A New Leap Forward for China’s Smart Speaker Market
Ever since the launch of Amazon Echo in 2014, smart speakers have become an increasingly popular device among consumers. With AI and voice…
GDPR: Restoring Faith in Data Privacy
Data protection is a hot topic, especially after the Facebook and Equifax debacles. However, it has always been the subject of serious attention by…
AWS Greengrass: Amazon Driving Intelligence at the Edge
Overview: This report discusses the need to shift from Cloud to Edge computing and the current players. It thereafter analyses AWS Greengrass in…
China Mobile Global Partnership Event 2017: A Big Push Towards the IoT and 4G+ Era
China Mobile, the undisputed No. 1 mobile operator in China and around the world in terms of user base, hosted the annual global partnership event…
Blockchain: a disruptive force
In recent months, the success of Bitcoin has focused attention on its underlying technology, blockchain and led to the realisation that blockchain…
Location Platform Players Analysis & Scorecard
We closely track the location industry and here we have updated location ecosystems. Overview: With proliferation of internet, growth in mobile…
Vodafone in Consumer IoT Push
Vodafone has launched four devices under a new IoT brand, V by Vodafone. The devices cover a number of different areas: V-Auto, a dongle that plugs…
GITEX 2017 – A Stepping Stone for the Smart City Vision
Counterpoint Research analysts attended GITEX 2017. Gitex 2017 was a stepping stone for the Smart City vision in the Middle East. Over 700 start-ups…
Sierra Wireless and SIMCOM Lead the IoT Cellular Modules Market in Revenues & Volumes
Cellular connectivity is the backbone to drive secure connection of different devices to the internet across different verticals. The role of…
Audio Tech: Cinderella’s Going to the Ball
With smartphones becoming the primary source of music for many consumers, handset OEMs have been steadily improving the audio quality of their…
Counterpoint Research – NB-IoT vs Competition LPWA Technologies – A Primer
NB-IoT, while promising on paper and ratified in the existing 3GPP standard Rel. 13, is mostly being driven by four companies. This makes it highly…
Wanna Crypt: Not the first and definitely not the Last
In the last week, World news has been filled with words like ransomware, virus attack and ‘Wanna Cry’. However, apart from these buzz words it’s hard…
IoT-based Telematics Will Revolutionize Productivity in Commercial Vehicle Fleets
In an increasingly competitive marketplace, commercial fleet operators are turning to ever-more sophisticated IoT-based telematics systems,…
Road block for IoT Revolution: IoT Privacy and Security
There are various definitions of IoT, but to keep things simple we will say everything that can be “connected” will be connected. IoT promises an…
Amazon Echo Look: playing a longer game
Amazon is introducing a new variant of the Echo voice assistant, Echo Look. It is currently available only by invitation at a cost of $199. It is…
How will eSIMs drive the IOT revolution ?
A staggering 50 billion IoT devices are expected to be connected by 2020, making IoT one of the hottest topics at this year’s MWC. Cellular…
Market Pulse || Analysis for the Market in February 2017
We are pleased to bring you our Monthly Market Pulse. In this edition we provide our snap analysis of some of the key product launches from MWC. This…
Why Integrating Bixby is a Good Challenge to have for Samsung!
In smart devices space, the battle has moved from hardware to software to services and now to intelligence. The basic definition of smartphone is…