This report examines the regulatory environment for the Internet of Things. The main focus is on those regulations with which a company deploying IoT will need to comply. This spans topics as diverse as device certification, permanent roaming, privacy, data sovereignty, national resilience, and security. Regulation affecting IoT has been growing considerably in recent years, meaning that IoT adopters need to be increasingly aware of the rules that apply to their deployment.
Transforma Insights has identified regulation as the single most significant of its dozen ‘IoT Transition Topics’ (i.e. trends that will have the most impact in the IoT space) for 2024. While some regulations, for instance relating to device certification or product safety standards, have always been part of the fabric of IoT product and solution development, many are becoming dramatically more significant. Particularly, we note requirements related to security, procurement and national resilience have become increasingly strict, reflecting the growing importance of IoT for connecting critical national infrastructure. Regulations relating to the management of data, such as the new EU Data Act, have also become much more significant and will demand consideration from any organisation deploying IoT.
In this report we examine four key areas of regulation:
While these four areas do not represent the entire extent of regulations that are relevant to IoT, they do account for the most challenging and dynamic. As such, they are the main regulatory areas that both enterprises and vendors need to consider, whether they are deploying IoT themselves, or developing compliant solutions.
Additionally, in the first section of this report we give consideration to vertical-specific regulations, which typically act as drivers of IoT adoption.
The content of this report represents only a fraction of the information that Transforma Insights holds on regulations relating to IoT and other technologies around the world. For more information, see our ‘Regulatory Database’.
Transforma Insights has identified a series of aspects of the Internet of Things that are going through a period of fundamental transformation. These IoT ‘Transition Topics’ are the subject of Position Paper reports and Virtual Briefings identifying the key aspects of change and how organisations should position themselves to be best placed to realise the opportunities generated.
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