Issue 42: 2005.03.23
Smart Buildings: A Pervasive Microcosm
The Buildings venue offers important insights into the challenges, opportunities, and progress of pervasive computing and M2M.

Issue 41: 2005.03.18
Carriers and Barriers: Embracing Orphaned Devices
Lack of business vision and technical barriers have kept carriers from taking a central role in the M2M value chain. But new gateway initiatives from Glu Networks and Digi will help carriers offer device-oriented connectivity and services by overcoming the unique requirements of diverse verticals.

Issue 40: 2005.03.10
How Wireless Sensor Networking Will Succeed
Both suppliers and adopters need to avoid excessive fixation on new technologies alone. Clear business cases and value propositions are the keys to adoption progress, not mere technical validation.

The real challenge: Create a compelling business story and tell it well.

Issue 39: 2005.02.22
Smart Power: Pervasive Internet Technology in a Changing Energy Market
A new Harbor white paper explores how deregulation and demand for smart and efficient power have driven innovation in energy, particularly in distributed resources (DR) technology.

The development of pervasive computing and networked devices has spurred many new market opportunities. A number of companies are now vying to be pioneers in deployment of networked technology and applications in the power venue.

Issue 38: 2005.02.16
The News from HP Is Not News
Intelligence is fanning out to the edges of the network—machine intelligence on the Internet, but also human intelligence on the Web. In a connected world, distributed, peer-to-peer information-sharing constitutes a genuine paradigm shift that will leave old ways of doing business in the dust.

The “centralized authorities” of large corporations claim to “get it,” but the evidence suggests otherwise.

Issue 37: 2005.02.11
Evolving Industry Structure of the Pervasive Internet
Hundreds of new players are pouring onto the Pervasive Internet / M2M field. But what game exactly are they planning to play? And what about all the old pros?

Issue 36: 2005.02.03
Product Pedigree May Be the “Killerest” of Apps
Tracking the history of product components and manufacturing processes will be among the most powerful business applications brought about by networked sensing and control.

Issue 35: 2005.01.28
Enablement Partnerships Are Heating Up
Recent alliance announcements suggest that the necessary evolution of M2M supplier ecosystems is taking place.

Issue 34: 2005.01.21
Industrial Venue Progress in the Pervasive Internet
Industrial is among the most attractive yet least-understood venues in the Pervasive Internet landscape. Industrial adopters are increasingly convinced of M2M benefits, but they are also risk-averse and highly sensitive to implementation costs and ROI. Further, new technologies bring suppliers unfamiliar with Industrial’s history and requirements.

Issue 33: 2005.01.13
The Real-Time Economy: The Action Is in the Ecosystem
M2M and the Pervasive Internet represent nothing less than the next era of IT, and they imply a more radical break with the past than most people realize. The opportunities and applications are everywhere, but it’s an “everywhere” that most people have not yet seen: the realm of data-driven relationships in a truly connected global economy.

Issue 32: 2005.01.05
How Much “Touch” Is Enough?
The decision to connect and remotely monitor products puts a company in sync with the future of information technology. But it raises many other decisions—about product design, business strategy, and new customer relationships. Some of these decisions will feel strange and new to the leadership of product companies. One of them is about how much human attention and interaction a connected product should require.

Issue 31: 2004.12.21
The Web Is Not the Internet
It’s easy to forget that the World Wide Web and the Internet are not the same thing. The Web is a set of protocols and human-oriented presentation technologies built on the networking standards of the Internet. Thus, the phenomenon of the Web is both a helpful and a deceptive proxy for the new world represented by the Pervasive Internet.

Issue 30: 2004.12.16
Sizing the Pervasive Internet—Elements of Harbor’s New Study
Harbor Research’s brand-new study, Connecting to Your Future: The Networking of Every Manufactured Thing, includes detailed segmentation and sizing of the business opportunities of the Pervasive Internet. To accomplish that, we talked to many people and took into account some major uncertainties.

Issue 29: 2004.11.04
Connecting to Your Future: The Networking of Every Manufactured Thing—a New Harbor Study.
Harbor Research’s new study is aimed directly at the challenges faced by manufacturers as they move to adopt the next-generation technologies of the real-time enterprise.

Issue 28: 2004.09.28
Home Awareness: Delivering Value with Digital Convergence in the Home.
HomeHeartbeat™, a new smart-home platform from Eaton, takes a refreshingly “pervasive” perspective on home technology and underscores the importance of first-mover advantages in a networked world.

Issue 27: 2004.09.09
ZigBee™: The Wireless Device Networking Enabler Arrives
The wireless sensor networking phenomenon has been poised to explode, waiting for a communications standard with built-in security, scaleability, and low power consumption. Now that the ZigBee™ specification is almost finished, the vendor landscape is filling up fast. That means many new opportunities for suppliers and adopters—but new challenges, too.

Issue 26: 2004.08.13
Unleashing a Tidal Wave of Pent-Up Innovation
For decades, core intellectual property in sensing, control, and communications has remained largely trapped in niche origins like aerospace, industrial automation, and on-board vehicle systems. The Pervasive Internet is accelerating the availability of this legacy innovation across all markets.

Issue 25: 2004.08.05
Pervasive Internet / M2M Venue Progress and Adoption Models
Last year, activity in wireless sensing and intelligent device management was account-based, not segment- or market-based. This year, things are noticeably different. Entire venues are clearly moving toward M2M adoption.

Issue 24: 2004.07.22
The Risks of Standing Pat
The era of near-perfect, near-real-time information about assets and customer behavior is looming like a tanker coming out of the fog. Business as usual could turn out to be a very bad idea.

Issue 23: 2004.07.15
Welcome to the Insurance Business
Success in the Pervasive Internet will require the customer orientation and scenario skills that insurers take for granted. But device-generated data will give manufacturers a revolutionary edge.

Issue 22: 2004.07.01
Technology Alone Will Not Bring Us To Real-Time Enterprise
Getting to full enterprise automation requires new technology, but it also requires a sound and creative business case that anticipates the revolutionary benefits of device networking.

Issue 21: 2004.06.17
The Biggest “Network Effect” of All: Common Sense is No Longer Enough
M2M success for product/device OEMs will depend upon counterintuitive behavior.

Issue 20: 2004.06.09
How to Build M2M / Pervasive Internet Alliances
Companies need to abandon command-and-control thinking and embrace new, fluid business ecosystems.

Issue 19: 2004.06.01
The Alliance Lessons of Cometa Networks
If the likes of AT&T, Intel, and IBM had to fold Cometa after 18 months, we must be living in a very different world from the one that made those companies rich.

Issue 18: 2004.05.19
The Rules of Segmentation Change Radically in the Era of the Pervasive Internet
Traditional product-centric market-segmentation considerations are surprisingly irrelevant in the age of intelligent device networking and management.

Issue 17: 2004.05.13
Wanted: Digital Power and Control Leadership
The major digital power, control, and automation suppliers are in an excellent position to weave the vast alliance-webs necessary for the M2M / Pervasive Internet era. But smaller, more nimble players are much more on the ball.

Issue 16: 2004.05.06
Approaching Zero Downtime: Machine Prognostics
So far, the marvels of computing have taken place on the computer’s terms, thanks to the amazing adaptability of human beings. In the M2M / Pervasive Internet era, IT will have to grow up and live in the real world by itself. It won’t be easy, but it will bring enormous rewards. One example: Machines that watch out for themselves rather than failing and taking your profits with them.

Issue 15: 2004.04.29
The One With the Most Networked Stuff Wins
“The Internet changes everything.” That was the mantra of the dot-com era. The big irony is that it was absolutely true—but not in the way it was meant at the time. Surprisingly few product companies appreciate just how profoundly the M2M / Pervasive Internet era will change the way they do business.

Issue 14: 2004.04.22
The Revolution Will Not Be “Productized”: Notes from the First M2M Expo and Conference
Connectivity is not an end in itself. The real goal of M2M is an automated, self-aware world. We have a lot of work left to do to get there. For starters, global interoperability is a necessity, not a “choice.”

Issue 13: 2004.04.15
Web Services Meet Embedded Computing: Love or Loneliness?
Connectivity is not an end in itself. The real goal of M2M is an automated, self-aware world. We have a lot of work left to do to get there. For starters, global interoperability is a necessity, not a “choice.”

Issue 12: 2004.04.08
Can Investors Find Happiness in the Pervasive Internet?
Ubiquitous computing is just like the computing and networking we have today, with one little difference: It’s not about human beings. It’s an “everywhere and nowhere” phenomenon, and that makes it a very hard thing for traditional investors to contemplate.

Issue 11: 2004.04.01
The First M2M Expo and Conference: Why Now?
It’s time for business leaders and technologists to meet and define the vast opportunities made possible by device networking and enterprise automation.

Issue 10: 2004.03.24
Who Will Be the “Device ISPs”?
Major carriers have made some device-centric strides, but we’re still living in “The Telephone Age.” Should those who “own the wire” (or wireless spectrum) provide more than mere signal travel for machine data?

Issue 9: 2004.03.17
M2M Adopters Care About Business Value, Not Technology
Suppliers need to view customer problems as their own, and build ecosystems to deliver end-to-end solutions.

Issue 8: 2004.03.10
Where’s the Money in Wireless Sensor Networks?
Physical networking products can make money in the early years. After that, they will become mature and decreasingly profitable.

Both suppliers and adopters need a long-term strategy that positions low-margin physical products as “portals” into high-margin smart data services.

Issue 7: 2004.03.05
Wireless Sensor Networks: How Big Will It Get? How Fast Will It Grow?
Self-organizing networks of wireless sensors and “motes” are The Next Big Thing in enterprise computing. But that doesn’t make their market size and growth perfectly predictable.

Too much hype creates unrealistic expectations. And corporate IT needs to prepare for galaxies of “dust”-borne data. An early spate of disappointing real-world results could slow adoption.

Issue 6: 2004.01.15
“The Pervasive Internet Opportunity” (December 2003).
A new edition of the definitive Harbor Research study.

Harbor was the first firm of its kind to focus aggressively on the M2M / Pervasive Internet phenomenon. The latest edition of our groundbreaking study has been completely rewritten and restructured, with fresh quantitative data and systematic examination of the new business models made possible by Internet-enabled device networking.

Issue 5: 2003.10.06
Adopters to Suppliers: “We’re Ready. Are You?”
To sell end-to-end real-world solutions, Pervasive Internet suppliers need business development as well as technology development.

Harbor’s SIGNALSmart™ framework provides a clear portrait of the Pervasive Internet technology path, along with terminology and examples that will foster communication between adopters and suppliers. Includes a free 2-page downloadable chart.

Issue 4: 2003.09.08
Is Information Magic? It Better Be.
Intelligence connects dots to make pictures. Pictures make stories. Stories make sense. It’s what humans are all about. Ditto for the Pervasive Internet.

Issue 3: 2003.08.15
Pawns Are Important, But They’re Not the Game.
Why a “wireless strategy” isn’t a strategy at all.

Issue 2: 2003.08.05
Think Smart, Think Connected: Maintaining Competitive Advantage in an Open, Connected Landscape.
The findings of a recent European executive summit meeting with leaders of global corporations, faciliated by Spinnaker Venture Partners, LLC and Harbor Research, Inc.

The issue contains a substantial extract from the paper, with download of the full paper in PDF format.

Issue 1: 2003.07.15
Let the Circle Be Unbroken: How the “Information Circle” Created by Device Networking / M2M Will Automate the Global Enterprise.
An extract from Harbor’s latest white paper, with download of the full paper in PDF format.