Eseye Predicts Major IoT Market Shift in 2022 as eSIM Accelerates Enterprise Demand for Greater Interoperability

GUILDFORD, England, Dec. 14, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Eseye, a pioneer of leading-edge cellular IoT connectivity solutions, today shared its outlook on the key factors influencing the IoT industry in 2022. The company foresees a watershed year in which new technologies provoke a major shift in the power dynamic between enterprises, Mobile Network Operators (MNOs), and IoT service providers.

Eseye forecasts that 2022 will see enterprises assume control of their IoT deployments as they accelerate the rollout of remote operating models that deliver exceptional, reliable customer and employee experiences at the network Edge. This will result in the biggest disruption to MNO business models to date as eSIMs solve the interoperability challenge, breaking the historical MNO lock-in and allowing enterprises to make their own decisions about IoT connectivity and network selection.

Eseye's key predictions and their impacts:

Nick Earle, CEO of Eseye, comments: "2022 will be the year several major elements of the traditional IoT technology stack change. They include mass eUICC-compliant eSIM adoption which will enable companies to build truly global product SKUs. The abstraction of the SM-SR switch from the MNO stack to the cloud will allow enterprises to set their own operator agnostic switching rules. In addition, the extension of encrypted network capabilities to the IoT Edge will enable corporate IT departments to set security and compliance policy centrally and auto deploy to the IoT Edge. The combination of these factors represents a coming of age for IoT where enterprises can, for the first time, deploy operator agnostic IoT projects globally with the confidence that they are keeping control of security and policy.

"This power shift will usher in the next phase of global digitisation driving enormous opportunities for many of the IoT players, especially Systems Integrators. But it will have a disruptive impact on MNOs who must adapt to a world where they are no longer in total control of the connection. To address this, the MNOs will increasingly white label platforms that enable them to offer truly global connectivity via a 'Star Alliance' type interoperability model from MVNOs that offer Network Level Orchestration capabilities to the Edge at the packet level.

"At the same time, 5G's coming of age will drive considerable new IoT demand, especially from larger enterprises. This will, in turn, accelerate the adoption of these new technology capabilities. In summary, 2022 is set to be a watershed year for IoT and Eseye is primed to play an integral role."

Eseye's full 2022 predictions and commentary can be accessed here.

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