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Transforma Insights has repeatedly highlighted the immense potential of Low-Power Wide-Area (LPWA) technologies. From the point at which the phrase was termed by founder Jim Morrish in 2012, up until today, we have been convinced that these technologies have tremendous potential.

At the end of 2022, there were 13.2 billion IoT devicesOpens a new window active globally. By 2032 that figure will have grown to 34.4 billion, a trebling of the market courtesy of a compound annual growth rate of 10%. Annual device shipments will grow from 3.6 billion to 7.9 billion over the same period.

The total number of cellular IoT connections (including NB-IoT and LTE-M) will grow from 1.5 billion at the end of 2022 to 6.1 billion at the end of 2032. However, by 2032 the composition of the market will be rather different from today, being highly dominated by 5G. In this article we examine how 5G will come to dominate the space, and in so doing demonstrate a key trend in IoT connectivity: a bifurcation between high value and low value use cases.

floLIVE last Thrusday published a sponsored study titled, Connectivity Management Platforms, in collaboration with leading IoT industry analyst firm, Transforma Insights. The Connectivity Management Platform (CMP) is one of the key underlying pieces of middleware that Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) and Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNOs) use to manage connections, handling activation/deactivation, billing, analytics, reporting and various other functions. This part of IoT is going through a period of pronounced transition, as highlighted in the report.

Drawing smart meters into the Internet of Things (IoT) with internet connectivity is essential to their successful deployment. The combination of smart meters, two-way communications networks and data management systems is known as Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI). AMI has a variety of benefits that include helping utility companies automate device connections, meter readings and customer billing.

As the time it takes wireless network data to travel from a device to a server and back shrinks to a tiny fraction of a second thanks to 5G, businesses outfitted with the mobile communications technology will be able to make snap decisions in a way that isn’t possible with Wi-Fi or cables. Factory robots can spare needless emergency shutdowns by cutting erroneous signals that they’ve gotten too close to a worker.

Transforma Insights has published its Transition Topic Position Paper, sponsored by floLIVE, on the topic of ‘Connectivity Management Platforms.’ The Connectivity Management Platform (CMP) is one of the key underlying pieces of middleware that Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) and Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNOs) use to manage connections, handle activation/deactivation, billing, analytics, reporting, and various other functions. This part of IoT is going through a period of pronounced transition, as highlighted in the report.

Does China dominate the world in cellular-based IoT? If figures are to be believed, China accounts for more than three-quarters of all cellular-based IoT connections. We at Transforma Insights have been doing some digging. Let’s take a look at the results.

Until recently the Connectivity Management Platform (CMP) landscape was relatively static. Two vendors (Cisco and Ericsson) dominated – albeit with some operators picking alternative approaches – and functionality evolved slowly; there was relatively little to upset the status quo. However, in the last two years there have been a lot of emerging dynamics that have upset that situation and thrown the CMP space into a period of transition, particularly driven by the changing economics of delivering cellular connectivity for IoT.

New Position Paper from Transforma Insights provides a new taxonomy of the Connectivity Management Platform landscape, based on enriched offerings from market leaders such as Cisco, Ericsson and floLIVE.