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European Internet of Things Industry
Survey 2016

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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 Bates
CEO of PLAT.ONE, author of Thingalytics, speaker on
topics including IoT and Thinganomics

4.
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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5.
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

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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
PRINCIPLES7
SUMMARY

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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.

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European Internet of Things Industry
Survey 2016
To learn more visit
www.plat.one