Transforma Insights

Delivering global connectivity is becoming more challenging as enterprise demands increase. Meanwhile, with the rapid advancement of AI and edge computing and wider enterprise digital transformation, the network is becoming ever more important. There are significant technical, operational and regulatory challenges with providing consistent services globally, but network connectivity is often viewed simply as a commoditised service.

This report, sponsored by Somos, examines a range of new and emerging regulations that will impact the Internet of Things (IoT), particularly with regard to the need to update software onboard IoT devices to maintain security and ongoing regulatory compliance. For many years, IoT solutions that incorporate connected devices to support a range of monitoring and control applications have largely escaped the purview of regulators.

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 analysts assess the increasing overlap between AI and IoT, the opportunities associated with AIoT and the new challenges it presents, including sharing our forecasts of the emerging AIoT market. Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Internet of Things (IoT) are two of the most impactful emerging technologies of our times. Both of these technologies individually unlock huge potential for improved efficiency and enhanced value propositions.

Leading technology analyst firm Transforma Insights unveils its key ‘Transition Topics’ that will shape the Internet of Things landscape during 2025. Sponsorship opportunities for Position Papers and Virtual Briefings are available. Every year Transforma Insights publishes its list of IoT ‘Transition Topics’ highlighting where we expect to see seismic change occurring during the year.

Numerous hardware devices are gaining new AI-enabled functionalities, and the enabling of IoT devices with AI capabilities to become AIoT is a key theme in today’s IoT markets. Such solutions have the potential to transform business operations and consumer propositions by alloying AI-enabled value-added services with core device functionalities.

Semiconductor chips are shaping the global economy by powering the high-tech devices all around us. The growth rate of the semiconductor chips market has recently taken off with advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI), and the rapid adoption of diverse AI applications in the cloud, at the edge and on-board IoT devices (often termed AIoT devices).

Most of the Internet of Things (IoT) is focused on the delivery of data. However, there is a significant, and growing, share of the IoT opportunity that also has a requirement for voice services, of various types. Applications as diverse as eCall, worker safety, vertical transportation and assisted living all require voice capabilities.

On the 18th September T-Mobile US hosted a Capital Markets Day where it shared a number of interesting perspectives on the industry and approaches to applying new technology to its operations. Now we’re a few weeks down the line I’ve had time to digest some of the discussion topics and triangulate with, for instance, my attendance this week at MWC Las Vegas.

Transforma Insights’ analysts have tracked the rise of the Internet of Things over the last 15 years. Predominantly, IoT devices are equated with for the transfer of (largely non-real-time) data. However, as explored in a recent report ‘Why VoLTE/VoNR is a critical part of an IoT connectivity provider's portfolio’, sponsored by ng-voice, there is a significant proportion of IoT applications that also need to support voice services of various types.