The Internet of Things represents a vision of a deeply connected world, where sensing, computation, and communication are seamlessly integrated throughout the world around us. The resulting ecosystem of communicating things will be incredibly diverse in its makeup, ranging from vehicles and roadways, to surgical tools and hospital beds, to rivers and plumbing. The collective measurements, calculations, and application possibilities enabled by this new Internet frontier are unprecedented. The Internet of Things is poised to revolutionize products and markets and have a profound impact on society. Achieving the full potential of a deeply connected world requires partnerships that span industry, academia, and government – the same types of partnerships that laid the foundation for the Internet of Things. This talk will survey the past, present, and future of IoT, and the incredible opportunities that are already beginning to unfold. 

LTE-M and NBIoT are highly anticipated technologies for the IoT. This session will discuss the important “must know” aspects of designing commercial, industrial, wearable devices for these technologies. It will help you understand criticalities and complexities you will need to address in your development plan. You will learn to develop criteria for selecting what technology to select according to deployment geographies and other dimensions. The session is designed for a technical audience.

The transportation and logistics industries have long relied on off-the-shelf fleet management applications to help them achieve greater efficiencies. While these solutions have provided greater insight they’ve failed to leverage a whole wealth of possibilities locked within these dispersed, uncoordinated and inaccessible systems. As new IoT initiatives emerge, so does the need to validate use cases in a timely and cost effective manner while also providing the ability to rapidly scale without having to redesign the system for large deployments. Areas of focus will include real world examples of ways in which platforms can enable central data visualization such as - standardized interfaces for monitoring order-related vehicle and cargo data, customer-specific connection facilities for logistics systems and innovative data integration for truck and trailer telematics, and decision making at the grid-edge . This session will include a discussion on the best practices for evaluating IoT hardware platform capabilities and network connectivity and explore how integrated IoT platforms can enable a full array of services such as – cloud-based security with support, data analytics, real-time notifications, and more. In addition, attendees will learn about the recent trends in IoT that highlight a movement towards a multi-application platform approach that supports process optimization and efficiencies across operations, maintenance, scheduling and purchasing.

The Telit Rapid IoT Development Kit that is a fast onramp to the cloud. This scalable, cloud-ready and cellular-connected kit makes it quick and easy to develop standalone prototypes or with popular open hardware platforms. Designed with the goal of making IoT hardware prototyping as fast as possible, this kit reduces the length of IoT Prototyping cycles from a matter weeks or months to mere hours -- all by capitalizing on the combination of embedded IoT software and hardware only a truly end-to-end IoT enabler like Telit can provide. Join this session to learn more.

Beyond usage based insurance, smart car trends are driving insurance companies towards a smart transformation that renews the main value proposition and pushes them to create new ways to connect with their clients. There are now more ways than ever to manage transportation needs more effectively, improve safety, and reduce environmental impacts. Join this session to learn more.

In this session, watch as Taoglas walks through specific examples of antennas and exposures. This hands on session will demonstrate what factors affect antenna performance, putting antennas on the reflectometer to show the response and how it changes according to various influences. This session will also highlight how outside factors impact the device’s radio performance measured by carriers. Join Taoglas to learn more.

Air quality, traffic congestion, water pollution, waste management are problems cities face every day. Wireless Sensor Networks provide information about these interconnected issues simultaneously, creating synergies among available resources in a city, increasing effectiveness. A holistic approach is necessary when planning a Smart Cities strategy. Join this session to learn more.

Telit GNSS modules are some of the industry’s most feature rich and robust components to design tracking, navigation, and other devices for location based services. In this highly technical session you will be introduced to hands-on engineering and design tips and practices you can apply in your next GNSS based project. Examine a real-world use case to also glean insights to shorten your time to market on devices combining GNSS with short range connection to sensors plus cellular connectivity with Telit data plans and IoT platform services.

Arrow Electronics and Colorado Engineering will discuss new IoT capabilities in Retail and Consumer markets. From the connected device to cloud to visualization portals, Arrow and Colorado Engineering will talk about how new IoT capabilities are providing real world efficiencies, improved user experiences and cost savings that are changing the way normal business processes are done today.

Enterprises are inundated with vendors’ claims about IoT platform quality, reliability, security and ease-of-use. But not all IoT platform vendors have the core capabilities that enterprises require for IoT application enablement. Based on data collected in MachNation’s recently published, industry-leading, 2016 IoT Application Enablement Platform (AEP) ScoreCard, we will discuss the value of an IoT AEP and the criteria enterprises use when picking an AEP vendor.

In this era of ever increasing personal threats – whether it is a driver delivering pizzas, an executive traveling on business or a home healthcare worker visiting a client - it is incumbent on businesses to do as much as possible to provide their employees with the best tools to reduce their safety risks. Wearable technology – employing the smallest and best available communications technology -- supported by emergency response experts, now provides the solution. Learn how the IoT can reduce your risks in your workplace.

Technology is supposed to make our lives better. Technology packages up a lot of hard work into an easy to use package. The light bulb took the hard work of traditional oil lamp lighting and put it into a simple bulb/switch combo. Smart phones took the resources of the internet and put them in our pockets. We love to talk about Thomas Edison, Apple, and the other great innovators who put the hard work in to make what was hard, easy. But when it comes to the IoT, we don’t talk about our own innovators, the IoT device makers and what we do to enable them. These device makers do the hard work of combining the connectivity, the sensors, and the hardware into devices that makes our lives easier. Connectivity providers, like Ingenu, have an obligation to provide device makers with IoT connectivity that does the hard work on the wireless side, so they can do the hard work on the hardware side. If connectivity providers neglect their duty to provide true technology, then these innovators are hamstrung in how much simpler they can make our lives because they’ll be busy overcoming the connectivity’s shortcomings. The thing is, not every provider has done the hard work. In this presentation, we highlight some of these surprises and show that real technology brings true simplicity.

Numerex talks about real world vs. hype in today’s IoT, and what it takes to deliver market ready solutions that benefit your customers, as well as how getting ‘out of the cloud’ helps companies face the reality of the IoT and build on the opportunities that it presents today.

always say that IoT is a market of markets. What Markets are looking for solutions in South America. This is a discussion about what opportunities are hot and how IoT adds value.

The Internet of Things requires a new kind of security to protect devices, data and the Cloud. Yesterday’s security technologies were designed for browsers and the Web, and should not be reused and recycled for IoT use cases. Attend this interactive session to discuss the pitfalls of employing legacy security and/or oversized enterprise solutions in your IoT projects. Learn about technology to easily add advanced data security to your cutting edge IoT products.

The most successful open source Apache movement is generating competitive advantages to Samsung, Elsevier, Microsoft, etc. How do use it in IoT?

Developing IoT solutions can start as a prototype. Migrating to scalable solutions requires an understanding of how to manage network connectivity. This session is about the obstacles IoT start-ups face in developing globally.