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.

In 2009, I had a personal encounter with a 3rd technology adventure, contactless technologies, which I describe and present in this blog. In the same time, I’ve helped companies to integrate in their innovation strategy and development, these  new technologies around contactless and the Internet of Things through my consulting firm NET-7 Innovation, member of CNRFID and the Internet of things Council.

Since March 2012, as mentionned to the blog readers in this post, I joined the Forum SMSC, a French association aiming at the deployment of NFC mobile services in France, as managing director. In agreement with the President of the Forum, Jean-Michel Gadrat, I continue to edit this blog with the same pedagogical approach to introduce innovative contactless services, while respecting confidentiality related to my duties in the Forum.

Pierre Métivier
pierremetivier@gmail.com

Publications (mostly French)

• 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 (in French)–  Slideshare

• Tour du Monde des nouveaux moyens de paiement en quelques images
• L’impact des technologies sans contact RFID NFC pour les distributeurs
• Introduction à la technologie sanscontact (RFID/NFC)
• Introduction aux technologies de la tracabilité
• La logistique de demain

Conference speaker (French and English)

• 2012 Wima, Colloque "Moyens de paiement" à Bercy, Conférence G9+, Futur-en-Seine, …
• 2011 Partner VIP France, Paris (Vote Best Expert conference ), NFC World Congress, Sophia Antipolis
• 2010 Spilog, Lyon, IP Convergence, Paris - RFID, Mobilité,  Progilog, Paris
• 2009 Progilog, Paris

Images

• You may find on Flickr many professional events images under Creative Commons licensing.