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Although the 2019. has started almost 20 days ago, I have stumbled upon a good overview article about IoT future predictions and trends to watch. These trends are described in the telecom industry, cybersecurity, data and sensors, cloud edge and hybrid solutions and finally smart cities. The article gives a broad overview about trends. Here is the article.

Gartner's Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies is focused on technologies that are expected to bring a high level competitive advantage over the next decade - so it's interesting survey for business decision makers as well as for individuals steering their career development. Here's the article that brings 5 emerging trends in 2018's Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies. For anyone who is seriously looking up for fields of future technology development, I'd recommend getting the full survey from Gartner.

After its first launch of LTE-M network in Belgium, MNO Orange announced launch of  LTE-M network in France and they plan to launch it in Romania and Spain by the end of 2018. Also, LTE-M compatible devices will be listed on Orange's marketplace for IoT devices and connectivity - Datavenue Market. This news wouldn't be so interesting if Orange isn't already national LoRaWAN operator in France. According to Orange there's a room for coexistence of LoRaWAN and CIoT (Cellular IoT) like LTE-M and NB-IoT. They see LTE-M use cases in logistics, telemonitoring, remote assistance, fleet management but also they also…

For utility companies there are several reasons why they should own their own networks and not rely on public cellular networks: reliability and latency, connectivity in rural areas, no over-subscription (hence they work the same way in disaster scenarios). The new worldwide standard, IEEE 802.16s, was released in October 2017. Some more information about the standard and about the MC-IoT networks can be found in this article.