IoTUK Ten Years Later: Successes, Failures and Lessons for Future Innovation Programmes

IOTUK ten years on - a review

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

What Was IoTUK? The Story of the UK’s National Internet of Things Programme

IoTUK

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

The Case for Industrial Edge Computing: Why Processing Data Next to the Machine Changes Everything

edge computing industrial iot

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

I Could Name Every Part of the Architecture Except the SIM

IoT and M2M SIM Card Descriptions

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

Industrial AI Edge Computer: OpenClaw 24/7 on InHand EC3320

EC3320

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

10 uses for the Milesight UR41 compact 4G router

Milesight UR41 Ten Use Cases

It fits in the palm of your hand, draws 6.3 mA on standby and speaks Modbus and DLMS out of the box. Ten deployments where the UR41 is the right router, and which of the two models each … Read more

Teltonika Oxa: connectivity you design in, not bolt on

Teltonika OXA EBG140

Most cellular gateways come in a box. You mount the box, cable it, power it, and then design your enclosure around it. For a one-off installation that is fine. For a manufacturer trying to build cellular connectivity into … Read more

Why the Milesight UR35 has quietly become the default industrial 4G router for UK deployments

Milesight UR35 4G Routers

There’s a particular kind of hardware that nobody writes case studies about. It doesn’t have a launch event. It isn’t on anyone’s wishlist. It gets bolted into a cabinet on a wet Tuesday, wired to a meter or … Read more

Robustel’s Refreshed LoRaWAN Portfolio: Five Products, One Architecture

Robustel LoRaWAN Gateways

Robustel LoRaWAN Gateways Robustel has updated its LoRaWAN gateway lineup with five new products covering indoor, industrial, building automation, and outdoor deployments – all tied together by a common software stack. Here is what the new range means … Read more