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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.

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.