Cellular tech to threaten wireless push on IoT, claims new report
Cellular and LPWAN technology could threaten the health of short-range technologies such as Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and 802.15.4 in early stage Internet of Things markets, new research has claimed.
The IoT will account for 15 percent of Wi-Fi device shipments by 2022, ABI Research said, as well as 27 percent of Bluetooth, and more than 60 percent of 802.15.4.
The research firm did not give numeric figures for these technologies but said LPWAN and cellular technologies will ship almost 575 million chipsets by the same stage, far outpacing these other short-range technologies. Read more…
