Your Network's Edge®
Summary Bullets:
While the public sector isn’t usually considered the most advanced technology vertical, until recently it accounted for more Internet of Things (IoT) deployments than any other. Much of that activity has been focused on the smart city, where local governments—and their contracted agencies—have sought to use connectivity to monitor, track, or control city assets, with an overall goal of providing citizens with more efficient services.
Such multifunctional solutions for supporting LoRaWAN networks can be used for more than just standalone projects like parking or waste management. Increasingly, cities are approaching digitalization of public services and infrastructure in a more integrated way. In India, the Jamshedpur Utility Services Company has aggregated more than 100,000 sensors to integrate multiple data sources into a single Smart City Command Center. With a range of networked devices including street lights, utilities and parking meters, the enhanced insights gained help reduce the city’s energy use, increase efficiency for waste management, and make construction zones safer, among other benefits (including monetizing new services). It’s an approach other cities are taking more frequently as low power networks like LoRaWAN prove their advantages in cost and reach when it comes to supporting large scale projects for multiple functions, device types, or citizen services.
GlobalData is one of the largest data and insights solution providers in the world.
SD-WAN has become mainstream, with wide array of vendors competing in the marketplace but with little differentiation. Public cloud adoption and telco network transformation are the catalysts for SD-WAN evolution, bringing it in line with modern enterprise priorities, and opening space for telco service differentiation.
Even the current pandemic can’t seem to stop the rush to 5G. Between November 2019 and October 2020 worldwide commercial deployments went from 1,200 to nearly 16,000.
IoT’s role in Industry 4.0 isn’t about making connectivity or sensors smarter. It’s about making an enterprise’s operations smarter, integrating advanced control and automation capabilities by connecting industrial assets.
