About

About the blog

The goal of this site is to present in an easy-to-read format and practical way, innovation in general and innovations and new usages of contactless technologies such as  barcodes, smart cards, RFID, NFC, M2M, Zigbee, … and more globally the Internet of Things (IoT) and related fields such as robotics and the Digital Home. These technologies, already silently part of our environment, in our clothes, ID cards, ski pass, highway toll pass, professionnal badges, transportation cards and soon in our mobile phones, are enabling new usages for every one of us and they are a great source of innovation in our enterprises.

About me

A French citizen by birth and a world citizen by heart, I have been part of the development of two major and exciting technology adventures, the micro-computing (hardware and software ) Commodore, Apricot, Borland) industry in the 80′s and the Internet (CompuServe, AOL) starting in the mid 90′s) in product marketing executives roles in France, Europe and in the US.

As a consultant in product marketing and innovation, I help enterprises to integrate in their innovation strategy and development, the new digital technologies and specifically those around contactless and the Internet of Things.

Member of the following professional association – FilRFID, CNRFID and ADEN

You have a project around  contactless technnologies ? Let’s talk about it.

Pierre Métivier
Co-founder

Consultant and Executive Network
Information Technology

pierre.metivier@net-7.fr

Publications

• A video interview in which, I summarize the key aspects of the RFID Live Journal 2010, recorded and posted on Jean-Michel Billaut’s blog, a well-known and influential French technology blogger (in French)
• Avis d’expert, an article about the iPhone potential influence on the contactless market published in “Le Journal du Net” in 2009
• An article reviewing this blog during the last “Cartes 2010″ conference
• An interview about the  RFID business on the discoverrfid.org site – 2010
• Avis d’expert, an article about Google’s strategy arount NFC published in “Le Journal du Net” in 2011

Downloadable presentations – Slideshare

• Introduction à la technologie sanscontact (RFID/NFC)
• Introduction aux technologies de la tracabilité
• La logistique de demain

Conference speaker

• 2011 NFC World Congress, Sophie Antipolis
• 2011, Partner VIP France, Paris
• 2010 Spilog, Lyon
• 2010 IP Convergence, Paris - RFID, Mobilité
• 2010 Progilog, Paris
• 2009 Progilog, Paris