The Transforma Insights Blog

Price erosion has been a prevailing trend for cellular connectivity for the last 15 years. In this blog post Jim Morrish explores some of the implications for how commoditisation of the underlying service has driven greater innovation and differentiation in technical capabilities, service quality and TCO.

Mobile operators have invested heavily in their telecom infrastructure, including deploying advanced antennas and radio units that improve coverage and signal quality, rolling out 5G SA and NSA networks, and acquiring spectrum. The motivation from the telecom industry is to innovate, develop and offer advanced and improved services to help prevent identity fraud, deliver enriched user experiences, and equally important if not more, to create new revenue opportunities to recover investments in the deployment of 5G networks. Cellular networks APIs (application programming interfaces) could help them in unlocking additional revenue from these advanced network technologies. This blog explores what cellular network APIs are, key drivers of adoption, how 5G makes it easier to expose network APIs and the network API ecosystem. For more information on this topic, please read Transforma Insights’ recently published report: ‘Cellular network APIs: incorporating network data into IoT applications’.

Usage-based insurance (UBI) has become an established part of the motor insurance market in several countries, particularly Italy, the UK and the US. By linking premiums more closely to how, where and how much a vehicle is driven, UBI gives insurers access to information that traditional insurance models cannot capture and provides drivers with the potential to influence their insurance costs through their driving behaviour.

Artificial Intelligence is moving from experimentation to being an increasingly important part of industrial technology portfolios. As manufacturers look to apply AI across engineering, production, maintenance and operations, industrial technology vendors are responding by embedding AI into existing products, developing purpose-built applications, acquiring complementary capabilities and investing in the data and software infrastructure needed to support them. The result is not simply a wave of new AI features, but a broader evolution in how industrial technology is developed and delivered. This blog highlights some of the key trends on how vendors are advancing their products and portfolios as AI becomes increasingly embedded in industrial environments.

As energy infrastructure moves further into remote, challenging and increasingly distributed environments, reliable connectivity is becoming a critical enabler of operations. From oil and gas wells and pipelines to renewable energy installations and mobile field assets, organisations need to monitor, manage and control equipment wherever it is located, including places where terrestrial cellular networks simply don't reach.

In a previous blog post on IoT network anomaly and threat detection (ATD), we briefly discussed the need for IoT network ATD solutions, the key security challenges relevant in the IoT context, and how such solutions protect connected device ecosystems. In this blog post, Paras Sharma discusses the capabilities of vendors in the IoT network ATD world and provides a snapshot of vendors, each looking to combat the inevitable security issues pertaining to IoT devices.

Geopolitical instability has intensified in the last couple of years and the war between Russia and Ukraine and the US-Israel-Iran conflict have reshaped the dynamics of modern warfare, especially the role and growing importance of drones. Such a scale is creating a parallel requirement for manufacturing technologies that can support rapid design changes, localised production, and shorter supply chains. As a result, additive manufacturing, more commonly known as 3D printing, is gaining greater importance in the drone ecosystem. This blog primarily explores the advantages of using 3D printing in drone manufacturing and highlights countries and vendors that have implemented initiatives to encourage the adoption of 3D printing for drones.

Vehicle rental, leasing and sharing have traditionally involved a series of manual processes between the end of one customer's journey and the start of the next. The growing use of connected vehicles, telematics, IoT technologies and automated data platforms is changing this process. Instead of relying entirely on employees to physically check and record vehicle information, rental and mobility operators can increasingly receive data remotely and automatically. Fuel level, mileage, vehicle location, return time and other vehicle information can be transmitted directly to the operator's systems, helping accelerate vehicle returns, reduce manual intervention and improve fleet utilisation. This blog post explores this evolution.

This blog explores why enterprises need to adopt a robust IoT network security solution to guard connected devices from cyberattacks. It talks about the rise of IoT network anomaly and threat detection (ATD) solutions and the key capabilities of such solutions that help enterprises to protect their deployed IoT devices.

As telecom networks transition toward cloud-native, AI-enabled architectures, competition among MPN core vendors is intensifying. Vendors are differentiating themselves through strategic positioning rather than technology alone. This blog examines the key strategies adopted by leading MPN core vendors and highlights the insights from our latest MPN core vendors analysis report, providing a structured view of how the competitive landscape is evolving.