstartling even to industry veterans. But, as we move out of that early adopter phaseand begin to extend the reach and depth of IoT-supported insights, applications andbusiness models, we ourselves need to develop new ways of doing business and newproducts and services if were to help our customers achieve their own ends.

A view from Wyless

The other vital SaaS Simplicity as a Service

TALKING HEADS


Mike Coffey,Wyless CEO


TALKING HEADS

Finding ways of doing this was a recurring themewhen M2M Nows Alun Lewis recently sat downto talk with Mike Coffey who took on the role ofpresident and CEO at Wyless towards the endof 2014.

M2M Now: Mike, before we go on to talktechnology and your own aims and ambitionsfor Wyless, you mentioned the need for the IoTsector to recognise the substantial changes thatwere underway in the marketplace itself andadapt accordingly.

MC: Indeed. Were all familiar with the inevitablehype cycles that have infested each newtechnological revolution but with the IoT weretrying to be subtly different. Yes, there is hype,but its our collective job to try and cut throughthat and come up with solutions that really dosolve the customers problems in appropriate andcost-effective ways and not just deploytechnology because its there and its on theirstrategic checklist.

In this context, its been interesting to see howthe markets been settling out from ourperspective over the last year or so. If you takethe standard marketing pyramid, with theFortune 2000 at the top with mid-sizecompanies and then SMEs underneath, itsalready clear that those at the top are mostly of asize and scale to be able to implement IoTinitiatives themselves - with appropriate supportfrom various vendors and integrators.

Once you move down to second tier however andbeyond, youre now talking about a vastpopulation of enterprises who might be keen totake advantage of IoT for an equally vast set ofdiverse reasons, but lack the internal resources toachieve this.

To reflect this, we at Wyless have beenundertaking a bit of a development effortourselves, focusing our product development onidentifying horizontal and common cross-marketfunctionalities that all these types of companywill require down to devices and up to commonapplication layers themselves and thenpackaging our products, services and support toalign with this.

What are the commonalities we find? Whiletheres obviously the standard mix of data

connectivity using different wireless technologies including the exciting new area of Low PowerLong Range, the newer variants of WiFi and LTEnow emerging - as well as device support andmanagement - plus all the other implicit aspectsof an IoT platform and infrastructure that can beused in a business setting. These include some ofthe commonalities around IoT data such as thecommon elements of the what happens when anIoT device collects data from managingmessaging, awareness, events, data analytics, andeven unique storage. Sometimes this is on amassive scale and its all about helpingcustomers and even their customers exploit theseto create better products and services and newbusiness models. On top also obviously comesthe question of pricing for different levels ofsupport and connectivity.

The central theme driving Wyless now is makingour customers business use of IoT as simple aspossible hence my theme of Simplicity as aService in IoT. Customers in these two lower tiersdont necessarily want to know the granulardetails of the underlying system architectures,what radio frequencies well be using or what ourprices are per megabyte of data shifted theywant a solution with straightforward service levelagreements (SLAs) and management screensunderstandable by a non-expert and a serviceprovided with transparent and predictable billseach month. And, ultimately, they want thissimplicity delivered across whatever array oftechnologies their business requires.

M2M Now: While some of the more basicelements of connectivity are increasingly beingseen as commodities, attention now is shiftingmuch more to the helping companies use themassive data generated by IoT systems throughanalytic tools. How do you see this affectingyour plans for Wyless?

MC: Its important here to differentiate betweenthe internal data that we generate ourselves thatkeep our networks, the devices we support, ourPorthos platform and all our back officesystems operating smoothly and efficiently andour customers data which they own andcontrol. Also, its important to note that,irrespective of whatever data were talking, thatsecurity is front of mind for us. For example,more than 90% of our traffic flows through aprivate network.

The central themedriving Wyless now

is making ourcustomers

business use of IoTas simple as

possible hencemy theme of

Simplicity as aService in IoT

IN ASSOCIATION WITH WYLESS

Mike Coffey joined Wyless in August of 2014 aspresident and COO and was later made CEO. Hebegan his career as a technologist with hands onroles spanning software development and networksthen spent the last decade in executive managementroles in technology-enabled companies. Hisexperience includes start-up to high revenue topublic companies spanning SaaS, online technology,and niche business models.

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On the external data side, a huge variety of analytictools and methods are available to our customers,with some specifically developed for their sectors.Our approach therefore involves making it as simpleas possible to integrate incoming data with theirapplications through appropriate, standard and openAPIs. Its important to realise though in this contextthat while the individual data units from devicesthemselves be small with a low overhead, collectivelythey can soon add up to startling size and this cancause problems for some analytic tools. We can helphere by advising on ways to carry out a triage processon the data transmitted, either at the device level orat a higher level in the network.

Similarly, when it comes to extracting meaningfulinformation from that data, then context is king. Ifyoure looking at a cardiac monitoring device thatsome of our customers have, for example, then someanomalies are going to set off alerts for immediateintervention, while others may stay within boundariesthat just involve that data being added to patientrecords for the next medical appointment. And did Imention security yet? The security requirements inthis patient setting are very real think about patientprivacy or the cost of calling the ambulanceincorrectly for example.

This issue of occasional criticality also extends toother areas beyond health and, in turn, affects theway that weve designed our infrastructure. Therehave been cases recently when, after a major poweroutage, hundreds of thousands of smart meterssupported by Wyless suddenly turned back on at thesame time. Our focus on simplicity - and the managedservices this entails - means that our customers whodeploy smart meters are promised a seamlesssolution. In this case we handled the spike andunderlying issues it caused on their behalf.

Delivering simplicity also means implementinginnovative technologies to drive that customersimplicity. Our 2014 acquisition of ASPIDER gave usownership of their unique M2M technology whichweve been integrating and adding to. This acquisitionhas allowed us to proceed on an importantdevelopment here the evolution of SIMs to becomeopen through the embedded Universal IntegratedCircuit Card (eUICC) standard, allowing us to partnerwith carriers to enable smarter SIMS with redundancy,failover, and intelligence built to support networkselection and change with no manual intervention.Through this kind of software solution, we were ableto partner with a carrier, use our unique technology,and generate a 25 million total cost of ownershipreduction for one major European energy utility.

The introduction of eUICC is yet another example ofhow software and not hardware is becoming thedefining added value issue in our industry just ashas happened in numerous other convergencesectors in the last decade or two. Thats why mycurrent management rebooting of Wyless isreflecting this change to a much more virtualisedand distributed operating environment. This in turnbrings potentially huge benefits to our customersthrough greatly enhanced scalability and time tomarket, while simultaneously protecting them fromthe underlying complexities.

M2M Now: Youve already touched on security andthere are also its close relatives identity and

privacy now to consider in the IoT space as well,particularly as wearables become adopted by themass population and smart and connected devicesenter our cars and homes. What are your thoughts onthis area?

MC: Sadly and Im talking here about our entirecivilisation and culture, not specifically the IoT space people usually have to get bitten before they takepersonal information security seriously. Very often, ifyou try and flag things up, you can be accused ofcrying wolf. That said, security and indeed the widerissue of trust is an implicit part of the IoT story. Thedevices might seem to be working fine; the networkmight also seem to be fine but can you actually trustthe data thats coming into your managementsystems and on which major commercial decisionsmay be based?

Security has to be built in right from the first device,network or systems designs. Thats often involvedapplying appropriate cryptographic techniques;securing the silicon at the lowest level from beinghijacked; and helping the customer protect their datain a truly end to end way, right through into theirsecure clouds or databases and managementsystems. In an increasing number of cases, such aswith the retail PoS terminals that we support for anumber of customers, the proliferation of hugenumbers of complex end points into possiblyinsecure spaces shops, in this example exponentially increases the exposure to risk. At leastit does in theory.

The same thinking applies when we build appropriatelevels of redundancy and protection into ourconnectivity solutions. For many of our customers such as the PoS sector, I mentioned earlier any failurehere translates instantly into lost and unrecoverablerevenue. Being able to include backhaul diversity onboth wired and wireless links with near instant failoveris a powerful proposition for the retail market.

With our deep understanding of how risks change indifferent environments and the effects of poorlysynchronised technology/product lifecycles onvulnerabilities, we aim to both predict and protect.Our CTOs office, for example, has recently invested ina security function skilled in all the many aspects ofboth risk management and mitigation.

M2M Now: Finally, you also raised your plans forgeographic expansion of the Wyless footprint.Could you expand on these?

MC: Weve been very successful so far in the Americasand EMEA in a broad fashion but those geographiesthemselves have plenty of room for continuedexpansion and also lets not forget the Asian regionwhich is at the centre of a number of megatrends.While I wont promise a timeline for our expansionthere what weve clearly seen is a shift in almosttectonic ways around manufacturing andindustrialisation as well as the population dynamicscreating a demand for all sorts of new solutions in ourindustry. Were also seeing expansion in ourinternational Fortune 500 customer base and as theyexpand we will as well. Combine that with Asiancompanies looking to move up the value-chain andwere keen to support them in their growth modelsas well all the while, of course, keeping it as simpleas possible.

Deliveringsimplicity alsomeansimplementinginnovativetechnologiesto drive thatcustomersimplicity


Then, something happened to draw us at leastsome of us together more permanently, firstly inritual-focused sites like atalhyk in todaysTurkey and, shortly later, into what we canformally class as proper cities in Mesopotamia,todays Iraq.

While cities have risen and equally regularlyfallen over the succeeding millennia, its only inthe last few years that weve reached a criticaltipping point in the human story. Last year, theUnited Nations announced that 54% of theworlds population now lives in urban areas, andthat figures expected to increase to 66% by2050, with nearly 90% of that rise concentratedin Asia and Africa.

This shift in population densities is going to onlyexacerbate the already huge pressure on

infrastructure and resources in developingcountries as these mega cities and theirinevitable slums continue to expand. Indeed, thisyears Global Risk report from the WorldEconomic Forum in Davos identifies that rapidand unplanned urbanisation in developingcountries is one of the biggest destabilisingfactors facing us, creating situations for socialunrest or disease epidemics that can thenquickly spread.

Developed countries too face their own problemsas urban economies react to globalisationthrough the offshoring of large industries, soleading to rustbelt conditions, whileenvironmental changes will threaten cities built as so many were close to rivers and seas. Ontop of this, even developed economies arentprotected from shifts in the availability of basic

Building the YouTopia after all, its where most

of us will end up living

SMART CITIES

Funny things, cities. After wandering out of Africa around one hundred thousand yearsago, our ancestors seem to have been perfectly happy existing in hunter-gatherercommunities until something like 7000 years ago, writes M2M Nows Alun Lewis.

Developedcountries too

face their ownproblems as

urban economiesreact to

globalisationthrough the

offshoring oflarge industries


necessities like water as many states and cities in the US arealready finding out.

As many high tech marketeers have already recognised andtheir adverts have been appearing for a good few years nowin the worlds business, science and technology press - SmartCity techniques could mitigate these problems. Or can they?

Machines for living in ?Its an obvious truism that our buildings and public spacesreflect our local cultural and political values, down to theshape and size of family units and notions of privacy andindividuality. As a result of this, theres been a long runningdebate in the smart city community about taking either top-down or bottom-up initiatives or finding some mix ofstrategies appropriate to each urban setting. After all, thereare numerous urban hellholes scattered around the world thathave equally resulted from both socialist centralised planningand from unfettered free market principles.

So how do you start defining something as amorphous, aliveand implicitly perverse and varied as its own humaninhabitants ?

Saverio Romeo, principal analyst, Beecham Research, seesthree main ways to classify smart city projects: Firstly, youcan generally contrast vertical versus horizontal approaches.A typical vertical projects focuses on a specific city systemsuch as smart parking. Then there are horizontal projectswhere the entire city is seen as a system of systems where therole of IoT platform as urban OS or intelligence backbone isfundamental. These definitions are blurring however, withsome projects becoming multi-vertical across differentsystems such as smart lighting, surveillance and pollutionmonitoring all done together. You can imagine a continuumfrom pure vertical to pure horizontal - with the complexity ofthe project increasing along the continuum. This has obvious

implications for security in horizontal projects compared tovertical ones.

He continues, Then there are open versus controlledapproaches though the distinction becomes more politicalthan technical, revolving around data ownership and datausage. Projects such as Bristol is Open, and other Europeanones are open-based. Smart Dubai by contrast is basedaround the control of data. Finally, theres the issue of newcities versus transformational approaches. South KoreasSongdo is the largest new city designed with a horizontalapproach to become a fully connected and intelligentenvironment. By contrast, the large majority of smart cityprojects in Europe revolves around the idea of adding a digitallayer to existing ones.

These perspectives are echoed by Upendra Dharmadhikary,VP of Global Transformations at Tech Mahindra, a companycurrently involved in many smart city projects around theworld. Neither approach if executed in isolation will succeedon its own. A top-down approach typically relies on a networkof sensors feeding into a central grid so that key decisionmakers civil servants and administrators - can create projects.However, this fails to address the inclusivity of the citizens andlocal businesses and what they are willing to adopt.

There are however, he adds, also risks with a completelybottom up approach. Relying on citizens and citizen forums toidentify key challenges and communicate with authoritiesthrough social media and other means could pose challengesfor city planning as there would be no control on aligningthese projects with the wider vision - or the resourceconstraints that confront most cities.

For Dr Jon Lewis, director of strategy at Telensa, bothapproaches have their advantages and caveats: WhileTelensas involved in projects of both types, the majority ofSmart City ones tend to be more at the pilot stage, whilespecific ones - such as working with municipal parking or


lighting departments - are seeing commercialdeployments at scale. However - they must useopen industry agreed standards as its onlythrough the adoption of standards that theindustry can effectively scale, rather than fall intothe trap of having a range of competingproprietary technologies.

Standards for not of - livingAnd its around standards a much abused andill-defined word - where some of the headachesare already emerging with a veritable alphabetsoup of initiatives, frameworks, platforms,partnerships and councils all already sloppingaround the foundations of the digital buildingsite. Some such as HyperCat already beingadopted outside the UK are essentiallycatalogues that allow data, devices andapplications to find one another; while oneM2Mlooks more like a more traditional standard,based on the historic connectivity lineage of itsfounders. The ITU has also recently added itsvoice to the debate, pushing its potential role inthis. On top of these could also be added thesmart cities work being done by the BritishStandards Institute in defining a common lexiconand framework for the smart city operatingenvironment, similar in many ways to thegroundbreaking work done by the TM Forum inOSS/BSS some years ago.

In fact, the latter comparison is an apt mirror.Telcos at that time were trying to merge radicallydifferent business and technology silos to cutcosts and add new functionalities and facedextreme internal competition for resources andstrategic power. You might not be able to fightCity Hall, as the American saying goes, buttheres often more than enough blood spilt insidethem in the fight for power and voter trust.

Graham Colclough, partner at UrbanDNA, asmart cities consultancy, gives an overview ofsome of these issues: As almost any smartstrategy is almost inevitably going to involvebashing silo heads together amongst manyother things potentially subversive for themunicipal status quo the absence of any topdown steerage can lead to some very messyoutcomes indeed. There are many once front-runner cities who now realise theyve beenexperimenting with pilots positioned by - andoften funded by - big industry that are nowwondering what to do with the unwieldyFrankenstein monsters that theyve created! Thewhole market is going through a continuedtransformation, so not only is the agenda workingacross silos, its also changing the value equationtoo. Leadership is thus vital, as is standardisationand demand aggregation involving collaborationand joint working.

As Colclough observes, What leaders need particularly given the multiple pressures theyreunder are some very clearly evidenced gains toconvince them and de-risk often ill-definedpropositions, plus some practical how to guideson what to do. More fundamentally, they need tothink through what exactly smart means in theirparticular context. For a start, the pooling andsharing of data is indeed a real challenge, butthere are a few things afoot to help with this suchas the European Innovation Partnership (EIP) on

Smart Cities and Communities. The EIP recentlylaunched a demand-side survey to ask cities ifthey had an urban platform and if so what wastheir experience and if they didnt have one,then why not? Funding constraints, lack ofcapability and the challenges of cross-departmental working were frequent barriers toprogress - perhaps a reason why more than 70%of the responder cities had not put in place acity-data platform. To support the take up ofurban platforms, we recently signed an MoU,together with an initial group of around 15industry players and Commissioner Oettinger.

Creating the digital Agorafor the communitys dataHere, Tech Mahindras Dharmadhikary suggests:A shared Data Hub is essential for collecting andmanaging data from a variety of sources. Thesources of data include historical and real timetransport traffic data, energy usage, satellite data,water usage, river level, security data and videosurveillance of the city. A user-profile drivenanalytics engine, which focuses on use casesrelevant to the different stakeholders, forms thebackbone of this integrated dashboard. Oneinteresting example of a unified smart citycommand centre is Tech Mahindrasimplementation at Mahindra World City Jaipur,India, which not only provides a unified view ofthe smart city components but also deliversimportant insights relevant to city planners andto local businesses and citizens.

He adds, The MK Smart initiative in MiltonKeynes in the UK is another important example ofhow data analytics can be used to meet urbanchallenges, using insights from a mash up oftraffic monitoring and surveillance data such as:road traffic, pollution and road conditions,electricity demand and supply and the impact ofelectric cars; parking space management andwaste management to reduce truck rolls.

Before you can pull this information togetherhowever, the data needs to be captured anddifferent perspectives exist on how this is bestachieved. Brandon Davito, Silver SpringNetworks VP of Smart Cities, suggests, In anycity infrastructure upgrade, the goal is to causethe least amount of disruption as possible and ahorizontal, outdoor network canopy that can linkto any critical infrastructure device or asset canalleviate that pressure. This is especiallyimportant as city procurement processesgenerally require multiple vendors. By choosing asingle, open platform capable of supporting multiplesmart city applications, cities gain immediatebenefits and build a path toward future energyand operational savings. Furthermore, a multi-application network such as Silver Springsenables the network operator to not only connectthe street lights, but also establish a networkcanopy upon which additional smart city servicescan be deployed over time, such as smartparking, electric vehicle chargers, weather and airquality monitoring, digital signage, energymetering, smart water, and more.

The city of Paris is currently implementing SilverSprings IPv6 network to connect street lightsand traffic controls across the city to help reduce

Brandon Davito,Silver Spring

Dr John Lewis,Telensa

Gadi Lenz,AGT

GrahamColclough,Urban DNA

SMART CITIES


public lighting energy consumption by 30% overthe next ten years. Copenhagen, often regardedas the world's most sustainable city, is alsolooking to Silver Spring to deploy a citywidecanopy network to connect more than 20,000street lights and create a platform for futuresmart city services.

Extracting usable informationAGT International is one company thats beendeeply involved in the Smart Cities space for anumber of years and has recently joined one EUSmart City project, providing advanced IoTAnalytics for Cologne as part of the wider fiveyear GrowSmarter sustainable cities project. Thisaims to achieve a 60% saving in primary energyconsumption costs, a similar reduction inemissions from buildings and traffic and increasethe proportion of renewable energy supplied to60% by 2020. Participation in this project followsthe key role AGT played in the recently completedPeerEnergyCloud initiative, a smart grid projectsupported by the Federal German government.

Gadi Lenz, AGTs Chief Scientist, observes, SmartCities is an overloaded term and so often isanalytics as this can range from anything frompresenting simple pie chart displays to the kindsof advanced anomaly detection systems that wedeploy with some of our client cities to spotemerging traffic patterns that will lead to congestion.

One problem however that often happens withSmart City projects is that they involve highlysiloed departments and functions where tendersare issued by each in turn. Theres definitely aneed for a kind of canonical architecturalframework such as Europes FIWARE thats ableto unite these disparate sources and systems andmake it simpler to extract actionable informationmore quickly and dynamically.

Europe certainly seems well advanced in a globalcontext with the FIWARE initiative as BeechamsRomeo explains: Europes moving from agovernment-centric approach towards a morepublic-private partnership one and the EU FP7Smart City and Communities and now theHorizon 2020 Smart City and Communities havedone a good job. The idea of a Digital Officer in alocal authority is not a niche idea anymore - orthat they should be an expert in the field and notsimply appointed by the political class.

As these digital urban visions of the last fewyears start to be realised, its perhaps good toremember that the very word Utopia inventedalmost exactly five hundred years ago by scholarThomas More as the title for a social satire hedwritten is actually a pun in Ancient Greek.Rather than eu-topos meaning good place heused ou-topos, meaning no place. Perhaps its aninescapable part of the human condition toalways be seeking a perfect place to live?

FIWAREThe Open and Agile Smart Cities (OASC) initiative, signed earlier this year by 31 cities fromFinland, Denmark, Belgium, Portugal, Italy, Spain and Brazil, aims to kickstart the use of FIWAREstandards in smart city applications and solutions. Theyll be adopting an open-licensed standardAPI implemented in FIWARE that provides a lightweight means to gather, publish, query andsubscribe to context information describing what happens in the city at any time. Theyre alsocollaborating in the definition of common standard open data models with the first set of thesebeing based on the results of the CitySDK project developed in Europe. Telefnica, Orange,Engineering and Atos have agreed to join forces towards the adoption of FIWARE standards forSmart Cities, while Korean operator KT Corporation will also be using it.

HyperCatHyperCat is an open, lightweight JSON-based hypermedia catalogue format for exposingIoT assets over the web. Using HTTPS, REST and JSON, each HyperCat catalogue mayexpose any number of URIs, each with any number of resource description framework-like(RDF-like) triple statements about it. There are already over 70 strategic partners in theHyperCatCity project including: Accenture, Arkessa, ARM, Arqiva, Arup, BAE Systems, BIS,Bristol is Open, BSI, BT, FlexEye, Fujitsu, Future Cities Catapult, Huawei, IBM, InnovateUK,Gartner, KPMG, Milton Keynes, NESTA, Neul, Rolls Royce, Symantec, techUK, the Universityof Surrey, the UKTI and Verisign.

Tools to view the CityThe City Performance Tool (CyPT) from Siemens is adynamic simulation tool which is designed to reduce theenvironmental impact of urban activities, coveringgreenhouse gas emissions from buildings and transport,as well as air pollutants such as particulate matter (PM)and nitrogen oxides (NOx). It also looks at the creationof new local jobs to install, operate and maintain citysolutions. The model calculates the environmental andeconomic impacts of individual technologies at differentimplementation levels.

Saverio Romeo,Beecham Research

UpendraDharmadhikary,Tech Mahindra


COMPANY PROFILE

One of the moresuccessful

approaches todate has been to

implement powercurtailment

measures bymodernising the

existing meteringinfrastructure

Today, 70% of the countrys power transmissionsystem is more than 25 years old and the averageage of large power transformers is 40 years,making the grid more vulnerable to losses andinefficiencies. Improved efficiencies couldeventually lead to reductions in harmfulemissions produced by the current main sourceof electricity: coal. Though declining, this fuel stillaccounts for one-third of electricity produced.The grid is also, at the moment, racing toaccommodate state-level mandates to integraterenewable and distributed power by addingnew infrastructure.

To counteract the immense amount ofinvestment required to replace agedinfrastructure, significant emphasis has beenplaced on embedding efficiencies by deployingsmarter digital technology that can improvecommunication among devices as well asincrease visualisation across the grid. As a result,modernisation is occurring across transmission,distribution, and to the edge of the home, all thewhile remaining conservative, partly because ofrate increase constraints.

Smart meters and moreOne of the more successful approaches to datehas been to implement power curtailmentmeasures by modernising the existing meteringinfrastructure. Frost & Sullivans upcomingmarket analysis on global advanced meteringinfrastructure shows that between 2011 and 2014,approximately 37 million smart meters wereshipped in the U.S. and approximately 5 millionin Canada1.

Unlike traditional meters, smart meters have theability to send and receive data from the utility aswell as offer added features such as tamperdetection, accurate meter reading, power qualitymonitoring, and remote switch off/on. Thisinstant access to messaging and signaling iscritical to enabling power curtailment programs,such as demand response and prepaymentprograms. Investment in smart meters hasproduced a lucrative market for promotingsustainability initiatives in which companies suchas AT&T are playing an important role as anenabler through its wireless offerings.

The list of AT&Ts accomplishments in the utilityspace is long. Over the past few years, AT&T hastaken important steps to align its business forthe next generation of utility services based onits core competences in wireless and wirelinetechnology.

The company is respected for its rigorousapproach to innovation, uptime, and customersatisfaction and, as far back as 2008, thecompany formed a division specifically dedicatedto emerging devices such as smart gridtechnology. The Mobile Broadband AcceleratorProgram certifies each device deployed on thenetwork to ensure maximum functionality anduptime. The company currently supports datafrom 16 million meters daily in the U.S. using itscellular service. Overall, AT&Ts utility strategytargets four specific areas:

Rationalising a data plan forsmart grid metersOne of the important steps that AT&T took wasto rationalise the data plan. Earlier, a data plancould be as much as $7 to $10 a month per 1megabyte of data. Today, the data plan is $0.50 amonth per megabyte of data, making thewireless network a better option for datatransmission and for developing point-to-pointofferings for smart meters. The transition from3G to LTE has been a major enabler for othersmart grid functionalities in addition to meters.Low latency is critical for rolling out fast-reactingcontrol devices for Volt/VAR systems forreducing voltage variance and producingdemand reduction.

Reduce complexity toimplement smart gridsA healthy competitive environment has kept theindustry attentive when it comes to developing

AT&T and the Utilities- An insight into best practice

enablers in the U.S. utility sectorWithout any action to modernise the U.S. electricity grid, the ability to obtaintrue sustainability in the longer term is at risk, reports Farah Saeed, principal

consultant for energy and environment at Frost & Sullivan.

Rationalising a DataPlan for Smart Grid

Meters

Reducing Complexity toImplement Smart Grid

Capitalising on Changesto the Existing Meter

Infrastructure

Developing CellularReference Design for

Internet of Things


improved offerings. Rapid industry changesare driven by the influx of data coming frommeters and other automation systems. Thisdata influx has created a demand in theindustry for information and processes tocreate useful analysis and output.

AT&T has identified cooperatives andmunicipals as a customer category that couldsignificantly benefit from a bundled advancedmeter infrastructure (AMI) solution that ismanaged in the cloud. This includes meters,head-end servers, and meter datamanagement (MDM). This was considered anideal target market for these kinds ofsolutions because smaller utilities do notnecessarily have in-house capabilities. Thereare approximately 2,100 municipals present inthe U.S., and MDM is an essential tool for dataprocessing, analysing, and reporting trendsand helping utilities to forecast failures, ratherthan just respond to them.

Capitalising on changes to theexisting meter infrastructureAT&T identified an untapped opportunity forprepaid electricity. Smart meters withdisconnect switches make it easier to offerprepaid electricity services. This practice isalready well adopted in Europe where over18% of households are on prepaid plans. InNorth America, the number is closer to 1%.AT&T sees this as an untapped opportunity.

There are currently 140 million meters andaround 6 to 10 million are replaced every year.Approximately 90% of devices deployed havedisconnect switches. Utilities lose betweenone-half and 1% of revenue to unpaid bills thatare typically written off. This translates to $1billion. When taking operational costs intoconsideration, the loss increases to $3 billion.

According to the Federal Deposit InsuranceCorporation (FDIC), 8.2% of residents did nothave a bank account in 20122. This translatesroughly to 10 million households. Typically,these households are living paycheck topaycheck and therefore cannot meetminimum balance requirements. Non-salariedworkers who are paid hourly would beanother target segment. AT&T believes acombined 20% of households would be agreat target market for prepay programs. Nevada Energy has had some success with

this type of program as a way to improvecustomer satisfaction. Other utilities with theprogram include the Salt River Project,Georgia Power, Detroit Edison, APS, and,most recently, another very large utility in thesoutheast U.S. The offering is a cloud-basedsolution that interacts with meters to bettermanage consumption. At the moment, AT&Thas an exclusive deal with PayGo.

Developing cellular referencedesigns for the Internet of ThingsAn area that AT&T has excelled in isdeveloping cellular reference designs forsmart grid devices. AT&T formed a globalpartnership with GE in 2013 that led to thedevelopment of these for smart meters andother IoT devices for smart city applications.A reference design took two years to developand required a significant investment toproduce. This has allowed GE to expand itsadvanced meter offering beyond just themeter. The LED lighting solution will allow citiesto remotely monitor and control lighting onpublic roads and the two companies are nowworking on proof of concepts at the AT&TInternet of Things Foundry, located in Texas.

To make it easy to support prepaid energy,AT&T's Cellular Reference Design for GEresidential electric meters means that theyare already prepay enabled. M2X is anotherexample of enabling of future technologiesconsisting of a managed service fordevelopers aimed at advancing IoTapplications. As described by AT&T, Thiscloud-based data store lets enterprisescollect, analyse, and share data that can betracked over a period of time from connecteddevices. Early outputs have led topartnerships with Rockwell Automation andEmerson and could be an important tool forenhancing edge computing to the grid,allowing for the decentralised rectification ofissues around outage management.

Combined utilities generate approximately$370 billion in annual sales3, making it ahighly valuable industry for companies suchas AT&T to invest in as a vertical market,particularly due to the changes occurring.Bringing the industry into the 21st century isessential, making AT&T an important enabler.

1 Frost & Sullivan: Global Advanced Meter Infrastructure (AMI) Market #MA51-142 http://money.cnn.com/2012/09/12/pf/fdic-bank-accounts/index.html3 http://www.eei.org/resourcesandmedia/industrydataanalysis/industrydata/Pages/default.aspx

Farah Saeed is principal consultant with Frost & Sullivans North America Energy andPower Systems Practice. Her primary areas of research and management are

uninterruptible power supplies (UPS), DC power systems and alternative energy storagesolutions including flywheel, rotary, ultracapacitors and fuel cell based UPSs.

A healthy competitiveenvironment has keptthe industry attentivewhen it comes todeveloping improvedofferings


For the last five years or so, Ive been using mypersonal blog www.theurbantechnologist.com -to explore what a Smart City really is. The themethats dominated my thinking is the need tosynthesise all the very different and oftenconflicting - human, urban, commercial andtechnological perspectives on cities thatcurrently exist.

If were to do this, we must reclaim the Smartconcept from the technology world, returning itinstead to its original and more human-centricmeaning: the ability for people to have morecontrol over their lives, work and communitiesthrough the intelligent use of internet-basedcommunications and applications. Are SmartCity initiatives currently being driven largely bytechnology - or by a real desire to create abetter future?

If one truth does emerge from these debates, itsclearly that anything termed Smart must involvea subtle harmonisation of both these forces and,more specifically, break free from the futile andunsophisticated arguments that rage on about

whether Smart Cities should be created by top-down or bottom-up approaches.

Taken in isolation, technology itself is amoral -and frequently banal in its results. On the otherhand, desiring a better future without a practicalstrategy to achieve it is futile. Surely, using thephenomenally powerful technologies onlyrecently available to us to make the world abetter place, rather than just making money, is anidea worthy of the label Smart?

Technologys not Smart unlessits used to create human valueIt was in a workshop with social scientists at theUniversity of Durham that I first became awarethat Smart concepts originated in social sciencein the 1990s, pre-dating the famous early large-scale technology infrastructure projects inplanned cities like Masdar in Abu Dhabi andSongdo in South Korea. Originally coined todescribe the potential for new forms ofgovernance, citizen engagement, collectiveintelligence and stakeholder collaboration thatcould be enabled by internet technologies, it was

Reclaiming the Smart City agendato create fairer human outcomes

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A personal perspective from Dr Rick Robinson, currently IT Director for Smart Data andTechnology for Amey, one of the UKs largest engineering and infrastructure services

companies. Previously, Dr Robinson was IBM UKs executive architect for Smarter Cities.

Dr Rick Robinson,Amey


hoped that these emerging relationships could better deliverthe outcomes we all want personal and social health,happiness and fulfilment.

Its no surprise that technology companies such as Cisco,Siemens and my former employer IBM came to similarrealisations about the potential of digital technology to addresssocial as well as business challenges - so whats the problem?

Large technology corporations are often criticised for theirsize, profitability and top-down approaches and localauthorities are often criticised too. The key question weshould be asking is more subtle and more important: whathappens to the social elements of an idea once it becomesapparent to businesses of any size that they can make moneyby selling the technologies that enable it?

The scientists, engineers and creatives who are engaged inSmart Cities initiatives are almost universally extremely bright,well intentioned and humane, and talk with passion about thesocial and environmental value of their work. Top-down is atbest a gross simplification of the projects that they carry out, andat worst a gross misrepresentation. Their views dominated theearly years of the Smart Cities market as it developed.

However, as the market has matured and grown, the focus onresearch, exploration and development has switched to themarketing and selling of products and services. With the needto promote those offerings to potential customers, its all tooeasy for the social, economic, and environmental issues tobecome submerged.

A technology company once asserted that Smart Cities wouldcreate autonomous, intelligently functioning IT systems thatwill have perfect knowledge of users habits blissfullyignoring the fact that such perfection is scientifically andphilosophically impossible, not to mention inhuman andundesirable. Unless we reclaim the word Smart to emphasisehuman outcomes, the market will inevitably drive energy andresources towards narrower financial interests. Financialefficiency and resilience are not the same as health, happinessand opportunity for every citizen.

Can responsible business create a better world?Some corporate behaviours promote these positive, humanoutcomes and are in turn driven by the voting and buyingpowers of citizens and consumers. Working for Amey, forexample, my customers are usually government organisationswho serve an electorate; or private sector companies who areregulated by government bodies. In both cases, there is adirect chain of influence leading from individual citizen needsand perceptions through to how we operate. If we dontengage with, respect and meet those needs and expectations,we will not be successful

But, in general, business investors are still strongly focused onfinancial performance, rewarding businesses that make themost money. As a consequence, many social enterprises havedifficulty scaling up and many sharing economy businesseshave nothing at all to do with sharing value and resources, butare really profit-seeking transaction brokers.

Policy, legislation and regulationOne highly relevant quote here comes from Jane Jacobs,the influential writer and urban activist: private investmentshapes cities, but social ideas - and laws - shape privateinvestment. Its therefore a source of frustration to me thatmuch activity in the Smart Cities community overlooks thatfundamental principle.

Milton Keynes for example is a UK city that has manyinteresting Smart City projects underway, and is often cited asan exemplar for other cities to follow. But its initiatives arefunded by central government departments, research orinnovation bodies, and the research departments oftechnology companies, not by re-usable business cases.

By contrast, policy, legislation and regulation are far moreeffective tools for enabling widespread change, and arewhat we should instead be focusing our energy andattention on.

The recent Social Value Act in the UK requires that publicauthorities - who collectively spend nearly 200 billion (282billion) annually on private sector goods and services -procure those services in a way that creates social value, suchas requiring that service providers engage local smallbusinesses in their supply chains.

Given that companies are already themselves investing indigital technology on the basis of the efficiencies it creates,surely local authorities should fulfil their Social Value Actobligations by using procurement criteria to ensure that thosecompanies employ those digital tools in a way that createssocial and environmental improvements?

Similarly, if planning and development frameworks obligeproperty developers to describe and quantify the social valuethat will be created by their developments and how they willuse technology do so as the British Standards Institute hasrecently recommended then the enormous level of privatesector investment in this sector can also deliver technologiesfor public benefit.

This strategy is exemplified by the London Olympic LegacyDevelopment Corporation as part of the wider Smart Londonplan. Theyre securing private sector investment to deploytechnology not only to redevelop the Olympic park usingsmart infrastructure, but also to ensure that investmentbenefits the existing communities and businesses inneighbouring areas.

A Smart manifesto for human outcomes- enabled by technologyThese business models, policy measures and procurementapproaches are bold and difficult measures to enact. Theyrenot as sexy as self-driving cars, but theyre much moreimportant in achieving positive human outcomes.

Citizen understanding is going to be critical if businesses,local governments and national governments are to adoptthem. If definitions of smart people, places, communities,businesses and governments make sense to everyone whovotes, works, stands for election, runs for business or

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