Nearly ten years after the government-backed IoTUK programme began, enough time has passed to separate its original promises from its lasting impact. Where did taxpayer funding create something useful? Which organisations, businesses and capabilities survived? Where did apparently … Read more
If you search for “IoTUK”, you may encounter two different things. One is this independent website, which covers industrial IoT, connectivity, edge computing and the practical deployment of connected technology. The other was IoTUK, a government-backed national programme … Read more
Industrial edge computing is often presented as a story about artificial intelligence. That is only one part of it. The more important change is that industrial sites can now process, translate, store and act on data beside the … Read more
In the rapidly evolving landscape of Industrial IoT (IIoT), the hardware—the routers, gateways, and edge computers—is only the starting point. The true competitive advantage for integrators, network architects, and IT managers is not just the ability to connect … Read more
A new essay on RoamingSIM.co.uk argues that the most widely deployed connectivity model in European IoT has never been named. On a recent sensor deployment, that stopped being a semantic problem and became a reporting one. I spent … Read more
Your AI agent needs a body There is a moment in every AI agent project where the demo stops being a demo. It happens the first time someone says the word “overnight”. Up to that point, the agent … Read more
Supplier Profile Comms365: the portfolio, the acquisition, and where it actually fits A Milton Keynes connectivity provider with its own core network, four multi-network SIM propositions, bonded internet, SD-WAN, a LEO satellite portfolio and one of the few … Read more
Hardware / Portable 5G The InHand CR602 is a good portable 5G router with an eSIM asterisk Wi-Fi 7, dual 2.5 Gigabit Ethernet, two nano SIMs and an eSIM in something the size of a paperback. The hardware … Read more
Three nines sounds like a promise. It is actually a budget, and it is smaller than the number implies, measured over a window you did not choose, on a slice of the system you do not care about. … Read more
Satellite Connectivity SAT365 by Comms365: managed LEO satellite for FWA, resilience and IoT Low Earth Orbit satellite has moved from a last resort to a serious connectivity option. SAT365 wraps a LEO service in enterprise management, so it … Read more
