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As one of the leading providers in the license-exempt low power wide area (LPWA) space, LoRaWAN accounted for around 270 million endpoints as of August 2022. Like any other technology, LPWA is forced to continue evolving with the highly dynamic tech and the business landscape we find ourselves in. As a result, LoRaWAN is also shifting its focus toward a wide area and hybrid networking.

Billions of connected devices need to communicate and move data effectively across networks and cloud platforms. Here’s why MQTT is the standard protocol.

Transforma Insights recently published a White Paper ‘2G and 3G switch-off: what network evolution means for IoT’. This new white paper details the implications for enterprise IoT deployments of 2G and 3G network switch-off, a process which has been seen in countries such as Australia, Japan and the US for a decade or more and is now rapidly accelerating in Europe. The impact of the retirement of these legacy networks will vary a lot depending on the nature and duration of enterprise deployments, as well as those companies’ degree of preparation.

Earlier this year, Transforma Insights undertook a survey of 1,100+ enterprises in the US and Europe, asking about their buying behaviour and vendor preferences cellular IoT connectivity. As part of that survey, we asked respondents which connectivity providers they were aware of, which they used, and which they would be interested in using in future. In this article, we explore the responses to those questions.

Yodit Bekele Stanton worried about her daughter’s debilitating asthma. As a software developer in London, she knew data often held answers that were otherwise unnoticed or unseen, so she put a sensor in her backyard and began monitoring the air quality in her neighborhood, mapping the data against her daughter’s asthma attacks.

There is a long history of communication technologies emerging as an infrastructure for transformative innovations almost in every sector. The development of the printing press in the fifteenth century was the first big industrial innovation in communications that facilitated many scientific, technological, business, cultural, and religious changes.

From a sustainability perspective, the overall impact of the telecommunications industry is strongly positive. The GSM Association together with the Carbon Trust have estimated that in 2018 the total carbon-equivalent (CO2e) emissions of the mobile sector are around 0.4% of total global emissions, while savings achieved through ‘Smart Living and Working’, including a range of virtualised services supported by cellular connectivity (but not including IoT solutions), amounted to nearly 4x this amount.

When combined with Internet of Things connectivity and data analytics, smart metering can help utilities improve the delivery of services.

With the growth of the new spectrum and increasing popularity of mobile private networks (MPNs), specific enterprises are taking a closer look at dedicated mobile networks. Matt Hatton, the founding partner of Transforma Insights, delves deep into the fast-evolving world of mobile private networks and private wireless.

Ahead of Total Telecom Congress 2022, we spoke to Matt Hatton – Founding Partner at Transforma Insights to hear his take on the changing enterprise connectivity market.