Hirokazu Ishimatsu

IoT service business ecosystem design in a global, competitive, and collaborative environment

Internet of Things (IoT) is now making a new industrial revolution, which includes “Industrie4.0” in Germany, “Industrial Internet” in US, “Made in China 2025” in China, and the “Industrial Value Chain Initiative (IVI)” in Japan. In the modern global, competitive, and collaborative business environment, IoT services must be designed as a business ecosystem. Although many business-model design methods, including our own design method presented in PICMET2015, have been proposed, there exist few business-ecosystem design methods that target IoT services especially. Here, a business-ecosystem design method is proposed for IoT services using an “Open & Closed Strategy Canvas,” on which designers can recognize both a closed area where the company keeps and strengthens their core competence, and an open area, where complementary companies provide resources (knowledge resource, manufacturing resource, and deployment resource) to the business ecosystem.

Prototype demonstration of on-demand/scheduled wavelength path service

This paper describes a newly developed on-demand/scheduled wavelength path service prototype and a practical approach for the realization of new services enabled by generalized multiprotocol label switching in conjunction with security and operation support system.

Service modeling method for machine-to-machine businesses to overcome difficulties

With the popularization of high-speed and high-capacity communication networks, machine-to-machine (M2M) communication has received significant attention. However, although the related technologies have been actively investigated, creating new businesses based on M2M communication is difficult. The information and communication technology community should take not only system modeling but also business modeling into account for monetization. This study proposes a service design and modeling method of M2M businesses based on the SCAI (Share-Connect-Analyze-Identify) model, which was proposed in PICMET 2014 [10]. The proposed method is explained using a trial application to smart home M2M services.