1. Industrial IoT Development Brings Challenges For Radio Frequency Manufacturers

As Industrial IoT develops, large chip manufacturers like Intel will drive physical layer standards, or networking open standards, on their chipsets.

While setting physical layer standards is advantageous for chip manufacturers who are hoping to delve into Industrial IoT applications, it also presents challenges to radio frequency manufacturers who make their critical connections using a range of different (and sometimes competing) wireless connectivity standards, such as Bluetooth, ZigBee, Z-Wave, and Wi-Fi.

"Discrete Radio Frequency (RF)-based technology manufacturers will be obsolete within the next three years," said FreeWave CEO Kim Niederman in a statement. "The catalyst that will drive this change will be the open standards in place that eventually will commoditize the market by bringing backwards compatibility and interoperability between different radio manufacturers."

Partner Takeaway: Partners specializing in networking services should be aware of the challenges RF manufacturers will changes as physical layer standards emerge with Industrial IoT.