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Growth in Business IoT Deployments Drives Increasing Market Penetration of IoT Devices in Diverse Range of Applications. Led by AT&T, Verizon, Sprint & T-Mobile, the cellular IoT market is growing rapidly with ubiquitous connectivity and growing list of applications designed to solve customer challenges. Quarterly connections provided from Q4 2014 ...

With the growth of online retail in Europe, the return logistics market is seeing tremendous expansion and giving rise to a range of new participants offering innovative returns models. By 2020, the business for logistics companies focusing on product returns will double. This implies significant growth of nearly 13% over the next 5 years and provi...

Although satellite will play a smaller role than cellular in the Internet of Things (IoT) industry, it will be an irreplaceable role. While cellular networks cover the majority of the points of presence (POPs) on the planet, remote locations and under-served locations will always remain. Satellite is currently the only technology that can quickly a...

As the unexpected outcome of the Brexit referendum begins to transform into reality, the historical decision is likely to result in a new paradigm in the way the United Kingdom interacts with the European Union and the rest of the world. Indeed, as with all black swan events, the world will enter unchartered waters through 2016 as political and bus...

This Stratecast report analyzes today’s brave new world of broadband services, and highlights five areas where CSPs need to be focusing mindshare and resources in order to differentiate themselves from their rapidly-expanding pool of large, well-funded competitors.

In North America alone, it has been estimated that nearly 21% of tap water is being wasted or lost during distribution year-on-year, chiefly as a result of lack of efficiency. Moreover, it has been estimated that global water consumption will increase nearly twofold in the next 7 years until 2023 and there is an urgent need for alternative water ma...

The newest breakthrough innovation for the water and wastewater industry is the convergence of biotechnology with wastewater management. Biotechnology is the incorporation of living organisms to develop or modify products by applying scientific and engineering principles with the aid of biological agents. Anaerobic digestion, one of the processes i...

This market insight presents an analysis of the North American Internet of Things (IoT) cloud market. It describes the key challenges addressed by cloud-based solutions for IoT lifecycle management. For instance, common industry challenges in IoT application development include lack of standardization, rapid lifecycle of devices (and device compone...

Technology convergence is driving unprecedented change in the manufacturing and process industry. This inspired the term "Kodak Moment," which means a new competitor completely alters the industry’s business model and the incumbent withers away unable to weather the change. The pumps industry is poised to experience the Kodak Moment. This researc...