Can the New Wave of Hybrid IoT Modules Finally Eliminate Supply Chain Blind Spots?
Hybrid Internet of Things (IoT) modules that fuse satellite, cellular and Wi‑Fi on a single chip are finally reaching price points suitable for mass deployment. In Q1 2026 SKYWAVE introduced the ST‑4000 and Iridium launched the 9604, proving the concept with seamless network failover. Continuous connectivity eliminates the data black‑holes that have plagued containers, farm equipment and other remote assets, turning reactive supply‑chain management into proactive decision‑making. As the global IoT fleet is expected to double to 39 billion devices by 2030, uninterrupted data streams become a competitive necessity.
Common Applications for Custom Metal Stamping in Manufacturing
Custom metal stamping is becoming a cornerstone of modern manufacturing, offering high‑precision, cost‑effective parts across a range of industries. The process leverages flexible tooling and high‑speed machinery to meet tight tolerances, especially for IoT‑enabled products. From automotive sensor housings to...
Automotive Infotainment Will Dominate Cellular IoT Data Growth Through 2035
Omdia projects cellular IoT data traffic to reach 218.6 exabytes by 2035, with automotive infotainment and over‑the‑air updates driving the bulk of growth. Automotive traffic alone is expected to climb from 30.7 EB in 2025 to 135.4 EB by 2035, dwarfing all...
Full-Funnel B2B Lead Generation in IoT: Combining SEO and Cold Outreach
B2B marketers are urged to run SEO and cold‑email outreach together rather than choosing one. The guide highlights that SEO‑generated leads close at 14.6%—nearly nine times outbound rates—and cost far less, while well‑targeted cold email can fill the pipeline within...
Edge Computing for IoT: Architecture, Use Cases, Benefits and Deployment Strategies
Edge computing is reshaping IoT deployments by moving data processing from centralized clouds to local gateways, edge servers, and even devices. This shift reduces latency, conserves bandwidth, and improves reliability for time‑critical applications such as industrial automation, smart cities, and...
How Are New Technologies Changing Road Transport?
New digital tools are reshaping road transport, with Transport Management Systems (TMS) turning paperwork into real‑time data, accelerating billing and improving visibility. Artificial intelligence and machine learning now forecast demand, optimize routes, and predict maintenance, delivering fuel savings and fewer...
IoT Security: Threats, Best Practices and Secure-by-Design Strategies
The IoT Business News article outlines how securing connected devices has shifted from a niche concern to a core business requirement as deployments move from pilots to critical infrastructure. It explains that the distributed, resource‑constrained nature of IoT expands the...
Identiv Broadens ID-Safe NFC Tags with Tamper Evidence and Encrypted Authentication for Connected Packaging
Identiv has expanded its ID‑Safe line of high‑frequency NFC tags to include tamper‑evident labels and tamper‑proof tags with destructible antennas. Select configurations also feature encrypted authentication, enabling secure product verification and lifecycle traceability via standard smartphones or readers. The new...
Connected Lone Worker Safety Users Reach 2.5M Across Europe, North America and ANZ in 2025
Analyst Berg Insight reports that 2.5 million workers in Europe, North America and Australia‑New Zealand were using connected lone‑worker safety solutions by the end of 2025. The market was valued at roughly $186 million in Europe, $104 million in North America and $46 million in...
Supply Chain Visibility with IoT: Tracking, Monitoring and Resilience
Supply chain visibility is becoming essential as global logistics grow more complex and prone to disruptions. IoT technologies—sensors, connectivity, cloud and edge platforms—provide near‑real‑time data on location, temperature, shock and other conditions of assets. The article outlines the architecture, use...
IoT-Driven Embedded Finance: Transforming Customer Experience in Service Industries
The article explains how embedded finance—payments, loans, and insurance built directly into non‑financial platforms—is merging with the Internet of Things to reshape service industries. IoT devices now generate real‑time alerts that can instantly present financing or payment options, turning a...
0G IoT Solutions Scales to 500,000 Endpoints in Mexico with Hybrid LPWAN Strategy
0G IoT Solutions announced it now monitors over 500,000 IoT endpoints and processes more than 8 million messages daily across 200+ Mexican cities, covering roughly 60% of the population. The bulk of deployments are smart electricity meters, which use a concentrator‑based...
IoT Fleet Management: Telematics, Tracking and Operational Optimization
Connected technologies are transforming fleet management from basic tracking into a data‑driven discipline that blends telematics, connectivity and analytics. Modern IoT fleet systems use sensors, GNSS and cellular or LPWAN links to stream real‑time vehicle, driver and cargo data to...
Automotive IoT: Connected Vehicles, Telematics and Software-Defined Mobility
Automotive IoT has transitioned from a premium‑car feature to a core layer of modern mobility, connecting vehicles to cloud, edge, and network infrastructures. Real‑time sensor data now powers telematics platforms for fleet management, predictive maintenance, and usage‑based services, while software‑defined...
The Firmware Fallacy: Why Bridging the NTN Gap in Massive IoT Still Requires a Hardware Reality Check
The article warns that adding Non‑Terrestrial Network (NTN) connectivity to massive IoT devices cannot be achieved through a simple firmware‑over‑the‑air update. While 3GPP Release 17 introduces native NTN support for NB‑IoT and LTE‑M, the physical differences in antenna patterns, RF front‑end...
Connected Healthcare IoT: Remote Monitoring, Medical Devices and Data Challenges
Connected Healthcare is emerging as a core segment of IoT, linking wearable sensors, implantable devices, and hospital equipment to cloud and edge platforms for real‑time patient monitoring. The architecture relies on multi‑layered connectivity—BLE, Wi‑Fi, LTE‑M, NB‑IoT, and 5G—and data standards...
KORE Teams with Kigen on SGP.32 eSIM to Simplify Global IoT Provisioning
KORE announced a partnership with eSIM specialist Kigen to deliver a GSMA‑compliant SGP.32 connectivity portfolio, slated for commercial launch in late 2026. The offering promises remote provisioning, profile‑based roaming, and localized failover, turning cellular IoT connectivity into a software‑driven service....
Cellular IoT Antenna Shipments Hit 757m Units in 2025, Signalling a New Scaling Phase for Device Hardware
Berg Insight reports cellular IoT antenna shipments jumped 23% in 2025, reaching 757 million units. The surge signals that IoT hardware is moving from niche pilots to consumer‑electronics‑scale production. Antenna volumes, unlike module counts, map directly to the number of connected...
Smart Buildings IoT: Energy Efficiency, Automation and Occupant Experience
Smart Buildings are leveraging IoT sensors, edge computing, and AI-driven analytics to transform static structures into responsive, energy‑efficient environments. By integrating real‑time data from lighting, HVAC, security and occupancy systems, enterprises can cut energy consumption by up to 30% while...
Smart Cities and IoT: Infrastructure, Mobility and Urban Services
Smart cities are leveraging IoT to transform urban infrastructure, mobility, and public services. By embedding sensors and connectivity across assets, cities can collect real‑time data, automate decisions, and improve efficiency while reducing environmental impact. The ecosystem relies on a mix...
Predictive Maintenance with IoT: From Sensors to Actionable Insights
Predictive Maintenance is emerging as a cornerstone of industrial IoT, turning sensor streams into actionable failure forecasts. The article outlines a layered architecture—from data acquisition and connectivity to edge processing, cloud storage, and advanced analytics—that enables condition‑based servicing. It highlights...
Smart Metering: IoT Technologies, Rollouts and Utility Use Cases
Smart Metering has become a core IoT application, allowing utilities to capture and transmit consumption data in near real time. The technology combines sensors, communication networks such as cellular, LPWAN, and mesh, and cloud‑based analytics platforms, often enhanced with edge...
LoRa Alliance Lays Out Its Case for LoRaWAN as a Mainstream ‘Massive IoT’ Connectivity Layer
The LoRa Alliance is rebranding LoRaWAN from a niche LPWAN to a mainstream, plug‑and‑play connectivity layer for massive IoT. It frames LoRaWAN as the “fourth pillar” of global wireless, alongside cellular, Wi‑Fi and Bluetooth, emphasizing open standards and unlicensed spectrum....
MultiTech Ships a Niagara Driver to Bring LoRaWAN Sensor Onboarding Into Building Automation Workflows
MultiTech unveiled a Tridium Niagara driver that lets building teams add and manage LoRaWAN sensors from within the Niagara Framework. The driver bypasses traditional middleware, custom APIs, and MQTT pipelines by delivering sensor data as normalized points ready for control...
Smart Manufacturing: How IoT Is Transforming Industrial Operations
Smart manufacturing is reshaping factories by fusing IoT sensors, edge computing and advanced analytics into a unified, data‑driven architecture. Real‑time visibility enables predictive maintenance, production optimization and digital‑twin simulations, while private 5G and edge AI improve latency and reliability. The...
IoT Asset Tracking: Technologies, Platforms and Industry Use Cases
IoT asset tracking has matured into a core capability that combines hardware tags, diverse connectivity options, and cloud analytics to provide real‑time visibility of physical assets. The market now supports multiple positioning technologies—GNSS, cellular IoT, LPWAN, Bluetooth, Wi‑Fi, UWB, and...
The Future of IoT by 2030: Trends and Predictions
The Internet of Things will evolve from simple connectivity to intelligent, self‑optimizing systems by 2030, driven by embedded AI and edge computing. Gartner predicts over 75% of enterprise data will be processed outside centralized data centers, enabling real‑time, device‑level decisions....
Video Telematics Is Set to Double in Five Years, with North America Still Dictating the Pace
Berg Insight forecasts the active installed base of video telematics systems to reach roughly 22 million units across North America and Europe by 2030, effectively doubling the market in five years. In 2025 North America held about 7.6 million units and is...
Edge AI for IoT: Use Cases, Benefits and Deployment Challenges
Edge AI is reshaping IoT by moving data processing and inference from centralized clouds to devices and local gateways. This shift cuts latency, lowers bandwidth consumption, and improves data privacy, enabling real‑time decision‑making even when connectivity is spotty. Core technologies...
Wiliot Builds Its Physical AI Supply Chain Platform on Databricks to Operationalize Item-Level IoT Data
Wiliot announced a Built‑On partnership with Databricks, moving its Physical AI supply‑chain platform onto the Databricks lakehouse. The shift lets the company ingest and govern massive item‑level IoT Pixel data streams in a unified environment. By leveraging Databricks’ compute and...
ESIM and iSIM for IoT: Remote Provisioning, Flexibility and Scale
Embedded SIM (eSIM) and integrated SIM (iSIM) are reshaping IoT connectivity by allowing carriers and enterprises to provision cellular profiles over the air. eSIM uses a dedicated chip, while iSIM embeds SIM functions directly into the device’s main processor, cutting...
Predictive Vs. Prescriptive Maintenance in IoT: Turning Data Into Actionable Outcomes
Industrial firms are replacing reactive and preventive upkeep with data‑driven maintenance models powered by IoT. Predictive maintenance uses sensor data to forecast equipment failures, while prescriptive maintenance adds decision logic that recommends or automates optimal actions. The transition relies on...
Connected Vending Machines Pass 8 Million Units as Cashless Payments Accelerate Adoption
Berg Insight reports that 8.1 million connected vending machines were operating globally in 2025, and projects the fleet to climb to nearly 11.7 million by 2030, driven by a 7.6% CAGR. The bulk of installations are in the Rest of the World...
World IoT Day: Wireless Logic on Data Sovereignty, Reaching 1bn Connections and the Next Phase of IoT
World IoT Day highlights that global NB‑IoT and LTE‑M connections have topped one billion, marking a decade of collaborative network expansion. Cyril Deschanel of Wireless Logic warns that the focus is shifting from merely linking devices to managing them over...
Netmore Expands Connectivity in Brazil Through Strategic Partnership with Allcom Telecom
Netmore Group has partnered with Brazil‑based Allcom Telecom to broaden its IoT footprint, merging Netmore’s LoRaWAN network with Allcom’s NB‑IoT services. The joint offering delivers a hybrid low‑power wide‑area network that includes satellite backhaul for remote or underserved locations. Customers...
Move & Connect Taps KORE’s eSIM Platform to Streamline Multi-Country IoT Rollouts Across Europe
Move & Connect has partnered with KORE Group to offer European IoT operators a single‑contract, API‑driven eSIM platform that spans more than 190 countries. The alliance merges Move & Connect’s on‑the‑ground deployment expertise with KORE’s global connectivity footprint, promising unified...
Cross-Progression Becomes the New Standard: Which Games Still Don’t Support It?
Cross‑progression, the ability to carry saves, purchases and unlocks across platforms, has become a core expectation for modern gamers. Early adopters like Fortnite set the benchmark, prompting most new live‑service titles to embed cloud‑based progression at launch. However, legacy hits...
Berg Insight Sees Steady Growth for Public Transport ITS in Europe and North America Through 2030
Market research firm Berg Insight projects the public‑transport intelligent transport systems (ITS) market in Europe to rise from roughly $2.9 billion in 2025 to $3.6 billion by 2030, and North America from about $1.3 billion to $1.8 billion, reflecting a mid‑single‑digit CAGR of about...
Why AI Image Upscaling Is Becoming Essential for IoT and Connected Platforms
AI-powered image upscaling is emerging as a critical capability for IoT platforms as they handle ever‑growing volumes of visual data. Unlike traditional resizing, machine‑learning models reconstruct missing details, delivering sharp, high‑resolution graphics across dashboards, mobile apps, and industrial displays. Cloud...
Link Labs Extends AirFinder Bluetooth Tag Tracking Beyond the Facility via Hubble’s Gateway Network
Link Labs has partnered with Hubble Network to extend its AirFinder Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) tags beyond the confines of a managed facility. The integration lets existing BLE tags report location and sensor data through Hubble’s 90‑million‑gateway terrestrial network, delivering...
Top Attack Surface and Exposure Management Platforms to Watch in 2026
Security teams are shifting from patch‑centric tactics to holistic exposure management, which ties together vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and over‑privileged identities across cloud, SaaS, and IoT assets. Vendors such as Check Point, Palo Alto Networks, Tenable, Microsoft, Wiz, CrowdStrike, Cisco, and Qualys...
Telit Cinterion Pushes 5G NR Release 18 to the Edge – and Onto the Rails
Telit Cinterion has unveiled two 5G NR Release 18 sub‑6 modules, the FE990D50 and FE990D60, plus a rail‑specific FE990D60‑FR variant that adds FRMCS band support. The modules feature eight‑receive antenna capability, LTE Category 20 fallback, a 2.2 GHz quad‑core Cortex‑A55 processor and native...
Satellite IoT: How Non-Terrestrial Networks Extend Global Coverage
Satellite IoT uses orbiting satellites to connect devices where terrestrial networks cannot reach, turning remote oceans, deserts and polar regions into data‑rich zones. The rise of low‑Earth‑orbit mega‑constellations has slashed launch and operating costs, making satellite connectivity viable for logistics,...
5G RedCap: What Reduced Capability Means for IoT Deployments
3GPP Release 17 introduced 5G RedCap, a reduced‑capability NR class aimed at mid‑tier IoT. By limiting bandwidth to 20 MHz, halving antenna count and using half‑duplex, RedCap modems cost 20‑40 % less and draw less power than full‑scale 5G. The specification opens 5G...
Blackline Safety Begins Shipping G8 Wearable as Connected Safety Converges Into Single Devices
Blackline Safety announced that its G8 wearable is now shipping, offering an all‑in‑one solution that merges multi‑gas detection, lone‑worker monitoring, and two‑way radio communication. The device runs on Blackline’s unified connected safety platform, delivering real‑time visibility into worker status and...
Nordic Semiconductor Adds Lifetime Flat-Rate FOTA Licensing to nRF Cloud as CRA Compliance Looms
Nordic Semiconductor introduced a lifetime, flat‑rate firmware‑over‑the‑air (FOTA) and device‑management license within its nRF Cloud platform to help IoT makers meet the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) requirements. The CRA, effective in 2027, mandates continuous security updates and auditability for...
Quectel Leans on Third-Party Security Validation as EU Cyber Resilience Act Deadline Approaches
Quectel Wireless Solutions announced that its IoT module portfolio is already aligned with the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) ahead of the September 11 2026 deadline. The company relies on a four‑year partnership with Finite State to deliver independent security testing, software‑bill‑of‑materials...
Quectel’s SH603ZA-AP Targets Edge AI Designs with 6 TOPS NPU and Broad Industrial I/O
Quectel has launched the SH603ZA-AP smart module, an application‑processor‑only board built on the RK3576/RK3576J chipset with a 6 TOPS neural‑processing unit. The module bundles a rich set of industrial I/O—including HDMI, camera, USB, PCIe, SATA, CAN and numerous peripheral buses—while supporting...
Fibocom Targets Smart Pet Collars with MQ771-GL LPWA Module
Fibocom unveiled the MQ771-GL LPWA module at Embedded World 2026, targeting smart pet collars. The module combines Cat‑M and NB‑IoT with a 17.7 × 15.8 mm footprint and power‑saving modes as low as 1 µA, promising battery life extensions from days to months. Fibocom...
1NCE Adds Netmore LoRaWAN via Plugin, Bringing LoRaWAN and Cellular Under One IoT Platform
1NCE has integrated Netmore’s LoRaWAN services into its 1NCE OS platform via a dedicated Network Server plugin, allowing customers to manage both cellular and LoRaWAN connectivity from a single software stack. The move targets hybrid IoT deployments—such as smart cities,...