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The Internet of Things standards tussle – A phoney war?

  One thing that all commentators on the ‘connected everything’ space agree on is the need for common standards to allow a wide range of sensors, appliances and devices to talk to each other. This is nicely captured in an article in the Economist magazine, where the key problem is described as there being too many overlapping and conflicting initiatives. This is nothing new, and most new technologies which benefit from network effects, starting with the battle between direct and … Read more…

M2M device explosion to fuel growth in cloud infrastructure

This week, Cisco released its latest forecast on global data centre and cloud computing, covering the time period 2013 – 2014. During this time Cisco forecasts that annual data centre traffic will triple, a compound growth rate of 23%. But to what extent is this being driven by the growth in connected devices, and the traffic they generate? The answer can be found by digging into the Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI) published in June. Over this period, it can … Read more…

Samsung invests in EVRYTHNG

 

EvrythngYou may have heard of EVRYTHNG, the vocalically-challenged IoT platform technology company. Well, today they announced that Samsung Ventures has provided investment funding on top of that already received from Cisco and other companies in April. With two these two behemoths behind them, EVRYTHNG stands a decent chance on their mission to become the leading player in the ‘Web of Things’, a world whereby physical objects, be they simple or complex are associated their own individual web presence, with EVRYTHNG’s platform providing the glue (and APIs) between the physical and the virtual world. What is not clear yet is how ‘open’ this framework will be – on one hand, the Web of Things aims to be open as the Web, while on the other hand, EVRYTHNG has stated that it wishes to be the Facebook of Things.