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IoT Now Magazine (ISSN 2397-2807) explores the evolving opportunities and challenges facing CSPs across this sector. Our exclusive interviews pass on the key lessons learned by industry leaders in next gen Machine-to-Machine (M2M) and Internet of Things (IoT) services.

In Feb/Mar 2016 issue:

• TALKING HEADS: Telit’s SVP Ronen Ben Hamou on IoT innovation in a time of shifting boundaries
• INTERVIEW: Philip Cole of Wireless Logic on market realities – and rapid growth
• EXPERT OPINION: George Malim explores recent advances in NB-IoT
• IoT Now ANALYST REPORT – THE INDUSTRIAL IoT: In this edition’s independent Analyst Report, Jim Morrish, founder and chief research officer at Machina Research, drills down into how industry can exploit the IoT

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The time traveller’s guide to the IoT?

There comes a saddening moment in the life of any self-respecting geek who grew up on a diet of science fiction when they realise that the nearest that they’re ever going to get to time travel is just getting older. Having now completed a full year of editing IoT Now, part of me has become aware that I’m definitely living ‘in the future’ as I look at the waves of IoT now washing across the planet. I and many of the industry experts that I’ve been lucky enough to interview and speak with over that period all seem to have spotted the same trends: the whole sector has now reached a kind of critical mass; the tendrils of the IoT are inevitably reaching into even the most intimate aspects of our lives; and that the future is going to be very, very different to even the recent past.

As always, we’ve tried to reflect some of these changes – and their effects – in this our MWC issue. For a start, in our analyst report, James Morrish of Machina Research, takes a look at the IoT in the manufacturing sector, presaging the next industrial revolution. Its repercussions could be as big as the first one and warning voices are already being raised about its possible impact on employment levels, economies and wider society. Powered looms are not up for smashing this time, but change always brings unexpected consequences.

We’ve also chosen to look at developments out in the radio world – specifically NB-IoT and LoRa – and have dedicated a whole supplement to the last. At the risk of sounding paranoid, it does look like the Things have asked for – and got – their very own network technologies, saving them having to compete with those annoying humans for bandwidth and connectivity. While we get on with entertaining and advertising ourselves to death in a blizzard of multimedia trivia, our machines can chat in the background to keep the essentials of civilisation – power, water, transport and housing – ticking over smoothly.

Additionally, we’ve got our usual wide range of advice on best practice – such as how to deal with increasingly important issues of identity and privacy in a contribution from an academic expert in this area on page 62. Finally, it being that time of year again, we’ve also provided a round-up of IoT related activity expected at MWC this year. I hope to meet at least some of you amidst the crowded halls and aisles of that show of shows.