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Harbor Research offers a variety of white papers which cover a range of topics within the world of M2M and Smart Services.  All papers can be downloaded free of charge.

Next Generation Platform Innovation In M2M

New machine-to-machine (M2M) solution platforms need to address the true potential for information-driven service innovation and application development. By embedding support automation directly into the fabric of the solution and providing tools for third party application development, new platform technologies can help product manufacturers leverage the continuously evolving relationship between connected products and customer value. This White Paper and supporting research highlights the expanding value of platform innovation for M2M solutions.

HRI White Paper - Next Generation Platform Innovation In M2M HRI White Paper - Next Generation Platform Innovation In M2M (1500 KB)


Creative Partnerships Are Key To M2M Market Development For Wireless Carriers

Strategists in a wide range of network service providers have finally awakened to the fact that we have entered a new era of connectivity. However, M2M solutions are very complex and often require many players to perform diverse roles. Carriers that choose to go at it alone will have a hard time building market development momentum in the M2M arena.

Creative Partnerships Are Key To M2M Market Development For Wireless Carriers Creative Partnerships Are Key To M2M Market Development For Wireless Carriers (1015 KB)

The Internet of Things Meets The Internet of People
Apple, Google, P&G and FaceBook have forced the pace of development in networked computing, catching larger rivals off-balance and threatening to effect fundamental shifts in technology markets.  Their strategies reflect the increasing importance of large-scale collaboration and alliances in creating new opportunities.  Alliances and collaborative systems are hardly new but as social networks converge with intelligent sensors, devices and assets radical new modes of value creation are emerging.  Only those who grasp the new rules of smart systems and collaborative market creation can win key positions.
 
Smart Services Strategies
The new world of Smart Services is one in which every networked product turns its manufacturer and in many cases others along the value chain into a new kind of services business.  Early adopters of pervasive computing and connected services are creating unprecedented barriers to competition.  
Designing A Secure Future
After a decade of rampant growth, we see that the Internet’s inherent architecture has been both a blessing and a curse. It has evolved to become the fundamental platform for all intelligent devices to share information. The dilemma lies in the fact that the network of networks is still quite vulnerable to security issues and the information technology developers who we trust are working to resolve these challenges are still operating with outdated models that cannot serve the needs of a truly connected world. One company, Mocana, has developed a unique approach to networked device security that offers a proven foundation for the intense complexity of a global information economy.
Information Is Power: Delivering Systems & Equipment Awareness With 3D Digital Sensing
Amid all the noise that seems to flow from the various discussions concerning the “universal" nature of wireless sensing, a new platform from DeepStream Technologies finally takes a “pervasive” approach to monitoring and control tools. DeepStream’s 3D Digital Sensing system enables product OEMs to add simple, unobtrusive remote monitoring to a broad range of ordinary commercial and household electrical devices and systems.

Information Is Power Information Is Power (467 KB)


Designing The Future of Information
Current computer science operates with models of information, networking, and databasing that were conceived in the mainframe era and cannot serve the needs of a truly connected world. 

Designing The Future of Information Designing The Future of Information (2035 KB)


Product Analytics & Intelligence
Early adopters of product analytic tools, particularly IT equipment and infrastructure providers, see its game changing impact.  They believe product analytics will bend the traditional linear value chain into a “feedback loop” through which the heartbeats of connected products will continually flow back through the complex business alliances that create, deliver, and support those devices. As it evolves, “product intelligence” will amount to nothing less than a “digital nervous system” that completely automates most functions and processes.

Product Analytics Product Analytics (214 KB)

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