For the first time since 2017 Gartner has updated its forecasts for the number of IoT devices in use in enterprises and the automotive industry (including connected cars) to 5.81 billion in total by the end of 2020, and issued some market-specific forecasts out to 2028. The latest forecast also leverages Gartner’s November 2016 acquisition of […]
Gartner gobbles up IoT specialist Machina Research
Gartner has acquired UK based Machina Research, a specialist in IoT and M2M market research and analysis. Announcing the move on its web site Machina Research said: “Gartner has recognised the magnificent efforts that Machina Research has made to set the agenda in IoT market analysis [and] has acquired Machina Research as part of its […]
LPWAN v cellular: the jury is still out
French mobile operator, Orange, has fleshed out its plans for a nationwide LoRaWAN network, first revealed in September, provoking a bit of a put-down from Mobile World Live, the news organ of the GSMA. That was not such a good idea: it serves only to flag the fact that the mobile industry sees LPWAN as […]
IoT: the steamroller that will crush IT
A new forecast from Machina Research—which claims to be the world’s leading provider of strategic advice on the newly emerging Internet of Things, M2M and big data market—puts the IoT market opportunity at $US4.3 trillion in 2024 up from $US900m in 2014, saying that as M2M markets evolve and transform to IoT, they will include […]
The role of data service exchanges in M2M
Machina Research has published a free white paper, The Emergence Of Data Service Exchanges: Liquidity For The IoT that looks at the emerging opportunity in IoT for data service exchanges It says: “Every connected device must have an associated application, and the development of those applications and the provision of supporting capabilities (such as, for […]
Machina Research joins Industrial Internet Consortium
Machina Research, which claims to be the world’s leading provider of strategic market intelligence on IoT, has joined the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC), the industry association formed to accelerate the growth of the Industrial Internet The IIC (www.iiconsortium.org) was founded by AT&T, Cisco, General Electric, IBM and Intel in March 2014 and how has a […]
