Connections to the Internet of Things are multiplying

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The acronym IoT (Internet of Things) has what it takes to become popular: there are more connectable objects on the planet than connected people, which has given rise to fantasies about the magnitude of the market. In reality, it is a very long value chain, ranging from the tiny, the sensors, to the voluminous, the storage of the data generated. But in between there are different layers that are markets in themselves, so no one could say that they control the IoT market, although they may lead certain segments. Telecommunications operators have been interested from the beginning. One of them, Vodafone: its Spanish subsidiary had 5.2 million mobile lines (SIM cards) dedicated to IoT as of March 31, with an estimated share of 40.6% in this segment, cellular connectivity based on Narrowband technology.

Other smaller solutions). Daniel Barallat, director of the IoT business at Vodafone Spain, explains it like this: “Years ago people talked about IoT with a certain lightness; The devices used to be elementary and their function Russia Mobile Number List was to enable a connection to send data, without managing their efficiency or the battery, which today are two basic requirements.” Digitizing water distribution would reduce losses that reach 30% in some cities With the entry into force of a European directive on cybersecurity, the market has turned towards requirements that give advantages to cellular connectivity, he points out. “In our case we add a device management layer until the data is delivered, generally in vertical sectors; This profile coincides with the company's business model.



The way, the group accumulates 162 million lines in total. Vodafone Spain has launched a market in which third parties offer their own solutions: hundreds of thousands of cards in the security sector, in logistics and associated with geolocation. Other deployments foresee the incorporation of intelligence in electrical distribution. Vodafone wants to transcend the role of operator: “We feel comfortable with vertical applications because we control the network and because we have an advanced laboratory in Spain for international device certification.” Daniel Barallat, director of the IoT business at Vodafone Spain Alberto Cerezo / V. “The Spanish market lacks a business substrate in which there are many large companies launching services all over the world,” says Barallat.