Today’s industrial revolution is the Internet of Things. If a company’s new electronic product isn’t connected and their business model doesn’t include a services component then they are losing relevancy and mindshare of their customers and falling behind their competition. By 2017, Gartner anticipates that 50% of IoT solutions will come from start-up companies less than three years old. While shipments of IoT enabled devices in 2020 are expected to hit 25 billion. There are now twice the number of connected devices on the planet than there are humans. However, be it smart meters and thermostats, or smart pumps and motors, or sensors and robots, there is no common connectivity language in the IoT. Amid competing technologies including Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, cellular and radio frequency, and numerous versions of each, the communications landscape is complex and unsettled. The inclusion of Wi-Fi and Bluetooth in smartphones, laptops and other personal electronics has led to their popularity within […]