A report just published by Beecham Research (Wearable Technology in Public Safety – The Dominant Role of Body Worn Cameras)examines the growing market for body-worn cameras in police forces around the world, writes Robin Duke-Woolley, the founder and chief executive of Beecham Research. These are not your average webcams. These devices need to be able to withstand some pretty rough treatment, being used day in day out while providing video of high enough quality to be used for evidential purposes. In other words, in court. Increasingly, they also need to be connected – and the content needs to be encrypted so it cannot be misused. (more…)
June 27, 2016
Posted by: George Malim
At Mobile World Congress 2016, in Hall 8.1, the last hall in the endless Catalan event, immediately close to the IoT Pavilion, there was a section dedicated to graphene, strongly supported by the EU Graphene Flagship. The Graphene Flagship (http://graphene-flagship.eu/) is the second largest Future and Emerging Technology Flagship programme by the European Commission aiming to bring together academia and nanotechnology industry and moving graphene from laboratories into real applications. The programme was launched in 2013 with an investment of €1bn. This substantial investment is illustrative of the importance of graphene and nanotechnology. As for the IoT vision, the graphene embraces a transformational vision that impacts all areas of society, write Dr Therese Cory, senior analyst and Saverio Romeo, prinicipal analyst at Beecham Research. (more…)
June 8, 2016
Posted by: George Malim
In the first of a new series of articles on emerging IoT trends by Beecham Research – Phill Pexton, senior analyst, and Saverio Romeo, principal analyst, with the firm examine blockchain (more…)
May 17, 2016
Posted by: George Malim
With so many potential applications in such a cost effective package, why isn’t drone use sky-rocketing, asks Matthew Duke-Woolley, a market analyst with Beecham Research? (more…)
May 5, 2016
Posted by: George Malim
Last week John Lewis, one of the UK’s leading retail chains, claims that it has opened the UK’s largest smart home high street shopping experience, writes Olena Kaplan a senior analyst at Beecham Research. The retailer allocated part of its 5th floor electronics space to smart home products at its flagship Oxford Street store. (more…)
April 12, 2016
Posted by: George Malim
March 30, 2016
Posted by: George Malim
KORE’s announcement today of its acquisition of Wyless has been a while in the making, but hugely significant now it is here, writes Robin Duke-Woolley, the chief executive of Beecham Research. (more…)
March 9, 2016
Posted by: George Malim
Mobile World Congress 2016 did meet expectations: a relentless show with people walking endlessly between halls for meetings, seeking opportunities, and listening to the latest announcements from the industry, write Robin Duke-Woolley, the chief executive of Beecham Research, and Saverio Romeo the firm’s principal analyst. Over 100,000 visitors this year – the most ever – and the food at the show was even more atrocious than last year. How do they get away with it at such high prices? (more…)
March 8, 2016
Posted by: George Malim
The humble automobile has come a long way since the first public test – which saw the very first car, crash, into a wall, due to human error. Our cars have become increasingly more complex over the past 100 years, but that original point of failure still exists today: The ‘problem’ of human capability, writes Matthew Duke-Woolley, an analyst with Beecham Research. (more…)
February 29, 2016
Posted by: George Malim
Our counting of IoT platforms has exceeded 300, writes Saverio Romeo, the principal analyst at Beecham Research. There are now more than 300 solutions that identify themselves as IoT platform offering a variety of services, from device management to data management passing by API management. (more…)
February 16, 2016
Posted by: George Malim