According to our Wireless Connectivity Technology Segmentation & Addressable Markets forecast, sales for BLE devices will triple between 2018 and 2023, reaching more than 1.6 billion shipments. This represents a CAGR of 27%.

Additive Manufacturing can be an exciting endeavor for manufacturing and industrial companies. However, it can also be an expensive one. Therefore, if you are looking to invest in an Additive Manufacturing platform, it’s essential to understand the different vendors in the marketplace in order to pick the one that’s best for you.

After many technological disruptions, in the last 20 years, the telecommunication ecosystem has connected billions of people and has offered affordable real-time connectivity for masses. 5G will offer granular connectivity not just for humans, but also for machines, sensors, and many other objects. This potential value pool behind 5G is much more compared to previous generations: consumers and industrial players both claim high-capacity, reliable, low latency connectivity. 4G is simply not capable of satisfying the diverse connectivity needs of consumers and vertical industries.

At the end of last year, just 4,000 warehouses were equipped with commercial robots. However, that number is about to explode. According to our intelligent supply chain research, more than 4 million commercial robots will be installed across 50,000 warehouses by 2025 – a staggering increase that is set to transform the supply chain at large.

But which technology is dominant today? That’s one of the many questions we answer in our Biometric Technologies and Applicationsmarket data report.

As the 5G network continues to be built, optimized, and, inevitably, commercialized, another technology is poised to benefit as a result — commercial robotics. In fact, shipments of 5G robots are expected to reach 570,000 by 2027, largely deployed in mission critical and business critical settings.

The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will have an impact on the use of machine learning that may have far-reaching effects. The regulations came into force on 25 May 2018, effectively replacing the EU Data Protection Directive of 1995 with the aim to harmonize data privacy laws across EU member states.

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Last week, the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) met and officially froze the first 5G New Radio (NR) specification, including Non-Standalone (NSA) and Standalone (SA) network topologies in 3GPP Release 15 (R15). There is a lot more work being planned for Release 16 (R16). R16 will introduce more improvements and specifications for the Next Generation (NG) Core that include the full description of Services-Based Architecture (SBA), which will enable advanced features, including network slicing and full Control and User Plane Separation (CUPS) decoupling. Clearly there are many outstanding items needed to complete the full 5G specification, but with the completion of R15, a standards-based 5G network can now be deployed by being anchored to a Long-Term Evolution (LTE) packet core (NSA), or a 5G NG Core (SA).

Foxconn Industrial Internet (FII), a subsidiary of Foxconn, had its IPO on the Shanghai Stock Exchange on June 8, 2018, when its stock increased by 44%, making it the largest tech company in mainland China. Most of the world knows Foxconn, a Taiwanese manufacturer officially named Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., as the manufacturer of the Apple iPhone. While Apple still accounts for around half of its total revenue, Foxconn rakes in more revenue than all but three technology companies worldwide.