IoT Is More Than Just Connectivity

The market has become saturated and purely focused on pricing.

There is too much emphasis on connectivity and insufficient focus on supporting use cases. This has led to an explosion in the number of connectivity providers offering SIM management platforms.

IoT use cases fall into three main categories – Tracking, Monitoring and Management – all supported by smart advanced analytics. Connectivity should be seen purely as an enabler to support the above requirements.

The main criteria should be on global or regional deployment rather than worrying about which network or country should be available.

Round-the-clock access is a minimum requirement; hence, network availability is a must without questioning whether multi-networks per country are supported.

The available technology is essential, but you cannot dictate the roadmap of network providers. Hence the only requirement should be for support of the latest technologies today and in the future.

Because of the strong push for connectivity providers, the focus of IoT deployments has become distorted. IoT companies are not connectivity specialists and do not understand all the complexities of global connectivity.

All they want is to enable their use cases !

The market is driven by complex pricing models depending on network, country, technology,…