As we come to the end of 2024, here’s a little recap of the most popular Transforma Insights reports, blog posts, webinars and white papers of the year.
1. Communications Service Provider (CSP) IoT Peer Benchmarking 2024 – The Communications Service Provider IoT Peer Benchmarking Report is Transforma Insights annual assessment of the capabilities and strategies of the leading Mobile Network Operators and MVNOs in IoT.
2. Global IoT Forecast Report, 2023-2033 – This report provides a snapshot of the state of the IoT market in 2023 and forecasts to 2033. It is compiled based on data extracted from the Transforma Insights IoT Forecast Database.
3. Environment Monitoring: 80.5 million connected devices by 2032, generating USD677 million revenue – This report provides Transforma Insights’ view on the Environment Monitoring market. This segment comprises industrial air, water, noise, nuclear radiation, odour detection, river water pollution, and dust monitors placed across industrial sites to monitor pollutants discharged from industrial processes.
4. AI affords Communications Service Providers (CSPs) an opportunity to differentiate and secure new revenues – In this report, we aggregate the findings of recent research into the AI capabilities for CSPs and how these are offered to their clients to show the main capabilities of CSPs in AI related to infrastructure, professional services, integrated solutions and platforms.
5. Digital Transformation in Smart Buildings – This report focusses on digital transformation in smart buildings as enabled by the key technology groups that are the focus of Transforma Insights’ research including AI and IoT.
1. MWC 2024: the customer is not always right – Matt Hatton shares his perspectives on an intense week of meetings at Mobile World Congress, including thoughts on go to market strategies, 5G, regulatory compliance, products, Non-Terrestrial Networks and much more.
2. Good ideas and bad ideas for Communications Service Providers in IoT – Communications Service Providers are faced with choosing between a plethora of different strategies for addressing the IoT market, reflecting the rapidly evolving technical and commercial landscape. In this blog post, Matt Hatton presents a view of what strategies are likely to be the best for most MNOs/MVNOs related to IoT.
3. The IoT State of the Nation - Matt Hatton at Mobile World Congress – In February 2024, Transforma Insights' analysts were very involved at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Amongst the engagements was Matt Hatton speaking at the 5G IoT Summit on the state of IoT. He looked back over the last 10 years and considered the key 'Transition Topics' that are affecting IoT today, including regulation, non-terrestrial networks, 5G, NB-IoT/LTE-M and commercialisation.
4. Thoughts on SoftBank's acquisition of Cubic Telecom – The big news in IoT connectivity at the end of 2023 was the announcement that SoftBank was acquiring automotive-focused MVNO Cubic Telecom at a staggering valuation of EUR927 million. This blog post examines the deal and what the implications might be.
5. Global cellular IoT connections top 3 billion at end of 2023 – Every quarter Transforma Insights' analysts collect cellular connections figures for dozens of operators. At the end of 2023 the number of connections for the top 37 operator groups almost hit 3 billion, and is well in excess of that figure when allowing for other operators not included in those top ranked operators.
1. Communications Service Provider (CSP) strategies for IoT – We present the results of its annual CSP IoT Peer Benchmarking research analysing the capabilities and strategies of the leading MNOs and MVNOs in IoT
2. Transforma Insights’ annual global IoT market forecast update – Our annual snapshot of the current state and future prognosis for the IoT market, giving you the most grounded perspective on what we can expect over the next decade. Our leading IoT experts share our assessments of market growth, technology evolution, leading applications and much more.
3. What enterprises need to know about using SGP.32 ‘IoT’ remote SIM provisioning – Transforma Insights and Eseye share their deep insights on the opportunities and challenges associated with the use of the new SGP.32 Remote SIM Provisioning standard.
4. AIoT: the impact and opportunities of combining AI and IoT – Our analysts assess the increasing overlap between AI and IoT, the opportunities associated with AIoT and the new challenges it presents, including sharing our forecasts of the emerging AIoT market.
5. The complex and fast-evolving regulatory landscape for digital transformation – In this Transforma Insights webinar, Jim Morrish discusses key aspects of regulations in the context of digital transformation.
1. In-Factory Profile Provisioning (IFPP): new eSIM approach drives profitability and improves product performance in connected electronics manufacturing – This Position Paper, sponsored by Kigen, looks at a key change happening in SIM provisioning, specifically the growing interest in In-Factory Profile Provisioning.
2. Key considerations for Enterprises looking to adopt SGP.32 – This report, sponsored by Eseye, examines the new SGP.32 ("IoT") standard for Remote SIM Provisioning (RSP) and the ways in which enterprises should be considering its use.
3. Connectivity Management Platforms – The Position Paper, sponsored by floLIVE, was published in 2023 but still saw many downloads in 2024. It looks at the evolving Connectivity Management Platform market landscape.
4. Why VoLTE/VoNR is a critical part of an IoT connectivity provider's portfolio – Sponsored by ng-voice, this report examines the requirement for IoT applications to support voice services and the mechanisms required for IoT connectivity providers to do so.
5. Meeting the increasing regulatory challenge in IoT – This report, sponsored by floLIVE, examines the regulatory environment for the Internet of Things.
If those were the hot topics for our readers in 2024, what will be the key themes for 2025? Every year Transforma Insights publishes its list of IoT ‘Transition Topics’ highlighting where we expect to see seismic change occurring during the year. This year the list focuses on the application of Artificial Intelligence to IoT, the shift towards 5G, changing commercial dynamics and the growing impact of IoT regulations.
Find out more here: Transforma Insights announces IoT Transition Topics for 2025.
We look forward to seeing you in the new year. Our analysts will be at the following events early in the new year:
• Consumer Electronics Show, Las Vegas (7-10 January)
• IoT Tech Expo Global, London (5-6 February)
• IoT Evolution Expo, Ft Lauderdale (11-13 February)
• Mobile World Congress, Barcelona (3-6 March)
• Embedded World, Nuremberg (11-13 March)
Get in touch to meet us. Check out our Events page for more details.
