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Transforma Insights published a report ‘The potential for energy harvesting powering IoT devices’ that includes forecasts of the number of IoT devices that can potentially make use of four major energy harvesting sources – Solar, Kinetic, Thermal and Radio Frequency (RF) – and so can potentially operate without batteries or access to an external power source.

Remote SIM Provisioning (RSP) is set to become a mainstream feature of cellular IoT over the next decade, with the latest research from Transforma Insights forecasting that standards-based RSP capability will be present in 57% of all cellular IoT device shipments by 2035.

The global AI in IoT market has grown rapidly within the last year, with its value reaching $4.08 billion in 2025, and forecast to reach $6.45 billion by 2035. This progress reflects a wider industry shift, as with the rise of AI organizations are increasingly looking towards a more intelligent and connected future to achieve more from their IoT deployments.

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.