Tancred Taylor
Senior Analyst
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IoT Markets
Insights
Radar’s Old Navy Win Highlights Shift to Second Generation of RFID—and Where Incumbents Must Innovate
Insight | 2Q 2025 | IN-7793
RailPulse’s Platform Launch Ushers in Golden Age of North American Rail IoT Digitization
Insight | 3Q 2024 | IN-7545
Roambee’s New Strategy—A Winner for Supply Chain Visibility?
Insight | 3Q 2024 | IN-7475
Hapag-Lloyd Demonstrates Opportunity for IoT-Enabled Services with Launch of Live Position
Insight | 2Q 2024 | IN-7344
Nokia Launches MX Grid, Bringing Processing and ML Closer to the Far Edge
Insight | 2Q 2024 | IN-7331
As Edge AI/ML Hardware and Software Toolsets Mature, 2024 Promises Explosion of Industrial Edge Deployments
Insight | 2Q 2024 | IN-7290
Bluetooth SIG Sets Out a Roadmap for Ambient IoT in Market Research Note
Insight | 1Q 2024 | IN-7223
Efforts toward Standardizing Ambient IoT Gain Pace, Promising More Attention in 2024
Insight | 1Q 2024 | IN-7175
Industrial Edge Networking Hardware: Evolution of IoT Networking Form Factors for Remote Monitoring Markets
Insight | 4Q 2023 | IN-7116
Smart Label Initiatives Begin to Move toward Commercialization
Insight | 3Q 2023 | IN-6989
Emerson Plans Growth into Industrial Automation through Seeking Greater Sensor Data Acquisition Capabilities
Insight | 1Q 2023 | IN-6831
Acquisitions of IoT Geolocation Service Providers Signal New Phase of the Positioning Market
Insight | 4Q 2022 | IN-6769
Hardware to Heaven: Overcoming the Challenge of Proprietary Connectivity Hardware in the Satellite IoT Market
Insight | 4Q 2022 | IN-6698
LPWAN Technologies for Massive IoT: The View beyond 2022
Insight | 3Q 2022 | IN-6634
Semtech’s LR1120 Chip Highlights the Growing Interdependency of Silicon and Cloud in Massive IoT
Insight | 2Q 2022 | IN-6544
Willing the IoT Forward: Wiliot Enters New Stage of Growth
Insight | 2Q 2022 | IN-6509
Visions of Visibility: Antares Vision Enacts Next Stage of Supply Chain Strategy
Insight | 1Q 2022 | IN-6462
Nestwave Demonstrates Technology IP with ThinTrack Device
Insight | 1Q 2022 | IN-6437
Kezzler and Arviem Partnership Shines Light on Path to Item-Level Visibility
Insight | 1Q 2022 | IN-6405
The Impact of Visibility on Supply Chain Sustainability
Insight | 4Q 2021 | IN-6362
Be There in a ZiFi: How ZiFiSense is Revolutionizing Package Tracking
Insight | 3Q 2021 | IN-6235
Got 99 Problems, but Data Availability Ain’t One: How Asset Tracking Data is Shifting Towards Problem Solving
Insight | 2Q 2021 | IN-6189
Positioning Technologies for IoT: The Thin End of the Wedge
Insight | 2Q 2021 | IN-6140
Stay Tuned: Dynamic Band-Switching Seeing Growth in IoT Antennas
Insight | 2Q 2021 | IN-6111
HERE’s Looking at You, Kid: HERE Technologies' Ever-Expanding Visibility Services
Insight | 1Q 2021 | IN-6074
They See Me Rollin’, They Lovin’: Asset Visibility for Connected Wheels Opens New Markets and Services
Insight | 1Q 2021 | IN-6030
Who’s Got the Power: Energy Harvesting Ecosystem Seeing More Design Wins
Insight | 4Q 2020 | IN-6012
Semtech Driving Expansion of LoRa Asset Tracking in 2020
Insight | 4Q 2020 | IN-5972
Digital Twins Tentatively Finding Traction in the Pharmaceutical Industry
Insight | 3Q 2020 | IN-5904
Toward Sustainable IoT: Strategies for Reducing Waste
Insight | 2Q 2020 | IN-5851
The Asset Tracking Market: Where NB-IoT Goes to Struggle
Insight | 2Q 2020 | IN-5836
Research
UHF RFID Technologies, Applications, and End Markets Market Data Overview: 1Q 2025
Presentation | 1Q 2025 | PT-3655
UHF RFID Technologies, Applications, and End Markets
Market Data | 1Q 2025 | MD-RFID-109
Embedded ML Trends & Strategies for Condition-Based Monitoring: Ecosystem, Roadmaps, and Adoption
Presentation | 4Q 2024 | PT-3119
Asset Tracking: IoT Technologies and Markets
Market Data | 4Q 2024 | MD-AST-102
Asset Tracking Technologies and Markets Market Data Overview: 4Q 2024
Presentation | 4Q 2024 | PT-3257
Industrial and Manufacturing Survey 1H 2024: Key IoT Takeaways
Presentation | 4Q 2024 | PT-3339
Condition-Based Monitoring Market Data Overview: Q2 2024
Presentation | 3Q 2024 | PT-2815
Condition-Based Monitoring: IoT Technologies and Markets
Market Data | 2Q 2024 | MD-CBMM-23
Embedded ML for Industrial IoT Monitoring: Technology Evolution
Report | 2Q 2024 | AN-5894
Machines & Equipment: Expanding Use Cases with Wireless IoT
Presentation | 1Q 2024 | PT-3125
Enabling Next-Generation OEM Services With Embedded Machine Connectivity
Whitepaper | 4Q 2023 | WP-1029
Remote Monitoring Markets for IoT: Ecosystem and Market Dynamics Analysis
Report | 4Q 2023 | AN-5859
IoT Antennas
Market Data | 3Q 2023 | MD-IOTH-102
Low-Power Wide Area (LPWA) Networks
Market Data | 2Q 2023 | MD-LPWA-109
Asset Tracking: IoT Technologies and Markets
Market Data | 2Q 2023 | MD-AST-101
Smart Labels: Technologies and Market Opportunities Analysis
Report | 1Q 2023 | AN-5342
Smart Packaging Solutions and Technologies: Enabling the Next Level of Asset Visibility Innovation
Report | 1Q 2023 | AN-5693
Low-Power Wide Area (LPWA) Networks
Market Data | 1Q 2023 | MD-LPWA-108
Condition-Based Monitoring IoT: Top Market Segments and Technology Accelerators
Report | 4Q 2022 | AN-5666
Returnable Transport Assets: Market Opportunity and Technologies Analysis
Report | 4Q 2022 | AN-5347
The Software Blueprint for Supply Chain Visibility
Presentation | 3Q 2022 | PT-2615
Low-Power Wide Area Networks (LPWA)
Market Data | 3Q 2022 | MD-LPWA-107
Supply Chain Visibility Solution Providers
Competitive Ranking | 3Q 2022 | CA-1306
IoT and Supply Chain Visibility in the Food Industry: Ecosystem Assessment
Report | 1Q 2022 | AN-5349
IoT and Supply Chain Visibility in the Pharmaceutical Industry: Ecosystem Assessment
Report | 1Q 2022 | AN-5352
2022 Technology Summit: IoT and Pharma
Presentation | 4Q 2021 | PT-2551
IoT Antennas: Technologies, Markets, and Evolution
Report | 3Q 2021 | AN-5468
WAN (Wide Area Network) Asset Tracking Pricing Strategies
Report | 1Q 2021 | AN-5397
Low-Power Wide Area Network (LPWA) Market Data
Market Data | 1Q 2021 | MD-LPWA-106
Asset Visibility Platforms: Location and Application Services for IoT Tracking Markets
Report | 4Q 2020 | AN-5343
Sensor Device Markets for the IoT
Report | 3Q 2020 | AN-5341
IoT Asset Tracking Device Evolution: Technologies and Features Driving the Next Stage of Growth
Report | 3Q 2020 | AN-5328
IoT Asset Tracking OEMs: Profiles, Assessments, and Regional Analysis
Report | 3Q 2020 | AN-5340
Tancred Taylor In The News
What to track, how to track – Four IoT asset types, four IoT asset traits
RCR Wireless News (2023-04-3)
But, in every case, no matter the value of the asset, business logic says to balance optimal performance and optimal cost – and, generally, a combination of short- and long-range wireless technologies will be adopted. Tancred Taylor, industry analyst at ABI Research, comments: “People think it is a...
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Smart Labels will Help IoT Become ‘Massive’ with 581 Million Labels Shipped in 2028
IoT News (2023-03-21)
Tancred Taylor, Industry Analyst at ABI Research, explains: “Over the past 15 years, the printed electronics market for asset tracking has been driven by RFID. This will continue to remain a dominant technology, but the evolution of low-power IoT technologies from Bluetooth all the way through to...
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An identity crisis, a catch-22, a €3.3m problem? What’s in the Unabiz/Sigfox in-tray?
Enterprise IoT Insights (2022-05-23)
Tancred Taylor, research analyst at ABI Research, says the same; Unabiz has to somehow shake realism out of a business with its head in the clouds. “There has been a bit of a message- and role-creep from Sigfox over the years that should be addressed. It just got overexcited, going into hyperdrive...
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Asset visibility remains a common challenge for the pharma ecosystem
Future CIO (2022-04-18)
Pharmaceutical manufacturers, distributors, and transportation providers all face unique pain points within their supply chain operations. Product worth US$30 billion is damaged each year, and companies in the pharmaceutical space are concerned about how to control their spending on product,...
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Where to next for WAN IoT connectivity?
Electronic Products Magazine (2022-03-28)
Article by Tancred Taylor
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IoT remains a Wild West at MWC 2022
Future IoT (2022-03-17)
Editor’s note: Below is an excerpt of the recently published “Key Takeaways from Mobile World Congress 2022”, a whitepaper by ABI Research. Get a glimpse of the evolving IoT ecosystem and what the future may hold. IoT’s vitals were healthy at Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2022. Companies reported...
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What the Infrastructure Bill Means for the IoT
EE Times (2021-11-11)
ABI Research highlighted ports as an area to watch. The analyst firm predicts that modern IoT-based infrastructure upgrades will help resolve container ship stoppages that have caused the supply chain shortages that are dogging much of the world right now. “One area that I think is interesting to...
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The Internet of All Things: By 2025, over 7 bln antennas will be shipped into IoT devices
The Internet of All Things (2021-09-17)
“The antenna is one of the most common causes of failure when creating a new IoT product,” says Tancred Taylor, IoT Hardware & Devices Research Analyst at ABI Research. “The goal of any antenna in terms of choice and design is high performance for the application it serves, and the network and...
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IoT Business News: Competition and Technology Complexity to Drive IoT Antenna Shipments to 7.2 Billion by 2025
IoT Business News (2021-07-30)
The growing breadth of IoT devices, machines, and use cases combined with additional radio spectrum and protocols is creating more complexity in designing and integrating antennas into products. A new analysis by global tech market advisory firm ABI Research examines how the antenna market is...
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Enterprise IoT Insights: Opportunity knocks for IoT antenna firms, as complexity spirals and shipments jump
Enterprise IoT Insights (2021-07-30)
new report by analyst company ABI Research says the growing breadth of IoT devices and use cases, combined with additional radio spectrum and protocols, is creating more complexity in designing and integrating antennas into products. IoT antenna shipments will jump to 7.2 billion IoT in 2025, it...
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Technology: Report: 60m connected cows by 2026 and other trends
Technology (2020-10-29)
ABI Research reveals the staggering numbers in technology forecasting for the next half decade
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Food Logistics: 82% of IoT Asset Tracker OEMs Adopt LPWAN
Food Logistics (2020-08-27)
Low-cost and low-power devices for long-distance tracking provides visibility into the movement of people and assets of all types between and within facilities, countries, and regions, yielding clear operational and capital savings and powering data-driven decisions. “Enterprises are increasingly...
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