Rapid Fire Questions on IoT Convergence
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Convergence is about making IoT ecosystems interoperable to remove frictions and complexity for end users to drive massive IoT adoption.
Convergence is not a merge of technologies, but a collaboration between IoT technologies depending on use cases. This collaboration also applies to terrestrial and satellite networks complementing each other (infrastructure monitoring, environment, agriculture, or utility).
However, in many IoT applications, a best-of-breed approach using one single IoT technology is perfectly relevant.
Convergence is a customer-centric approach to supporting IoT customers with collecting data and solving business issues whatever IoT technology they choose, or in fact, not needing to choose at all, because they will ultimately be freed from this problem.
Convergence — AKA the "capability to combine multiple IoT technologies" — aims to resolve three main business issues supporting the IoT market to scale faster:
Convergence can be applied throughout the IoT value chain, encompassing "Device," "Network and Connectivity", "Middleware," and "Vertical applications" depending on the business case and the actors involved — it is applied when it brings value to the customer
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