LIBELIUM
A Global Leader in Precision Farming and Smart Cities
www.mirrorreview.com / Dec. 2017 Issue
Alicia AsĂn Co-Founder & CEO
Editor’s Letter IoT is experiencing a widespread adoption. Businesses all over the world are adopting the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) to reap the benefits of it in business. And this has resulted in the digital transformation of the world which was not at all possible without the global adoption of the IoT technology. When it comes to leverage a digital advantage over competitors, businesses are relying on the IoT benefits they have. This has made us come up with an issue that is totally dedicated to the companies that are offering best of the IoT services and solutions available out there. In this issue of The 10 Premier IoT Solution Providers of 2017, we are focused on to narrate the beautiful stories of these IoT solution provider companies and their leaders that have come up with their unique services after defeating all the odds in their way. On the cover of this issue of The 10 Premier IoT Solution Providers of 2017, we have Libelium, which is having 10000+ developers in the world's largest companies and with deployments in 120 countries. The management of Alicia Asín at the head of Libelium has led the company to build 11 years of successful history. In the last five years, Libelium has experienced a growth rate of 20% year-on-year in its turnover, which has been motivated by an increase in the percentage of exports and also accompanied by a considerable contribution to the generation of employment. Also, in this issue, we have with us a global technology services and solutions provider for startups and businesses of all sizes, Mobisoft Infotech, helping to build, improve and scale software products across platforms, leveraging the latest technologies for - mobile, web, cloud, data analytics, IoT and AI. And we have with us KMC Controls, an American manufacturer of open, secure, and scalable IoT and building automation solutions. From secure hardware devices to smart and connected software, KMC delivers embedded intelligence and optimized control. All these companies are offering the best IoT services available out there. But it is not the the services but the interesting stories of entrepreneurs and ventures that made us write about them in this issue of The 10 Premier IoT Solution Providers of 2017. Managing Editor
Archana Ghule Editor-in-Chief Henry Wilson
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Senior Editor Sarah Smith
Business Consultants James Adams Maria Garcia Amar Saxena
Archana Ghule
Research Analysts Mark, Steven Lisa, Nancy
Editorial Assistants Brian, Ronald, Linda
Graphic Designer Poonam Magdum
Client Communication Head Josephina Marie
Human Resource Head George Williams
Technology Consultant Swagat Chawbe
Advertising Head Annirudha Mehata
Managing Editor
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32 Shailendra Sinhasane CEO, Mobisoft
12 Richard Newberry CEO, KMC
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Alicia AsĂn Co-Founder & CEO
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How Smart a Smart 10 Home can be ?
IoT In 2018
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How Smart a Smart Home can be ?
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n this interconnected world, are you ready to move from a normal and simple home to a an advanced or smart home?
First of all, let me ask you a question; What do you do when you wake up in the morning? Connect Wi-Fi so that you can check the messages and scroll on social sites, right? Imagine, your all home appliance is connected to a Wi-Fi and you are controlling all the things in your home. This is what they call a smart home. Let us discuss what exactly is smart home automation. What is Smart Home Automation? It’s all about controlling and automation of lighting, heat, ventilation, air condition and security. Also, controlling the home appliance like washers, dryers, oven, refrigerators and television. It works remotely. No physical work is required when everything is connected to the internet. Home automation has been around from many decades in terms of lighting and simple appliance control. However, recently technology caught up for the idea of interconnected world, allowing full control of your home, it doesn’t matter where you are. Convenience to life In childhood, we were remotely controlling the remote cars and nowadays we are controlling the television and air condition by a remote. Similarly, in the near future, we are going to control and automate home appliance, entertainment and security.
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But, what are the applications that transforms a normal home into a smart home. Well, with increasing innovations, the products facilitating our daily lives and contributing to a smart home are continuously increasing. However, we have tried to list current popular applications of IoT and Cloud for our homes. Smart Home Products We all know at least a few of the smart products. Here, we are listing more products that we are not aware of, this will give us an idea of how much smart our homes are becoming! Smart Security ·
Smart alarm systems – it’s an alarm system for the home, if any unknown person comes to your home this system warn you.
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Smart security camera – it’s a security camera which is connected to your surveillance system.
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Smart motion detectors – it detects movement by human or animal. Unauthorized movement is detected within a 40 ft. a range of installation. You will be instantly notified by your iOS or Android smartphone or tablet in the event of a breach when the system is armed. With additional motion sensors, more detection zones can be protected.
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Smart smoke detectors – it detects the smoke and sends a message to your phone.
Smart home access ·
Smart garage door openers – it is innovative, high-tech features like built-in Smartphone Control making it easy to access your home and garage.
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Smart doorbells – You can watch over your home in 1080HD video, Hear and speak to visitors with 2-way talk and protect your home day or night with built-in night vision.
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Smart door lock – It allows you to lock the door with a special code. If anybody will try to open it you will get a notification.
Smart lighting ·
Smart bulb – The brightness of the light can be dimmed or can brighten more. It’s totally controlled by the smartphone
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Smart plug – It can be accessed by a smartphone through Wi-Fi to make it on or off.
Home Automation Smart Assist – It’s just like the assistant of our house. It takes care of our house even if we are not there. Smart hubs – it gives access to connect to different smart things like a smart bulb, smart camera and many more. Smart Energy Management ·
Smart Electric Vehicle charger
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Home Energy consumption Monitors
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Smart Heating and Cooling
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Smart Water Heaters
Smart Appliances ·
Smart Washers & Dryers
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Smart Refrigerators
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Smart Dishwashers
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Smart Ovens
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Smart Vacuums
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Advantages of smart home Now we know that almost every appliance in our home can collect data and help our home to process as we program it for. Let us see what are the advantages these smart products will provide to us. ·
Convenience to daily life – Whether you will be at home or not you can control your home smartly
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Safety – When the safety of a home comes to our mind, we hope that we can see the thief and put it in jail. How about controlling a security of a home by your mobile. Smart home securities allow us to view our home where ever we are. Smart securities consist of a camera, motion detectors and smart lock.
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Environment-Friendly – smart home features like temperature controller, air condition and lighting helps to lower the electricity bill. Some smart home appliance tracks your electricity usage and helps to lower it.
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User-friendly – All smart home products can be installed without any efforts. If you are tech savvy then using them is easier for you.
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Energy Saving – Smart home products consume less electricity.
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Fun – The smart home products gets you involved. You can enjoy while your work is going on.
Disadvantage of Smart Home Cost – Most of the products have very high costs. Reliability – Smart home is completely dependent on your internet connection, suppose your internet connection drops, none of your smart home products will work. Security – With more connected devices, security of sensible data remains at stake.
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KMC Controls Open, Secure, and Scalable Building Automation Systems
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“By teaming up with leading technology providers, we help our customers increase operating efficiency, optimize energy usage, maximize comfort and improve safety.” the following factors to its success, and with these factors, looks to achieve further heights in the business. a. Strong Corporate Leadership Support: The KMC Leadership team is dedicated to emerging technologies and providing innovative and intuitive solutions to KMC customers. b. Strong CEO Vision: Richard Newberry has provided a strong and consistent vision for the company in its IoT initiatives and strategy. c. History of a Commitment to Open Solutions: IoT will only be successful when vendors use and provide open solutions. KMC has always been committed to providing open solutions, so transitioning to a new mentality wasn’t necessary. d. Customer Commitment: KMC Controls views its customers as partners, and strives to provide products that are innovative, reliable and easy to use with personalized support and training. Future challenges for KMC KMC anticipates great amounts of growth in a number of channels. The company’s current and most successful channel historically has been the OT channel of Systems Integrators and OEM customers, focused primarily on HVAC solutions. The team expects that their IT markets of IT managed service providers and CIO/IT Directors for midsize enterprises will grow dramatically, easily doubling current customer and revenue projections. Excited to face these challenges,
Richard Newberry CEO, KMC
Newberry says, “We couldn’t be more thrilled with what the future holds for KMC, and we’re excited to experience all of this growth with customers and partners alike.” Newberry’s Advice for IoT Newcomers The market is ripe for innovation, and there are huge amounts of potential in numerous segments. IoT is the biggest thing to happen since the industrial revolution, even bigger than the mobile revolution. We’re entering a phase of digital transformation that will change the way we run our businesses in the future. So for someone entering the industry, pick a lane and hold on… it’s going to be exciting. Our lane is Smart Building IoT and it’s been an adventurous few years.
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ADLINK Technology
Aeris www.aeris.com
www.adlinktech.com
Marc Jones, Chairman and CEO
Jim Liu, CEO ADLINK Technology provides leading edge computing in the age of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT).
Aeris is a technology partner with a proven history of helping companies unlock the value of IoT.
Biz4Solutions
AvaLAN Wireless
www.biz4solu ons.com
www.avalan.com
Matt Nelson, CEO
Ashish Rangnekar, CEO . Biz4Solutions offer IoT app development solutions that are tailormade for you, right from conceptualization, designing, implementation, deployment, testing, support to enhancements.
AvaLAN was founded in Silicon Valley in 2004 to create reliable Ethernet connections for devices.
Cantina
www.cantina.co
Matt Chisholm, Co-founder "A strategic design and technology agency, Cantina accelerate your ability to innovate, grow and deliver better digital products and services.
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FaltCom
KMC Controls
www.faltcom.com
www.kmccontrols.com
Mikael Långström, CEO
Ken Kreuter, Founder
Fältcom, part of Telia Company, connects the world through the Internet of Things. With our MIIPS platform and its apps, you can control, monitor, or analyze machines, buildings, and systems over the Internet.
KMC Controls is an American manufacturer of open, secure, and scalable IoT and building automation solutions.
Libelium
M2Mi Corporation
www.libelium.com
www.m2mi.com
Alicia Asín, Co-Founder & CEO With 10000+ developers in the world’s largest companies and with deployments in 120 countries, Libelium is satisfying every IoT need of its clients.
Geoffrey Barnard Founder & CEO Machine-To-Machine Intelligence (M2Mi) a leader in the M2M and Internet of Things and is a Silicon Valley Based Enterprise software company which applies it’s software & application defined Network virtualization technologies, along with key management across a patented security model to provide secure connectivity from devices to and through the entire enterprise data center.
Mobisoft Infotech www.mobisoftinfotech.com
Shailendra Sinhasane, CEO Mobisoft Infotech is a technology provider that has gained the trust of numerous enterprises through its reliable and advanced mobility and cloud solutions
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Libelium: A Global Leader in Precision Farming and Smart Cities
Alicia AsĂn Co-Founder & CEO
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“The three main drivers of Libelium’s growth are its capacity for innovation, its international orientation and the talent of its team”
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“With more than 60 final solutions in the IoT Marketplace nowadays, we are making IoT real”
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oday, both the companies and the consumers are getting involved in the changes Internet of Things (IoT) is bringing in 2018, in their way towards a better product or service experience. IoT has spread all over the globe, connecting nearly everything. The world is now interconnected and looking forward to get more from IoT. IoT is shaping the future of business as well the future of user experience. The business world is expecting a lot from IoT and the improvised version of it, i.e. Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT).Also, it is expected from IoT in 2018 that it will not just enhance customer relationships,but willimprove quality, productivity, and reliability while reducing costs, risk, and theft. So, here’s what we can expect from IoT in 2018:
We will get to see the introduction of tons of IoT devices Enterprises will adopt IoT Yes, it’s not enough at all! IoT in 2018 will introduce a new improved versions of many devices. There will be devices that can get connected to each other and transform data in no time. The add on devices will be far more than mobile phones or laptops, it can be smart doors, smart locks, smart homes, which will be more IoT enabled and accurate than ever before.
Data obsessed enterprises like, retail, logistics, utilities and many more will adopt IoT like never before. Businesses will adopt IoT and include it into their business model for reaping the benefits of IoT. IoT will enable them to experience the less cost of ownership with a shared cost of the devices with the consumers.
The next big thing will be Artificial Intelligence (AI) IoT and Mobile IoT and Mobile In 2018, IoT will not get limited to data generation, butwill it will givelimited an exposure In 2018, IoT not get to datato the consumer they to generation, butchoices it will and givethe an way exposure operate and uses the device. will the consumer choices and theIoT way they change the thewill operate andtotal usesecosystem the device.ofIoT handheld The consumer change thedevices. total ecosystem of the will connect mobile phone to other devices, handhelda devices. The consumer will which make itphone a keytotoother unlock other connectwill a mobile devices, devices, like smart locks or smart homes. which will make it a key to unlock other 28
There is an obvious reason for AI to become an essential part of IoT in the future. The growing importance of AI technology will continue in the future too. AI will help IoT to process huge amounts of data. AI will prove really beneficial to IoT as it will help IoT to find similarities and patterns used to inform decision-making processes. IoT needs to analyze and review the collected data which is not possible without algorithms, which is a part of machine-learning cloud services and other AI solutions.
Security will continue to be a great concern When it comes to IoT solutions, security has been always a great concern and there are no chances even in the future to get any relief from that. Security attacks have become a common issue in IoT. To make sure that the data is secure, ďŹ rst of all, we will have to give a great effort to speculate the vulnerabilities beforehand. As IoT devices have the nature to create entry points into the network, there is a great security concern relates. There will always be a fear about the security issues in IoT. So, keeping the data safe will prove to be a great challenge in 2018.
Blockchain to Rescue But in the realm of insecurity in IoT, Block chain is considered as a solution. Introduced and used basically in the FinTech industry, Blockchain has now widened its zone and is used everywhere, which includes IoT too. So, now it can provide a relief of security by offering privacy, reliability and scalability. Also, there will be new entrants in the digital currency list. 2017 saw the surge in like Bitcoin and Etherium, now there are chances of new currencies to be introduced soon, as per the experts.
Fog Computing will take a step forward Experts say that the fog computing will take a step forward in 2018 and can take up speed too. IoT in 2018 will see advancement in fog computing, which will offer an ease into the process. With an infusion of more intelligence, edge devices and fog-computing solutions are becoming autonomous. This will boost analytics and machine learning to the emergence of distributed edge-cloud programming paradigms.
IoT is proving itself as the premier solution for innovation. And even in 2018 IoT will see a lot of innovations structured on it.
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Mobisoft Infotech Building Applications For The Internet Of Things
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“In the realm of IoT, billions of inter-connected sensors will redefine how businesses operate and how people interact with one another.”
Shailendra Sinhasane CEO, Mobisoft
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