Donna Moore, chief executive and chairwoman, LoRa Alliance:
"Industrial IoT (IIoT) has advanced by leaps and bounds this year as companies have realized the amount of insight they could gain into their operations and resource utilization. There is no sign of activity slowing in 2020,...
LTE-M and NB-IoT networks are being cited as the next evolution for cellular IoT deployments. These new, low-power, low-cost networks will enable a new wave of IoT use cases while providing additional benefits to existing connected solutions. But LTE-M and NB-IoT networks are highly...
Analyst house ABI Research has pulled together its big guns in each vertical sector to consider how technologywill change things in 2020 – or, rather, how it won’t. Some seasonal Scrooge-like myth-busting is timely and much-needed, it says.
“Knowing what won’t happen in technology in...
Kiva Allgood, head of IoT, Ericsson:
1. The edge is closer than ever
“As enterprises become ‘digitized’ and enable more connected machines, sensors and solutions, computing in the cloud won’t be fast enough to optimize performance in real-time. Enterprises will need computing near the edge. This...
Karl Bream, head of strategy and portfolio, Nokia Enterprise
“The market is ripe as all sectors of the global economy are embracing digitalization and are beginning to tap into Industry 4.0 and automation. We are starting to see major technology shifts in areas such as...
Canadian firm Fleet Complete, which provides IoT solutions in the connected commercial vehicle space, has acquired Mexican telematics firm Centro de Soluciones Inalámbricas (CSI), the former said in a release.
The acquisition of CSI will allow Fleet Complete to accelerate growth in the Mexican market,...
Joseph Biron, chief technology officer for IoT, PTC:
“At the turn of the decade, Harvard Business School professor Michael Porter and PTC president and chief executuve Jim Heppelmann laid out the industrial race for smart, connected products, and how the early movers stood to gain.
“Using...
Michael Kanellos, IoT analyst, OSIsoft:
1. IoT declares victory
“IoT projects are often portrayed as the quickest way to get yourself fired with, allegedly, ‘close to three fourths’ of IoT projects failing. In reality, success is the norm.
“Gartner’s Eric Goodness conducted a poll that 57 per...
Ericsson and Microsoft are pooling their cloud-based connectivity management and compute-and-analytics platforms, respectively, for connected vehicles.
Ericsson will build its Connected Vehicle Cloud, which it claims connects around 10 per cent of the connected vehicle market, on top of the Microsoft Connected Vehicle Platform (MCVP),...
French IoT firm Kerlink and Dutch systems integrator MCS have deployed a private LoRaWAN network at Schiphol airport in Amsterdam.
The network offers coverage in all public areas, including arrival and departure halls, lounges, piers, and shopping area. It also provides coverage in non-public areas...
UK smart lighting firm Telensa and Thailand-based lighting manufacturer LIGMAN have struck a deal to combine their offers in the Asia Pacific market.
The pair will offer LED luminaires and wireless controls as a combined offer in the region. The deal – bringing intelligent control...
The 400 largest cellular IoT deployments at a global level together account for 279 million units, according to a recent study by Swedish consultancy firm Berg Insight.
The study includes various types of projects deployed across all types of vertical markets, including aftermarket automotive, fleet...
Amazon, Apple, Google, and the Zigbee Alliance have announced a working group, under the name Connected Home over IP, to develop and promote a new, royalty-free connectivity standard to increase compatibility among smart home products.
Security will be a fundamental design tenet, the group said....
This interview, with Niall Strachan, director of product at UK-based Arm’s Pelion IoT business, is taken from a new Enterprise IoT Insights editorial report, called 'Crossing the IT/OT divide – co-creation, co-configuration, and how to bring industrial IoT to scale'. Go here for the...
Phil Skipper, global head of IoT business development, Vodafone:
“The key question is what will rise and fall in 2020, in terms of digital transformation for industry. At the end of 2019, low-power wide-area (LPWA) technologies, mobile private networks, and mobile edge computing are all...
Peder Rand, product manager for cellular IoT, Nordic Semiconductor:
“At the start of 2019 the only thing operating on cellular networks around the globe were mobile phones, plus a few hundred million 2G-based devices. Security alarms are an example of these, where cellular was used...
Sven Hamann, Senior Vice President, Bosch Connected Industry:
“Only the floor, the walls, and the ceiling are fixed; everything else is flexible and mobile, and adapts to customers’ orders in seconds. People remain at the centre of the action. This is Bosch’s vision of the...
Alejandro Cadenas, IoT strategy manager, Telefónica:
“Deployment of private networks is giving way to a radical change in industries, especially suited for campus-type industrial deployments like mines, ports, airports or manufacturing plants. Thanks to this connectivity technology, companies will work faster, safer and in a...
This article, in five parts, is continued from Step 1, about spectrum and regulation; this can be found here.
2. SPECTRUM / REGULATION
Another crucial part of the jigsaw-roadmap – a clearing of the road, rather than a shortcut – is with spectrum. The lack of...
Norwegian maritime group Wilhelmsen is deploying a LoRaWAN network at 2.4 GHz to bring connectivity to its operations at land and sea. It will offer connectivity to customers as well.
The firm has struck a deal with Dutch LoRaWAN collective The Things Industries (TTI), the...
Nokia has won a tender with German rail company Deutsche Bahn to test and deliver standalone 5G for autonomous trains and rail operations.
It will be the first time a standalone 5G system has been used for rail automation, said Nokia. The project, based in...
There was some head-scratching when French IoT operator Sigfox revealed a 2023 target of one billion connections. But there is no doubting the company’s canny ability to spot new IoT use cases, sometimes staring us in the face all along.
The firm has just announced...
The global manufacturing sector will spend over $1 trillion on smart software, hardware and services in 2030, almost quadrupling the $259 billion spend in 2019.
The volume of wireless connections, including LTE and 5G, as well as low-power wide-area (LPWA) technologies and Wi-Fi, will spiral...
Sometimes content gets left on the cutting room floor, and sometimes it does not even make the edit. And often that content is excellent, and deserves a feature all of its own. This is a (delayed) retelling of a briefing Enterprise IoT Insights had...
