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MAY 23, 2025 | Jim Morrish

Deploying AI onboard IoT devices can unlock significant benefits

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.
region: ALL vertical: ALL Internet of ThingsArtificial Intelligence
MAY 21, 2025 | Paras Sharma| Joydeep Bhattacharyya

Top six digital transformation trends reshaping the retail industry in 2025

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.
region: ALL Retail & Wholesale technology: ALL
MAY 09, 2025 | Joydeep Bhattacharyya

EV charging gets a makeover: the renaissance of battery swapping explained

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.
region: ALL ManufacturingElectricity, Gas, Steam & A/C Internet of ThingsHyperconnectivityArtificial Intelligence
MAY 01, 2025 | Jim Morrish

Natural Language Processing and Image Processing & Analysis drive the adoption of AI onboard IoT devices

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.
region: ALL vertical: ALL Internet of ThingsArtificial IntelligenceEdge Computing
APR 28, 2025 | Jim Morrish

AIoT will be concentrated in certain IoT use cases

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
region: ALL vertical: ALL Artificial IntelligenceEdge ComputingInternet of Things
APR 25, 2025 | Jim Morrish

LoRa/LoRaWAN leads in Transforma Insights’ LPWA case study analysis, with 3GPP technologies preferred for connecting multi-country products

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.
region: ALL vertical: ALL HyperconnectivityInternet of Things
APR 24, 2025 | Joydeep Bhattacharyya| Paras Sharma

Virtual car showrooms: Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) enhancing customer experience

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.
region: ALL Retail & Wholesale Human Machine Interface
APR 22, 2025 | Paras Sharma| Joydeep Bhattacharyya

Digital disruption in the retail industry: the rise of autonomous stores

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.
region: ALL Retail & Wholesale Artificial IntelligenceInternet of ThingsHuman Machine InterfaceEdge ComputingAutonomous Robotic Systems
APR 16, 2025 | Paras Sharma| Joydeep Bhattacharyya

AI-based video analytics and IoT enable faster and more accurate vehicle repair assessments

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.
region: ALL ManufacturingRetail & WholesaleTransportation & StorageFinance & Insurance Internet of ThingsArtificial Intelligence
APR 14, 2025 | Jim Morrish

Nearly a quarter of IoT devices will have AI onboard by 2033

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.
region: ALL vertical: ALL Internet of ThingsArtificial Intelligence