Shared Spectrum: A New Solution to IoT Connectivity Challenges

Many commercial and industrial organizations are exploring Internet of Things (IoT) solutions to drive productivity, automation and cost-savings within their business. A recent Spiceworks survey confirms that 86 percent of companies with more than 5,000 employees plan to adopt IoT solutions by 2020. Although the market forecasts are positive and the deployment opportunities seem endless, there are critical connectivity challenges that must be addressed before organizations can experience the next phase of digital transformation. IoT devices require superior network speeds, capacity, communication latency and reliability—and managing the connectivity of hundreds or even thousands of sensors and devices poses a critical challenge that threatens the adoption of IoT deployments. Existing wireless offerings, like Wi-Fi, are easy to install and inexpensive to deploy, but they lack dependability for mission-critical IoT use cases.