IoT news for the week of July 20, 2018 – Stacey on IoT | Internet of Things news and analysis
Don’t count Low-Power Wide-Area Networks out just yet: ABI Research suggests that EU telecoms will face increased competition pressures from unlicensed spectrum providers for machine-to-machine (M2M) connectivity. That’s good news for LoRA Alliance members and companies like Sigfox, which compete against traditional telecom providers using licensed (read: costly) spectrum for Narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT) NB-IoT and LTE-M solutions. How big of an opportunity is there in the EU? ABI expects 416.5 million M2M connections in the region by 2023. By the way, here’s a great comparison of LoRA and Sigfox technologies. (ABI Research)