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Drawing smart meters into the Internet of Things (IoT) with internet connectivity is essential to their successful deployment. The combination of smart meters, two-way communications networks and data management systems is known as Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI). AMI has a variety of benefits that include helping utility companies automate device connections, meter readings and customer billing.

As the time it takes wireless network data to travel from a device to a server and back shrinks to a tiny fraction of a second thanks to 5G, businesses outfitted with the mobile communications technology will be able to make snap decisions in a way that isn’t possible with Wi-Fi or cables. Factory robots can spare needless emergency shutdowns by cutting erroneous signals that they’ve gotten too close to a worker.

Until recently the Connectivity Management Platform (CMP) landscape was relatively static. Two vendors (Cisco and Ericsson) dominated – albeit with some operators picking alternative approaches – and functionality evolved slowly; there was relatively little to upset the status quo. However, in the last two years there have been a lot of emerging dynamics that have upset that situation and thrown the CMP space into a period of transition, particularly driven by the changing economics of delivering cellular connectivity for IoT.

Transforma Insights has published its Transition Topic Position Paper, sponsored by floLIVE, on the topic of ‘Connectivity Management Platforms.’ 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, handle 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.

Does China dominate the world in cellular-based IoT? If figures are to be believed, China accounts for more than three-quarters of all cellular-based IoT connections. We at Transforma Insights have been doing some digging. Let’s take a look at the results.

New Position Paper from Transforma Insights provides a new taxonomy of the Connectivity Management Platform landscape, based on enriched offerings from market leaders such as Cisco, Ericsson and floLIVE.

Digital Transformation is undisputedly affecting numerous industries as they harness disruptive technologies to overhaul legacy processes. Matt Hatton, founding partner of Transforma Insights, explores the state of digital transformation in the healthcare sector.

The number of connected IoT devices is thriving and IoT connections research from Transforma Insights predicts 5 billion cellular IoT connections by 2030. 5G massive machine-type communication (mMTC), developed to complement earlier MTC technologies such as NB-IoT or LTE-M and 4G, will become the default cellular technology.

Transforma Insights’ analysts were recently at both the Mobile World Congress and Embedded World events which are key ones for the IoT space. Across both IoT events, the key theme can be summed up in one word: transition.

Matt Hatton, Founder Partner shares his insights about: What are the recent adoption trends he is seeing in 5G IoT? Any examples he’s seeing of interesting commercial models for 5G IoT. How would he estimate the market opportunity size to be for 5G IoT? What does the technology roadmap look like for 5G IoT?