The Transforma Insights Blog

This post, based on the recently published eBook ‘Ubiquitous Connectivity: For a Smarter Automotive Future’ in collaboration with Cubic3, explores how this convergence of technologies is reshaping the connected car landscape, unlocking new revenue models and operational benefits for automotive manufacturers.

In the face of a shift to online shopping, bricks-and-mortar retailers are trying hard to fight back and many of them have deployed disruptive digital technologies in their retail stores to enhance customers’ shopping experiences and drive profits.

This blog explores the reasons for aftermarket micromobility devices being adopted, explains how Micromobility Navigation and Stolen Micromobility Tracking devices have become common for users, and explores new digitally advanced solutions that are being offered in the market.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Internet of Things (IoT) are two of today’s most impactful technologies. Increasingly, they’re being combined to become what’s widely referred to as AIoT. This blog post explores the benefits that deploying AI on IoT can deliver.

In 2025, the retail industry is being driven by the increasing adoption of disruptive digital technologies, like Artificial Intelligence (AI), Hyperconnectivity, Internet of Things (IoT), and Data Sharing. This blog discusses six domains of change within the retail industry, each enabled by such digital technologies.

In this blog post Joydeep Bhattacharyya explores the concept of battery swapping for EVs, once seen as the natural approach for powering EVs, then perceived as an outlandish impossibility, but now gaining traction.

In this blogpost, Jim Morrish examines an aspect of the expected growth of AIoT, specifically what types of AI instances will be used on IoT devices.

In this blog post, Jim Morrish examines the growth of AIoT and the fact that the increasing use of AI onboard IoT devices will be concentrated in certain use cases including smart speakers, consumer electronics and connected cars

This blog draws on the findings of Transforma Insights’ recent LPWA Case Study Analysis report. The report is the summary of a comprehensive survey of Low Power Wide Area (LPWA) technologies, which for the purposes of our analysis we defined to include NB-IoT, LTE-M, LoRa and LoRaWAN (in this blog we will refer to both as LoRaWAN), and Sigfox.

Conventional vehicle showrooms have remained essentially unchanged for a long time, and their benefits are clear. They offer a physical place for customers to examine cars, interact with the relevant salespersons, and then make their decisions. This blog explores how digital technologies like Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality VR) are enhancing customer experiences.