The Transforma Insights Blog

According to the United Nations, the share of the world’s population that is aged over 65 is expected to increase from 10% in 2021 to 16.7% in 2050. In this blog post we draw on some of the research from our recent report ‘Assisted Living: 160 million connected devices by 2032, supporting elder care’ to provide some perspectives on the use of IoT to support an aging population. 

The Applied Intelligence Live conference in Austin, Texas, held in September 2023, in general, was a hub of discussions revolving around the transformative power of generative Artificial Intelligence (AI). In this blog post Brad Canham explores the key themes of the event, most critically the immature partnerships between the new AI technology and people, including the practical and ethical impact of the technology.

Transforma Insights and neXt Curve are partnering to bring our clients and the wider industry what we call 'Essential Validated Insights'. Next month, Matt Hatton and Dr. Bradley K. Canham from Transforma Insights will be out at Mobile World Congress Las Vegas along with Leonard Lee of neXt Curve. It's a great opportunity to take the pulse of the industry and talk to the great and good of particularly the telecoms and IoT space.

This month our analysts will speak at several major events which are focused on the Internet of Things, particularly IoT connectivity. These include Digital X in Cologne, The Things Conference in Amsterdam, Mobile World Congress in Las Vegas and then back to Amsterdam for the IoT Tech Expo Europe. Along the way our analysts will chair, moderate and speak in various sessions. In this blog post we provide a preview of what we think will be the hot topics that will dominate the conversation around IoT connectivity at these events.

In April, Transforma Insights published a report ‘Public Information & Advertising Screens: Adoption of digital information screens for enriched customer experience’, which discussed in great detail how enterprises are increasingly deploying digital-out-of-home (DOOH) screens such as kiosks, billboards, and signage to offer enriched customer experience, reduce manual labour, and earn additional revenue. In this blog, after briefly describing the advantages of DOOH screens, we explain how increasing implementation of IoT devices delivers highly personalised location-based advertising.

The healthcare industry and its related fields have been through a significant shift in recent years, particularly through the application of some of the critical new emerging technologies. In a report titled ‘Digital Transformation in the Healthcare Sector’, Transforma Insights highlighted eight domains of change occurring in the healthcare industry, largely facilitated by disruptive technologies like Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Internet of Things (IoT) (as explained in a separate blog, ‘Digital transformation in healthcare is driven by AI and IoT’).

In July 2023, Transforma Insights published a Position Paper entitled ‘Connected-by-Design: Optimising Device-to-Cloud Connectivity’, sponsored by Eseye, in which we outlined the reasons why it is critical for IoT developers to build their applications with considerations of connectivity permeating the development process. In this blog post we examine one perspective on the march towards Connected-by-Design, specifically some of the alternative approaches and the pitfalls associated with them.

Transforma Insights’ recent report, 'Micromobility Vehicles: 328 million devices to support the demand for urban mobility in 2032' finds that by 2032, the total number of micromobility vehicle IoT devices will reach around 328 million and the market will grow at a CAGR of more than 50%. Greater China, North America, and Europe will be the three largest markets, and India & South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa will be the other regions experiencing significant growth. In this blog, we have provided a detailed understanding of why and how micromobility vehicles will play a role in urban environments, in addition to discussing the major challenges threatening the market at present.

Today, there is an increasing realisation amongst IoT adopters and vendors that the various constituent elements of an IoT solution must be delivered as a managed service or series of managed services. In June 2023 Transforma Insights published a white paper in collaboration with Telit Cinterion entitled ‘The Internet of Things can only be delivered as a managed service’ which looked at why enterprises should be more selective about demanding a more personalised service and picking their IoT connectivity partners.

The number of eUICC/Remote SIM Provisioning (RSP) capable cellular-based IoT connections will grow from 240 million (16% of installed base) to 2.36 billion (40%) between 2022 and 2032, according to the new report from Transforma Insights, ‘Over 2.3 billion cellular connections will be eUICC/Remote SIM Provisioning (RSP) capable in 2032’. In this article we explore the drivers of adoption and the evolving dynamics of cellular-based IoT connectivity that will stem from this evolution.