MWC 2026 news Nordic nRF92: AI inference inside the cellular modem, no separate processor. Amazon Sidewalk goes global on LoRa - free connectivity across markets. 3GPP Release 19 adds battery-free sensors as a 5G device class. Enterprise IoT buyers demand cost-per-device TCO, not specs. Samsung commits to autonomous AI-driven factories by 2030

Digital twins get physics-based AI brains, EU regulation arrives at hardware teams' doorstep, and the smart home camera finally gets a standards-based foundation. This week: NVIDIA and Dassault Systemes merge virtual twins with industrial AI, the Cyber Resilience Act's first enforcement phase is six months away, Matter 1.5 cameras begin shipping, and Qualcomm's five-acquisition developer platform play signals that owning the prototype-to-production pipeline is the new competi

Edge AI is moving from add-on boards into MCU silicon. This week, ST and Microchip both shipped embedded AI acceleration and production toolchains, IoT Analytics declared the dashboard era over as enterprise IoT hit $324B, Mitsubishi Electric closed its $1B acquisition of Nozomi Networks, and Dragos reported threat actors now map industrial control loops. The connecting thread: edge AI, fleet security, and enterprise IoT are graduating from pilot to baseline.

Enterprise IoT is fading into the background as hardware, networks, and AI push toward autonomous operations. This Smart Tangibles News Digest tracks how IoT in energy races toward a $285.9B market, how Vodafone and Skylo’s NTN NB IoT make anywhere coverage realistic, how Ikea’s Matter rollout exposes real world frictions, and how ARBOR’s edge AI systems turn devices into modular data center grade nodes at the edge.

Enterprise IoT is fading into the background as hardware, networks, and AI push toward autonomous operations. This Smart Tangibles News Digest tracks how IoT in energy races toward a $285.9B market, how Vodafone and Skylo’s NTN NB IoT make anywhere coverage realistic, how Ikea’s Matter rollout exposes real world frictions, and how ARBOR’s edge AI systems turn devices into modular data center grade nodes at the edge.

By Yoel Frischoff | February 2026 | TheRoad IoT Tech Expo Global 2026 at the Olympia I spent two days at Olympia London last week, wandering the halls of IoT Tech Expo Global 2026. After 25 years in product strategy – much of it at the intersection of hardware and software – I've developed a filter for these events: ignore the buzzwords, watch for the shifts in conversation. This year, the conversation shifted. Why London, Not Vegas CES gets the headlines. The glitzy product

Satellite IoT just graduated from backup link to core infrastructure. Issue #2605 of the Smart Tangibles News Digest tracks how buyers now rank security and resilience above bandwidth, why forecasts put satellite IoT on a 24% CAGR path to 2035, how NTN NB IoT with a single SIM is becoming real, and how regulators and EU security programs are reshaping the design of connected hardware and services.

Remote IoT is quietly becoming the default for “boring” infrastructure - meters, pumps, pallets, trucks. This Smart Tangibles News Digest covers how remote monitoring and asset tracking are turning construction sites and utilities into sensor networks, why the asset tracking market is set to double by 2032, Latin America’s looming smart metering boom, Telefónica’s NB-IoT water rollout in Cádiz, and how AIoT is shifting toward decentralized, agentic edge systems.

Smart Tangibles News Digest - Issue #2603 examines how Edge AI has moved from slideware to silicon. This Smart Tangibles News Digest covers Infineon’s PSoC Edge MCUs with built in AI and PSA Level 4 security, MediaTek’s domain specific IoT platform for smart retail, Silicon Labs’ push into AI enabled meters and electronic shelf labels, fresh forecasts putting edge AI on an 8x growth path, and a 2026 Matter status review that shows real progress - and lingering platform fricti

Our CES 2026 Smart Tangibles Digest breaks down the real signals behind the noise in Las Vegas: Matter everywhere, ultra-low-power edge AI, smarter and more secure home entry, and new connected toys and wall panels. Learn what these announcements mean for IoT product strategy, interoperability, and long-lived business models in the smart home and built environment.

Smart Tangibles News Digest - Issue #2601 examines how connected hardware is entering an operability phase. From digital twins becoming operational control planes and sensor-as-a-service models, to on-device AI, fleet governance requirements, and ServiceNow’s acquisition of Armis, this issue highlights how lifecycle control, security integration, and governance are reshaping IoT products, platforms, and procurement decisions in 2026.

This year’s Smart Tangibles Digest reviews the most consequential IoT shifts of 2025. From interoperability and security moving into execution, to hybrid connectivity, scalable 5G RedCap, and edge AI reaching the MCU layer, Issue #2508 highlights how the foundations for operational, long-lived connected products solidified over the year.

This week’s Smart Tangibles Digest examines how the connected-hardware stack is becoming more productizable. From brokers absorbing storage and standards upgrades improving fleet economics, to edge AI platforms gaining long-term OS support and deployable form factors, Issue #2507 highlights the operational maturity shaping scalable, service-led IoT products.

This week's digest signals a shift in IoT from “connected” devices to “operational” systems. IoT stacks are now judged less by feature checklists and more by autonomy, resilience, deployability, and service-backed distribution - how well they run independently, survive real-world failures, and integrate smoothly across environments.

Digital twins, edge AI, sensor-as-a-service, AI-ready MCUs, and software-defined buildings. This week’s Smart Tangibles Digest maps the key shifts shaping next-generation connected products.

Here’s this week’s Smart Tangibles digest - focused on product strategy for connected hardware, IoT, Policy, UX, and Manufacturing.

Here’s this week’s Smart Tangibles digest - focused on product strategy for connected hardware, IoT, Policy, UX, and Manufacturing.

Here’s this week’s Smart Tangibles digest - focused on product strategy for connected hardware, IoT, Policy, UX, and Manufacturing.