M2M and IoT Blog by Larry Bellehumeur

I was talking to a customer a few weeks back and the subject of legal liability came up.  In many industries, the word liability is often followed by the word "insurance".  The idea is that you or your company has a vulnerability (usually, this refers to the amount of financial damages that will be attributed […]

As a guest blogger for M2M Now, which features global machine to machine news and expert opinions on the M2M industry, I want to draw your attention to my latest post... Enjoy the read!  

"Machine to Machine" or "Internet of Things"... or even "Machine to Application" When I first started in this space in the late 1990's, neither one of those terms were remotely close to being thought up.  The industry of using cellular networks to transmit non-voice traffic was really in its infancy (yes, teenagers, this means that […]

Ok, first, Cisco is far from dead.  Any company with 40+ billion dollars in revenue (and still profitable) is not doing all that badly.  However, they are seeing incredible pressures from many different sources right now (a sinking demand in some areas, continued pressure from competitors and a lack of sales growth in many emerging […]

In Part 1 of this blog post, I looked at some unique competitors in the world of M2M that we need to face in order to see the incredible growth that we all cherish. Different from objections against using M2M, these were actually products/solutions that companies were using INSTEAD of using an M2M solution. Here are some thoughts […]

Hello and thanks for reading! A few points before I get started: All three of these companies – Texas Instruments, Intel and Microsoft – have tremendous businesses now.  In addition to throwing off billions of dollars annually in free cash flow, they have tremendous “franchises” and market share in their own fields. I have no […]

These days, it makes sense to think about ways to improve our ways to have less impact on the environment.  Besides being the “right thing to do”, there tends to be an improvement on the bottom line (both for businesses and for individuals) to “going green”.  For many, the biggest impact they can have on […]

In a white paper (called "Rise of the Embedded Internet"), Intel was one of many companies to throw their hat into the M2M prediction space.  In this paper, they stated how they thought there would be 15 Billion M2M connections in as little as two years. They went on to go over many of the markets […]

Despite being in my early 40s, sometimes I really feel old in the M2M space.  I hear all the talk about USB sticks, and I remember a time that we were excited when the first PCMCIA-based device came out in the world of wireless data.  Before that, we had to tether our devices to our PDA or […]

M2M - The Industry In a report for the Economist, SAP has made some incredible predictions about how the M2M market may grow in the next decade, and also how it may change the overall telecommunications landscape as we know it. Is there any “steak” here, or are they just selling “the sizzle”? Prediction #1 - […]