Sierra Wireless is a global leader in IoT solutions with over 1000 employees worldwide and the #1 supplier of M2M cellular modules and intelligent gateways. The presentation discusses two key challenges for fostering innovation in IoT: 1) Fostering proliferation by building developer communities, providing open source tools and development kits, and organizing events; and 2) Managing divergence by actively participating in standards development through communities, events, and open source projects. The approach is to iteratively apply these techniques to both companies and standards bodies to continuously improve IoT innovation.

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Close Encounters of the Seventh Kind
OMA – oneM2M Seminar, San Diego, Jan. 21th 2016
Nicolas Damour, Senior Manager Business et Innovation, ndamour@sierrawireless.com
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1000 employees - LTM revenue 2015 612M$ - Worldwide #1 IoT Supplier
M2M Cellular Modules M2M Intelligent Gateways Cloud and Connectivity Services
Paris
Toulouse
San Diego
Shenzhen
Hong Kong
London
Munich
R&D, Marketing, Operations Manufacturing Commercial offices
Belo Horizonte
Johannesburg
Bangalore
Beijing Tokyo
Taipei
Melbourne
Shanghai
Karlskrona
Seoul
Nice
Sierra Wireless – Building the Internet of Things
(1) 35% Global M2M module market share (source: ABI Research – June 2015)

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Sierra Wireless – 20 years of Innovation in the IoT

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Developers – The ones who build IT and the IoT

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Standards – Essential for IT and the IoT
Without standards
There can be no information technology

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Developers and standards – one sad view

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One goal – cross-breeding and improving

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Challenge #1 – Fostering proliferation

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Fostering proliferation – How?
• Build strong people communities
• Organize online communities, fora
• Support the communities and fora
• Let people meet and exchange
• Online communication tools
• Developers events
• Let people experiment
• Easy-access Hardware tools, devkits
• Easy-access Software tools, devkits
• OPEN SOURCE

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Build strong people communities
source.sierrawireless.com

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Make people meet and exchange
summit.sierrawireless.com

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Open Source at Sierra Wireless
100mm(4”)
120mm (4.75”)
www.legato.io
www.mangoh.io
• 1 USB 2.0 OTG
• 1 USB 2.0 Host
• 1 RS232/Serial
• 1 RJ45/Ethernet
• Audio Jack
• SD card
Project
mangOH

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Challenge #2 – Managing the divergence
Strong involvement in standards

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And in the standards world? THE SAME!
• Build strong people communities
• Organize online communities, for a, portals, github…
• Support the communities and fora
• Let people meet and exchange
• Online communication tools, emails, for a, blog…
• Developers events, Test fests
• Let people experiment
• Easy-access Hardware tools, devkits
• Easy-access Software tools, devkits
• OPEN SOURCE

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Iterate
while (true) {
apply(company)
apply(standards_bodies)
improve()
}

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Thank you
www.sierrawireless.com – ndamour@sierrawireless.com