Event date: October 12-13, 2015
Santa Clara, California
Bringing together service and platform providers, software vendors and device manufacturers, the two-day industry gathering opens with a pre-conference technical workshop for developers on day one. (more…)
August 6, 2015
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The acquisition of RACO Wireless by KORE Wireless Group, announced today, is significant within the M2M market. The combined business will rival many Mobile Network Operator M2M business units in terms of numbers of connections served. (more…)
July 2, 2015
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M2MAPPS: Wyless Connect seems to have to have two main activities. Backup services for business continuity and the deployment of wireless devices. Let’s start with continuity. Is that your core competence?
BENNETT ALPERT: I’d prefer to describe the company as having a single expertise in wireless networks and a core competence to configure, deploy and support the hardware that’s needed to run them. But business continuity is definitely a key activity. (more…)
November 5, 2013
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M2MAPPS: Insurance telematics (UBI) for commercial fleets is a very new area. There are globally approximately 4.6 million vehicles and owners that use some sort of an insurance telematics solution, but not so many in the commercial fleets. Can you talk about what can be done to make UBI more attractive to fleet customers?
CHRISTOPHER CARVER: There are two points. First, the programs really need to be simple. They have to be easy to implement. Complex systems and processes get in the way of doing business, they make adoption more difficult, they reduce the likelihood that the telematics are going to be used. (more…)
October 25, 2013
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M2MAPPS: Can you summarize Quake Global’s core competence and its key activities?
SERGIO RAMOS: QUAKE provides communications systems that enable global monitoring, tracking and control of corporate assets. We’re the market leader. (more…)
September 18, 2013
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M2MAPPS: Can you start by outlining how you started?
ARNOLD AGEMA: I entered m2m via the back door. I’d been running an IT company in the Netherlands that specialized in industrial automation and in 2008 I was approached by a Dutch OEM that had been operating worldwide since 1985. (more…)
August 5, 2013
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M2MAPPS: eDevice is involved in products, solutions and services and you cover a lot of bases. Can you indicate your core competence? Where do you focus your activities?
MARC BERREBI: The company is focused on health care, where we’re involved in every link in the value chain. Historically our core competence is based on the development of low-cost, very-efficient software stacks that enable connectivity to the Internet. (more…)
March 25, 2013
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M2MAPPS: We are integrating a module we got from a distributor, who can we get support for this from?
DAVID TREVAYNE-SMITH: This question often arises as the manufacturers of modules use the distribution network to cover their sales methods. Depending on the level of support that is required, the test laboratory you are using for certification will have access to much of the documentation covering the FCC grant on the module, the AT Commands supported and the module manufacturers’ process for integration. (more…)
November 8, 2011
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