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Vodafone on 2021: IoT, 5G, MEC – and the move to performant industrial networking

Technologies have always tended to converge. Smartphones are an example of this: a phone merged with a media player and a camera to create something unique, which performs multiple tasks and addresses multiple needs at once, increasing our reliance on it. Something similar is happening...

MulteFire Alliance on 2021: More variety and volume for private LTE and 5G

Industry 4.0 is here, and private wireless is enabling industry verticals to capitalize on the promise of this ‘fourth industrial revolution’. 2021 will see a major transformation in automation of factories, ports, and other industrial IoT venues. Enterprises are ready to automate their processes,...

Telia on 2021: Private 5G will play key role in digital change for critical industries

2020 has been a year of reckoning with a devastating human toll. Technology was a silver lining. It has helped us – as people, businesses and societies – to cope with an unprecedented situation.  Even before the pandemic, the Nordic and Baltic countries were considered...

BT on 2021: Four forecasts for digital change – and why 5G will be ‘bigger for enterprises’

2020 was a year that no person or company will ever forget. The Covid-19 pandemic changed everything. Overnight, people, communities, businesses and public sector organisations were faced with a health crisis not seen in this magnitude in over a century. From a business perspective particularly,...

LoRa Alliance on 2021: ‘The planet must get (IoT) prepped for further disruption’

2020 has seen the greatest acceleration of digital transformation and automation in history. As the world looks to emerge from Covid-19, the reality that this will not be the last pandemic remains – and this means every person, company, and government must be better...

Signify on 2021: ‘Restoring order after Covid chaos’ – 11 key IoT trends for 2021

A year of unprecedented disruption and change has come to a close. Ahead lies an exciting 2021 when life will presumably get back to something like normal and long-pent-up economic energies should burst forth to drive economic expansion. On the tech front, IoT will continue...

Airspan Networks on 2021: Open, private and standalone – six enterprise 5G trends

Abel Mayal, senior vice president of technology and marketing at Airspan Networks, offers six pointers on the year ahead for 5G networking developments in the broad enterprise sector. 1 | OpenRAN OpenRAN has been the main talking point in 2020, but currently only one operator, Rakuten,...

Senet on 2021: A mandate for SLA-backed carrier-grade IoT networks

As IoT deployments continue to scale and solution requirements become more predictable, the market will recognize the clear distinction between carrier-grade low-power wide-area (LPWA) networks and those that fail to meet carrier-grade specifications. This distinction will draw clear lines between commercial and consumer grade...

Watching IoT manufacturers and regulators repeat history (Reader Forum)

“Those who know history are doomed to watch others repeat it.” This bitter observation is something we see frequently when it comes to upholding the security, privacy, and safety regulations governing Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Sometimes it seems like we are doomed to...

Ericsson on 2021: The year Industry 4.0 takes off – rocket-fuelled by private 5G

In 2021, increasing availability of 5G will provide the launching pad for manufacturing to truly evolve to Industry 4.0, the new industrial revolution that will push industries forward. Connected factories will move from isolated pilot programs and early test cases to truly integrated ecosystems,...

Telensa on 2021: Standards, platforms, surveillance, privacy – and 12 IoT forecasts

Jon Lewis, director of strategy at UK-based smart street lighting company Telensa highlights a dozen tech trends to watch for in the year ahead. Here goes... 1 | The ‘smart city’ becomes a reality  The idea of a smart city has been in the ‘trough of...

Druid Software on 2021: Boom-time for private cellular – with pickup in Spain, Italy

The Covid 19 pandemic has helped accelerate private cellular network adoption, and will continue to do so in 2021. But it has also highlighted a new digital divide (which is not going away anytime soon) between vertical sectors that have and have-not prioritized access...

Telefónica on 2021: Private 5G and the ‘massification’ of industrial IoT

2021 will be the year industrial IoT gets ‘massive’, when companies decide, after the impact of Covid-19, to make change, and to accelerate their digital transformation. In technology terms, a major driver of this ‘massification’ will be 5G, and in particular private deployments of...

Sigfox on 2021: Less about new IoT use cases, more about ‘new approaches to IoT’

From a global pandemic, and a run on certain goods (like toilet paper), to severe natural disasters and more, everyone can agree that nothing in 2020 went according to plan. However, some of this disruption demonstrated the need for new technologies to solve for challenges...

Quuppa on 2021: Carriers to combine 5G-powered IoT and RTLS for Industry 4.0

As the curtain falls on 2020 and businesses take stock of a year defined by Covid-19, it is safe to say that IoT, one of the few big winners over the past year, is poised for even greater success in 2021. In fact, the...

Digi International on 2021: The IoT network will take centre stage, but will it run on 5G?

In the past few years, we’ve seen exponential growth in the adoption of industrial IoT devices and connections. This year, in addition to that surging growth, the Covid-19 pandemic has spurred organizations to accelerate their adoption of remote management for these deployments. Whether they...

Verizon on 2021: 5G and MEC to deliver ‘untold breakthroughs for business’

While the Covid-19 global pandemic upended the world's expectations in 2020, fortunately, the technology industry has weathered the challenges as an essential component of daily life. Innovations in 5G and mobile edge compute (MEC) in particular continued to accelerate. Now enterprises have commercially available...

IBM on 2021: Five 5G predictions – including cloud security, cellular IoT, drone deliveries

2021 is shaping up to be a pivotal year for 5G as cellular carriers ramp up deployment, new handsets enter the market, and consumers remain more dependent than ever on mobile devices amid an ongoing global pandemic. Additionally, the pandemic has driven a massive...

Semtech on 2021: Availability and simplicity to drive critical mass for LPWAN systems

One thing that became abundantly clear during the Covid-19 pandemic was the importance of the supply chain throughout the enterprise. From the factory floor through distribution to retail stores and deliveries, there is an increased imperative to track and manage billions of items as...

Pelion on 2021: The pandemic will continue to push enterprises to the edge

Organizations have been increasing the rate at which they adopt IoT technologies in 2020 as a direct response to Covid-19, deploying remote management and secure connectivity of devices to enable new applications and services, remotely, or to improve data insights from remote, deployed sensors...

BehrTech on 2021: Hybrid low-power IoT, as the surging “lifeblood” of digital change

Amidst the pandemic, the economic uncertainty has certainly constrained demand and funding for many IoT projects. However, we’ve also seen an acceleration of innovation as it seeks to support a new ‘normal’. IoT and wireless connectivity have become the lifeblood of driving digital transformation...

Nokia on 2021: A private 5G reality check, a private 4G mass market, a new industrial era

As we look forward to 2021, we must also reflect on this past year. In addition to tragic human cost, the pandemic cast a spotlight on the ability of business and society to cope with previously unimagined challenges. For industries such as manufacturing, supply chain,...

Bosch on 2021: A rallying cry for flexible, efficient production in times of crisis

The coronavirus (Covid-19) crisis has changed the way we work like no event or crisis before. What it has shown is that digitization of the industrial sector, and of factories in particular, is required as a matter of urgency, in order to bring flexible...

Fractus Antennas on 2021: After the gold rush (post-hype, when the real work begins)

Big brands will start to enter the IoT space more aggressively in 2021 with full end-to-end solutions, buying up successful companies either to avoid competition or else to complete their own portfolios. This will trigger regulators to set rules in the longer terms around...