Notice of Violation of IEEE Publication PrinciplesValue chain scenarios for M2M ecosystem

Notice of Violation of IEEE Publication Principles

"Value Chain Scenarios for M2M Ecosystem"
by Oswald Jumira, Riaan Wolhuter
in the Proceedings of the International Workshop on Machine-to-Machine Communications"December 2011, pp. 410-415

After careful and considered review of the content and authorship of this paper by a duly constituted expert committee, this paper has been found to be in violation of IEEE\´s Publication Principles.

This paper is a duplication of the original text from the paper cited below. The original text was copied without attribution (including appropriate references to the original author(s) and/or paper title) and without permission.

The committee determined that Oswald Jumira was responsible for the violation, and submitted the paper without the knowledge or approval of Riaan Wolhuter.

Due to the nature of this violation, reasonable effort should be made to remove all past references to this paper, and future references should be made to the following article:

"Business Scenarios for Machine-to-Machine Mobile Applications"
by Vania Goncalves and Phillippe Dobbelaere
in the Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Mobile Business (ICMB-GMR), June 2010, pp. 394-401Recently attention has been directed to Machine to Machine (M2M) wireless communications by a number of stakeholders which include device manufacturers, applications developers and mobile network operators across the globe. As voice revenues for most mobile operators enter a decline due to the new data oriented networks and services being availed into the market, there is growing need to adopt new revenue models through adoption of wireless connectivity in a wide range of devices. With the introduction of these new applications and services, new stakeholders come into play in the M2M communications value chain. A way to market these M2M devices can thus involve creating a platform of services that adds value and- functionality to the devices and is a result of a combination of synergies between device manufacturers, application developers and mobile operators. This paper discusses several value chain scenarios which form the M2M ecosystem wherein all stakeholders assume different levels of control over the customer relationship and the assets that make up the value proposition.