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Transforma Insights has released its free Transition Topic Position Paper, sponsored by Eseye, titled ‘Key considerations for Enterprises looking to adopt SGP.32’. The SGP.32 (IoT) standard for Remote SIM Provisioning, introduced in May 2023, aims to provide a more efficient and user-friendly way for enterprises to manage connectivity on their cellular devices.

Until 2016, cellular connected devices were authenticated onto a network using a removable plastic SIM card. This wasn’t particularly appropriate for many IoT use cases, which required a more ruggedised form factor. The Machine Form Factor (MFF, now MFF2) or ‘eSIM’ was launched, comprising a chip soldered onto the circuit board of the device. This drove the development of the capability to change the SIM profile through a mechanism other than physically swapping out SIM cards. That mechanism is Remote SIM Provisioning (RSP), i.e. remote over-the-air switching of profiles on the SIM card.

The SGP.32 (“IoT”) standard for Remote SIM Provisioning, unveiled by the GSM Association in May 2023, offers a more streamlined and user-friendly mechanism for enterprises to manage connectivity on their cellular devices. Building on the earlier SGP.02 (“M2M”) and SGP.22 (“Consumer”) standards, it addresses many technical limitations in supporting constrained devices and simplifies the process of switching connections between operators.

Transforma Insights has published its free Transition Topic Position Paper, sponsored by Eseye, ‘Key considerations for Enterprises looking to adopt SGP.32’. The SGP.32 (IoT) standard for Remote SIM Provisioning was unveiled in May 2023, promising a more streamlined and user-friendly mechanism for enterprises to manage the connectivity on their cellular devices.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has burst on to the scene in a big way and the technology is diffusing out of data centres and into a wide range of distributed locations, enabled by more capable processors and more innovative algorithms. But other enabling technologies will need to keep pace, or risk becoming bottlenecks.

The Internet of Things has transformed how we live, work and interact with the world around us. With more than 17 billion connected devices today, from smart thermostats in our homes to intricate sensors in industrial machinery, this network is vast and continually growing.

The number of active IoT devices will more than double to 40 billion by the end of 2033, according to IoT analyst house Transforma Insights. Short-range IoT technologies will account for 73 percent of the total by the end of the period; cellular IoT connections, mostly on LTE-based NB-IoT and LTE-M (and related technologies), will account for most of the rest, with about a 19 percent share of the total. The total IoT market will be worth $934 billion, it said.

Research company Transforma Insights predicted cellular IoT connections would increase from 1.9 billion at the end of 2023 to 7.5 billion over the next decade, but noted just 1.1 billion would use what it deemed full 5G.

Transforma Insights' Latest Report Unveils Explosive Growth in IoT Market, Predicts Revenue Surge to USD 934 Billion by 2033.

Transforma Insights has today published its report ‘Global IoT Forecast Report, 2023-2033’ which provides the industry benchmark of the status of the global Internet of Things market.