Article for SiliconANGLE by Jason Bloomberg
Mobile World Congress in Barcelona is the largest telecommunications-focused conference in the world. More than 100,000 attendees descended on well over 1,000 exhibitors, teasing out all manner of innovative technologies and business strategies.
Although every vendor at the conference struggled to put on its best face, there was nevertheless an undercurrent of desperation, as the much-hyped rollout of 5G has underperformed expectations. And yet, while the telco industry struggles with 5G adoption, there were nevertheless some important areas of innovation worth calling out.
Two areas in particular caught my interest. First, connectivity for the internet of things. Now that the IoT – and edge computing in general – has become a reality, how do enterprises get all their various devices to communicate with each other over vast geographies?
The second area of innovation, unsurprisingly, was artificial intelligence – not AI offerings themselves per se, but rather technologies that support various AI-centric business models.
Here are my pick of the nine most interesting vendors in these two categories – beacons of innovation in an otherwise dim landscape of rising desperation.
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