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The manufacturing sector and associated fields have been through a substantial shift in recent years, and particularly through the application of some of the critical new emerging technologies, many of which have been combined under the ‘Industry 4.0’ banner

Today, there is an increasing realization 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.

The number of eUICC/Remote SIM Provisioning (RSP) capable cellular-based IoT connections will experience growth from 240 million (16 percent of installed base) to 2.36 billion (40 percent) 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.”

US telco Verizon has further extended the reach of its IoT services with a new global eSIM platform.

Due to the distributed nature of IoT, connectivity/networking is perhaps the most critical element of the full IoT stack. It is also the area that requires the greatest consideration of sensitivities and trade-offs regarding the requirements of the use cases, the nature of their deployments, and the capabilities of the technologies being used.

If we think of the entirety of an Internet of Things use case, the ‘full stack’ that might need to be considered by a developer, it is complex, comprising eight principal layers: sensors and actuators, operating systems and containers, compute and storage, applications and data, business and process integration, security, management, and connectivity. Each needs careful consideration.

Leading IoT industry analyst firm publishes the next in its series of Transition Topic Position Papers, looking at how the increasing complexity of the IoT stack necessitates a new connected-by-design approach which places the optimisation of connectivity at the heart of the solution development process.

Selecting the right connectivity technology for agriculture IoT applications is confusing as there are a wide range of options available, from cellular networks to satellite connectivity in addition to low power wide area (LPWA).

Having positioned itself as one of the leaders in the internet of things (IoT) services sector following years of investment and strategic focus, Vodafone now has its sights very firmly set on being ahead of the game in the next major phase of the IoT market’s evolution – the development of the economy of things (EoT), which not only enables machine-to-machine (M2M) communication but enables those connected devices to interact, trade and transact.

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.