European Internet of Things Industry Survey 2016

PLAT.ONE conducted an Internet of Things Industry survey in Europe during Q2-2016 to learn more about the challenges IT and business professionals are facing with their IoT projects.

Key areas of investigation included IT infrastructure, technology requirements, business challenges and state of deployment.

A summary of the results follow. Thank you to all those who participated.

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“We are fascinated to see that Connectivity and Protocols came out as the top technical challenge in the PLAT.ONE 2016 European IoT Survey. This topic comes up frequently with customers when choosing an IoT platform. The concern is future proofing and support to interoperate across the myriad of legacy, new and unknown machine protocols. Being able to ingest, combine and correlate data from any device that comes along is critical. This is not something that traditional integration vendors know how to do and requires a completely new approach for the IoT era.”

Dr. John BatesCEO of PLAT.ONE, author of Thingalytics, speaker on topics including IoT and Thinganomics

What IT and business projects do you have with IoT in 2016/2017?

Key Findings•  #1 Connected Products•  #2 Transport / Logistics•  #3 Smart Cities / Other•  #4 Healthcare•  #5 Energy Efficiency for

Data Centres

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Are your IoT projects funded or still in the planning stage?

Key Findings•  72% Planned•  9.1% Funded

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Are you building most of this internally or using partners?

Key Findings•  Mix of partners and

internal is #1 answer•  Internal build though is

not #2, rather to build with Partners

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What is your biggest technical challenge in planning and deploying IoT projects?

Key Findings•  Connectivity and

Protocols #1 with 50%•  Analysis of IoT Data

comes in second with 21.4%

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What is your biggest business challenge in planning and deploying IoT projects?

Key Findings“Proving ROI” is the #1 issue. ��

Is this really a surprise? Perhaps not, many businesses conventions are challenged as firms seek to adapt to the new possibilities offered by the IoT and understand the principles of Thinganomics (see over).8

1.  Differentiate through services

2.  Pay-as-you-go for everything

3.  Collect IoT data from channel &

sell it back as analytic services

4.  Uberization: Everything is a

market

5.  Use IoT to save money on

modernization

6.  Increased yield through smart IoT

monitoring

7.  Predicting failure & prolonging

life is profitable

Thinganomics PRINCIPLES 7

SUMMARY

John Bates, CEO •  CTO, CMO at Progress & SoftwareAG

•  Founder, President of Apama

•  Author Thingalytics, Thought-Leader

Filippo Murroni, CTO •  Founder of PLAT.ONE

•  Deep IoT, M2M Expert

•  Industry-awarded technology leader

500,000+ Sensors under management

200,000+ Gateways/devices under management

84+ Man years in product development

30+ Industrial customers

ABOUT PLAT.ONE PLAT.ONE offers an Enterprise IoT Applications Platform. PLAT.ONE is headquartered in Palo Alto with a global commercial and development team. We enable telecom operators, system integrators and large corporations to seamlessly design, develop and deploy mission-critical M2M / IoT solutions such as Smart Cities, Smart Data Centers, and Connected Products.

European Internet of Things Industry Survey 2016

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