According to Kevin Ashton, the Internet of Things turns the world into data. But what does that mean? The key enabler for unlocking the business value of the IoT is using a technique called business model innovation. In contrast to technology, product or market innovation, business model innovation is a higher level innovation method to find entirely new business models. IoT in this sense helps companies perform a digital transformation to achieve for example n...

With urbanization and the effect of climate changes, we are moving towards a world where hydro-political issues may become a reality. However, there is light at the end of the tunnel as some of the most crucial challenges of water management and conservation could be addressed by leveraging IoT and AI-based technologies. Thus, by using the tools related to predictive analytics within the domains of AI and IoT, to keep track of the history of water consumption and anticipate future usage pa...

Digitalization is disrupting consumer businesses we experience this in our daily lives. As digital technologies got more mature, industrial companies also starting to take advantage to create new unique selling points. In many cases this starts with increasing efficiency, flexibility, quality and speed. Recently we also see more business model innovation leveraging digitalization in the industrial space. IoT and Analytics is often the entry point fo...

ACTIVAGE has defined a reference architecture for IoT Platforms Interoperability. This architecture aims to build general approaches to face the interoperability in a universal way with the objective of serving as common framework to build interoperable smart ACTIVE AGEING solutions that can be deployed, extended and replicated at Deployment Sites[1] across Europe. Deploy...

As it was stated in the IoTWeek 2018, “the adoption of the IoT by Manufacturing is first and foremost a cultural and a management issue, rather than a technology issue”. Thus, this session is aimed to introduce projects and initiatives that deal with the deployment of IoT technologies in manufacturing and help developing the cultural and managerial framework. Experts from the industry, the academy, and the research on applied technologies will offer complementa...

Thethird pillar would be to build have a closer look at what it means in concrete terms for a business to implement such technology.Setting foot in the farmer’s shoe and considering the investment in IoT technology wheighed with the possible benefits but also the constraints in terms of training and re-organisation. It’s not only about IoT technology, it’s also addressing competition aspects, production aspects, and f...

The ongoing digitalization will change, if not revolutionize, a range of industrial business models in the near future. We will see a growing market within data driven services, accumulated data worldwide leading to new business developments, leasing instead of sales etc. Some companies have already started the digital transformation process and will gain massively on this, especially if the competitors are too slow to follow. With the participation...

You have probably heard about Product-as-a-Service (PaaS) – and if not, you need to get familiar with the term as soon as possible. Why? Because this transaction and “new” business model changes and challenges some of the traditional business models that we have been using for decades. Why pay for a product when you can just pay for the desired result instead?PaaS allows customers to purchase a desired result rather than the equipment that delivers that result. This model offers ben...

ABOUT After the successful launch of the first edition of the workshop on “Internet of Things (IoT) for Smart Cities & Communities Convergence” at IoT Week 2017 in Geneva, and the two-day follow-up in Bilbao in 2018, we are now inviting you to join the next level of convergence to support cities and communities at IoT Week 2019 in Aarhus, Denmark – organised jointly by an alliance of international insti...

Speed-networking, business-dating, matchmaking or professional knowledge sharing – many popular names basically meaning the exact same: Meet new people and connect! This is the sole purpose of the Brokerage Event area at the IoT Week 2019, because, let’s face it, nothing really compares to the actual physical meeting between human beings.Many attend conferences and professional exhibitions just to do networking and simply meet new contacts. To facilitate these personal meetings, we ...