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The adoption of digital technologies has transformed many industries over the past decade, enabling greater automation, efficiency, and data-driven decision-making. However, compared to sectors such as manufacturing and retail, the Oil & Gas (O&G) industry has traditionally been slower in embracing digital transformation. This slower pace has largely been due to the industry's unique characteristics, including complex operations, safety-critical processes, stringent regulatory requirements, and the need to operate in remote and harsh environments where reliability is paramount.

In the world of IoT, there has been a lot of discussion recently about ‘Physical AI’, ‘AIoT’ and broadly the impact of the combination of the two technology domains of Artificial Intelligence and the Internet of Things.

Wireless Logic, the independent enterprise IoT connectivity and managed infrastructure partner is strengthening its position as a global connectivity leader.

Wireless Logic, the independent enterprise IoT connectivity and managed infrastructure partner, is strengthening its position as a global connectivity leader

Wireless Logic’s acquisition of SIMETRY reinforces its position as IoT’s most aggressive consolidator. But while the managed connectivity market is widely tipped for merger-driven scale, inflated valuations and healthy growth rates may be slowing broader industry consolidation.

Within the IoT world there has been an increasing buzz around the concept of ‘Physical AI’, the idea that IoT deployments will act as the eyes and ears of Artificial Intelligence as well as extending AI-based decision-making and actuating into the physical world.

The IoT and AI are a likely partnership: IoT generates and captures data, often in large volume, AI is ideally placed to analyze it. Combined, AIoT presents new opportunities, so much so that Transforma Insights forecasts no fewer than 9.1 billion AIoT connections at the end of 2033, a more than six-fold increase in 10 years.

Telefónica Tech has joined the growing list of telcos to enable remote eSIM provisioning for global IoT customers. It has partnered with French aerospace giant Thales to launch an eSIM offering based on the GSMA SGP.32 standard, which enables customers to download and activate SIM profiles from available mobile networks on their IoT devices.

T-Mobile will retire its 2G GSM network on August 3, 2026, a company spokesperson confirmed to Fierce Network — giving operators of connected-device fleets exactly 27 days to complete migrations that, if missed, will strand equipment with no path back to service.

Vodafone IoT is preparing to launch satellite-based connectivity this year from Iridium and Skylo to connect more "things" and some animals too.