The Transforma Insights Blog

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.

This blog highlights one of the domains of change in the retail industry, Autonomous Stores, discusses why they are gaining momentum, explains how they ensure frictionless shopping experience, and identifies their benefits for retail owners.

Paras Sharma and Joydeep Bhattacharya explores how solutions enabled by disruptive technologies are being deployed to support the service, maintenance and repair of vehicles at service centres and other locations.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Internet of Things (IoT) are two of the most impactful and far-reaching technology developments of our time. Increasingly these two technologies are deployed together and the term ‘AIoT’ has come to the fore.

Harnessing waste heat for community heating is not a new concept. Exhaust heat networks that capture heat from factories, power plants, and wastewater treatment plants have existed in the past and the waste heat generated has previously been used to provide hot water and warm buildings. However, with the advent of disruptive digital technologies, data centres have started gaining more prominence and tech companies have realised that the heat they generate in their data centres can be utilised through district heating networks for multiple purposes like water heating and farming. This blog explores how data centres can supply waste heat for community heating. In doing so, it explains how tech companies (through their data centres) contribute to waste heat collection, the regulations that are impacting date centre site selection, the use of disruptive technologies like AI and IoT for heat management across data centres, and some of the obstacles that data centre operators face.

We at Transforma Insights recently published a report, Digital Transformation in the Retail Industry, which identified six domains of change in the retail industry that are being enabled by disruptive technologies, including Artificial Intelligence (AI), Hyperconnectivity (HC), and Data Sharing (DS). This blog defines the 'Augmented Shopping Experience' domain of change and explains how smart mirrors and AR-enabled mobile applications are enhancing customer experience.

Early March saw the annual pilgrimage to Barcelona for Mobile World Congress. For the author it was his twentieth visit to the event. It’s really the only not-to-be-missed conference in the calendar, such is its importance. The opportunity to spend four days (or more) locked in darkened meeting rooms discussing all things IoT connectivity offers an unrivalled opportunity to test hypotheses, triangulate views, and pick up gossip. As ever I want to offer my perspectives on what I thought were the key news and themes from the show.