les high tech sector: internet of things webinar iot … · 2017-05-22 · iot technology and ip...

34
Relecura Inc. www.relecura.com [email protected] 27 April 2017 IoT Technology and IP Commercialization Trends LES High Tech Sector: Internet of Things Webinar

Upload: phamkhanh

Post on 20-Jun-2018

213 views

Category:

Documents


0 download

TRANSCRIPT

Relecura Inc.

www.relecura.com

[email protected] April 2017

IoT Technology and IP Commercialization Trends

LES High Tech Sector: Internet of Things Webinar

27 April 2017

IoT patents – Report overview

IoT market and technology

Analysis methodology

IoT patent landscape• Top patent holders

• Publishing trends

• Geographical spread

• Citation analysis

• Patent quality

IoT IP commercialization• Transaction trends

• Selected deals

• Top buyers and sellers

IoT technologies - Analysis• Quick facts on key players

• Taxonomy by Technologies

• Company rankings

• Patent quality

IoT applications - Analysis• Quick facts on key players

• Taxonomy by Applications

• Company rankings

• Patent quality

References

Copyright © 2017 Relecura Inc., All rights reserved. 2

IoT Growth Estimates

27 April 2017

Metric Source Growth Estimates Comment

Market GrowthIDC

$656 billion in 2014 to $1.7 trillion in 2020.

CAGR 16.9% (2014 -2020)

McKinsey $900M in 2015 to $3.7B in 2020. CAGR 32.6% (2015-2020)

Connected IoT Devices by 2020/2021 (excluding smartphones, tablets, and computers)

Gartner 21 billion (2020)

Ericsson 16 billion (2021)IoT devices will exceed mobile phones in 2018.CAGR 23% (2015-2021)

IDC 28.1 billion (2020) CAGR 17.5% (2015-2020)

IoT Spend by Companies in 2020

BCG $270 billionThis is in addition to their other IT spend.

Zinnov$120 billion in 2016, growing to $253 billion in 2021.

CAGR 16% (2016-2021)

Sales by Companies: providing IoT hardware, software, and end-to-end solutions.

Bain $470 billion

A.T. Kearney $344 billion

Copyright © 2017 Relecura Inc., All rights reserved. 3

IoT – Growth drivers

27 April 2017

In 1-2 years

• Smart meters• Track and trace• Fleet management

In 2-5 years

• Self-optimizing production• Remote patient monitoring• Connected cars

Adoption Timeframe

Forrester• Fleet management• Security and surveillance • Inventory and warehouse

BCG• Manufacturing• Transportation and logistics• Utilities

Hot Application Areas

Copyright © 2017 Relecura Inc., All rights reserved. 4

IoT – Technology stack

Sensors and Devices

Processors

Pow

er m

anag

eme

nt

Iden

tity

& S

ecu

rity

Network

Applications and Services

Data analyticsCloud and PlatformIntegrates hardware and

application layers.

Dat

a st

ora

ge

Will capture 60% of IoT spend by 2020, Total B2B IoT spend by 2020 ~ US$270 billion.

27 April 2017

Infrastructure

Applications

Copyright © 2017 Relecura Inc., All rights reserved. 5

IoT – Application areas

Business -facing Customer-facing

AgricultureManufacturing

MiningEnergy

Natural resourcesSupply chain

ProcessMilitary

Transportation & Logistics

HealthcareUtilities

GovernmentPublic services

Banking & InsuranceEducationHospitality

Both

RetailHome automation

WearablesEntertainment

Will capture 50% of IoT spend by 2020,

27 April 2017 Copyright © 2017 Relecura Inc., All rights reserved. 6

IoT strategy – State of play

At this juncture,

• IoT definition is in flux – hence the wide range in growth estimates

• Technologies, applications and business models are in the growth stage.

What is emerging is that,

• The IoT market is driven by specific use case scenarios.

• Customers want end-to-end solutions.

• Companies have to provide the complete stack for seamless inter-operability.

• This drives M&A activity, IP and partnerships.

.

27 April 2017 Copyright © 2017 Relecura Inc., All rights reserved. 7

IoT players – Focus & strategy - 1

27 April 2017

Sector Companies Acquisitions Comments

Technologies (Company, Description) Applications (Company, Description)

Industrial

GE Meridium Analytics – Asset performance management

Service Max Manufacturing – Factory automation

• GE's M&A focus is to build out its IoT stack as well bolster its offerings in key application areas in Industrial IoT.

• GE has used partnerships to strengthen its Industrial IoT presence (e.g. PTC) or enter new markets (e.g. Huawei in China).

• PTC's acquisitions give it a strong presence in the application and IoT platform layers of the stack.

Bit Stew Analytics – Data modeling, real time processing

Shipexpress Supply chain

Wise.io Analytics Daintree Networks Utilities – Networked lighting

Wurldtech Security

PTC Kepware Applications & Services

ColdLight Analytics

Axeda Cloud & Platform

ThingWorx Cloud & Platform

Software

Amazon AWS NICE Cloud & Platform, Analytics Elemental Technologies Entertainment – Video processing • Google has made a couple of key acquisitions in home automation, including smart utilities monitoring (Nest) and Wi-Fi cameras (Dropcam).

• Amazon has concentrated on the IoT stack in terms of its acquisitions, including a semiconductor company.

• Other software players show a focus on acquiring companies in the application (higher value) layer of the IoT stack.

• SAP acquired Plat One’s IoT platform to integrate it with its SAP HANA Cloud Platform.

2lemetry Cloud & Platform, Analytics

ClusterK Cloud & Platform

Annapurna Labs Processors, Devices

Google Apigee Cloud & Platform – API manager Nest Labs Home automation

Deepmind Analytics - AI Dropcam Home automation – Wi-Fi cameras

SAP Plat One Cloud & Platform - IoT platform

Microsoft Solair Applications & Services

Salesforce Implisit Analytics

HardwareCisco Jasper Cloud & Platform • Cisco's focus seems to be building out the

application layer of its IoT stack.ParStream Analytics

Piston Cloud Computing Cloud & Platform

Metacloud Cloud & Platform

Copyright © 2017 Relecura Inc., All rights reserved. 8

IoT players – Focus & strategy - 2

27 April 2017

Sector Companies Acquisitions Comments

Technologies (Companies, Description) Applications (Companies, Description)

Consumer electronics

Samsung Harman Transportation – Connected cars

• Samsung's acquisition of Harman is to give it a stronger presence in the connected car space.

Nokia Withings Healthcare – Monitoring and fitness devices

Sony Altair Processors, Network

Telecom

Verizon Fleetmatics Transportation - Telematics • Verizon has acquired companies in various IoT application areas.

• Verizon has made multiple acquisitions in the transportation applications area, including telematics and fleet management.

Telogis Transportation – Fleet management

Hughes Telematics Transportation

Sensity Systems Utilities - Lighting

LQD WiFi Public services – Muni WiFi

Semiconductor

Intel Nervana Analytics – Deep learning Yogitech Transportation - ADAS • Semiconductor companies seem to have acquired companies in the hardware or infrastructure layer of the IoT stack.

• Intel has acquired a couple of analytics companies with the intention of providing a hardware+softwaresolution for the IoT stack.

Saffron Technology Analytics – Cognitive computing

Soft Machines Processors, Devices

Cypress Broadcom Processors, Devices

Brocade Ruckus Processors, Network

Other IoT players: Industrial: Siemens, Bosch, Autodesk | Software: IBM, Oracle | Telecom: AT&T | Semiconductor: Qualcomm, ARM

Key finding: The major IoT players seem to be acquiring companies in the upper (high value) layers of the tech stack, in preference to companies working in specific IoT application areas.

Copyright © 2017 Relecura Inc., All rights reserved. 9

IoT Patent Landscape

27 April 2017 Copyright © 2017 Relecura Inc., All rights reserved. 10

27 April 2017

IoT patents – Top-level findings

• The top patent holders are from diverse sectors like consumer electronics (Samsung, LG, Sony); telecom

(Huawei, Ericsson, Korea Electronics Telecom, ZTE), and software (IBM, Microsoft)..

• Qualcomm is the leading filer in multiple jurisdictions as well as PCT filings. This suggests an intention to license

its technologies worldwide.

• The network layer has the highest number of patent filings and accounts for 62% of all the IoT patents.

• IoT patent transactions per year have shown an increase after 2011.

• Patent filings related to the upper layers of the IoT stack were less till 2011, but have increased significantly

starting in 2012.

Copyright © 2017 Relecura Inc., All rights reserved. 11

IoT patents - Summary

Analysis done for patents published in the last 10 years (starting 2007).

27 April 2017 Copyright © 2017 Relecura Inc., All rights reserved. 12

IoT patents – Assignee Topic Map

27 April 2017

1. The size of the bubble denotes the number of IoT patent assets held by the company

2. The proximity of the bubbles indicates the similarity between the overall portfolio of each of the companies, in terms of technologies addressed.

Key finding: We can identify different sectoral clusters in the Topic Map of the patent holding companies such as,• Automotive• Industrial• Consumer electronics• Telecom

Top 50 patent holders shown.

Copyright © 2017 Relecura Inc., All rights reserved. 13

AutomotiveIndustrial

Consumer ElectronicsTelecom

IoT patents – Top patent holders

27 April 2017

Key findings:• The patent holdings are spread over several players with no single company

or small group of companies holding the bulk of the patents.• The top patent holders are from diverse sectors like consumer electronics

(Samsung, LG, Sony); telecom (Huawei, Ericsson, Korea Electronics Telecomm, ZTE), software (IBM, Microsoft).

1. The above results* are based on 234,391 relevant patent documents for IoT comprising of 129,770 equivalents**.

2. * Results are based on patents published in the last 10 years.3. ** An EQUIVALENT refers to a set of patent filings with the

same priority documents, representing a single invention.

Copyright © 2017 Relecura Inc., All rights reserved. 14

IoT patents – Top patent holders – Publishing trends

27 April 2017

Key findings:• Samsung's pace of filing increased significantly starting 2014.• Intel's filings show a similar trend with the filings increasing

post 2013.• Nokia's patent filings show a dip, reaching a low in 2011, and

then slowly increasing again.• Qualcomm's filings have been consistent and steadily

increasing in the past ten years.

Copyright © 2017 Relecura Inc., All rights reserved. 15

IoT high quality* patents – Top holders

27 April 2017

“High quality” patent – Patents with a Relecura Patent Quality star rating of 3 or above (out of 5).* 10,326 filings are deemed “high quality”.

** Percentage of high quality patent filings owned by the organization.

Patent HolderNumber of high quality*

applicationsShare** of high

quality applicationsQUALCOMM 852 7.14

INTEL 412 3.45

SAMSUNG 393 3.30

SONY 303 2.54

CISCO 272 2.28

GOOGLE 260 2.18

NOKIA 236 1.98

MICROSOFT 227 1.90

ERICSSON 203 1.70

AVAGO 183 1.53

LG 123 1.03

AT&T 119 1.00

AUTOCONNECT HOLDINGS LLC 116 0.97

BLACKBERRY 113 0.95

APPLE 112 0.94

HUAWEI 106 0.89

IBM 102 0.86

FITBIT INC 96 0.80

PANASONIC 95 0.80

HONEYWELL 83 0.70

INTERDIGITAL 82 0.69

PHILIPS 80 0.67

GE 64 0.54

FISHER ROSEMOUNT SYSTEMS 60 0.50

AMAZON 59 0.49

Patent HolderNumber of high quality*

applicationsShare** of high quality

applicationsSIEMENS 56 0.47

ALCATEL-LUCENT 54 0.45CANON 51 0.43

MOTOROLA 50 0.42

INTERTRUST 48 0.40

ROCKWELL AUTOMATION 48 0.40

NEC 45 0.38WHIRLPOOL 44 0.37

HARRIS 42 0.35HITACHI 40 0.34RICOH 38 0.32

SAP 37 0.31

SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC 37 0.31

FUJITSU 33 0.28ORACLE 33 0.28BOEING 32 0.27

ELWHA 32 0.27

MARVELL 32 0.27TEGO INC 32 0.27

SONOS INC 31 0.26

HEADWATER RESEARCH LLC 30 0.25

ITRI 30 0.25SPLUNK INC 30 0.25

VERIZON 30 0.25

ACCENTURE 29 0.24

Key finding: Qualcomm, Intel, Samsung, Sony and Cisco are the top holders of the high quality* IoT patents.

Copyright © 2017 Relecura Inc., All rights reserved. 16

IoT patents – Transactions

27 April 2017 Copyright © 2017 Relecura Inc., All rights reserved. 17

IoT patents – Transactions

27 April 2017

Key finding: IoT patent transactions per year have shown an increase after 2011.

The above results* are based on transactions of 12,201** IoT patent documents.• Results are based on patents published in the last 10 years.• Transaction records between the same company, patents mortgaged to bank and inventor transactions are not included in the count.** The results are grouped by applications, which give one transaction for both the published application and granted document taken together.

Copyright © 2017 Relecura Inc., All rights reserved. 18

IoT patents – Key transactions

27 April 2017

Key findings:• Google acquired patents from Motorola Mobility, KLJ Consulting, Nest Labs and IBM.• Autoconnect Holdings acquired 152 applications in the area of connected cars.• Samsung acquired patents from Allure Energy in the area of smart homes.

• HP’s acquisition of Aruba Networks gave it access to security related patents.• Broadcom acquired patents from Octalica Inc. in the area of home networks, Innovision in

NFC, and LTE-related assets from Renesas.• Cisco acquired network related patents from PARC, cloud and platform related patents from

Jasper Technologies, and cyber security patents from Sourcefire.

Buyer Seller/Transfer* No. of Applications*

AvagoBroadcom 532

Agere 19

GOOGLE

MOTOROLA MOBILITY 119

KLJ CONSULTING LLC 84

NEST LABS 68

IBM 12

AUTOMATED CONTROL TECHNOLOGY PARTNERS INC 6

AUTOCONNECT HOLDINGS LLC FLEXTRONICS 152

SAMSUNG

ALLURE ENERGY INC 34

AT&T 3

CELLSPIN SOFT INC 1

NOKIA

SIEMENS (Joint venture closed) 23

SYMBIAN (Foundation closed) 6

LOUDEYE CORP 2

ALCATEL-LUCENT

MOTIVE INC 15

BEIER AERKATE CO LTD SHANGHAI 11

MFORMATION SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGIES LLC 8

QUALCOMM

CAMBRIDGE SILICON RADIO 53

HP 43

ORB NETWORKS INC 16

INNOPATH SOFTWARE INC 5

Buyer Seller/Transfer* No. of Applications*

HP

PALM 40

ARUBA NETWORKS 17

3COM 13

BITFONE 10

MicrosoftMAXSP CORP 14

ROCKSTAR CONSORTIUM(Microsoft is a consortium member)

8

NXP BROADCOM 15

INTEL VIA TELECOM (Asset sale) 19

BROADCOM

RENESAS 38

INNOVISION RES & TECH LTD 13

OCTALICA INC 5

CISCO

PALO ALTO RESEARCH CENTER (PARC) 20

JASPER TECHNOLOGIES LLC 10

SOURCEFIRE 9

ADIDAS TECHNIKKA CONEXION LLC 42

APPLE

ROCKSTAR CONSORTIUM(Apple is a consortium member)

32

BODHI TECHNOLOGY VENTURES LLC 1

NIKE 1

PINPOINT INC 1* Companies in red indicate assignment transfer via acquisition.

Copyright © 2017 Relecura Inc., All rights reserved. 19

IoT patents – Top buyers

27 April 2017

Key finding: Avago, Google, Samsung, Nokia and Alcatel-Lucent are the key companies acquiring IoT patents.

Copyright © 2017 Relecura Inc., All rights reserved. 20

IoT patents – Top sellers/transfer

27 April 2017

Key findings: Broadcom, HP, Flextronics, IBM and Motorola Mobility are the key companies selling/transferring IoT patents.

Copyright © 2017 Relecura Inc., All rights reserved. 21

27 April 2017

IoT patents – Analysis methodology

Technology Categories

• Data Analytics

• Cloud computing

• Data storage

• Power management

• Security

• Network

• Processors

• Sensors

Application Categories

• Home automation

• Utilities

• Factory automation

• Automotive

• E-commerce

• Health

• Wearable

• Agriculture

• Mining

The IoT patents are segmented in based on:1. The layer of the technology stack they address.2. The application area they pertain to. • Taxonomies are created in the Taxonomy Builder,

using AI-based query and child node suggestions.• The taxonomies are mapped in the Portfolio

Manager to IoT patents published worldwide in the last 10 years.

• The Portfolio Manager generates analytics and insights on technologies, applications, and company portfolios.

Relecura’s Taxonomy Builder and Portfolio Manager

Copyright © 2017 Relecura Inc., All rights reserved. 22

IoT patents – Analysis by Technologies

27 April 2017 Copyright © 2017 Relecura Inc., All rights reserved. 23

IoT patents – Taxonomy (Technologies)

27 April 2017 Copyright © 2017 Relecura Inc., All rights reserved. 24

IoT patents – Company rankings (Technologies)

27 April 2017

Key findings:• Samsung is a key patent holder in most of the layers of the technology stack.• Intel is the top player in power management, and has patent filings in other layers of

the stack as well.

• IBM’s patent holdings are mainly focused on data storage, analytics, processors and cloud computing.

• Google has patent filings primarily in sensors and cloud computing technologies.

• Rockwell Automation shows up in the company rankings for just cloud computing.

Rank (based on # of equivalents held)

Network Sensors Security Power Management Data Analytics Data Storage Processors Cloud Computing

1 SAMSUNG(3321) SAMSUNG(1451) SAMSUNG(2381) INTEL(695) SAMSUNG(644) SAMSUNG(155) SAMSUNG(489) SAMSUNG(67)

2 QUALCOMM(2743)KOREA ELECTRONICS TELECOMM(686)

QUALCOMM(1177) SAMSUNG(629) QUALCOMM(507) INTEL(97) SONY(206) INTEL(56)

3 HUAWEI(2007)STATE GRID CORPORATION OF CHINA (SGCC)(444)

INTEL(761) QUALCOMM(609)KOREA ELECTRONICS TELECOMM(402)

LG(91) MICROSOFT(176) MICROSOFT(55)

4 LG(1758) SIEMENS(429) HUAWEI(684)STATE GRID CORPORATION OF CHINA (SGCC)(580)

SONY(312) IBM(79) IBM(156) GOOGLE(48)

5 ZTE(1671) LG(360) LG(657) LG(433) ZTE(297) HITACHI(74) PANASONIC(134) IBM(48)

6 INTEL(1583) PHILIPS(349) ERICSSON(640) SIEMENS(375) HUAWEI(294)STATE GRID CORPORATION OF CHINA (SGCC)(74)

NEC(121) ZONGCHENG LI(48)

7 ERICSSON(1477) SONY(333) ZTE(634)KOREA ELECTRONICS TELECOMM(282)

MICROSOFT(262) HUAWEI(73) HUAWEI(118) QUALCOMM(39)

8 SONY(1277) QUALCOMM(293) NOKIA(549) HUAWEI(212)STATE GRID CORPORATION OF CHINA (SGCC)(246)

SONY(72) HITACHI(117) SIEMENS(38)

9 NOKIA(1193) GOOGLE(287) SONY(525) PANASONIC(210) LG(235) MICROSOFT(69) INTEL(112)KOREA ELECTRONICS TELECOMM(27)

10KOREA ELECTRONICS TELECOMM(1151)

NANJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS(287)

CISCO(449) SONY(210) IBM(233) ZTE(68) QUALCOMM(100)ROCKWELL AUTOMATION(25)

Copyright © 2017 Relecura Inc., All rights reserved. 25

IoT patents – Publishing trends (Technologies)

27 April 2017

Key findings:• Filings in IoT network-related technologies have

been the highest each year over the last ten years.• The filings in sensors overtook those in security in

2009 and have exceeded them since.• Cloud computing filings were the least among the

technologies studied till 2011, but have increased significantly starting in 2012.

• Every IoT-related technology, except processors, have show a marked upward trend from 2011.

• The filing trend for processors has been more or less flat over the last ten years.

Copyright © 2017 Relecura Inc., All rights reserved. 26

IoT patents – Analysis by Applications

27 April 2017 Copyright © 2017 Relecura Inc., All rights reserved. 27

IoT patents – Taxonomy (Applications) Complete - 1

27 April 2017 Copyright © 2017 Relecura Inc., All rights reserved. 28

IoT patents – Taxonomy (Applications) Complete - 2

27 April 2017 Copyright © 2017 Relecura Inc., All rights reserved. 29

IoT patents – Company rankings (Applications)

27 April 2017

Rank (based on # of equivalents held)

Home Utilities Factory Automation Automotive e-commerce Health Wearables Agriculture Mining

1 SAMSUNG(1386)STATE GRID CORPORATION OF CHINA (SGCC)(530)

STATE GRID CORPORATION OF CHINA (SGCC)(227)

SAMSUNG(308) SAMSUNG(391) SAMSUNG(401) SAMSUNG(250) JOHN DEERE (13) HALLIBURTON(64)

2 HUAWEI(826) LG(406) SIEMENS(205) GM(204) QUALCOMM(202) PHILIPS(187) INTEL(71) HUSQVARNA (11)CHINA UNIVERSITY OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY(50)

3 ZTE(726) QUALCOMM(294) QUALCOMM(121) HYUNDAI(172) NOKIA(98) GE(83) QUALCOMM(53)WUXI TONGCHUN NEW ENERGY TECH (11)

SCHLUMBERGER(44)

4 LG(686) SAMSUNG(291) SAMSUNG(118) TOYOTA(160) SONY(97) QUALCOMM(77) PHILIPS(49) IROBOT (9) BAKER HUGHES(25)

5 ERICSSON(460) INTEL(201) ABB(113) CONTINENTAL(136) LG(83) COVIDIEN(67) LG(48)NANJING AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY (8)

ANHUI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY(24)

6 SONY(384)KOREA ELECTRONICS TELECOMM(177)

INTEL(90) DENSO(126) INTEL(81) SIEMENS(67) MICROSOFT(46) ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY (8) SHELL(17)

7 QUALCOMM(373) SIEMENS(154)FISHER ROSEMOUNT SYSTEMS(82)

FORD(118) CISCO(75) HILL-ROM(61)KOREA ELECTRONICS TELECOMM(44)

CLAAS (7)SELMAN AND ASSOCIATES LTD(9)

8 PANASONIC(330) ERICSSON(140)ROCKWELL AUTOMATION(82)

BOSCH(95) IBM(73) MEDTRONIC(56) SONY(32) KUBOTA (7) UNANIMOUS A I INC(9)

9 NOKIA(309) CISCO(136)NANJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS(69)

QUALCOMM(87)AUTOCONNECT HOLDINGS LLC(71)

INTEL(51)NANJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS(30)

RAIN BIRD CORPORATION (7) STIMLINE AS(8)

10KOREA ELECTRONICS TELECOMM(291)

SONY(124) ZTE(67) GE(81) HUAWEI(70) MICROSOFT(38) SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY(30) YANMAR (7)XIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY(8)

Key findings:• Patent holdings in the automotive and mining application areas are dominated by the incumbent companies in these sectors.• Patents related to agriculture applications have been mainly filed by academic and research institutions.

Copyright © 2017 Relecura Inc., All rights reserved. 30

IoT patents – Publishing trends (Applications)

27 April 2017

Key findings:• Patent filings in applications related

to utilities increased significantly beginning 2010.

• Automotive and factory automation applications have seen significantly greater patent filings starting 2011.

• The wearables application segment has seen rapid growth after 2013.

Copyright © 2017 Relecura Inc., All rights reserved. 31

Contact us

Mail: [email protected]

Phone: +1 925 558 2775, +1 510 675 0222

Relecura is an analytics platform that uses machine learning, semantic analysis, and predictive analyticsto process patents and IP portfolios. Relecura offers custom enterprise solutions and platforms tocorporations, law firms, IP services firms, R&D organizations and academic institutions. For more detailsvisit www.relecura.com.

27 April 2017 Copyright © 2017 Relecura Inc., All rights reserved. 32

www.twitter.com/relecura

www.linkedin.com/company/relecura

References

Market and business scenario

• Winning in IoT: It’s All About the Business Processes

• Roundup Of Internet Of Things Forecasts And Market Estimates, 2016

• Popular Internet of Things Forecast of 50 Billion Devices by 2020 Is Outdated

• Gartner Says 8.4 Billion Connected "Things" Will Be in Use in 2017, Up 31 Percent From 2016

• Zinnov Zones for IoT Services

• 5 startups dominating IoT security

• IoT market segments - Biggest opportunities in industrial manufacturing

Acquisitions

• IoT Sector Consolidation Heats Up With SAP's Plat.One Acquisition

• 10 Internet Of Things Acquisitions So Far In 2016

• 6 Noteworthy IoT Acquisitions That Happened in 2016

Patents

• The IP of IoT - Top 5 Companies and How Their IP Pans Out

• New IoT platform off to a good start but deals will ultimately determine success

• Ericsson’s patent pool is far from the new start the IoT needs

Background

• Internet of Things (IoT) and related terms - the big IoT definitions overview

• Mapping the Internet of Things

• The Ultimate Guide to Internet of Things (IoT) Technology

27 April 2017 Copyright © 2017 Relecura Inc., All rights reserved. 33

Disclaimer

27 April 2017

This document is provided for information purposes only and the contents hereof are subject to change withoutnotice. This document, including the information and analysis and any opinion or recommendation, is neither legaladvice nor intended for investment purposes. This document is not warranted to be error-free, nor subject to anyother warranties or conditions, whether expressed orally or implied in law, including implied warranties and conditionsof merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. Relecura Inc. specifically disclaims any liability with respect tothis document and no contractual obligations are formed either directly or indirectly by this document.

Copyright © 2017 Relecura Inc., All rights reserved. 34