What Are the Biggest Barriers to IoT Adoption Today?
The Internet of Things, or IoT, continues to be a hot topic across a range of industries. Highlighting the benefits of adopting this technology, Fortune Business Insights had estimated that the global IoT market will reach $1102.6 billion by 2026. However, the industry is facing various barriers in terms of its adoption and implementation. In […]
How IoT Has Disrupted and Impacted Consumer and Retail Tech
A Business Week article by journalist Neil Gross in 1999 had predicted that “there would eventually be enough devices connected to each other and to the Internet to cover the earth in an electronic skin.” He stated that the beginning of the 21st century would see “millions of embedded electronic measuring devices: thermostats, pressure gauges, […]
How Satellite Communication is Enabling Global Coverage for IoT
Internet of Things (IoT) is all about connectivity. According to Gartner, more than 20 billion connected things will be in use worldwide by 2020. Smartphones interconnected to smart homes and vehicles, Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), and smart cities produce a lot of data. This massive amount of data or big data, in turn, makes […]
Learn all about IoT connectivity, data visualisation and M2M communication at partner meetup
If you’re stuck for something to do after the first day of IoT Tech Expo, or are in Berlin the night before the event, then our friends at SORACOM are putting together a series of free to attend workshops around IoT connectivity. The workshops take place at the Estrel Hotel, Sonnenallee 225, Berlin, on May […]
Interoperability – the keystone of IoT integration
While public bodies law-make, private companies build, and academics research, one thing that could speed up IoT development in the next couple of years is if manufacturers reach a consensus on interoperability. The greatest tech companies and transport manufacturers can pioneer to their heart’s content, but the Internet of Things is a system, multiple systems […]
Are you taking IoT connectivity seriously enough?
Can you risk your application becoming obsolete after a year in the market? Imagine basing your entire product around one connectivity protocol, only to discover after deployment that the market has changed and it is no longer viable. It sounds like a developer’s worst nightmare, but it happens. Just look at the upheaval created by […]