The Survey with 160 Industrial IoT Professionals Found Steady Growth for the Wireless Mesh Standards and Even Faster Adoption for Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) and Low Power Wide Area (LPWA) Network Technologies
This report presents the findings of a Q2 2018 survey by the publisher in collaboration with ISA and the LoRa Alliance. It provides an extensive investigation of the latest adoption trends, needs and wants in the highly competitive industrial wireless sensor network (WSN) and Internet of Things markets.
The survey with 160 industrial IoT professionals found steady growth for the wireless mesh standards and even faster adoption for Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) and Low Power Wide Area (LPWA) network technologies such as Sigfox, LoRaWAN, NB-IoT and LTE-M.
Compared with the previous survey in Q4 2016, respondents have significantly higher satisfaction with battery lifetime, network range and system integration. Satisfaction with reliability, cost and data rate had the fastest declines.
Some of the areas addressed in the report include the following:
Wireless Sensor Networks:
- Which markets are adopting WSN?
- What are the fastest growing applications?
- What are the most commonly used WSN protocols?
- What is the impact from the wireless mesh standards?
- Are users satisfied with current WSN systems?
- What are their needs, wants, and future plans?
Low Power Wide Area Networks:
- How many companies are developing LPWA networking solutions?
- Are their applications suited to LPWA networks?
- What will be the likely disruption from LPWA technologies?
- Which LPWA technologies are most likely to have a significant market share in 10 years - LoRaWAN, Sigfox, NB-IoT, LTE-M, Weightless, others?
IoT Cloud Platforms:
- What are the most commonly used IoT cloud platforms?
- What are the IoT benefits?
- Data analytics experience?
- Data analytics barriers?
- Planned IoT cloud platfomrs?
The survey results are presented for all respondents as well as filtering the results by respondents targeting process industries, hybrid/discrete manufacturing, agriculture, logistics, construction and others. It also compares the current survey with a previously completed survey in Q4 2016 when illustrative.
Table of Contents
1. Background & Methodology
Companies Mentioned
- 1NCE
- 3S
- ABB
- AcSip
- Adeunis
- ADNOC Group
- Alascom
- Ascienta
- Automation X Engineers
- Avonmore Electrical
- Baytown Communication
- Birdz
- Buckman
- C Alaniz Electric
- Cartón de Colombia
- CD Nova
- Certa
- Cisaircom.co.za
- CRESITT Industrie
- Danalto
- Dekra
- Desmet Ballestra
- DIC Corporation
- Digital Excellence
- Digital Matter
- Dwyer Instruments
- E.B Horsman & Son
- EDF
- Emerson
- Endress+Hauser
- Enforta
- enModus Ltd.
- EnOcean Alliance
- Ericsson
- Every Drop Counts Foundation
- EVVOS
- Exacter, Inc.
- Expemb
- Fauji Fertilizer Company Limited
- Fleet Space Technologies
- Gamini Engineering
- Giesecke+Devrient – Creating Confidence
- Global Logic
- Greenwaves Technologies
- HAAS Food Equipment
- HAG Ingeniería S.A.S
- Hatto and Gibson
- HI Temp Systems Inc.
- Hitachi Automotive Systems
- Huricane Electric Internet Services
- IBM
- IC Controls
- IndustreeX
- Industrial Controls
- Ingemmet
- Innoveering
- Institute for Sustainable Technologies
- Iota Devices
- IOTech Technology
- Jacobs
- Kaman Aircraft
- Kerlink
- KLATU Networks
- Kontron
- Lavoro Technologies
- Lewis University
- Lilly
- Lion Pty Limited
- MCCI
- MESI Medikal & Teknik
- Microland
- Miller Eads Company
- Mipot
- Mipot
- Moxa
- Munio Security
- Net Ease
- NTT Advance Technology Corporation
- Objenious
- Onyx Engineering
- Packetworx
- Parametric
- Philips 66
- Qatar Chemical Company Ltd.
- Qorvo
- QoSCom
- Radiocrafts
- Rakon
- Raycap
- RCC Institute of Information Refrigeration Supplies Distributor
- REQUEA Open Solutions
- Rieker Inc.
- RisingHF
- RMV Motion
- Samtek Energy
- Schneider Electric
- Senet
- SenRa
- Siemens
- Siemens
- Silvair
- Spartan Controls
- SQRL Solutions
- Star-Tech Instruments Systems
- Strega Technologies
- Sustainable Energy Management Group
- Swiss Post
- Sysdev
- Telent
- Tenaz
- Thinxtra
- Toyo Engineering Corporation
- TrackNET
- Trilliant
- TUV Rheinland
- UNAB
- Universidad Nacional De Colombia
- Universidade Federal do Amazonas
- Urmet Group
- Vale
- Vellore Institute of Technology
- VL Automation
- Wipro
- Wyres
- Yokogawa