Strategy and Business Innovation for Connectivity and Digital Economy Markets

Two investment themes bookended 2023. In January, the European Union backed a $100m venture capital fund, managed by Momenta Partners. In De...

Amazon opened 2022 with announcements targeting the smart home community that is forming around the Matter protocol and opportunities for I...

Over the past few years, the World IoT Day movement [1] has drawn considerable attention to the opportunities presented by IoT technologies....

A couple of recent and seemingly unconnected publications provide food for strategic thought on the topic of IoT platforms.  Platforms are a...

This review of 2020 corporate initiatives in the IoT market builds on a history of tracking strategic industry developments for over a decad...

Early in my career, I had the good fortune to work on several research and innovation projects on the topics of AI and ML. These project u...

Looking back over notable, M2M/IoT corporate initiatives in 2017, mobile network operators (MNOs) and technology vendors were the two most...

Last week, I attended ETSI's IoT Week, an annual event to explore the IoT standardization landscape and to see how industry and academic...

Mobile operators, it would appear, remain captivated by connectivity solutions. Most recently, low-power technologies (e.g. LoRA, NB-IoT, Si...

I recently participated in a debate, hosted by the IEEE Communications Society, about the pros and cons of IoT standardization. My debating ...

It’s amazing to think that Twitter recently turned ten years old. This milestone came on the heels of a rumored, CEO-level assessment [1] of...

Corporate activity in the M2M/IoT market continues to grow in line with the roughly 30% growth rate that many market analysts forecast for...

A few years ago, it was standard practice to associate M2M with low data rate characteristics that could be served using 2G networks. In fac...