Gartner expects more than 40% of agentic AI projects to be cancelled by the end of 2027, and gives three reasons: escalating costs, unclear business value and inadequate risk controls…
Under the EU Cyber Resilience Act, a connected product sold in the EU needs a published end date for security updates, free fixes until then, and a report within hours when attackers…
I have been working on IoT since 2001, at ProSyst Software in Cologne. Everything we built rested on OSGi, a Java standard first published in 2000 for running software on small devices in…
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I can't code. Not in the classic sense — no computer science degree, no years in a dev team. I'm a dad and a product person.
For most of the 2010s, the IoT industry had one overriding strategic obsession: ecosystem ownership.
Every company says they're doing AI. Very few are becoming AI-first. The difference is existential.
In my first two posts in this series, I made the case for why the IoT industry needs to embrace the architectural principles that OSGi pioneered 25 years ago, and why edge AI model…
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In my previous post, I argued that the principles OSGi got right 25 years ago—dynamic modularity, service orientation, security isolation, dependency management, interoperability,…
November last year, I had the privilege of speaking at The Things Conference about "Future-Proof by Design: Building IoT Solutions that Endure." The response from the audience told me I'd…
Weeks with a standpoint. One sentence from the commentary; the rest is on the week’s page.
Whoever runs an agent will have to show what it did and what it could not do; that it acted on its own will not count.
To the issueWhoever builds a connected product buys dependencies with an end date that someone else sets.
To the issueThe clock runs at the manufacturer, and whether its 24 hours are enough is settled earlier, in the supplier contract.
To the issueAn evaluator at the lab may find a flaw in the model. Authorising the agent that inherits it stays with the company that runs it.
To the issueNearly nine in ten CEOs see value from AI, one in five US businesses with employees uses it at all, and two unrelated industrial surveys, one counting use cases and one counting organisations, both put scaled at one in five. The numbers do not contradict each other. They count different things.
To the issueAn update path is how a connected product stays fixable and improvable after it is sold. Remote update was specified in 2000. These five show what it costs when the path is missing, when it cannot be trusted, and when it expires.
To the issueSell a machine against a twenty-year service life and you are arguing for twenty years of vulnerability handling, not five.
To the issueThe technically better standard does not win. The one with better distribution wins.
To the issueSwitching to outcomes today does not buy you a price tag, it buys you an operating model.
To the issueThe deadlines slip while the teeth grow. Anyone reading “simplification” as “deregulation” is misreading the package.
To the issueThe real bottleneck is trust and accountability, exactly the part no model closes for you.
To the issueTrade press and conference papers from the OSGi years, 2004 to 2016. Where a page still exists, it is linked.
What works in the pilot fails afterwards on decisions that should have been made before it.
With agents, with connected products and in selling to industrial customers: who owns it, how it is updated over the years, who buys and at what price. That is what I write about.
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