Mark Fontecchio is an analyst for the Internet of Things practice at 451 Research. He covers horizontal IoT technology, as well as focusing on the commercial transportation vertical. Previously, he was the M&A Research Manager at 451 Research, where he helped direct the firm's coverage of technology mergers and acquisitions, and its M&A KnowledgeBase.
Prior to joining 451 Research, he spent eight years at TechTarget, where he wrote and directed coverage on datacenters, data management and enterprise applications.
451 Research has announced the recipients of our Firestarter awards for the first quarter of 2020. Firestarter recipients are firms specifically recognized by 451 analysts for innovation and market disruption. The companies being recognized with 451 Firestarter awards this quarter are detailed here.
The self-driving trucking vendor's recent partnership with tier one supplier ZF is a move to integrate its technology deeper into production so that, by the middle of this decade, carrier companies can order new trucks that come with autonomous trucking technology included right off the assembly line.
The company has traditionally been a provider of voyage data recorders, often referred to as the 'black box' of ships. With private equity backing, Danelec Marine now wants to leverage that expertise to extract data from any VDR for IoT projects in the maritime industry.
Intel has handed over $900m for Moovit, maker of a mobile mapping app for consumers to go from one place to another via multiple transportation options such as walking, biking, driving or riding public transit. The deal signals the buyer's continued push into autonomous driving, one of its three major technology investment areas.
The rail, aviation and maritime markets are seeing an immense increase in IoT sensors and applications. IT and operational technology providers can tap these transportation sectors for vast opportunities in brownfield implementations. In this report we analyze the current state of play, value propositions that are resonating and the future outlook of these vertical markets.
Following a fresh $103m funding round earlier this year, the startup plans to launch its satellite connectivity hub, software and data subscription service commercially this summer. It says the offering brings reliable connectivity to remote areas while mitigating a major inhibitor to widespread adoption of satellite connectivity: affordability.
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