IoT news

New Internet of Things research made headlines. Frost & Sullivan’s recent analysis finds that Internet of Things adoption is growing in India, driven by pandemic-triggered changes in enterprise behavior and an increasing focus on automation. The Indian IoT market is expected to reach $9.28 billion by 2025 from $4.98 billion in 2020. ABI Research has been tracking IoT cellular module vendors across the globe as 5G ramps up; its analysis indicates that with current limits to 5G applicability, 4G remains the current technology of choice for mid-to-long term future-proofing of IoT devices. ABI also forecasts red-hot growth in China’s Wi-Fi IoT market, with a predicted jump to nearly a billion connected devices by 2026 and a CAGR of 29 percent.

Amid this news, Verizon Business and Atos forged a new, industry-leading partnership to power intelligent IoT solutions with private 5G multi-access edge computing for businesses, governments, and communities worldwide, enabling them to leverage predictive analytics, improve efficiency, and boost revenue.

Cybersecurity news

Research exposed the ongoing struggle to protect data from mounting cybersecurity threats. Fortinet’s Global State of Zero Trust Report revealed widespread difficulty in consistently authenticating users and devices: more than half of organizations cannot translate this vision into the solutions they are implementing because they lack some basic core fundamentals of zero trust. According to SolarWinds, for the first time in five years, external threats overshadow internal threats as the greatest cybersecurity concern for the public sector. And Check Point Research published its latest Global Threat Index, which tracks the most-wanted malware (Apache Log4j, Trickbot, and Emotet) and reveals that the education and research industry remains the most-attacked sector worldwide. Finally, IDC’s Future Enterprise Resiliency and Spending (FERS) Survey shows cybersecurity is the top investment priority for the future of industry ecosystems—not surprising, given the evolving threat landscape.

AI and analytics news

Innovation dominated AI news this month. Lockheed Martin, Amazon and Cisco have teamed up to integrate unique human-machine interface technologies into NASA's Orion spacecraft, providing an opportunity to learn how future astronauts could benefit from far-field voice technology, AI and tablet-based video collaboration. Anyword, a data-driven AI copywriting platform, announced progress toward a new era of conversational artificial intelligence to create truly natural, human-like interactions between users and computers. Conversational AI recognizes a user’s written or spoken words, predicts the user’s intent, and adapts and responds as a human would. Veea and CONXAI Technologies launched a partnership to use intelligent, real-time, AI-powered services to make construction industry worksites safer, more efficient, and manageable via AI capabilities made possible without writing a single line of code.

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