With over 400 IoT platforms on the market and still growing quickly, leading IoT analyst firm Beecham Research and its partner IoT Global Network have launched the first fully-independent, online IoT navigation tool to match adopter needs with IoT platform capabilities.

High price tags continue to put smart homes beyond the reach of most home owners and many who can afford to pay are not being sold on the benefits, according to a report from Beecham Research.  While new home comforts and easy living remain the main incentives for potential customers, it is practical applications such as home safety and money saving devices, such as smart thermostats and energy meters, that are currently driving the market, ...

The Knowledge Partner for the Digital Catapult Open-LPWAN initiative is Beecham Research. Things Connected, launched in London, aims to help UK SMEs exploit the innovative features of LPWAN (Low Power Wide Area Network) technologies. The initiative will focus on jump-starting the UK LPWAN ecosystem by lowering barriers for technology access, innovation and application development.

A new report from Beecham Research helps enterprise companies to match their IoT applications to the most appropriate public connectivity services to enable them. The report, An Introduction to LPWA Public Service Categories: Matching Services to IoT Applications, also proposes a new name for this new class of providers.

While much of the hype around AR (Augmented Reality) and wearables has been focused on consumer technology, a new report from Beecham Research suggests that it will be business applications that drive growth over the next five years. The report points to manufacturing, logistics, healthcare and retail as some of the most dynamic markets, where AR offers a new way for people to interact with information hands-free, to provide a greater depth of co...

The latest message from a recognised thought leader in IoT market development, is warning companies planning to get into the Internet of Things (IoT) market not to believe all the hype and over optimistic predictions.

While traditional cellular networks have dominated the market for M2M connectivity, this is about to change. Offering low power, low cost and long range, LPWANs (Low Power Wide Area Networks) enable a far wider range of M2M and IoT applications currently constrained by budgets and distance from a power source. This is based on information in Beecham Research's report: Low Power Wide Area Networks for IoT Applications Market Report and Forecast.

The proliferation of different devices, networks, platforms and applications to support the IoT, multiplies the vulnerabilities and greatly increases the potential for malicious attacks, according to Beecham Research. The Beecham Research, titled IoT Security Threat Map, highlights the key areas where external or internal attacks may originate and where the fast growing IoT industry needs to do more to provide better security controls. The IoT th...