BROWSING: Reports

Digital Industry Solutions | Hybrid low-power IoT – how the IoT industry is balancing function and efficiency to drive massive IoT

The penny has dropped – IoT is not a winner-takes-all market. Increasingly, IoT solution providers are looking to mix and match low-power IoT technologies to serve complex use cases and drive efficiencies.   This report discusses the combination, variously, of wide-area IoT (LoRaWAN, Sigfox, NB-IoT, LTE-M),...

Digital Industry Solutions | The role of hyperscalers in enterprise 5G and edge – and how they are collaborating and competing with mobile operators

cessing and the near real-time responsiveness it enables. 5G connectivity is also at the core of the movement but it is the combination of 5G and edge that will bring true innovation for enterprises moving to Industry 4.0. Can hyperscalers and CSPs go it alone...

Talking About Industryial Revolution | Conversations with industry about IoT in commercial real estate

In a new Q&A report series, Enterprise IoT Insights talks with select industry leaders about how digital systems – including 5G, AI, IoT, and edge, plus other key technologies – are transforming industry.   This report maps the vision, signs the obstacles, and charts a course...

Digital Industry Solutions | NB-IoT – what has gone wrong, and when will it go right?

NB-IoT was supposed to connect everything. It hasn't. Instead, it has coughed and spluttered, and faced cries about its cost, ecosystem, and coverage. But something is afoot, finally, as devices have come available, costs have started to come down, and the operator community has...

Digital Factory Solutions | Private 5G enterprise NOCs – where and how will operators manage private 5G

As industrial sectors eye 5G as a platform to drive automation and intelligence as part of the Industry 4.0 revolution, mobile operators have a battle on their hands to convince them they are best placed to manage their new private cellular networks. To this...

Talking About (Industrial) Revolution | Conversations with industry about IoT in… Healthcare

In a new Q&A report series, Enterprise IoT Insights talks with select industry leaders about how digital systems – including 5G, AI, IoT, and edge, plus other key technologies – are transforming industry. The response to the global COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the adoption of digital...

Talking About (Industrial) Revolution | Conversations with industry about IoT in… Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS)

In a new Q&A report series, Enterprise IoT Insights talks with select industry leaders about how digital systems – including 5G, AI, IoT, and edge, plus other key technologies – are transforming industry. This report maps the vision, signs the obstacles, and charts a course...

Global workplace experience apps market to reach $988m by 2025: research

  The global workplace experience apps market within commercial office space is expected to reach $988 million by 2025, up from an estimated $406 million in 2020, according to Swedish smart building research firm Memoori. The report expects this market will grow at a compound annual...

Talking About (Industrial) Revolution | The state of ‘things’ in smart manufacturing – how enterprises are grasping for and grappling with industrial IoT

In a new Q&A report series, Enterprise IoT Insights talks with select industry leaders about how digital systems – including 5G, AI, IoT, and edge, plus other key technologies – are transforming industry. Despite the bluster and hype from the tech industry, and the slow...

Talking About (Industrial) Revolution | The trouble with smart cities – and where are all the ‘lessons-learned’?

In a new Q&A report series, Enterprise IoT Insights talks with select industry leaders about how digital systems – including 5G, AI, IoT, and edge, plus other key technologies – are transforming industry. This report maps the vision, signs the obstacles, and charts a...

Digital Factory Solutions | Industrial 5G SLAs – the new turf war over the supply and management of 5G in Industry 4.0

The only way for operators to generate more revenue is to take more risk. The promise of 5G networks is in selling augmented connectivity solutions to enterprises, and not to consumers. But the operator community must guarantee 5G services, offered on network slices or in...

Editorial Report: Smart Manufacturing and OEE – Transform Your Performance

Technology investments are typically made to solve specific business problems. Smart manufacturing is about more than investments in digital transformation and the attendant technologies. Smart manufacturing, at its core, is about the pursuit of continuous process improvement. Standard KPIs - like OEE - may seem...

Editorial Report: Wi-Fi, public 5G or private network: What’s an enterprise to do?

With advances in Wi-Fi and cellular technology running parallel to each other, enterprises are encountering more and more options when it comes to building a network. As network architecture and topology becomes more flexible, many enterprises are left wondering what the best solution to...

Making Industry Smarter: Challenges with digital change in healthcare

Healthcare is, arguably, the most complex sector for technologists to crack – and one that  offers the greatest opportunity for change, as well. Healthcare is delivered differently in every market, and the business case is unfamiliar: a matter of life and death. The stakes are...

Digital Industry Solutions: Asset tracking – and the march towards massive IoT

It’s one thing to know where something is, it’s another to know how its contents have been treated – whether they are frozen, unfrozen, damaged, dropped, lost or stolen. Asset tracking and asset management are a boom industry, and a foundation stone for industrial...

Digital Industry Solutions | Digital thread and digital twin – translating data into business value

Digital threads and digital twins are the foundation stones for digital transformation. In manufacturing, they enable ways to assess processes and products in a virtual environment – without the need for physical iterations, and with huge impacts in terms of cost, efficiency, productivity, and...

Digital Industry Solutions | Short-range + long-range IoT – the clamour for hybrid IoT

A single connectivity technology will suffice for certain IoT applications, but the real magic is being realised when two or more complementary IoT technologies combine. Increasingly, solution providers are looking to make multi-mode connectivity a springboard for more complex and ambitious IoT solutions. This webinar...

Digital Factory Solutions (report series): Industrial AR – and the rise of the workers

How augmented reality (AR) is transforming production and raising the influence of workers in the robot age.

Digital Industry Solutions (report series) | Smart lighting – as a platform

Smart lighting as a platform. Lighting is everywhere humans are, and already connected to power, making it the perfect apparatus for future wireless technologies and sensors. This report considers how smart lighting platforms are developing in the buildings / commercial real estate (CRE) market,...

Digital Factory Solutions (report series) | Agile Innovation – Crossing the IT/OT Divide

The only way to innovate is to collaborate. In the fourth installment in our new series on smart manufacturing technologies, UK-based global editor-in-chief editor James Blackman looks at how the technology ecosystem is coming together in industrial settings to collaborate to define and develop...

Making Industry Smarter (report series) | Metals & Mining – Digging with Data

Digging for gold. The digital transformation of the metals and mining sectors – a review of the strategies, technologies and stakes in play as the mining industry seeks more sustainable and competitive ways to dig for gold and other everyday treasures. UK-based global editor-in-chief editor...

Digital Factory Solutions Report Series: Operational Intelligence

How is data, analytics, and artificial intelligence (AI) transforming the manufacturing sector? In the third installment in a new series on smart manufacturing technologies, UK-based global editor-in-chief editor James Blackman looks at the role of data analytics techniques to bring intelligence to manufacturing operations.

Editorial Report: IoT Connectivity – Who’s Winning What?

For all the experience of LTE and excitement of 5G, the IoT market has been propped by low-power wide-area (LPWA) technologies. The concept of smart-anything as the prerequisite for industrial change – in buildings, cities, manufacturing, logistics, agriculture – has gained credence, in large...

Editorial Report | Making Industry Smarter Report Series: Energy & Power

With localised power generation, the flow of electricity and data has to go both ways. New electricity metering infrastructure establishes an integrated system of meter hardware, communications networks, and data management systems to enable this two-way communication between utilities and customers. This new gadgetry also...