Annual shipments of cellular IoT gateways will reach eight million in 2023, with compound growth (CAGR) of 18.5 per cent per annum in the intervening period, according to IoT analyst house Berg Insight. Global shipments stood at around 3.4 million units in 2018, worth...
Steve Szabo, head of global products and solutions for IoT, Verizon Business:
"Digital transformation is a hot topic, but it is not a new topic. And it is, itself, transforming.
"In 2000, the degree to which a company could consider itself on a path to digital...
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...
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...
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...
The number of cellular IoT connections will reach five billion by the end of 2025, from 1.3 billion by the end of 2019, according to Ericsson. Around a half will be NB-IoT and LTE-M connections, and around a quarter will be on LTE and...
Three UK has said it is piloting NB-IoT and LTE-M as a first step in a nationwide rollout of cellular-based low-power wide-area (LPWA) technology in support of wholesale customers including ARM, Arkessa, AT&T, Wireless Logic and Mobius in the UK. It said the rollout...
Israeli firm Altair Semicondictor will embed ‘cloud location over cellular’ (C-LoC) software into its ALT1250 dual-mode NB-IoT and LTE-M chipset. It has worked with C-LoC technology firm Polte Corporation on the initiative.
Altair claims the ALT1250 dual-mode cellular IoT chipset is the market’s smallest, enabling...
The cellular IoT ecosystem, the cellular community would have us believe, is growing fast. The GSMA counted 89 NB-IoT networks and 34 LTE-M launches as of October 2019, with several operators running both technologies in tandem, at doubling in 12 months.
The number of NB-IoT...
BehrTech is a Toronto-based industrial IoT connectivity provider claiming a “disruptive” streak in the burgeoning low-power wide-area (LPWA) networking market. The company has just issued a (privately commissioned, independently researched) report that says its novel telegram-splitting ultra-narrowband (TS-UNB) technology is better than LoRaWAN.
Indeed, it...
Canadian telecom operator Telus has launched the Telus IoT Shop in Canada, a self-serve online portal that enables businesses to purchase and manage prepaid IoT connectivity.
According to Telus, purchasing IoT connectivity has previously meant committing to volume requirements, credit checks and other processes that...
Australian carrier Telstra has more than 3.2 million devices are now connected to the telco’s IoT network, Gerhard Loots, head of Telstra’s IoT business, said in a blog post.
The
executive also said that an average of 2,000 devices are being connected to the
network every day....
Note this is a serialised version of an editorial report, called LPWA connectivity in IoT – who is winning what?’. It is continued from a previous instalment, which can be found here. The full report, including additional content, is available for download here.
A billion,...
Note this is a serialised version of an editorial report, called LPWA connectivity in IoT – who is winning what?’. It is continued from a previous instalment, which can be found here. The full report, including additional content, is available for download here.
Let’s take...
Note this is a serialised version of an editorial report, called LPWA connectivity in IoT – who is winning what?’. It is continued from a previous instalment, which can be found here. The full report, including additional content, is available for download here.
Not everyone...
Why is LoRaWAN better than Sigfox, NB-IoT, and LTE-M? It is not a query based on a statement of fact, to be clear; just a loose question, asked here of a partisan subject (whose bias is reflected in the enquiry), in the form of...
Cellular M2M value-added service revenues will account for only 14 per cent of the total revenues gained on the top of straight cellular M2M connection revenues, in the next five years. And 3G and 4G connections – as opposed to either 5G, or twin...
Note this is a serialised version of an editorial report, called 'LPWA connectivity in IoT – who is winning what?’. The full report, including additional content, is available for download here.
Is there a more tribal field in the internet-of-things (IoT) space than low-power wide-area...
Cellular IoT technologies are expected to take the lion's share of the low-power wide-area (LPWA) market, but it has been a bumpy start – outside of China, at least. Rival non-cellular technologies LoRaWAN and Sigfox have stolen a march in other territories.
Here, we...
Device availability, network flexibility, and technical features give LoRaWAN the edge on NB-IoT today, reckons Proximus. But competition between the two IoT technologies will grow closer, it expects. Meanwhile, Sigfox is missing in action, having apparently retreated from the kinds of metering and smart-city...
Three quarters of the IoT market will be given over to low-power wide-area (LPWA) network solutions, compared with just one quarter for high-bandwidth low-latency 5G applications.
So says the LoRa Alliance, which continues to push its line about being the key technology in low-power...
The number of cellular IoT connections, mostly to machines, will continue to outrun the number of 5G connections, mostly to people, for at least five years. Ericsson predicts cellular IoT connections will reach 4.1 billion by 2024, compared with 1.9 billion 5G connections.
According...
As we have heard, the UK’s 5G RuralFirst project is trying to do with 5G (or 5G-related tech) what the telecoms industry has failed to do with previous generations, and connect the unconnected, including farming communities looking for a digital edge.
It is transformative...
LoRa and Sigfox have maintained and extended their market-share lead over their cellular equivalents LTE-M and NB-IoT, as the latter technologies have been “plagued by network hardware and connectivity module issues. LoRa has been boosted by the rollout of private networks, and Sigfox remains...
