Telefónica chief IoT officer working on improving ecosystem
Spanish telecommunications giant Telefónica wants to create a robust internet of things (IoT) ecosystem and become a data collector, according to the firm's Chief Internet of Things (IoT) officer, Vicente Boza. To do this, the company must ensure operability, scalability and create a strong value system, Vicente said. "We can’t create silos for different technologies or for different customers, domains or sectors”, he said. The mass market provision of IoT technologies, such as low power wide area networks, will be crucial to Telefónica's success.
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Operator Telefonica wants to become a data company and is working with stakeholders including platform enablers and device makers to create a strong open IoT ecosystem, its chief IoT officer Vicente Boza (pictured) told Mobile World Live.

Creating this ecosystem is one of several challenges Boza sees around IoT, the second being the importance of interoperability: “We can’t create silos for different technologies or for different customers, domains or sectors,” he said.

Other challenges include making IoT scaleable and standardised, being able to get value out of data mining and the issue of security and privacy.

He also said “massification is going to be key” for IoT and spoke about how technologies including low power wide area (LPWA) networks will help achieve this.

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