LPWA: a market in the making

Whenever a new concept like IoT comes along, there is always speculation and conjecture over how the market for it will develop, particularly when there are competing technologies involved and LPWA is proving to be no exception. At present, how the market for IoT systems and devices evolves and what its eventual shape will be

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When major corporations like Delta Airlines have ‘failures’ we all have an opinion

I remember a time when I was running datacenters and had absolute responsibility for and accountability for critical business systems.

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IoT data management issues are worrying UK consumer tech vendors

New research findings suggest that 78% of UK consumer technology and hardware vendors expect the Internet of Things (IoT) to have a significant impact on their ability to gather customer insight data across the supply chain.

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Machina Research’s white paper explores implications and challenges of ‘open-ness’ to connectivity

Cities are increasingly aware of the benefits of an ‘open’ approach to becoming ‘Smart’. So says a new white paper from the UK-based IoT research firm, Machina Research.

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IoT: Hype or get left behind

If you were at some of the conferences I attended recently, you couldn’t help but get hyped around the hype of IoT. Customers lined up session after session to speak about how their business had transformed and tried to convince others that the future is now.

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MachNation forecasts US$83bn in IoT application enablement revenue in 2025

IoT industry analyst firm, MachNation, has announced the publication of what it says is the industry’s first IoT Platform-Enabled Solutions (PES) ScoreCard and IoT AEP worldwide forecast.

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Microsoft to kickstart consumer smart glasses market from 2017, boosting shipments to over 12 million by 2020

A study by Juniper Research shows that over 12 million consumer smart glasses will ship in 2020, with the majority of growth occurring after 2017. This is compared to less than a million devices shipped in 2016, from a variety of vendors.

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